Rockin' n Rollin on Mistress out of the Tyne!

Kartonkel said:
What is the reason for your boat choices, Mark?

You seem to come all the way down from Scotland and stay in a caravan, which appears to be fairly flexible and independent.

Have you not considered boats with excellent track records like Sea Otter of Whitby or AliCat/ Famous of Hartlepool?

Sea Otter caught 150 cod yesterday whilst you and Lynn caught nowt.
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Mate not sure why you wouldn't PM me rather than post this reply? Seems a bit disrespectful to other Skippers.

However I am happy to publicly post a reply. In the last 3 plus years since taking up chartering, we have been out of Eyemouth, Amble, Bridlington, Sunderland, South Shields, Hartlepool and yes, even Whitby (5 times actually!).

Variety is the spice of life and we do indeed go out with Skippers with excellent track records from all ports! For a liitle more clarity, Famous does not have a toilet and strangely enough, Lynn does not want to pee in a bucket in the cabin, call her demure if you like, but it is the 21st century after all !

Also we feel strongly that catching loads and loads of fish is not the only criteria for choosing a boat. Good atmosphere, Skippers, Crew and Anglers willing to pass on their knowledge to help us less experienced souls to learn and improve is really important to us.

We are extremely happy with our choices, have met some fantastic people and we will continue to travel to various ports, including Whitby, in the years to come. :)
 
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Nothing disrespectful. Those boats I mentioned have earned their reputation.

I am a strong believer in forums. Excellent exchange genuine information.
How to use or believe that information is up to any user. I only pm, if its nothing for the public ear.
However...the quality of charterboats, approach to different conditions, toilets, attitude etc should well live on a forum.

I wonder if @ your first trip the skipper should have gone out further rather than steaming 30 miles around.

@your trip yesterday, I appreciate that the skipper wanted to have a "look" and than gave up, because it was utterly hopeless. Seems that Sarah JFK did the same.
Did he charge the full fee?
 
Kartonkel said:
I am a strong believer in forums. Excellent exchange genuine information.
How to use or believe that information is up to any user. I only pm, if its nothing for the public ear.
However...the quality of charterboats, approach to different conditions, toilets, attitude etc should well live on a forum.

I wonder if @ your first trip the skipper should have gone out further rather than steaming 30 miles around.

@your trip yesterday, I appreciate that the skipper wanted to have a "look" and than gave up, because it was utterly hopeless. Seems that Sarah JFK did the same.
Did he charge the full fee?
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Well mate I reckon finding the fish is not an exact science, if it were, everybody would always catch. So we can always wonder..............what if?

And no he didn't charge full fee !
 
Wish you best of luck for Wednesday, M8

Still a hell of a tide

Try a heavy Hartlepool ripper around slack tide or Ghost White shads

Good ling around at the moment

By the way: i think finding the fish has very little to do with luck!! Thats why it is always the same skippers finding them and its usually the same anglers who catch the most
 
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shadman said:
Famous does not have a toilet and strangely enough,
yes it has
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also had plenty of fish in the last week a lot in the doubles
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and she told me she was going shopping on sat..................
 
shadman said:
As you say plenty of ling around
but only for the boats that like deep water
the lads out the other day (1st timers) bagged up
flowing traces the best
I was catching ling on 4" white blood bellies and some nice cod
good luck for next trip
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Problem is that Kayos goes out on Wednesday with an enormous tide. Seems apretty hopeless mission, just like today
 
shadman said:
The forecast looks ok for wed
gusts to 30 mph south easterly with a 5.6 tide
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Wind and weather you never know, but why doing a charter when the tides are awful. You can look it up well in advance.

There might be a 2-3 hours window on Wednesday around slack where the lead hits the ground
 
Kartonkel said:
Wind and weather you never know, but why doing a charter when the tides are awful. You can look it up well in advance.

There might be a 2-3 hours window on Wednesday around slack where the lead hits the ground
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Big tides are ok as long you have good clarity the wrecks out on the 20 mile fish far better on big tides say 5.5 even 6.0 tides can fish very well as the tide at that distance isnt as strong as say 5 mile from the shore its all down to clear water the inshore grounds and wrecks fished very well before last big blow the water is now greenly colured and the herrings have also sponsored between 4- 5mile stream and the cod are gorgeing on them i am finding now you need to be off further to get decent clarity and also to get well away from the herring spawn if the cod is on that you have no chance another couple of weeks and the spawn will have gone plus if we get some settled weather and water clears the wrecks inshore will come alive once again.
 
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big cod said:
Big tides are ok as long you have good clarity the wrecks out on the 20 mile fish far better on big tides say 5.5 even 6.0 tides can fish very well as the tide at that distance isnt as strong as say 5 mile from the shore its all down to clear water the inshore grounds and wrecks fished very well before last big blow the water is now greenly colured and the herrings have also sponsored between 4- 5mile stream and the cod are gorgeing on them i am finding now you need to be off further to get decent clarity and also to get well away from the herring spawn if the cod is on that you have no chance another couple of weeks and the spawn will have gone plus if we get some settled weather and water clears the wrecks inshore will come alive once again.
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You should write a book, Paul
I would buy it.
I go with a skipper in Cape Town who has the same "scientific" approach...guess what...he is the most successful
He looks for water temperatures, tides, seabirds etc
And he happily shares his knowledge

What are good tides/conditions for uptiding?
 
big cod said:
Big tides are ok as long you have good clarity the wrecks out on the 20 mile fish far better on big tides say 5.5 even 6.0 tides can fish very well as the tide at that distance isnt as strong as say 5 mile from the shore its all down to clear water the inshore grounds and wrecks fished very well before last big blow the water is now greenly colured and the herrings have also sponsored between 4- 5mile stream and the cod are gorgeing on them i am finding now you need to be off further to get decent clarity and also to get well away from the herring spawn if the cod is on that you have no chance another couple of weeks and the spawn will have gone plus if we get some settled weather and water clears the wrecks inshore will come alive once again.
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Good bit of info there....thanks for sharing...:)
 
big cod said:
Big tides are ok as long you have good clarity the wrecks out on the 20 mile fish far better on big tides say 5.5 even 6.0 tides can fish very well as the tide at that distance isnt as strong as say 5 mile from the shore its all down to clear water the inshore grounds and wrecks fished very well before last big blow the water is now greenly colured and the herrings have also sponsored between 4- 5mile stream and the cod are gorgeing on them i am finding now you need to be off further to get decent clarity and also to get well away from the herring spawn if the cod is on that you have no chance another couple of weeks and the spawn will have gone plus if we get some settled weather and water clears the wrecks inshore will come alive once again.
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Great bit of insight into Cod/Ling/Pollock charter fishing Paul. I loved reading it.
 
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