First Air Livery arrival 2009 in snow

Arriving after a light overnight snow fall was

Oman Air B-737 A4O-BR 08.50.

Taxying slowly on to taxyway F

Being attached to the baby tug.

Arriving at 11.20 was this B-747 of M.K. Airlines

G-MKBA as British Global 128.

First fishing trip of 2009

My eldest son Russell dragged me down to Portishead

for a couple of hours.

We used a mixture of Rag, Lug, Squid and Mackeral.

BUT! the fish must have still been in bed keeping worm.

We had 5 bites between us and I managed this
tiny Whiting.

Smaller than a can of Coke?

This ship was have a calm departure from one of the
docks.

Bristol International Airport 30-12-08

Got up to Bristol International at 08.00.

It was cold and hazy.

This First Choice B-757 G-OOBI, now part of the Thompson fleet,

departed off runway 27 enroute to Tennerife.

Eazy Jet B-737 G-EZJK departing enroute to Belfast at

08.34.

Hamburg International Airbus 319
lineing up on runway 09
at 08.50 enroute to Banjul West Africa.

Bristol 29-12-08

Went to Bristol International this morning?!!!

Brrrrrrrrr! It was very cold, but not as bad as yesterday

I was told.

Ooooo it bark, at first!

Easy Jet B-737 G-EZDK from Belfast.

Arriving from America at 08.49 was

B-757 N14102.

Heading to Sharm el Shak is this Jet2 B-757 G-LSAC at 10.03.

Arriving as Bee Line 2055 is BAe 146 OO-DJS
at 10.07.Lufthansa BAe 146 D-AEWL arrived at 10.27.

Departing to Istambul

B-773 VT-JED starting up after a respray

Lining up ready to depart at 15.15. Nice sight for the Christmas shoppers passing on the

A38 main road.

Fishing in the mist Tuesday 22-12-08

Fished the Severn Beach from 14.00 - 18.00.

High tide was at 16.00 and 10.8mtrs.

Bait was lug and rag.

What did catch? NOTHING,

The sea was flat calm.

I had great fun skimming stones.

Some you win some you don't.

Bah Humbug! Tee Hee!!!!

Lower Light again Sunday 21-12-08

Yep! back there again.

The weather was better with a westerly beeze,

warm for the time of year and overcast.

Fished in front of the Lighthouse on the sand again.

I was hoping that the wind would bring some better fish.

You guessed it! No chance!

With trusty trolly to keep the kit out of the mud

and a couple of buckets for the bait I set up shop.

The High tide was at 14.02 and 10.7 mtrs (Avonmouth data).

Baits as usual, Rag, Lug, Mackeral and Squid.

Tackle was again Pennell Pulley rigs.

Catch was 7x Whiting.

This was the biggest.

This was the smallest.

What happened to it????

It was already dead?

2 ideas come to mind,

1st Other small Whiting had munched on it

2nd a bigger fish had a pop.