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After seeing the weather forecast yesterday and the sunshine today, I took the afternoon off work. Just the crew of two today, me and Mark who was skipper for the day – if he can see where he’s going through all that hair.
By 2pm we were out the marina and heading down the river and the skipper stopped off at a wreck a quarter of a mile from the pier; not one I normally fish. From the first drop, we caught pan sized coddling, all 2 to 3lb and coming in every couple of minutes – good decision skipper. Even after the wreck we continued to pick up fish drifting across the hard ground until it went quiet. A second drift following the same line as before produced only a couple of fish, the shoal must have moved on without us. We headed further out and found fewer but bigger fish. The wind wasn’t as gentle as forecast and push us along at a good speed.
Mark with his first fish off the 5 mile wreck, a four pounder, the only one we kept. The coddling was shortly to be followed by a ling of about 6lb. Cod to 6lb and ling to 8lb followed but the photo’s went missing.
He’s getting the hang of this.
Mackeral made a brief appearance and we landed 8 which was perfectly timed as I used the final one of last year’s catch out the freezer for bait today.
After the tide turned the drift dropped to zero and the wind didn’t move us much either. We floated over the wreck like the ancient mariner, going nowhere without firing up the engine, which we did and went home.
By 2pm we were out the marina and heading down the river and the skipper stopped off at a wreck a quarter of a mile from the pier; not one I normally fish. From the first drop, we caught pan sized coddling, all 2 to 3lb and coming in every couple of minutes – good decision skipper. Even after the wreck we continued to pick up fish drifting across the hard ground until it went quiet. A second drift following the same line as before produced only a couple of fish, the shoal must have moved on without us. We headed further out and found fewer but bigger fish. The wind wasn’t as gentle as forecast and push us along at a good speed.
Mark with his first fish off the 5 mile wreck, a four pounder, the only one we kept. The coddling was shortly to be followed by a ling of about 6lb. Cod to 6lb and ling to 8lb followed but the photo’s went missing.
He’s getting the hang of this.
Mackeral made a brief appearance and we landed 8 which was perfectly timed as I used the final one of last year’s catch out the freezer for bait today.
After the tide turned the drift dropped to zero and the wind didn’t move us much either. We floated over the wreck like the ancient mariner, going nowhere without firing up the engine, which we did and went home.
. Well done Kev 
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