A fantastic day out.

[fishingmark]

Went on a trip out today with Joe Montgomery and Steve Bingham to The Holderness coast area with smoothhounds, rays and maybe a bass being our targets. We got there an hour or so before low water and scoped the area out. The fishing was poor for the first few hours with nothing caught by any of us then about half way up the tide the fish came on. First Joe had a thornback and then Steve pulled in a turbot. not long after this my rod tip went mental and I struck into what felt like a good fish which turned out to be my very first bass weighing in at 2.36lbs.



Steve got another bass before we had to climb up on to the cliffs as the water was coming to the very top of the beach. The fish continued to come with Joe getting a smoothhound and Steve getting another bass.



Then I struck into something heavy which turned out to be a thornback around the 4lb mark.





Some lads fishing along from us were pulling quite a few hounds so I was hopeful that I would get one. Not long after I got a rattle on the tip and pulled in my first smoothhound.




Apart from the slow start the day could not have been better with my 3 target species caught and the best weather of the year so far, T shirt weather all day. A fantastic day with some great craic, looking forward to getting away a few more times this year.

Also huge thanks to the guy who gave us some excellent advice. You know who you are.:thumbup:

 

[pop39]

Well done mark mate,look's class,you even got wor Joe to crack a smile �� lol , me and David finnerty went over to silloth nothing big for us but still a good day out

 

[hound hunter]

Massive well done guy's,still getting some good cod too,me pal had a 3lber this afty
Glad u enjoyed it,sorry u didn't get any zoo creatures,but hey that's fishing,sounds like u had a cracking day,
All the best lads n keep at e'm.

 

[Philysafc]

Quality mate , great report and great to see ya targets where caught ... Belta mark

 

[andyco]

Well done. Amazing days fishing!

 

[regpude]

great days fishing lads,well done all.haway mark passed bedtime now.haha.GETIN.

 

[toonboymc]

Mint session mate lovely fishes a big welldone

 

[Nooo Fish]

Hell of a days fishing that mate. The sort of day I only dream of.

 

[barnacle bill]

Well done lads, a great session and a great report.

 

[Joe-m]

Great trip Mark nice to catch a few rays ( sun ) and fish but seriously well done nice bass another 3 off the list

 

[Pighunter]

Cracking day lots of fish and a lot of sun burn by the looks of it

 

[Juliogeordio]

Well done boys! Lovely lookin fish mark

 

[mardenq]

looks like you,s had a great day out.
some nice fish caught to

 

[eddie t]

well done mark you got what you went for cracking day for it as well

 

[broon shoe]

Well done on mission accomplished lads

 

[IanBarron]

Good fish mate

 

[g.ordon]

cracking sesh lads, great report mate

 

[Thunderpants]

Amazing session! Like something out of the pages of Sea Angler that us mere mortals dream of having. Very well done lads.

 

[OuTkast76]

Cracking session well done fellas

 

[fish fingers]

great post mark and a nice day for it with some canny species to add to your list