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Guernsey 2014

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Blimey, bit late for giant puffballs isn't it?

Found a few chicken of the woods this year, first I've found.
 
I found one a few weeks back (puffball) but found a beauty today & it was in my garden! Well just behind the fence in the neighbours garden actually!
I used to get chicken of the woods from the same tree for years but they cut it down .. the same fate as many of our 200 year old trees are facing!! To be honest I am not to keen on chicken of the woods or honey fungus ... just a little scary!
 
Yeh, no interest in seeing what honey fungus is like either.

Giant puffballs in your (neighbours) garden eh, lucky sod, all I get is Brown Roll Rims.
 
@jerseymike or anyone else - have you ever dived around the Ecrehous islands? just wondering what its like, tides and such like?
the pictures online look amazing!
 
I have never been there but my work partner went once, about 20 odd years ago, he went with a party of 12 on an ormering expedition.
This was in March and apparently it was really busy, mainly French looking for sand dwelling shellfish.
Of course the world record Porbeagle was caught there (no longer the record) in only 30' of water by a Guernsey man.
 
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Les Ecrehous
Beautiful offshore islands off the north coast of Jersey. Allows for pinnacle and drift diving. You will have a chance to see scallop beds, huge kelp, colourful sponges, lobsters, crabs, dog fish and pollack. There is also a chance of sea horses and pipe fish. Les Ecrehous is also perfect to snorkel or just to sit and watch the resident seals. Dolphins are also common at Les Ecrehous and seen frequently from our RIB, Grace. Les Ecrehous is the perfect day out for divers and non divers; surrounded by a beautiful landscape Les Ecrehous is also a recognized RAMASR site. It takes around 25 minutes to reach Les Ecrehous departing from Bouley Bay. Depths vary between 5-20 meters depending on area.
 
I know some of you guys don't venture passed our Guernsey thread very often so you might not of seen Kevin's latest vid?
I find it fascinating how lots of our UK friends hunt for bass in caves & holes, I don't think I have ever seen a bass in a hole!
I cant see why they would not be hiding in the same way over here?
Anyway the normal fantastic footage from Kev.....
 
I know some of you guys don't venture passed our Guernsey thread very often so you might not of seen Kevin's latest vid?
I find it fascinating how lots of our UK friends hunt for bass in caves & holes, I don't think I have ever seen a bass in a hole!
I cant see why they would not be hiding in the same way over here?
Anyway the normal fantastic footage from Kev.....

I used to fish the camel estuary In padstow and you only really caught bass on rag worm there Mart. Yet live sandeels and peelers here are best. Must be what theyre used to in their habitat whereever that is
 
Never seen a bass in a hole over here and I spend most of time in them, curious, in the med I know you get bream in holes, fid notice there isn't really any weed in the vid, we have loads, they don't could be a reason?
 
Caught off Ecrehous, you better hold on Jonny :)
I wonder if its possible to stone a fish that size. must be...
Kev's videos are always great - well worth subscribing to his youtube.

I escaped for a couple of hours this afternoon - the sea was totally calm, but vis quite poor. I have some new fins, so was enjoying testing them out. interestingly [to me] the weight of the new fins is much less than the old ones so i found myself neutral at 10.5metres, which was a bit wierd, but pretty jolly quick on the way back up :) will have to go back to using my ankle weights :(

Managed to find a pollack and a bass, i got lucky with the bass - it was a long shot in poor vis:
BP.jpg
 
Never seen a bass in a hole over here and I spend most of time in them, curious, in the med I know you get bream in holes, fid notice there isn't really any weed in the vid, we have loads, they don't could be a reason?

We saw a bass in a hole a couple of weeks ago. It was on a pinnacle, top is -18m, bottom is -43m and little weed, so your theory could be right.
 
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