northeast1
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Well most talk about doing it but with near perfect weather conditions and a nice drift speed with a long range outlook of smooth seas it was time for the new boat to have its 12th trip under my ownership out and this time it was going to the Graveyard, a area i have visited twice before with Stingray but at half the speed it was a long slogg but not with the new boat.
The day started at 5.30am when i met up with Chris and Graham on the fuel berth to fill up the tank and add a extra 50ltrs of fuel to the back up. We headed out the piers and stopped on the 10 mile mark, landing a couple small codling and ling, the sea was choppy so i decided to do a few more wrecks on that marker to see how the weather turned out. At 9am it was clear the sea was dropping and the drift great so after a quick check of the weather via our phones it was agreed we went to hit some wrecks on the 32 to 36mile markers of the Graveyard.
It was a long steam at 17knots but having a 40min stint each inbetween sun bathing it went over quick but it was soon time to fish and fish it did, first off was a bucket of our little long lost friends...the mackerel and even a full house
I had plotted out 11 wrecks and the plan was to do all 11 and then head home and we stuck to that plan, moving around taken fish off every wreck, sometimes two at a time but i must add nothing big with most around 2-7lb but lots of them. The bigger wrecks to the north may of held better fish but on this trip i was doing the other end of the Graveyard, the north wrecks will wait until the next fine day.
The amount of whiting and small codling on the wrecks was unreal, i mean if you hit the bottom and left it there for 30seconds with say size 3/0 daylights you would have a full house but we had come for bigger fish so stuck to the pirks and 7/0 flowing traces.
Even a few big coalie and pollack showed upto 5lb.
We kept on moving around and picking up pollack, coalie, whiting cod, ling, pouting and mackerel but once again no doubles.
So we kept what we wanted and put most back and at 6pm it was time to head for home at full steam, a couple of hours later and we arrived back at the marina, with smilign faces and red skin.
Ow i almost missed the bit out of a dolphin jumping in front of the boat and following us for a 1/4mile before vanishing.
Anyway to round it up, great to be that far out, great to see so many fish and the wildlife, downside, was the lack of lumkers i had hoped for and the sun burn
but the fishing was good and a few new wrecks plotted to add to the ones i plotted with Stingray.If anyone other boat wishes a trip out sometime let me know as safer in twos, i spent the previous day checking and double checking everything and all the back up's but a second boat is safer in every way.
Out tomora but rough grounding it again as dont have the energy for wrecking
If all goes well then i will be doing the north part of the Graveyard in two weeks time but weather has to be right for such a trip, safety is everything at them distances.
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