Craster 22/05/2013.

[Hadji Kareem]

I went through the score cards and we totalled 88 legal sized fish and easily twice that, that were close to legal size and put back. Cod, Ling, Coalie and a Granny Fish??? Were caught. Fingers crossed its the start of a good season.

1st place Fred (LB) 546
2nd place Martin Willis 436
3rd place Paul Halpin 360
4th place Andy (guest) 341
5th place Dave Wolfe 340
6th place Mick Dunn 297
7th place Kev Woodcock 285
8th place Pete Walsh 280
9th place John Foreman 255
10th place Bob McKay 170
11th place Pete Chadwick 153

[mick dunn]

Martin scored really well with his 99p Boyes green hockeyes. Seemed to smash into a shoal of coalies - and big ones too. I was next to him and struggled big time with the white sindwinder and blue shad. Peter kept putting down some cracking baits of peeler,squid,lug looking for a big cod or ling but the bigger fish were not there. Still i now have 12 lovely fillets of cod in my freezer and two coalie fillets.Doug just about managed with the cards but if we had more fish i think he would have struggled. wonder if having own scorecard like shore fishing would be better and marked by other angler ??..
Mick.

[Hadji Kareem]

I thought about that but unlike the shore we have nowhere to put the rods when marking the cards. You can bet as soon as we lean it against the rails we'd either snag the bottom or catch that big one and the rod is over the side. There's also the wind and spray/waves to consider. The cards would last 10 mins and be soggy. I'll speak to Doug, if it gets too much we'll have a re think. At least we don't count mackerel, when they finally arrive.

[mick dunn]

Imagine if we did--ha ha Doug thats 60 mackeral for me.........