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Being in need of a fix I booked a last minute trip out from Hartlepool on Dave's boat famous, glad I did as it turned out to be a great day.
Forecast looked ok with light winds and some isolated showers but as I arrived at hartlepool with the sky dark and a thunder shower on its way I was thinking they'd got it wrong again.......thankfully not! Once at sea it was bright, warm and more importantly dry. Good news for the Polish lads on board in their track suits and trainers.
We steamed about 12 miles onto hard ground and found fish quickly, lots of small tings, codlings, lings and the dreaded mackerel. Amongst this lot though were some decent enough cod in the 2.5-4lb mark and a few good ling to maybe 8lbs. For the rest of the day we moved marks perhaps 5 or 6 times, each time finding fish if a similar stamp and volume whilst returning loads of smaller stuff.
Met shipscat of NESA and had a bit if banter, he's a fully fledged cod killer and discreetly wound up cod after cod all day long - thanks for the ripper that got me a few fish, very kind of you.
Anyway, I took home a batch of decent yet not huge cod, a ling and a wolf fish, a new species for me. I must admit to unhooking it with pliers as it had one hell of a set of teeth on it. Fish were caught on ripper, hokkais and shads, I tried hard on the twin tails with little success.
Glad to have got out and caught as the weather for tomorrow looks crap.
A couple of photos of today's haul
Forecast looked ok with light winds and some isolated showers but as I arrived at hartlepool with the sky dark and a thunder shower on its way I was thinking they'd got it wrong again.......thankfully not! Once at sea it was bright, warm and more importantly dry. Good news for the Polish lads on board in their track suits and trainers.
We steamed about 12 miles onto hard ground and found fish quickly, lots of small tings, codlings, lings and the dreaded mackerel. Amongst this lot though were some decent enough cod in the 2.5-4lb mark and a few good ling to maybe 8lbs. For the rest of the day we moved marks perhaps 5 or 6 times, each time finding fish if a similar stamp and volume whilst returning loads of smaller stuff.
Met shipscat of NESA and had a bit if banter, he's a fully fledged cod killer and discreetly wound up cod after cod all day long - thanks for the ripper that got me a few fish, very kind of you.
Anyway, I took home a batch of decent yet not huge cod, a ling and a wolf fish, a new species for me. I must admit to unhooking it with pliers as it had one hell of a set of teeth on it. Fish were caught on ripper, hokkais and shads, I tried hard on the twin tails with little success.
Glad to have got out and caught as the weather for tomorrow looks crap.
A couple of photos of today's haul
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