Sailed at 8am to fish the rought ground, 6 anglers aboard.
Very soon in to fish, with mostly under size codling being landed. A few keepers where caugh by everyone onboard. Lumi green and orange hokkais baited with shell on cooked prawn seemed to be taking the majority of the fish.
I fished the usual, hokkais, daylights. Swam a few shads and fished whole large squid or makeral fillets on a flowing trace.
Next to no makeral caught, I had none (and I fished for them) and my mate had 2. Maybe 12 landed on the boat.
I was using my light gear (10lb class boat rod with 15lb braid) this proved to be a mistake. After losing 8 or 9 sets of gear (8-10oz cannonballs and strings of hokkais/daylights) I was out of weights. So I asked the skipper Martin if he had any weights I could buy. This was meeted by a smile and him lifting a bucket of weights in my direction, no charge, quality bloke. I then went on to lose another two sets of gear.
Martin said, here use this and handed me much heavier gear (40lb class rod with a reel loaded with maybe (60lb-70lb line). I lost only one more set of gear lol.
My mate (he left his weights in the garage) managed to catch a Dab from a drifting boat over hard ground on a hokkai baited with prawn! I'm still unsure how that happened. He also caught a huge octopus, it was shooting jets of water at us from the side of the boat. He's new to fishing this being his second season on a boat but he was buzzing. He didn't want the octopus and it was released.
I took three keepers and returned at least 30 undersize coding (a good sigh) on pollack and a coalie. My mate took 6 keepers.
All told a ****ing great day out with a great skipper, we were back in for 3pm and it was easily worth the £35.
Red October, I'd recommend to anyone.
Very soon in to fish, with mostly under size codling being landed. A few keepers where caugh by everyone onboard. Lumi green and orange hokkais baited with shell on cooked prawn seemed to be taking the majority of the fish.
I fished the usual, hokkais, daylights. Swam a few shads and fished whole large squid or makeral fillets on a flowing trace.
Next to no makeral caught, I had none (and I fished for them) and my mate had 2. Maybe 12 landed on the boat.
I was using my light gear (10lb class boat rod with 15lb braid) this proved to be a mistake. After losing 8 or 9 sets of gear (8-10oz cannonballs and strings of hokkais/daylights) I was out of weights. So I asked the skipper Martin if he had any weights I could buy. This was meeted by a smile and him lifting a bucket of weights in my direction, no charge, quality bloke. I then went on to lose another two sets of gear.
Martin said, here use this and handed me much heavier gear (40lb class rod with a reel loaded with maybe (60lb-70lb line). I lost only one more set of gear lol.
My mate (he left his weights in the garage) managed to catch a Dab from a drifting boat over hard ground on a hokkai baited with prawn! I'm still unsure how that happened. He also caught a huge octopus, it was shooting jets of water at us from the side of the boat. He's new to fishing this being his second season on a boat but he was buzzing. He didn't want the octopus and it was released.
I took three keepers and returned at least 30 undersize coding (a good sigh) on pollack and a coalie. My mate took 6 keepers.
All told a ****ing great day out with a great skipper, we were back in for 3pm and it was easily worth the £35.
Red October, I'd recommend to anyone.
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