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Just Bert and myself this morning, I looked at the webcam before setting off to pick Bert up and thought great a flat sea for once, I then stepped outside and a felt the wind in my face 
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I picked Bert up at 6.0am and we were out the piers for about 6.45am, straight off to the hot spot where we had some success last week. Before you hit the bottom the lines were nearly horizontal, we picked a couple of whitings up and one mackerel but it was obvious we were wasting our time.
So what next? head back in and write another morning off? head to the flatty beds for some dab & plaice sport with a solitary mackerel for bait? I didn't have a clue. Lucky for me though Mr Gray knows what he's doing, "We'll try a couple of inshore wrecks with the shads, where we'll get some shelter from this wind, you never know" was the call.
As usual his judgement was spot on, the drift was slightly better but more importantly these wrecks, no than 3/4 mile off land were inhabited by some prime shad hungry cod. Bert was in first with a cod about 3lb which scrapped well above it's weight taken on a red headed shad. Next drift and Bert's in again, slightly bigger this time, Woohoo! morning saved.
I decided to try an orange sidewinder and next drift with miles of line out, nod nod
a cod not far off 10lb. The conditions were far from ideal and Bert had to do his stuff with no two drifts the same but he kept us on the cod, a drift or two later I had just hit the bottom and bang, the orange shad has worked again, another cod weighed on bouncy scales at 13.5lb 
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We called it a day with 12 nice cod between us, not a massive catch but given the conditions not bad at all.
Thanks for a cracking morning Bert!!!
If anyone's bored here's a chin counting quiz
.I picked Bert up at 6.0am and we were out the piers for about 6.45am, straight off to the hot spot where we had some success last week. Before you hit the bottom the lines were nearly horizontal, we picked a couple of whitings up and one mackerel but it was obvious we were wasting our time.
So what next? head back in and write another morning off? head to the flatty beds for some dab & plaice sport with a solitary mackerel for bait? I didn't have a clue. Lucky for me though Mr Gray knows what he's doing, "We'll try a couple of inshore wrecks with the shads, where we'll get some shelter from this wind, you never know" was the call.
As usual his judgement was spot on, the drift was slightly better but more importantly these wrecks, no than 3/4 mile off land were inhabited by some prime shad hungry cod. Bert was in first with a cod about 3lb which scrapped well above it's weight taken on a red headed shad. Next drift and Bert's in again, slightly bigger this time, Woohoo! morning saved.
I decided to try an orange sidewinder and next drift with miles of line out, nod nod
a cod not far off 10lb. The conditions were far from ideal and Bert had to do his stuff with no two drifts the same but he kept us on the cod, a drift or two later I had just hit the bottom and bang, the orange shad has worked again, another cod weighed on bouncy scales at 13.5lb . We called it a day with 12 nice cod between us, not a massive catch but given the conditions not bad at all.
Thanks for a cracking morning Bert!!!
If anyone's bored here's a chin counting quiz
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