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Slinky Kate Catch Report Saturday June 13 2009
The adventure .................
Due to unforseen circumstances (pressure of work) Steve unfortunately missed the boat today ...
However Tony and myself soldiered on .......
Shame steve really as there were seven doubles caught today .............. (all reported off the norway coast mind not off the tyne ) (except for richies that is )
In an effort to catch the flood tide it resulted in yet another 3.00am start , which it turned out for both Tony and myself to be really just a late finish to yesterday (12 hrs late ) since neither of us could sleep with the thought of the alarm going off a 2.00 am.
The weather and the forcasting of late has been a bit hit and miss so I was a touch unsure as to whether or not we would actuly make it out, so , after getting / staying up at 1.30am I looked out to find a slight easterly wind (bah) and a fair amount of rain in the ever dark sky.
In an effort to make the correct decision I decided to set off earlier than I had even thought and have a run the long way around to the marina and see for myself what the coast was like. So, bag packed, sarnies in pocket, I left home at about 2.15am for the "coastal route"
apart from feeling the cold slight easterly wind and the slight rain it was a bit of waste of time as it was too dark to see anything past the edge surf ......
still, it sounded flatish
Eventually got to marina with 5 minutes to spare where Tony was already as ever waiting, we decided pretty quickly to give it a go so ................ off we went (in the almost dark)
No nice sunrises today (although daylight came about 4.00am ish) since there was a thick layer of cloud along the horizon that would take till all of 9.00am (5 hours away) to burn through.
The Fishing ..................
Started in our usual close in spot with flowing traces and lures in an effort to find what would catch .......................... nothing !
The first 30 minutes seen us biteless ... until .......... it started ......... you couldnt hit bottom for them ...
No, Not mackerel, but scotchies, of all sizes ........ today I`m convinced that I have taken Steves all time record for number of scotchies boated, so many even richy could not have kept count , and so big , ......... Tony took the record with a (Weighed) 2lbder
The Catch ......
Mackerel, yes - they arrived over a wreck about 3 mile out all good sized and no doubt Tony will comment on the taste very shortly
Whiting, yes - but not a lot
Scotchies yes yes yes yes and yes .... as mentioned
Codling, Yes - but not as many as we`d have liked and the best at only about 4 - 5 lbd
Ling, Yes - but small size
Wrasse, yes - a nice little ballan to myself
Oh and an octopus but while we decided to film it I let it hang too long for the shot and it removed itself (may be lucky and see it in video)
All in all a lot of fish were boated today but the vast majority of them went back to fight another day, a fairly hard day for the "fish on the table" fisherman.
Seems the wrecks are beginning to produce now that the mackerel have arrived however we did visit a few that were totally void of action
The spring run of small codling - seems to be over for this season
Hard Ground , still some pickings
The future this season (my opinion) ..... I think lies in the wrecks from here on in
A great day as usual with fish after fish arriving (albeit scotchies ) the wind got up about lunchtime and the wearyness hit both Tony and I so we called it a day ............... roll on next week ..
cheers Tony
Fingers crossed next week Steve ...
as ever pictures of the day :- (without a sunrise)
First Fish to Tony a small Ling (first photographable non scotchie type that is )
Tonys big scotchie
and weigh in proof of size
Nice mackerel close to the 1lbd mark
and just to show they're there together ... a string of mackerel
My first codling of the day
and a smaller one to follow
and for the species hunters, a small Ballan Wrasse
As ever a "hastily" put together video .........
same vid but "possibly" better quality ..... your views most welcome
June 13th 2009 Slinky Kate Catch Report on Vimeo
Cheers all
Thanks for reading
PS Well done rich, fantastic fish ............
norm
The adventure .................
Due to unforseen circumstances (pressure of work) Steve unfortunately missed the boat today ...
However Tony and myself soldiered on .......
Shame steve really as there were seven doubles caught today .............. (all reported off the norway coast mind not off the tyne
) (except for richies that is )In an effort to catch the flood tide it resulted in yet another 3.00am start , which it turned out for both Tony and myself to be really just a late finish to yesterday (12 hrs late
) since neither of us could sleep with the thought of the alarm going off a 2.00 am.The weather and the forcasting of late has been a bit hit and miss so I was a touch unsure as to whether or not we would actuly make it out, so , after getting / staying up at 1.30am I looked out to find a slight easterly wind (bah) and a fair amount of rain in the ever dark sky.
In an effort to make the correct decision I decided to set off earlier than I had even thought and have a run the long way around to the marina and see for myself what the coast was like. So, bag packed, sarnies in pocket, I left home at about 2.15am for the "coastal route"
apart from feeling the cold slight easterly wind and the slight rain it was a bit of waste of time as it was too dark to see anything past the edge surf ......
still, it sounded flatish
Eventually got to marina with 5 minutes to spare where Tony was already as ever waiting, we decided pretty quickly to give it a go so ................ off we went (in the almost dark)
No nice sunrises today (although daylight came about 4.00am ish) since there was a thick layer of cloud along the horizon that would take till all of 9.00am (5 hours away) to burn through.
The Fishing ..................
Started in our usual close in spot with flowing traces and lures in an effort to find what would catch .......................... nothing !
The first 30 minutes seen us biteless ... until .......... it started ......... you couldnt hit bottom for them ...
No, Not mackerel, but scotchies, of all sizes ........ today I`m convinced that I have taken Steves all time record for number of scotchies boated, so many even richy could not have kept count , and so big , ......... Tony took the record with a (Weighed) 2lbder
The Catch ......
Mackerel, yes - they arrived over a wreck about 3 mile out all good sized and no doubt Tony will comment on the taste very shortly
Whiting, yes - but not a lot
Scotchies yes yes yes yes and yes .... as mentioned
Codling, Yes - but not as many as we`d have liked and the best at only about 4 - 5 lbd
Ling, Yes - but small size
Wrasse, yes - a nice little ballan to myself
Oh and an octopus but while we decided to film it I let it hang too long for the shot and it removed itself (may be lucky and see it in video)
All in all a lot of fish were boated today but the vast majority of them went back to fight another day, a fairly hard day for the "fish on the table" fisherman.
Seems the wrecks are beginning to produce now that the mackerel have arrived however we did visit a few that were totally void of action
The spring run of small codling - seems to be over for this season
Hard Ground , still some pickings
The future this season (my opinion) ..... I think lies in the wrecks from here on in
A great day as usual with fish after fish arriving (albeit scotchies
) the wind got up about lunchtime and the wearyness hit both Tony and I so we called it a day ............... roll on next week ..cheers Tony
Fingers crossed next week Steve ...
as ever pictures of the day :- (without a sunrise)
First Fish to Tony a small Ling (first photographable non scotchie type that is
)Tonys big scotchie
and weigh in proof of size
Nice mackerel close to the 1lbd mark
and just to show they're there together ... a string of mackerel
My first codling of the day
and a smaller one to follow
and for the species hunters, a small Ballan Wrasse
As ever a "hastily" put together video .........
same vid but "possibly" better quality ..... your views most welcome
June 13th 2009 Slinky Kate Catch Report on Vimeo
Cheers all
Thanks for reading
PS Well done rich, fantastic fish ............
norm
took me a year to get a picture of my boat on here though , so don't hold yer breath lol.
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