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South Devon 2014
- Thread starterTrelawney
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Hi All,
Slipped in last night as I received an unexpected green light from the boss. Nice relaxed dive,close to home. Two hours in and life in abundance. Mackerel and scad in thousands and hundreds of bass but only saw one sizeable fish and that was a mullet. Took him. Got out in the dark and reached for my knife to start sorting the fish only to find no knife on my leg and no fish on the stringer! Peeved.. Nice dive but costly.
Tribs
Out
Slipped in last night as I received an unexpected green light from the boss. Nice relaxed dive,close to home. Two hours in and life in abundance. Mackerel and scad in thousands and hundreds of bass but only saw one sizeable fish and that was a mullet. Took him. Got out in the dark and reached for my knife to start sorting the fish only to find no knife on my leg and no fish on the stringer! Peeved.. Nice dive but costly.
Tribs
Out
Got in at 830, viz was max 5m but by the end not great. More mullet than I've seen ever before (which is not saying much!). Ended up with 1 of 58cm and 1 of 48cm. No bass seen.
Gutted for you mate.
Got in last night after tribs & those nice boys from east devon gave countless updates on viz. got in at 9pm. 3-4m out going tide from the exe made things hairy. 5 flatties, 5 bass no bigger than 3lb & 1 big mullet. Viz dropped to 1m, dropping down into a gully 2 nice size bass. I went after the 7-8lber for him to disappear, 5lber had been motionless in front of the spear but I ignored him for the bigger one. Turning round 5lber was making a pass in front of me again, only for me to have knocked the safety catch on!!!!! DOOH
On my way back in viz was about a metre, passed a good 7lb bass but unable to turn my gun on him as using my 75, tried to use the reef as a leverage with the spear to turn myself round and he was gone.
Hard hard dive but enjoyable, been ages since I've been in.
Got in last night after tribs & those nice boys from east devon gave countless updates on viz. got in at 9pm. 3-4m out going tide from the exe made things hairy. 5 flatties, 5 bass no bigger than 3lb & 1 big mullet. Viz dropped to 1m, dropping down into a gully 2 nice size bass. I went after the 7-8lber for him to disappear, 5lber had been motionless in front of the spear but I ignored him for the bigger one. Turning round 5lber was making a pass in front of me again, only for me to have knocked the safety catch on!!!!! DOOH
On my way back in viz was about a metre, passed a good 7lb bass but unable to turn my gun on him as using my 75, tried to use the reef as a leverage with the spear to turn myself round and he was gone.
Hard hard dive but enjoyable, been ages since I've been in.
Hopped in local earlier, stiff easterly and viz still not great so not best of dives. Hardly see end of speargun in some places esp near bottom to a hazy 3-4m in others but looked better further offshore. Plenty about but only came back with 2 bass and a mullet, few larger bass in gloom but a bit skittish.
Cheers
RD
Cheers
RD
New PB bass 9.2lb
Not the best photo.
Viz had dropped off with a bit of a swell from the morning. Checked out the viz early Saturday morning with a good 4m and pretty clear.
Slight NW had moved around to a NE and murky, hard on the eyes to pick out any movement. Quite a few bait fish washed up, on entering faced with masses of juvenile bass chasing them. These were followed by a small shoal of mackerel but then the viz dropped off. Found 2 bass early on and then nothing for 2 hours, except for the disappearing tail. Boredom had set in so playing poke on an innocent crab, when the bass moved in and boom.
Been around dawlish and teignmouth today with the gang and no viz seen, just in case anyone heading this way.
Not the best photo.
Viz had dropped off with a bit of a swell from the morning. Checked out the viz early Saturday morning with a good 4m and pretty clear.
Slight NW had moved around to a NE and murky, hard on the eyes to pick out any movement. Quite a few bait fish washed up, on entering faced with masses of juvenile bass chasing them. These were followed by a small shoal of mackerel but then the viz dropped off. Found 2 bass early on and then nothing for 2 hours, except for the disappearing tail. Boredom had set in so playing poke on an innocent crab, when the bass moved in and boom.
Been around dawlish and teignmouth today with the gang and no viz seen, just in case anyone heading this way.
