Fishing outside the Dart looked a bit doubtful as I looked out over Torbay on my way over to Dartmouth. It was only blowing a 3 / 4 but as it was from the East there was a fair chop running across the Bay and looking very cloudy and grey. Having seen this on the way over I suggested to Mike we might like to try a bit of Dart Cruising and sail up the Dart to Totnes.The tide suited as we were an hour and a quarter away from …

It was another beautiful day when Steve and Adrian (Steve’s son) came to pick me up then onto Noss Marina. After casting off we made our way down river when we saw the gorgeous “Earl of Pembrooke” registered in Bristol. Below is the information held on her page:-
According to Wikepedia “she is an 18th century wooden barque tall ship, currently being used for historical films. She can also be rented for excursions.
She was built in Pukavik, Sweden as “Orion” in 1945 or 1948, available sources disagree. Until 1974, the ship was …

A rare event indeed when the three of us actually come together in one place. Whilst David our younger brother only lives in Lifton his work keeps him very busy and he cannot get out fishing that often -shame!!!!
Still he arrived not long after me at Mikes home in Brixham at around 0900 Friday 8th July on a warm sunny morning with a shopping list of fish required for his family barbie.
As it was the 1st of the month our departure from the berth at Noss Marina was slightly delayed …

The last three weeks have been glorious with regard to sunshine but the last two trips saw rough seas, however Steve said it looked like glass when he came over the top of Brixham, so we decided to go offshore to a wreck we have fished before, about 7 miles out of Dartmouth.
Before we set off from the marina however the gremlin’s came back with the GPS, taking its time to find any satellites, so it may be a replacement is needed after all. It certainly brought home again our …

Dartmouth Fishing Again after a short break to accomodate my summer holiday. It was a fine day when I set off for Brixham to pick up Mike and make the trip to Noss Marina. After much delay I believe that Noss Marina has finally got the go ahead to develop the site so our currnet berth could start to look quite different in the future.
We slipped our moorings and headed down the Dart intending to have a short inshore fishing trip. We had noticed recently our Navman Trackfish 6500 had …

With the weather setting reasonably fair, but about to worsen, we decided to go fishing this week on Thursday. As the conditions were fairly flat another Skerries trip seemed favourite, since the Bass have yet to arrive over our marks.
Another trip to our live bait tackle shop for lug worm (still no rag worm) Steve arrived and we set off for the Skerries Eastern buoy. The boat was really on song as we skimmed along at 17 knots with power left in store. Getting nearer we saw that a …

Well it had to happen sooner or later…..Steve and I decided that we would try the Skerries for some plaice or anything else really. So off I went before Steve arrived to buy some live bait from my local tackle shop, Brixham Bait and Tackle. They only had lug worm left so we made do with that (although preferring rag worm really) and headed home to await Steve’s arrival.
For the last couple of years or so we have concentrated on lure fishing, for Bass in particular. Our reasons to go for bass …

People Catching Fish is a very popular pastime and today we novice fishermen joined them again! It has been a while since we did any fishing due to the weather and the annual refit but today the weather was glorious and we needed to test the boat after the annual refit.
It was a sunny morning as we arrived at Noss Marina and boarded a very clean and shiny Blue Marlin III. We set off at nearly the top of the tide and had a pleasant journey down to the mouth …

Two Bass were the only haul on our fishing trip out of Dartmouth, Devon and both were returned to fight another day.

Follow the sea boat fishing antics of two retired public servants fishing out of Dartmouth in Devon, UK.