Well this is hopefully my 1st of many reports from my 1st boat the Nova Castrian that i keep moored in Beadnell.
Got her last week and got the 1st chance to do some fishing last friday.
Woke up at 5.30am to find the fog was in very heavy but set off over to Beadnell anyway to meet my dad and check the sea out. The fog had gone so off out we headed to the Newton area and we were straight into the fish with me loosing a 4lber on the top and my 2nd on the way up before i must have hit one on the head as i hadn't even hit bottom when i got what turned out to be a 3lber on.
The fishing was great for about an hour with cod on every drop for me until we hit a patch of coalies and couldn't get through them getting 4 a time. When they passed we were back into the cod until the fog returned and we lost sight of everything around us
Being our first time out and my dad never using a gps before he got a bit worried about getting back in so asked if i would be happy stopping for the day to try and get back in.
Well this turned into an adventure for me and almost a heart attack for him when we almost beached the boat on Beadnell beach lol i noticed we were only in 1 meter of water and were heading closer in....when i asked him if he knew what he was doing he said his glasses were covered in salt water and he couldn't see the gps
i quickly figured out where we needed to be and got us heading in the right direction
A near miss with a yaught moored on the beach then a smaller boat also moored there i saw the pier end through the fog.
We returned with around a dozen cod to 4-5lb and put loads of size but smaller fish back to get bigger. Only other species we had were coalies.
Hope to be out again soon and next time i promise to get some photos....we were to busy catching fish this time
Got her last week and got the 1st chance to do some fishing last friday.
Woke up at 5.30am to find the fog was in very heavy but set off over to Beadnell anyway to meet my dad and check the sea out. The fog had gone so off out we headed to the Newton area and we were straight into the fish with me loosing a 4lber on the top and my 2nd on the way up before i must have hit one on the head as i hadn't even hit bottom when i got what turned out to be a 3lber on.
The fishing was great for about an hour with cod on every drop for me until we hit a patch of coalies and couldn't get through them getting 4 a time. When they passed we were back into the cod until the fog returned and we lost sight of everything around us
Being our first time out and my dad never using a gps before he got a bit worried about getting back in so asked if i would be happy stopping for the day to try and get back in.
Well this turned into an adventure for me and almost a heart attack for him when we almost beached the boat on Beadnell beach lol i noticed we were only in 1 meter of water and were heading closer in....when i asked him if he knew what he was doing he said his glasses were covered in salt water and he couldn't see the gps
i quickly figured out where we needed to be and got us heading in the right direction A near miss with a yaught moored on the beach then a smaller boat also moored there i saw the pier end through the fog.We returned with around a dozen cod to 4-5lb and put loads of size but smaller fish back to get bigger. Only other species we had were coalies.
Hope to be out again soon and next time i promise to get some photos....we were to busy catching fish this time
