Subject: report from a secret venue 21/11/2005 By Les

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posted on 21/11/2005 at 23:16
just had a brilliant weekend with my mates up darkest scotland, where men are men and sheep are nervous

started with my mate tony getting a PB spurdog at 18lb, my best was 12lb, but i did get more doubles than him, sorry no pics, flat battery on the camera.

next day sailed 10 miles to a mark on my plotter which produced some big flat things

first tonys 168lb personal best



then my PB male fish which was off the chart but was probably 135lb



then a fish which nearly pulled tony over the side because his drag was up too tight,

193lb new PB





this is what a 193lb skate can do to a 30-80lb class stand up rod



on the sunday he had a 16.5lb spur plus 2 other good fish to win the club match

all fish released unharmed

the 135lb skate i caught had what looked like handles cut into it's cheeks, possibly done by a commercial to make it easier to haul back over the side singlehanded, bit of a shame, but better than killing it for pot bait.

this is the 4th fish i have heard of with this mutilation

brilliant weekend

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posted on 21/11/2005 at 23:19
nice one mate,excellent photo's as well


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posted on 21/11/2005 at 23:26
Cracking report and photo's Les, excellent weekend mate well done to all of you.
Your another one that looks nowt like your avatar lol.

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posted on 22/11/2005 at 00:03
Good stuff boys




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posted on 22/11/2005 at 10:17
Nice one Les ...... by the way I think you look a lot like your avatar


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posted on 22/11/2005 at 14:00
cracking catch m8 i wouldnt even know where toput one of them it looks the size of my boat lol




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posted on 22/11/2005 at 17:12
Congratulations on the PB's and thanks for a great report and pics.


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posted on 22/11/2005 at 17:46
Great report and pics Les


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posted on 22/11/2005 at 17:59
wow !!! it makes you want to move up there, well done Les




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posted on 22/11/2005 at 18:25
Great stuff Les

I noticed a fixed spool reel in one of the pic's, do you use that for hauling up one of them monsters or is it for the lighter stuff.




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posted on 22/11/2005 at 18:39
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Nice one Les ...... by the way I think you look a lot like your avatar
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cheers norman......i think??

i do today because i haven't had a shave since thursday and all the fantastic food and beer has put back the weight i had struggled to lose over the last couple of weeks




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posted on 22/11/2005 at 18:44
craigyboy,

it is a seahog seatrooper, brilliant wee boat, loads of space as you can see.

codfather,

the fixed spool rod was used for spurdogs in the shallower bits and also for mackerel, we manged to get 6 for the landlord at our hotel on the sunday

boblydon,

i would only live up there in the winter, the midgies in the summer would drive you insane mate




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posted on 22/11/2005 at 22:53
great catch report , fantastic pics . gotta get back on the boats again



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posted on 9/12/2005 at 14:37
Hmmm well done weather looks good at OBAN


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posted on 16/12/2005 at 19:49
sorry TRM....

not OBAN, a bit further west...

in fact on the saturday when we got the skate we were going to go into BALAMORY for a pint in the mishnish as we were only about 2.7 miles from there, but were running out of daylight




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posted on 20/12/2005 at 22:21
excellent report and pics les what weight clas gear do you need to haul one of them up m8




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posted on 22/12/2005 at 20:44
hi ray,

we use 6 foot stand-up rods, we have 2 ugly stik 30-80lb class and a rod i built myself from an 80lb conoflex standup blank which has had in excess of 30 skate on it including the boat record of 204lb, thats my boat not the UK record

the uglys are matched to a pair of avet 4/0 2 speed reels and the conoflex has a shimano TLD30 2 speed bolted on

we spool up with 50lb fireline and 130lb nylon leaders, 12/0 hooks to 250lb mono, 2lb of lead is the norm as we are usually in 400-550 feet of water, these fish were shallow (for us) in 370 feet

that weekend a friend of mine landed a skate at 157lb on a 15lb class ugly stick and30lb braid.

thing was he was in the loch where there is virtually no tide, where me and tony fished the tide runs hard in the top 50 fet of water and the last bit is hard work on the tackle with the fish kiting in the tide




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posted on 29/12/2005 at 22:21
did it again on tuesday....

went to OBAN (TRM) this time just for the day and had 3 nice fish, all of which fought really well

first was my 123lb male fish



then my son had a small female at 92lb



then tony did it again with the biggest, albeit on my rod as i handed it over so we all had a fish (such a kind soul i am)



took this sunset pic while waiting fro my mate to get his boat clear of the slip



thats it for this year,

best of wishes and good luck to everyone at NESA

les

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Nice report AGAIN that last picture is very nice mate.


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posted on 29/12/2005 at 23:32
Oops All The Very Best to yous as well mate


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posted on 30/12/2005 at 00:59
All the best Les mate. Great pictures again, got to agree with Alan that last one is cracking mind.

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posted on 30/12/2005 at 22:30
just got these boat to boat pics from my mate graham

good advert for my boat, 3 dudes and a muckle fish on the one side and it's still level, try that with a reiver





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posted on 31/12/2005 at 09:15
excelent photos and fish Les, your bait must be bigger than the fish i catch to attract those monsters....what type and size of bait would you normally use ???




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All the best les, we`ll have to sort that little "trip" out somtime

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excelent photos and fish Les, your bait must be bigger than the fish i catch to attract those monsters....what type and size of bait would you normally use ???
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bob,

i have to thank gogs for the bait for this trip.

he came by my house on christmas eve and dropped in 6 coalies, 3 of which were about 3lb

we usually put a mackerel threaded up the trace then head hook a coalfish.

on this trip we were using double coalfish because the mackerel were still frozen



my fish and tonys were caught on the same bait, a 1.5lb coalie cut into 5 bits and threaded kebab style and a 3lb coalie head hooked

all this on a 12/0 hook and 250lb nylon trace





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cheers norman,

yes, once there is a few fish about we will get a day out

speak soon

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posted on 8/1/2006 at 18:35
if you look at the pics on the wall in the mish', there's one of me and my pals on the mish's yacht


roll on easter!, if all goes well, we might have a wee house up there by then

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posted on 9/1/2006 at 19:25
mark.

a friend of mine just bought a holiday cottage at glenborodale (if thats how it's spelt)

i could get it anytime for my hols, but i would probably wake up with a knife in my chest after 3 days if i took my wife there,

NO SHOPS!!!!!!!!!




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posted on 10/1/2006 at 19:36
one of the reasons I love it. we have to do at least one trip a week to balamory when we're up there, which is perfect, 11.45 ferry from kilchoan, takes them 2 hours to get around all the shops, leaving 2 hours to burn in the mish' before the 4pm ferry back!

there's was a lovely swedish(scandanavian anyway) barmaid working in there in october!




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Les
We had a skate at the end of the summer that had the" hand holds" hacked into it . This fish was well healed so it can not have happened recently and it makes me wonder if this is still practiced or these are just old wounds. I have a picture somewhere and it looks gruesome

Great post and lovely pics. Cant wait to get up there again, just a shame its so far away and I cant say I fancy the trip while the daylight hours are shorter than the travelling time

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posted on 14/1/2006 at 21:03
hi davem....

re the handles, we didn't know they were there until we tried to put him back in the water and our hands went through his cheeks, we both snatched our hands away going "yeuch" at the same time, what an unpleasent surprise

davy holt has had, i think 4 of these fish from the sound of mull about 10 miles from where we got ours,

where were you fishing??





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