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My brother in law asked about a trip out in Eleda a week or two ago , apart from the big tide and the lack of fish recently today looked like being a good day to take him so it was arranged that he and his 12 year old son would join me this morning.
From a guests point of view , it was an almost perfect day for them , neither had done a lot of boat fishing before and the sea was perfect for the run out to the wrecks we spotted a minkie whale and were joined by a couple of dolphins for a while. Just as I feared though , the fishing was hard , plenty mackerel and Joel , my nephew , had the time of his life hauling up a string of big coalies , but I really wanted to get them amongst the cod
We tried a few wrecks out to about 8 miles , they were loving it but I knew it could be so much better , with the sea so flat I decided to head further out and set course for a wreck about 12 or 13 miles out , I could see the water clarity was so much better here and dropped a pirk over the side down to 260ft , hooked into a cod and handed the rod to Joel , "you reel that in" I said to him , what seemed like an hour later
a nice plump 5lb cod eventually surfaced and the look on his face was worth any aggro or missed fishing I suffered today
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His dad took a slightly bigger one on the same first drop and we went back over this wreck a few more times taking several more cod before the tackle monster at the bottom of the sea started taking payment for them in the way of pirks.
It's cost me a fortune in tackle today (they didn't have any
) I've had to put my fishing second to organising theirs , and I've probably got a knackered bilge pump which Joel switched on by accident and ran dry for god knows how long ,and to top it all off when I berthed the boat at the end of the day , my brother in law jumped ashore first and held the boat , I switched off the engine came out of the wheelhouse and saw her drifting away from the pontoon and him struggling to hold her , in my haste to get ashore and help him I slipped and put my shoulder out 
, I can barely type this it hurts so bad , don't you know that it .......... hurts so goooood (sorry sometimes words remind me of song lyrics 
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Anyway , they went home with a bag full of cod , mackerel and coalies , so they will be doing the hunter gatherer returns thing whilst I suffer and possibly miss the next few days flat seas if my shoulder doesn't improve
I was really feeling a bit down and sorry for myself as I was just getting back to somewhere near normal from the last time I hurt myself , then I watched injured soldiers with arms and legs missing driving rally cars on top gear and realised again just how lucky I am .............arthritis , ha! , bring it on
From a guests point of view , it was an almost perfect day for them , neither had done a lot of boat fishing before and the sea was perfect for the run out to the wrecks we spotted a minkie whale and were joined by a couple of dolphins for a while. Just as I feared though , the fishing was hard , plenty mackerel and Joel , my nephew , had the time of his life hauling up a string of big coalies , but I really wanted to get them amongst the cod
We tried a few wrecks out to about 8 miles , they were loving it but I knew it could be so much better , with the sea so flat I decided to head further out and set course for a wreck about 12 or 13 miles out , I could see the water clarity was so much better here and dropped a pirk over the side down to 260ft , hooked into a cod and handed the rod to Joel , "you reel that in" I said to him , what seemed like an hour later
a nice plump 5lb cod eventually surfaced and the look on his face was worth any aggro or missed fishing I suffered today.His dad took a slightly bigger one on the same first drop and we went back over this wreck a few more times taking several more cod before the tackle monster at the bottom of the sea started taking payment for them in the way of pirks.
It's cost me a fortune in tackle today (they didn't have any
) I've had to put my fishing second to organising theirs , and I've probably got a knackered bilge pump which Joel switched on by accident and ran dry for god knows how long ,and to top it all off when I berthed the boat at the end of the day , my brother in law jumped ashore first and held the boat , I switched off the engine came out of the wheelhouse and saw her drifting away from the pontoon and him struggling to hold her , in my haste to get ashore and help him I slipped and put my shoulder out , I can barely type this it hurts so bad , don't you know that it .......... hurts so goooood (sorry sometimes words remind me of song lyrics )Anyway , they went home with a bag full of cod , mackerel and coalies , so they will be doing the hunter gatherer returns thing whilst I suffer and possibly miss the next few days flat seas if my shoulder doesn't improve
I was really feeling a bit down and sorry for myself as I was just getting back to somewhere near normal from the last time I hurt myself , then I watched injured soldiers with arms and legs missing driving rally cars on top gear and realised again just how lucky I am .............arthritis , ha! , bring it on
, hope your shoulder gets better soon mate 
or am i getting mellow in my old age
and heres me thinking im a canny lad
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