The last time we went boat fishing was in October 2008 off the West coast of Ireland where it was apparently flat calm – flat calm in the Atlantic involved a 4m swell and we were both sick and didn’t catch much except a lovely Cuckoo Wrasse for Wendy, so now we don’t do much boat fishing and are firm believers of keeping something solid under our feet. Wendy even gets sea sick even standing on a pier…

I do have a few mates who have small (and not so small) boats who fish all along the coast of Lancashire, Merseyside, down into North Wales and around Anglesey and the one thing they need to be able to rely on is a good engine.

Honda invented the world’s first 4-stroke outboard engine in 1964 and have recently launched a new campaign featuring documentaries covering how people use their new Honda C4 outboard. The latest follows Ben on a night fishing trip where he uses luminous lures to catch many different species.

More information on the Honda documentaries can be found here, where as well as seeing how other people use Honda products you can take part and maybe be featured in the latest documentary.

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We were hoping to go out on a boat trip (fishing a match with the Blackpool and Layton Angling Society guys again) onto the River Mersey but neither myself or Wendy are fantastic on boats in dodgy weather so we’ve cancelled – I hope they have a good time on Sunday – if the boat goes out!

The garden is now devoid of leaves and underwater so there’s nothing to do there, so what to do over the weekend?

Christmas shopping has been done but I’m sure we’re missing something…

The Christmas Tree!!! Yes, this is the weekend that we get our tree, a real one of course and kick-start Christmas off with putting up the decorations, and maybe a glass of wine or two…