Sea Fishing from a boat

[Olan Giech]

I went to a local Decathlon shop at lunchtime yesterday. I think it is a French chain of supermarkets for everything sporty/outdoor. I'd gone there with two colleagues and with little in mind to buy.

However, I did buy myself a fishing rod, designed for sea fishing from a boat. It came with a reel and line already loaded, some very small lures, hooks and a 10gm plumb. Extended it is 1.5m in length and can withstand a 4.5kg pull. It was a mere ?26.00 euro and contracts to just a couple of feet.

pictures are a bit blurry cos they were taken at sunrise this morning, I too was a bit blurry at that time

[Madoobri]

When you buying the boat? :p

[Olan Giech]

When you buying the boat? :p

when I win the pools, corse it'd be a good idea to start playing them first...

but in the mean time I'll be using me brother's boat which is moored at Hartlepool, different kettle of fish from the Med. but I reckon mackerel are fun to catch no matter where you are.

can't get the pics to load!?

[tycroes48]

Hope you have good sea legs. Theres always a good swell on the North Sea even in calm weather. There speaks the voice of experience???

[toppa]

Oh how i MISS deep sea fishing, my mate back home had a 54 ft launch, well his dad did, but he never used it, we did :D two dirty great suprcharged diesels init, we would head out to the islands of nz for a week at a time chassing marlin....

Cant remeber much about the specs on my rod, i rememebr it had clips got the harness and the spool was so low geared you could pull a truck with it....



ahhhhh i miss home!!!



Cheers

[AnalogKid]

Not long to go now Toppa...

[toppa]

Not long to go now Toppa...

19 days :D



Cheers

[timberdog]

Love fishing of any sort..just dont get time now days...Family..Kids :(

[P00DLE]

never been boat fishing but i do a lot of pier and beach fishing.

using 12 - 14 foot rods running multiplier reels casting 5 or 6oz of lead around 200yds. we use 15 -18 lb lines and 40 - 60 lbs leaders

may have to get out boat fishing this year.

that road sounds very light for boat usage. sounds like a telescopic rod? these dont tend to be very good and have a habit of getting stuck while extended.

[Lacy]

I do the occasional bit of boat fishing from my mates boat down in Devon.......bought rod/reel bits and pieces a couple of years ago and it's great fun.......mackeral are stooooopid......the daft ******s almost jump on the hooks as if they're desperate to be someones breakfast.......

[Marc Lurie]

I LOVE FISHING! Rock and surf, fresh and sal****er fly fishing, tiger fishing, game fishing, esturine fishing ... etc. etc. etc.

Tomorrow morning Brigid and I are driving down to Grahamstown (about 550 miles from here) for a wedding on Sunday. As soon as the bl**dy wedding is over we're driving the 50 miles to Port Alfred, and I should have a line in the water by Sunday evening :p

Two years ago we were in Port Alfred and I was happily fishing in the river mouth. Then a wierd thing happened: The water level in the river dropped quite quickly (it took about 30 seconds) until the river was virtually just a trickle. Then the sea seemed to flow back into the river, pushing the river level back up again until it was almost overflowing the river bank. It did this about 4 times and then everything went back to normal.

Anyway, I thought it was strange but didn't really think about it again until the next morning when we got the news about the tsunami on boxing day. :eek: Our coast was protected by Madagascar, but there was some effect half way round the earth.

[Marc Lurie]

That's me in the Wild Coast of South Africa with a nice musselcracker taken on a light rod on 6 pound line with a shrimp bait. :)

[Marc Lurie]

Now that's funny.... The forum auto censors "salt water" if you spell it "sal****er" :D :D :D :D Who'd have thunk it? :D

[Newsreader]

Should be sorted now, let's try it:

saltwater

Yep :)