God hates the working man

[fishingmark]

Been out today, it was bumpy to say the least but still made it on 7 wrecks and took fish off all of them just nothing over 6lb i would say, Mackerel shoaling up now but still to be had.....home in time to watch the Newcastle match

I saw you coming back in between the piers yesterday. It did look a little bumpy

[Kartonkel]

I am glad i am not at sea today, its wild outside my house...wind and rain.

Monday a no go now either so its a few hours of lead making or sorting my Norway gear out to fill abit of time in. Hard to think in 4 weeks time its all over and the gear will gather dust until Mid-April .

You should not have gone back for the footy, mate!

I was out from 3pm after work. Initially it was very lumpy, but from 5pm it calmed right down into a glorious evening fishing.

Why do you do such a long winter break?

I find that drift and wreck fishing can be good well into January. And there is also the uptiding. I know not everybody likes it, but you dont need much fuel and it produces very nice cod, you never get tangled, hardly lose tackle etc.

I do agree that February and March are totally useless.

[northeast1]

I seen the wind ahd dropped but i always do things at the night anyway so have to be back in before 6pm regardless.

The winter fishing has never been my cup of tea really, i often stop when your hands start to get cold from handling fish etc, in short i just dont like the cold

Uptiding does seem to produce a few nice fish but its not for me and i winterize my boat every year, stripping it down etc.

If the boat gets sold it will be an even longer break if the right one does not come up.