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With the forecast(s) fortelling of rain, wind and storms for Saturday I think many stayed indoors to avoid the rough seas .... however reading into the detail of the forcasts showed the wind to turn only south easterly on saturday morning and stay fairly light until afternoon. With the previous westerlies this (we thought) gave us a window of opportunity on Saturday morning to enjoy the sea as it was about to change.
As I'm sure many know, our start time of 4.00am let us out before any of the bad weather came ..... out through the window so to speak
Some comments have been made, all in good jest, of why we start so early ...
maybe its because of this ......
a view of the day ahead ......
or maybe it's this ..... :
a capture timed at 04.45am and verified weighed aboard as 12.5lb (although it may have been better to weigh on solid ground it might have been bigger ..
so, off we went Tony Wallsendo and I after a 4.00am meeting in marina carpark and early out the piers into a fabulous golden sunrise .........
The sky was clear, the sun was bright and a slight south easterly breeze was blowing into the harbour.
Our initial thoughts after crossing the barr was , "well I think the wrecks are out of the question" as there was a fair swell on causing us to slow in our exit of the piers.
By the time we escaped the river low tide fall out the swell had eased somewhat and the day looked up.
We quickly made a stop close in at one of our favourite marks and within minutes I was into a real good fish, when its good you just know it's good and up came our first double of the season a nice 12.5lb cod as per the picture above, and all this timed at 04.45am in the golden sunshine.
We hung around for a while and nothing more showed so decided, since the sea seemed not to be building to hit a special little spot at St Marys.
Once again this proved fruitful with fish after fish being brought aboard (almost all of which went back due to size or species). Surprisingly there was an endless amount of pouting coming aboard even on unbaited lures, one of which photograped below was enormous.
As time went on into the late hours of 8.00am the call of the wrecks got to us, the sea was good, the sun was still bright although in the distance inland we could see cloud building, so ... off we went 3 to 4 mile offshore, Tony in learning mode taking the wheel.
After setting us up on the first wreck Tony dropped down a "football grub" rig which had been fruitful earlier whilst I was determined to test drive the Slinky Coquet Twisters ...... within seconds of touchdown my eel was Taken with a harsh snatch and up came another nice cod of 7.5lbs (weighed on boat).
Before I had time to take the hook out I seen out the corner of my eye Tony dropping another Coquet Twister to the wreck below (never seen a rig changed so fast in my life ). Within seconds Tonys eel too had been snaffled by what turned out to be another cod in the 5-6lb range.
Time and Time again the Coquet Twisters were taken (and swallowed fully down the gobs) by nice fish in the 4 to 6 lbs bracket.
Then, as good as it had started, it stopped ........
the wind started to rise the sun began to be overtaken by cloud and the temparature decended ...... time to return, at a very respectable time of about 11.00am - Job Done !
Great Day out, many thanks as ever to Tony for crewing on the day ...... many thanks to amblecol for persuading me to make a Coquet Twister eel .
It was very quiet out there today, never met a single angling boat and all in glorious sunshine ...... I hope tomorrow holds for those that chose to delay, if it does, good luck to yous all ..........
As always, just a few further pics of the day .....
Tony in "Learning the Ropes" mode ....
Tony with a nice Wreck Cod .....(somewhere in there is a 16cm eel)
Myself with a 7.5lb cod
Tony with his enormous pouting (if thats the right way to put it )
Yet another to the Coquet Twister .....
And another .....
Many Thanks for reading
Cheers
norm
As I'm sure many know, our start time of 4.00am let us out before any of the bad weather came ..... out through the window so to speak
Some comments have been made, all in good jest, of why we start so early ...
maybe its because of this ......
a view of the day ahead ......
or maybe it's this ..... :
a capture timed at 04.45am and verified weighed aboard as 12.5lb (although it may have been better to weigh on solid ground
it might have been bigger ..
so, off we went Tony Wallsendo and I after a 4.00am meeting in marina carpark and early out the piers into a fabulous golden sunrise .........
The sky was clear, the sun was bright and a slight south easterly breeze was blowing into the harbour.
Our initial thoughts after crossing the barr was , "well I think the wrecks are out of the question" as there was a fair swell on causing us to slow in our exit of the piers.
By the time we escaped the river low tide fall out the swell had eased somewhat and the day looked up.
We quickly made a stop close in at one of our favourite marks and within minutes I was into a real good fish, when its good you just know it's good and up came our first double of the season a nice 12.5lb cod as per the picture above, and all this timed at 04.45am in the golden sunshine.
We hung around for a while and nothing more showed so decided, since the sea seemed not to be building to hit a special little spot at St Marys.
Once again this proved fruitful with fish after fish being brought aboard (almost all of which went back due to size or species). Surprisingly there was an endless amount of pouting coming aboard even on unbaited lures, one of which photograped below was enormous.
As time went on into the late hours of 8.00am
the call of the wrecks got to us, the sea was good, the sun was still bright although in the distance inland we could see cloud building, so ... off we went 3 to 4 mile offshore, Tony in learning mode taking the wheel.After setting us up on the first wreck Tony dropped down a "football grub" rig which had been fruitful earlier whilst I was determined to test drive the Slinky Coquet Twisters ...... within seconds of touchdown my eel was Taken with a harsh snatch and up came another nice cod of 7.5lbs (weighed on boat).
Before I had time to take the hook out I seen out the corner of my eye Tony dropping another Coquet Twister to the wreck below (never seen a rig changed so fast in my life
). Within seconds Tonys eel too had been snaffled by what turned out to be another cod in the 5-6lb range.Time and Time again the Coquet Twisters were taken (and swallowed fully down the gobs) by nice fish in the 4 to 6 lbs bracket.
Then, as good as it had started, it stopped ........
the wind started to rise the sun began to be overtaken by cloud and the temparature decended ...... time to return, at a very respectable time of about 11.00am - Job Done !
Great Day out, many thanks as ever to Tony for crewing on the day ...... many thanks to amblecol for persuading me to make a Coquet Twister eel
.It was very quiet out there today, never met a single angling boat and all in glorious sunshine ...... I hope tomorrow holds for those that chose to delay, if it does, good luck to yous all ..........
As always, just a few further pics of the day .....
Tony in "Learning the Ropes" mode ....
Tony with a nice Wreck Cod .....(somewhere in there is a 16cm eel)
Myself with a 7.5lb cod
Tony with his enormous pouting (if thats the right way to put it
)
Yet another to the Coquet Twister .....
And another .....
Many Thanks for reading
Cheers
norm
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