Bait!

[The Great Wallsendo]

no worries mate - looking forward to the reports from the weekend as the forecast looks mint (even though I'm land locked I'll still be gracious )

[leckytech]

Sound advice!

Are you getting picked up on the south side?

Yeah, Mill Dam 7.30am, Been so long since I felt like this before a fishing trip...normally a good sign not much chance of sleep tonight though

[mick dunn]

Would,nt worry to much about the bait. You can stick a shad on,use hockeyes with mackeral or even a ripper.
I take a usually take a cool box if its red hot to keep my bait fresh.
If your lucky enough to nail some Macky on the trip you are laughing-its great bait.
Shads near wrecks are very good as big fish eat the little ones. A shad is an imitation small fish with a hook in it.

Mick.

[The Great Wallsendo]

how did the trip go??

[billyturbot]

Would,nt worry to much about the bait. You can stick a shad on,use hockeyes with mackeral or even a ripper.
I take a usually take a cool box if its red hot to keep my bait fresh.
If your lucky enough to nail some Macky on the trip you are laughing-its great bait.
Shads near wrecks are very good as big fish eat the little ones. A shad is an imitation small fish with a hook in it.

Mick.

mick hooked about 50 cod yesterday all on shads and not near any wrecks just all ground

there was a lad on the boat with the wrong shade wink wink once he had the shade right

[leckytech]

how did the trip go??

Mmmm....

I got a stark reminder that I know jack **** about sea fishing

Lost a fortunes worth of gear..lol..at one point I was losing an entire rig every drift...sometimes two...thats £3.50/£7.00 a drift

Ended up having to take the treble off of my pirks? rippers to make sure I lasted the day.

Unfortunately we couldnt find the mackeral until later in the afternoon so the going was quite tough for everyone aside from the guys using Morrisons Seafood Selection..WTF! 8-10lb'ers coming to a squid ring and cooked prawn..made me laugh though

Most guys managed good catches with a few close to double cod and ling. A ling of 10lb taking the sweepstake.

We got into the mackeral in the afternoon and even I managed to catch a few, albiet hooked at the wrong end ..

Quite a few big ling came after that to the other guys but for me I managed 1 cod @ 4lb and about 5 mackeral for the day.

I enjoyed my day out but admit I'm not used to taking the wooden spoon at the end of the day [well not freshwater fishing anyway :P]. However, I learnt a helluva lot and am hoping to get out wp this week and try to improve my loss of gear / fish ratio.

Father in law has just gave me a big bag of lead plunders and rippers, plenty to feed the wrecks for a while anyway.

Paul

[The Great Wallsendo]

it's swings and roundabouts when it comes to losing gear on wrecks - some days you can lose a hell of a lot of moneys worth of gear and other days you won't...try not to break it down monetarily otherwise you'll never go out again

At least if you're snagging you are where the fish are...

if you're serious about getting into the boat fishing mebbes start buying stuff in bulk to even out the expense - hooks, swivels, line, muppets, rigs etc are all cheaper when bought in larger quantities

At least you're thinking about going back for seconds though - always a good sign

[TheBigMan]

If you're fishing with baited rigs a rotten bottom is worth using, that way there's a chance that all you'll lose is the lead.

Also worth swaping the trebles on the pirks for a single assist hook fixed to the top eye, a gummi makk will do the job.

[leckytech]

If you're fishing with baited rigs a rotten bottom is worth using, that way there's a chance that all you'll lose is the lead.

Also worth swaping the trebles on the pirks for a single assist hook fixed to the top eye, a gummi makk will do the job.

Im not up on these terms yet...Rotten Bottom, gummi mack