Orange Shad
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I was privileged to be invited onboard today to spend the day in the company of the editor from Total Sea Angling Magazine, Barney Wright along with Sam Harris and a couple of friends of theirs, Alan and Stan.
We left around 9am, a little later than normal into a calm sea, looking to fish the ebb after dinnertime.
Dave tried a wreck just to see what was happening, but all was quiet, so off to rough ground it was.
During the day the fish came on board at sporadic intervals, with cod to about 9lb.
Some good sized Whiting were taken and one or two Coalfish, and a nice Pollock
Bait fishing, was certainly the order of the day, not that many fish went to shads, even though every colour and variant was tried throughout the day.
Even with bait the fishing was, to say the least sluggish, but at the end of the day I would guestimate about 60 fish, Cod, Whiting, Pollock and the one solitary Ling, and the surprise landing of a brilliantly coloured Octopus.
The weather played a blinder today, jackets on, jackets off, jackets on until the forecasted wind arrived towards the end of the day, at which we headed back to port at 5pm
An article of the trip onboard “Ali-Cat” is to be published by Barney in the Total Sea Fishing Magazine in the near future, and we were promised some “Rogue’s Galleries “ photo’s for sure.
A nice pleasant day and as normal brilliant banter between all on board.
Until the next time
We left around 9am, a little later than normal into a calm sea, looking to fish the ebb after dinnertime.
Dave tried a wreck just to see what was happening, but all was quiet, so off to rough ground it was.
During the day the fish came on board at sporadic intervals, with cod to about 9lb.
Some good sized Whiting were taken and one or two Coalfish, and a nice Pollock
Bait fishing, was certainly the order of the day, not that many fish went to shads, even though every colour and variant was tried throughout the day.
Even with bait the fishing was, to say the least sluggish, but at the end of the day I would guestimate about 60 fish, Cod, Whiting, Pollock and the one solitary Ling, and the surprise landing of a brilliantly coloured Octopus.
The weather played a blinder today, jackets on, jackets off, jackets on until the forecasted wind arrived towards the end of the day, at which we headed back to port at 5pm
An article of the trip onboard “Ali-Cat” is to be published by Barney in the Total Sea Fishing Magazine in the near future, and we were promised some “Rogue’s Galleries “ photo’s for sure.
A nice pleasant day and as normal brilliant banter between all on board.
Until the next time
