Maggie May 250207

[tooly]

All in all a quite reasonable day,warmish dryish and a quite fishable sea.Set off about 0800 and went about a mile ish from the piers at H/pool,a coupla whitey were taken then nowt for an hour or so.
Bait was squid,rag,crab,sandeel,pipefish and and pirks jiggers and rippers.
Went from there to a wreck near the shipping lane,nowt,then to some spoil mark again a coupla whitey taken on squid and rag.Came back in on the ebb not far off where we started then it happened 1 lad changed down in hook size to a flounder size hook, loaded it up with rag and tipped it with macky,result 9lb cod.
Then we were hit by more whitey,and another lad put a baited pirk over,with 2 macky fillets,result 13 lb cod,which when gutted gave up a half digested flattie a whitey and a filletted macky that had just been hoyed owa board,it still looked half frozen.Oh and a lump of wood,it looked like.Then back to whitey again.
A reasonable,not fantastic trip,but good enough to whet the appetite.
Maggie May is a good boat,the lads I took were well impressed with her.

[KeithB]

Nice one tooly, there's a pic of the lad with the 13lber next door on ANE

[tooly]

Yeah it's the biggest I've seen off the Pool for a few yrs.Well biggest two with the 9lber as well

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Nice one mate ,sounds a canny day .

[alan]

Pleased you's got out Tat,nice report mate

[Norman]

excellent mate, great to here there`s a few being caught so early in the season.....

[mick dunn]

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Is Maggie May painted yellow. If so i may have seen you off the heugh.

[tooly]

There were a few boats off the heugh but I cant remember any yellow her.

[mick dunn]

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Come to think about it the boat was orange.

Me and my mate are going to book some trips on a boat when the weather picks up.
Am i right in thinking the later towards the end of Spring and the start of Summer the better.
We both went out last year on a cobble from Seaham. We basically had a brilliant day with Tom and his couple of mates. We fished for a while then the pots came up and we went on like this for a good morning out. Caught about ten Codling no massive fish but good fun and eatable.
Also got a couple of crabs. One was that big i could,nt get it into the biggest pan in our house.

[tooly]

Yeah that sounds like her.Looks brand new.I think she's only about a year old.Well John's only had her a year might be better.

[Jack]

im a member now lol so i can post a month later i enjoyed the day with my whities, nice to see that cod just come up through the water right next to me like. pity i found out the hard way that you have to take your kwell in the middle of the day even if you feel fine lol