Steve picked me up with the sun shining brightly so it promised to be at least a nice trip. Once the monthly checks were completed we left the mooring and headed towards the mouth of the Dart. When travelling to Brixham Steve said it looked rough out which was a surprise to me but sure enough it was decidedly lumpy as we heeded past the Mewstone.
We continue to be surprised at the sea keeping qualities of the boat and today’s trip certainly was a good test with a large swell …

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

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First of all my I sincerely apologise for regular readers who may have suffered from some disruption to the site (including the loss of the last post!) over the last few days. because of a usage issue with my previous hosts, I had to move this and other sites I have, to another host. If you have ever done this you will know how frustrating and time consuming it is!
Back to fishing now. Stephen managed …

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Steve phoned up last night to say he could make the fishing trip and also be early for Sunday (today) so you can imagine my surprise when he phoned at 0630 to say he was 45 minutes away. Surprise, because for Steve 0900 is the middle of the night! Anyway it was great to have an early start for a change and we made out way down to the boat eager to take on the …