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I think we all agree that September and October where a big disappointment due to the wind....
I can count my days out in those two top-months on the fingers of one hand!
I even registered a total blank on one of those days....
However, we also had very good days and yesterday was one of them. It was the smallest of tides and we decided to give the ebb tide a go...which proved to be a bit of a mistake, because the wind, although very light, blew from the north and counteracted the drift...we either stood totally still or drifted slowly with the wind.
“My” usual wrecks did not produce in those conditions and I made a blunt decision to go to a more offshore one (almost 10 miles from Sunderland).....
And suddenly it felt like summer had arrived....almost no wind...sunshine...so warm that I fished in my t-shirt....and most importantly the fishing was gigantic!
For a couple of hours Pete and I had bites seconds after lowering it onto the wreck...loads of them did not hook up, as we often experience it at very slow drifts. They are much much more finicky. But it is great fun to have the rod bend so soon and so often...and we also hooked up more than enough, catching cod, ling, pollack and most satisfyingly MACKERELS!
Yes, whenever we saw the correct pattern on the fish finder, we immediately grabbed the mackerel rods and reeled nice big and fat mackerels in, sometimes even full houses.
The ling we caught reached double figures, but averaged 5-6lb
The cod and pollack were a bit smaller averaging 3-4lb
We steamed the long journey back and attracted a huge “cloud” of seagulls when we gutted the catch just in front of Roger lighthouse.
Brilliant day
I think we all agree that September and October where a big disappointment due to the wind....
I can count my days out in those two top-months on the fingers of one hand!
I even registered a total blank on one of those days....
However, we also had very good days and yesterday was one of them. It was the smallest of tides and we decided to give the ebb tide a go...which proved to be a bit of a mistake, because the wind, although very light, blew from the north and counteracted the drift...we either stood totally still or drifted slowly with the wind.
“My” usual wrecks did not produce in those conditions and I made a blunt decision to go to a more offshore one (almost 10 miles from Sunderland).....
And suddenly it felt like summer had arrived....almost no wind...sunshine...so warm that I fished in my t-shirt....and most importantly the fishing was gigantic!
For a couple of hours Pete and I had bites seconds after lowering it onto the wreck...loads of them did not hook up, as we often experience it at very slow drifts. They are much much more finicky. But it is great fun to have the rod bend so soon and so often...and we also hooked up more than enough, catching cod, ling, pollack and most satisfyingly MACKERELS!
Yes, whenever we saw the correct pattern on the fish finder, we immediately grabbed the mackerel rods and reeled nice big and fat mackerels in, sometimes even full houses.
The ling we caught reached double figures, but averaged 5-6lb
The cod and pollack were a bit smaller averaging 3-4lb
We steamed the long journey back and attracted a huge “cloud” of seagulls when we gutted the catch just in front of Roger lighthouse.
Brilliant day
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