mistreess tonight

[tonynufc]

The biggest mistake I see newcomers make is being unprepared with their end gear and it is one of the biggest causes of sea sickness in my view.

If you snag and lose your terminal tackle (which you will many times if wreck and rough ground fishing) just unclip it and clip on a new set. If you are looking downwards trying to tie knots and improvise you will be hurling over the side in no time.

Tackle shops sell strings of hokkies and lures which can be clipped onto an American snap - buy more than you need, and keep your eyes focused more towards the horizon.

Alan

good advice there mate, i was told that the first time i went out and it works.

[adam123]

thouroughly loved me first trip managed 3 mackeral which to me felt huge i tried using mackeral but with no success. cheers 4 all the advice.

[jonny_s]

Well done Adam, I have only managed 1 mackerel all year !

How long did you actually get to fish for ? I am booked tomorrow night.

Did anyone else catch anything other than mackerel ? was told today that cod and ling have been caught recently on the short trips.

Sorry to be asking so many questions

Cheers

Jonny

[adam123]

Well done Adam, I have only managed 1 mackerel all year !

How long did you actually get to fish for ? I am booked tomorrow night.

Did anyone else catch anything other than mackerel ? was told today that cod and ling have been caught recently on the short trips.

Sorry to be asking so many questions

Cheers

Jonny

we got to fish for about 2 hours and their was the odd codling caught a couple of coalies and a ling of about 5 pound

[5150]

3 mackies is better than nowt. I've not been on a boat trip in a good 5yrs or more, too skint with a growing family. But the trips I've been on have been typical - get one amazing trip with non-stop fish and then 2 or 3 where it's a chore and you just can't wait to get back to shore it's that bad. Blanked on a couple, which is a pain when you've shelled out on gear and charter fee's - but it happens shore and boat, part of the game.

All I can say to newbies is, as I've found, wrap up well, you can take it off but if you've not got it then you can't put it on. Take as wide a variety of baits and lures as you're happy to throw away and can carry. Amazed at one blank trip off Blyth when I got through 50 sinkers (not kidding) with probably as many hooks bait fishing on rough ground and a bad drift. Lost track of the pirks and daylights - it happens and yet the previous trip I think I maybe lost half a dozen at most all day and had plenty of fish. Take plenty of STILL drinks (fizzy won't do you any good, nor will booze) and small easy to eat individual wrapped sarnies/mini pasties - bait/fish guts and sarnies don't go down well

Ohh, yeah, spare loaded reel is handy and/or a spool of line - I always take 2 reels, though not very big, but have emptied them on bad snags and had to swap/re-load a few times. Skippers I've been with have been canny and allowed me to take a lighter rod with light gear on aswell, makes for a quick easy swap if you're main gear is trashed near the end of a drift. Found my Abu 6500 with 15lb line on with a tatty old solid glass pier rod actually hooked my biggest ever fish (big ling) - which then snapped the line with a flick of its head and slowly drifted off just as it was going to be gaffed :-D