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South Devon 2016
- Thread starterTrelawney
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This happens to be one of my favourite Teignbridge dive sites. Unfortunately (as i'm sure you well know) it also happens to be a magnet for weed, sediment and other crap making it hardly ever worth diving. A shame. It's a pretty site, and productive if you can get through the clouds!
Hello everyone
I'm thinking of heading over to Burgh Island for a dive tomorrow. Can anyone give me any info about tides, rips and routes please
I'd be most grateful. Thanks
I'm thinking of heading over to Burgh Island for a dive tomorrow. Can anyone give me any info about tides, rips and routes please
I'd be most grateful. Thanks
high about 10,
Looking at burgh if you fish to the right, mullet close in around rocks, further round deep gullies might hold bass, sole. Lots of wrasse to watch and pollock but not normally big enough to take. Occasional crab or lobster.
To the left on a high, the outer reef can be a good ambush for mullet and bass, no rips around the island, the rip is across bantham beach. Swim around the mouth of the Avon but only when the is no tidal movement.
Only thing with this place in the daytime, is it will be heaving and everyone will want to know what you're doing or leaving the water empty handed, means the dreaded walk of shame.
Lee
Looking at burgh if you fish to the right, mullet close in around rocks, further round deep gullies might hold bass, sole. Lots of wrasse to watch and pollock but not normally big enough to take. Occasional crab or lobster.
To the left on a high, the outer reef can be a good ambush for mullet and bass, no rips around the island, the rip is across bantham beach. Swim around the mouth of the Avon but only when the is no tidal movement.
Only thing with this place in the daytime, is it will be heaving and everyone will want to know what you're doing or leaving the water empty handed, means the dreaded walk of shame.
Lee
Early morning dive off a shallow reef near Plymouth this morning.
4-5m viz and 16 deg. First metre very milky but clearer below. Lots of decent flounders and mullet about. Rowan took a nice bass on the swim back in.
4-5m viz and 16 deg. First metre very milky but clearer below. Lots of decent flounders and mullet about. Rowan took a nice bass on the swim back in.
We dived two hours after the high tide. The viz in shallow was appalling, but once out past the surf line, it improved to a milky 4-5m.
The bass were about, but skittish. I took my one fish after 15min hunting the string weed beds. At the bottom of a gully, laying on the sand was a fat topknot. They are quite tasty, so he went on the stringer too. To finish off, an angry lobster completed the evenings dive. This time, Rowan had to complete the walk of shame up the cliff.
Plenty of time for movies in the winter when you can't dive
Dived Dawlish area last night. Vis was around 3m or so. I was looking for flatties, but found quite a few Bass about close to the shore. They were hoovering up the all the white bait that had been left crippled by mackerel attacks earlier on in the evening. Couldn't find any flatfish big enough so I had to make do with Bass.
We had friends down so took them mackerel fishing on Teignmouth seafront, Waitbait and sandeels were driven up against the wall, couldn't see the water close in due to the vast numbers of them. Haven't seen a shoal of mackerel so big since I was a young lad on Torre Abbey, I remember using a keep net laid along the step on the beach, filled to the brim in seconds. Fed many elderly folk on the estate in those days, Bait fish the other night were falling out of the mackerels mouths 8 0r 9 a time.
Pretty amazing sight.
Pretty amazing sight.
Brixham dive last night, patchy vis of 1.5 - 3 meters. Lots of small bass about but no takers, the few mullet seen were too small too. I chose Brixham so I could pick up some scallops if no fish were about, but didn't find any and then failed to equalise so moved back to shallower water. Typical. Enjoyable dive nonetheless.
I was also out diving last night. I came across a properly monstrous fish right in the very shallow water where I first got in. The sand was all stirred up on the shore line and the vis was that poor that I almost bumped into it! I found plenty of small Bass about and some a bit bigger upto a very nice size, but not the big beastie I first saw. I was hoping to try again tonight, but easterly winds have put a stop to that. Looks like diving over this way is off for a while...
Torquay dive at dawn this morning, vis was good with a steady 2-4 meters. Loads of bass and mullet about but none that took my fancy, apart from the one that got away! Missed what should have been a dead cert on a decent bass, a bit frustrating as was the only definite taker out of all the bass seen. Mullet were borderline but none of the size I'm used to taking at that spot so happy to leave them be.