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Subject: skateraw sat 7th august
Les
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posted on 9/8/2004 at 21:17
fished yesterday at skateraw with liam and sean again with a view to fish the halland wreck that someone gave me the numbers for.
as usual we had no bait so i set the bairns up with hokeyes and i went for jelly worms myself for cod and pollack, i was using my new toy, a grauvell anaga rod teamed with my abu 6600 lever drag, on the 1st
drop i found the reel spool wouldn't re-engage, while trying to get it to work a fish jumped on one of my lures and proceeded to thump about eventually grounding me in the wreck costing me my trace.
changing over to my usual 12lb rod and normal 6500 i took a 4lb pollack first drop, the boys were getting plenty mackerel too, another couple of drifts with nothing made me decide to go to the halland,
and we shot off 4.5 miles to the numbers....nothing, started a search and found the wreck about 100 yards n/e of dougs numbers, its a big wreck and with perfect conditions and only .5mph of drift had 7 perfect drifts over using artificials and mackerel baits...nothing, not a bite, so we shot off to another of dougs marks to try for a norway haddock, we got a few ling here on bait but they were quite small and bringing them up from this deep water was killing them so we ran 5.5 miles in to fish tonys hole off torness.
at first there was no drift and we were getting nothing so we sneaked into the hot water at the outlet and cast spinners to try sneak out a bass, again nothing, by this time a puff of breeze had gotten up and should give us a bit of a drift, the fishing improved as the wind picked up, liam had a cod about 8lb, we had pollack to over 6lb, but the overall size of the fish here had hugely improved, in june you couldn't get a fish over 3lb we must have returned 20 codling between 4 and 5lb and 20 pollack between 3 and 6lb, all in 35-50 feet of water, tremendous fun.
soon the fog came in and the drift was up to over 2mph, but we were still catching fish but the fog soon got to about 50 metres visibility so we came in.
yet another great day out with my boys
les
mark
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posted on 9/8/2004 at 22:27
at first glance I thought he had a shark tucked under his arm! well done lads!
all this talk of west coast fish is getting me excited now, taking the boat to ardnamurchan for a fortnight on saturday - watch out pollack here I come!
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Les
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Posts: 289
Registered: 20/9/2003
Status: Offline
posted on 9/8/2004 at 21:17
fished yesterday at skateraw with liam and sean again with a view to fish the halland wreck that someone gave me the numbers for.
as usual we had no bait so i set the bairns up with hokeyes and i went for jelly worms myself for cod and pollack, i was using my new toy, a grauvell anaga rod teamed with my abu 6600 lever drag, on the 1st
drop i found the reel spool wouldn't re-engage, while trying to get it to work a fish jumped on one of my lures and proceeded to thump about eventually grounding me in the wreck costing me my trace.
changing over to my usual 12lb rod and normal 6500 i took a 4lb pollack first drop, the boys were getting plenty mackerel too, another couple of drifts with nothing made me decide to go to the halland,
and we shot off 4.5 miles to the numbers....nothing, started a search and found the wreck about 100 yards n/e of dougs numbers, its a big wreck and with perfect conditions and only .5mph of drift had 7 perfect drifts over using artificials and mackerel baits...nothing, not a bite, so we shot off to another of dougs marks to try for a norway haddock, we got a few ling here on bait but they were quite small and bringing them up from this deep water was killing them so we ran 5.5 miles in to fish tonys hole off torness.
at first there was no drift and we were getting nothing so we sneaked into the hot water at the outlet and cast spinners to try sneak out a bass, again nothing, by this time a puff of breeze had gotten up and should give us a bit of a drift, the fishing improved as the wind picked up, liam had a cod about 8lb, we had pollack to over 6lb, but the overall size of the fish here had hugely improved, in june you couldn't get a fish over 3lb we must have returned 20 codling between 4 and 5lb and 20 pollack between 3 and 6lb, all in 35-50 feet of water, tremendous fun.
soon the fog came in and the drift was up to over 2mph, but we were still catching fish but the fog soon got to about 50 metres visibility so we came in.
yet another great day out with my boys
les
mark
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Posts: 2322
Registered: 11/9/2003
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posted on 9/8/2004 at 22:27
at first glance I thought he had a shark tucked under his arm! well done lads!
all this talk of west coast fish is getting me excited now, taking the boat to ardnamurchan for a fortnight on saturday - watch out pollack here I come!
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