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Cornwall 2007!

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I've got the tee shirt. Bought mine in Florida. Also got a selection of other similar ones plus some great car stickers. Got "Work is for people who don't know how to fish." and "Fish tremble at the sound of my name." Both from New York last year. The Yanks are the experts at this type of humour.

Guns are Omer XXV Gold (short spear), Beuchat Marlin Pro, Omer Excaliber (belongs to Spaniard), Custom woodie.

Try what you like with double bands but my experience backs up the usually accepted practice. 90cm ali or carbon gun with a 6.5mm diameter spear can take a single band up to 18mm. Any more and you get high recoil and spear bending which makes the gun innaccurate and nasty to fire. If you have a full length rail (open track) and up the spear to 7mm diameter you can go for a single 20mm band. With this set you might be able to fit 2 x 14mm or 2 x 16mm bands but unless the gun has a really good trigger (Omer) and a heavy barrel (Omer cayman) then the gun won't be able to hit a barn door. Double bands need high mass (weight) guns to absorb recoil. The Italian wood guns are great examples.

The Omer XXV gun is one to look at if you want long range. 6.3 mm spear, stiff carbon barrel, full length rail and 18mm band. Thin spear gives less recoil and higher speed. Trigger is varient on the famous T20, one of the best. Spearo Dave has some fancy single band guns which are supposed to be good performers.

Otherwise for double rubber set up the new ali Omer Cayman has a new design high mass eliptical stock and will handle 2 bands. Then there's Totum sub and other "woodies". Nice price though (over £200).

So to sum up IMHO you'd spoil your gun with 2 bands. Save up and buy a better single band gun or save up some more and buy an even more costly 2 band gun. However must say I'd go for accuracy and smoothness over range anyday.

Hope that's helped.

Dave
 
So you want a long range, accurate gun hat don't cost much - join the club!
You could just about buy a 115 asso mamba airgun for £200. If you can load it you will own a recoilless underwater ballistic missile launcher!
 
Dived the north coast yesterday and had a total disaster! I was diving off a large rock off shore which i swam out to and managed to bag 3 bass. Then i got cocky! I worked my way around to the swell side of the rock to see the swell unloading onto a shallow ledge. Strong currents and choppy water made it a slight challenge. Anyway i saw a school of good 3lb bass right on the edge of the ledge and after checking the postion on my float moved into postion to take a shot. Bingo, right thru the head,....... then my gun nearly got ripped out of my hand. My float had drifted onto the ledge and was getting nailed by the waves. The second wave snapped my line. After staying put watching my float take wave after wave i decided to swim around to the sheltered side and ran across the rock to find my float had eventually got washed off the slab! I could see it drifting fast away so i had to run back the way i had come, (no other route), back into the water and fin hard as hell against the chop and rip! Then came a really hard choice! The 3 fish on my belt made it impossible to make up any ground on my float so i had to do the unthinkable. Some of you won't think i made the right choice but i ended up ditching the fish. Yes i felt guilty as hell :rcard . I will point out now that i didn't question my own safety as i am comfortable in very large surf! I did, however, get my float and gear back minus a good goodie bag! Very knackered at the end though!

Lesson learnt?? Too right, bass are smarter than you think. Don't let them sucker you into waves breaking onto an knee deep slab! It could have been very nasty if i had tried to follow it thru the waves.

Anyway, after feeling shite about yesterday i tried my new best spot and didn't even managed to do a single dive before this fella started taunting me. Just over 3lb without his guts, and believe me, there were a shed load of gut! I made sure he learned a lesson too!

Stay safe!
 

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Nice fish gutshot should have followed you to your new spot yesterday!couldn't see a bloody thing by the pier.Oh well think we will leave that spot to you boys.That rock looked tempting but to high and rough for me,need to know the area a bit better first.Anyone reccomend some new spots north or south coast?In my last week of hols and wouldnt mind actually catching something.Off to see prince tuesday /wednesday so hopefully get in later in week.
 
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Phew....what a weekend. A bit of a disaster on some counts. Friends car broke down twice. We finally launched and set off out of the Plymouth sound and dumped our camping gear on a nearby cove. We dived a nearby reef with a couple of bass taken and then moved out to a couple of wrecks. We saw a couple of boats but they were quite some way away and had almost unnoticeable blue alpha 'rags'. Off the first wreck we had our anchor rope cut by some scuba diver who we suspect was the skipper of a rib that was kicking around and lost the main decent anchor(few choice words). The vis was a bit challenging and it was hard to latch onto any of the decent bass hiding inside the hull. We moved to a slightly deeper wreck with no scuba divers on it and started to relax a bit with some nice schools of big pollack. We shot a couple for the camp dinner and a mate shot a black bream.
After that we sped back to the cove and set up for the night, had dinner etc. and got out heads down.
The guy who owned the boat gave us the rudest awakening in a long time after hearing the hull grounding on the beach. Still slightly dark at around 5.30 - 6am we stumbled out the tent and began the salvage operation. Due to the smaller anchor we had to rely on along with some weight belts the boat still slipped its mooring and beached sideways on to a little shorebreak wave swamping the whole rib.
With kit starting to float off etc. and much bailing it was carnage, but we did however salvage everything. later that morning we decided to rely on the fuel not having water in it as the breather was almost not open at the time.
We would need it if we were to do the Eddystone lighthouse. SO off we went on a very bumpy trip out. We got there with suprisingly no other boats around and acceptable conditions. The only issue we all had was breakfast sitting heavily and tiredness. Well, we had a nice dive with a good few bass taken averaging at least 3lb. Not big but oh so very welcome. I missed a few 5-6lbers myself and some similar mullet. Some big bass were seen but were a lot quicker than us. Towards the end and without any useable mackeral lures for the fishing rod, large shoals of big mackeral arrived and boiled and swarmed the immediate area. One of the guys shot a couple of them and it was magnificent sight being in the middle of them. After some breakfast chumming of the water which sent the mackeral wild we decided enough was enough and headed for home. A draining but enjoyable experience.
 

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Sounds fun! Shame about the cut rope though. Did you not know for sure who it was that cut it? How far offshore were you when this happened? It sounds like you guys were lucky! I guess you didn't fancy spearing his rib in return then!!!rofl

Wel done on the fish.
 
Could well have been a potter as we often get accused of raiding the pots and nicking the lobbies. Was it cut low down or high up.
 
It was definitely a scuba diver who came below us as we saw his bubbles come towards us from about 40m away and go right under the boat. We challenged a certain bloke who we suspected and the way he responded (while completely denying it) made us suspect him. Especially when he took to the centre console of a dive rib that left shortly thereafter with a few smug looks. He would of known that the rope was not his boats and probably decided we were anchored too close to the wreck that late afternoon. Knobber. Anyways....
 
Surely cutting your anchor rope is totally illegal and not to mention totally f'ing stupid.I'd have photoed the boat and reported him.What a tosser!
Looks preety good apart from that.
 
if it was in plymouth sound or in the approaches you need to report him to the queens harbour master via longroom he's a naval commander also the police have a maritime section
 
Just a quickie........
I have finally managed to get to grips with technology and recently joined the forum and in doing so have picked up some top tips by reading back through the threads.
Was in off the Mid-Cornwall North coast today and the place was busy with fish at low tide - I easily popped 3 bass and a decent size pollock in an hour (the pollock make good fish fingers for the kids if you use them fresh). All fish (except the mullet) were very bold today and after gutting, they were all digesting sand eel - hope that helps. If you can get out there before the next big swell arrives enjoy!!
Otherwise I guess it's a bit of a waiting game until next week.

One last thing: I am thinking of investing in a sea-kayak to get around a bit more easily. Does anyone regularly fish from one? And, if so are there any pro's/con's involved?

Be lucky!
 
REddie I fish from a ocean kayak xt scrambler and it suits my needs to the ground . Its a big yak and carrys me, all my spearo kit and rod,gear and fish finder ( helps to find new spots) the only downside I can think of is its not an easy kayak to turn but is very very stable
 
Cheers for that, but exactly how stable are these things - would they cope with being anchored in a bit of a swell? I wouldn't fancy losing my last catch whilst on another dip.
Also, how much experience do you need to be able to handle one properly?
 
Many scuba's i've met are total cocks but my old man's a diver and his little crew are very welcoming and conservation minded. They are quite a helpful bunch and will report back to me anything of interest such as where they had some good fish or scallops in water i could get to etc but that guy you cut that anchor is a total prat. Did he even think how dangerous that could have been if you had surfaced miles from shore and found no boat?

Tribs

out.
 
REddie, I fish from a scupperpro ocean kayak regularly. I'd second all scottwilson said about sitons. The scupper is very stable. Being hard to turn is an advantage in my opinion-it helps you keep straight when the wind and sea want to turn you off line. As to anchoring in swells, 15 to20 ft of 6ml chain just above the anchor will lift and drop back to the sea floor as the swells go under. This will handle reasonable swell but when it gets big its best to find somewhere sheltered. opening the hatch while anchored would put you in grave danger of being swamped in these conditions. If the swells are steep anchoring is out too.
 
Right then me Cornish beauties, it’s that time of the year again when the family and myself invade your part of the world.
So here’s the question, do you know for a kiddy friendly beach that’s away from the crowds that also might contain the odd fish?
I know about Kennack Sands and a few more of the more well known spots, all I’m looking for is a quite beach where the kids can play while I go for a quick look around. Don’t mind a bit of a walk as that’s all part of the fun. (not to far mind as the kids are still a bit young for a 3-mile hike across the cliffs)
Will be staying just on the Lizard side of Helston but I can drive anywhere.
Any local help with a spot would be very much appreciated and you can always PM me if you don’t want to post on the open forum.
Thanks in advance
Paul
 
I'm sure if you call Dave and tell him you can drive round he can sort something out.
 
hi

i have been trying to get in conact with dave aswell because i bought a float and a stringer off him over 3 weeks ago now on july 22nd. but it still hasnt come and ive tried to email him and phone him but nothing! i also only live about 15-20 mins away from him in fowey!
 
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