Slinky Kate Midweek Trip 12-9-07

[Norman]

Great weather abounds this week , LOL surprisingly in line with a weeks holiday

Out Wedenesday accompanied by Keith who luckily also found a days holiday to take

Flat sea almost all day with the sun showing up and remaining from about 10.30am ..... hence the now slightly beetroot colour ...

Started in the usual close in marks and fished heavy baits
--- keith scored a few cod, I scored a few put back sizes ---

Then done a few of the usual close in (3 mile) wrecks where
--- keith scored a few cod, I scored a few put back sizes ---

decided since it was such a good day that this was the perfect opportunity to go a little further than usual so headed out past the usual limit of the adastra and got to about 12 or 13 or maybe 14 mile.
Fished in about 250ft of water with a calm sea and a bright sun but to be honest it was nowhere near as good as the usual 150ft depths.
It`s a long way down with much less "feel" of the bottom (and the snags were just as bad).
It was so deep it was like reeling all the up, then reeling someone elses line all the way up as well. ..... oh and whats more there were no fish so we headed back to the more traditional wrecks.

Back in at about 8 mile we hit one wreck that was impossible to fish due to the amount of life (other than cod and ling) over it. Instant double header whiting and coalie and mackerel (or is that triple header ) just couldnt get through to the target species.
anyway here, --- keith scored a few cod, I scored a few put back sizes -- the whiting by the way were all well over a pound in size and would have been quite a haul if we`d decided to keep any.

Sun continued to shine and we moved back in wreck by wreck where ....
--- keith scored a few cod, I scored a few put back sizes ----

all in all a great day out in the sun with great company and although I didnt catch the most I think I ended up taking the most fillets home (and Keith got his favourite tipple for the table, a decent ling)

oddly enough there were many many small ling around I think we must have returned many more than 10 .........

Great Day as ever, cheers for the company keith .......

[northeast1]

Beats being at work Norman.

I was stuck in the office looking out the window as i do every day from May until Oct thinking of the pier or the boat.

Roller on 12 noon friday when i am off, the tide falls right for a spot of fishing.Thats the best thing about my company, you finish 12 noon every friday so it feels like a long weekend.

[KeithB]

Flat calm sea, sunshine, great company, lots of action with codlings, whitings, small ling, stevies (whoops I mean scotchies ) & coalie and a day off work - what more could a man want!

Deep fried batterd ling for tea tonight


Fanatastic days fishing! THANKS VERY MUCH Norman!

[The Great Wallsendo]

Excellent Lads - you had a cracking day for it!!!!

[davem2005]

And it looks like the wind will spin round northerly for the weekend

Its loverly when its flat and you can push the boundaries a bit.

Cheers
dave

[fishless]

and you even got to see me in the flesh keith and norman on kennys boat [ i was the sleepy, sore,acheing,knacking hoodie at the back without a rod in my hand much lol ] had played a round of golf the day b4 and only got told we was going on kennys boat at 8 oclock the night b4 and when i woke up i was stiff [ not morning glory either ] think i lasted about 3 hours b4 my body was saying enoughs enough even tho i tried a few times my body won the day and it went into shutdown

my catch total 2 codling 1 returned, a few scotchies a few coalies 1 decent sized 2 whiteings no mackerel

a few fish were caught between the other 6 on the boat nothing big but a lad called sid was doing the sixfoot steve impression scotchies every time [ sry steve lol ] on lugworm and kyle got a small gurnard

as you said it was a nice day and as normal thxs to kenny for taking us out but heres a tip , DONT PLAY GOLF THE DAY B4 if your old n unfit like me

[Norman]

Aye mate even though it was a flat sea I`m still a bit aching after the full day out ... I think it`s almost time to say do NOWT before a full days fishing LOL

good to see yas out there

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Nice one lads ,sounds like a great day ,don't remember EVER being out in conditions like that ( seems that way anyway ).

[alan]

Nice one Norman,sounds like a nice way to spend a weeks holiday.

shame the nights are closing in because the weather has been great the last few weeks

[jeff]

You lucky bar-steward Norman.....midweek trips are always the best.....!!! No-one out there to bother you.

[mick dunn]

I do some weight lifting and i was surprised at just how much hard work there is with the boat fishing.
I had a few aches and pains were i don,t normally. In fact i was knackered when i went out for the first time.