Nice few days in Poole

[Bigo]

Just got back from a lovely few days in Poole. We arrive Saturday morning and got a visitor mooring at Salterns Marina and paid for use of the slipway. The staff there are great and so helpful. I must add the facility’s are also great. Including the fact they have a fuel pump there so re fuelling is easy [emoji106] £1.60ish a litre so not overly steep.

We did around 120 miles in 3 days on the rib visiting many beaches including sandbanks, Lulworth cove, Durdledoor, swanage bay & Bournemouth pier.

Plenty of makrel caught too! I couldn’t recommend Salterns marina enough and also thistle hotel on the quay was decent enough to stay in!

Pics attached for those who are interested...

[Bigo]

[paulbrown22]

Excellent, glad you enjoyed Poole, looks like you had some good weather to allow you to explore a bit!

We used to keep our old RIB at Salterns and whilst not the cheapest, we always had excellent service from the team there.

[acraw]

I think I saw you washing your boat off on the slip yesterday morning? I have used Salterns for the last couple of years and they are great. The weather is not as good now[emoji853] but we had a nice trip up to Wareham yesterday.

[willfinch36]

Fantastic Pictures!

[Bigo]

Hi Acraw, Yes that was us! Just giving her a wash and engine flush, trailer bearing flush before heading back to suffolk!

[Fred.]

Tell us about the mackeral :-)
Where did you catch them & how many ?

we went too Westbay 2 weeks ago & caught nofink :-(

[Bigo]

We fished of St Albans head around 0.4 mile off which was amazingly 180ft of water. Plenty of Mackeral there on white feathers. Fishing from bottom to top slowly reeling in while jigging most success at around 50ft drifting!

We had around 20 in an hour

We also drifted just off durlston bay which proved ok we wasn’t there long but had 6 or 7. Other than that there wasn’t many about. We just looked for the gulls and stopped where they or the charter boats were.

[paulbrown22]

I'm no fisherman, but quite often just tow some feathers on paravanes off the stern of the sailing yacht, and especially around the headlands (Old Harry, Durlston, St. Alban's, etc.) mackerel are often very easy to catch.

Not guaranteed though, so I assume there's some tide or weather conditions they prefer more than others, I just have no idea what they might be!

[Fred.]

Originally Posted by Bigo

We fished of St Albans head around 0.4 mile off which was amazingly 180ft of water. Plenty of Mackeral there on white feathers. Fishing from bottom to top slowly reeling in while jigging most success at around 50ft drifting!

We had around 20 in an hour

We also drifted just off durlston bay which proved ok we wasn’t there long but had 6 or 7. Other than that there wasn’t many about. We just looked for the gulls and stopped where they or the charter boats were.

Sounds good
Did you eat them ?

Originally Posted by paulbrown22

I'm no fisherman, but quite often just tow some feathers on paravanes off the stern of the sailing yacht, and especially around the headlands (Old Harry, Durlston, St. Alban's, etc.) mackerel are often very easy to catch.

Not guaranteed though, so I assume there's some tide or weather conditions they prefer more than others, I just have no idea what they might be!

This is my problem - im no fisherman either

[Bigo]

nope we threw them back as had nowhere to cook them staying in a hotel!

mackerel chase small fry / whitebait in a shoal so follow the gulls if there’s a pack of gulls on the water then the mackerel are there. Equally if you see a few charter boats close together generally they have found the shoal so it’s worth stopping by then too!

[Nos4r2]

Mackerel apparently die if you handle them with bare skin.

[Fred.]

Originally Posted by Nos4r2

Mackerel apparently die if you handle them with bare skin.

Really......,

So i just looked it up & your Right !
Releasing Mackerel

Thank you for that - everyday is a school day