Cessna Citation 525

On short finals to touch and go, seen over the A 38 main road

was this Cit 525 G-OEBJ from Bristol International Airport

Filton 29-09-08

Royal Air Force, Red Arrows display team, Hawk aircraft

back tracking the runway having just landed,

M.K. Cargo Boeing 747 G-MKGA being readied to depart

FOR Luxemburg.

Lovely weather

Saturday 27-09-08

Went fishing at New Passage again.

The weather had been very foggy all morning and did

not start to clear untilafter lunch.

Not a very good fishing trip with only 2 snotty Eels caught.

This is a big no no on these big tides!!!!!

Two fishermen can be seen in the mid distance, the ground is

sand / shingle.

With the tide coming in at very fast they ended up having to run

back and forward to collect their kit.

Very dangerous. This area was covered by the tide in under 5 minutes.

The view though was brilliant with the fog coming and going.

The old Severn Bridge can be seen sticking up above the fog.

SUN DOWN

The sun going down behind the New Severn Bridge.

By the time I left New Pasage at 19.30

the fog was coming back very quickly.

Ladye Bay 25-09-08

Fished from 07.00 till 12.30

Caught 6 Whiting this is the biggest

This small Schollie Bass was at 10yrds on the Carp Rod
This Whiting has eyes bigger than its belly.

Emirates B-777

Emirates B-777 A6-EMQ arrived at 11.58

all the way from Dubia, for Air Livery.

It used UAE 7001 call sign.

No fish but an Uglybus?

Fished from 07.00 till 11.00,

tide was 13.1 mtrs at 09.51.

Three bites but nothing on the bank. AGAIN Aaagghh!!!!

Packed up early and passed Filton and what bid I see.

UGLYBUS.

Airbus Beluga F-GSTF lining up to depart for Seville in Spain

with a set of wings for the A 400M.

Wording on the fusalge was

European City of Culture 2013 candidate

Toulouse.

Bristol Airport 15-09-08

A 4 hour visit produced

KLM Fokker 50 PH-KVD

Air France A.T.R. 42 F-GPYK
Best Air Airbus A-321 TC-TUC standing in for Onur Air A-321
Ilse of Scilley Skybus D.H.C.-6 G-CBML
and this Bell 206 G-BARP

1hr 46mins 13secs and 13 MILES.

Yippee.

Bristol 1/2 marathon completed.

I did it with my son Andrew.

A personal best for both of us.

Bye Bye XL.com

Shame another one down.

I liked the colour scheme.

With Spanish Airline Future also having gone bust

last weekend. Moral of the story is book your holiday

with as a package holiday firm with ATOL protection.

Watch out Globspan, Monarch, Tui and Thomas Cook.

Thing can only get better, but not just yet.

Just the one aggggaaaiiinnn!

Another trip to New Passage produced this Conger

of just over 10 pounds.

This hay bail was one of three floating around

it must have been carried down with the flood water.

Two Lear Jet 45s

Giving flights for charity were these two Lear Jets LJ-45s

G-ZXZX

and G-GAMA
They belong to Gama Aviation.

This Spitfire PS853 / G-RRGN also arrived and

later carried out a flypast with Lear Jet G-ZXZX.

This Spit belongs to Rolls Royce Aero Engine manufacturer.

B-737 5N-BKQ

Corr nearly missed it.

This is B-737 5N-BKQ departing off runway 09 over the A-38

main road. Aero Contractors Nigeria is the new owner.

Check out 28-08-08 for its arriving colour scheme.

Another Conger and an ugly slab

Back to the Yacht Club to use up the left over bait.

Caught this 5 - 6ld Conger and lost one.

This an ugly car carrier called "Auto Port"

Three BAe 125s

BAe 125 no 1:- at 11.07 Net Jets CS-DRH

arrived as NJE452H

BAe 125 no 2:- Royal Air Force ZE396

going round at 11.18.

BAe 125 no 3:- Interflight G-IFTE

arrived as IFT 103P at 15.21.

What is it?

Strange tomato!!!!!

Grown in my green house.

New venue

The Yacht Club Portishead

This spot is ideal to escape the heavy tidal rip

when the spring tides are in full swing.

I was invited to fish with my eldest sun,

and we decided to try here.

The photo above is looking towards the Yacht Club and Lifeboat station.

The tide was at 09.45 and was 13.5mtrs.

We fished from 07.15 till 11.30.
The photo below is looking to the east.

The baits used were Squid, Mackeral, Sandeel and Ragworm.

The only fish caught was this Conger of about 8lds.

Problems to watch out for are the yachts and

people swiming!!!
Casts of 40 - 60yrds will land you on rough ground

but a good wack out to 80 - 100yrds will clear the rough ground.

This is also a good low tide mark but very muddy in places.

Once again watch out for the fast rising tides.