Catch report "Swordfish"

[Davem]

Good day on Tues with near perfect sea state ( at last ) , managed loads of mackerel , pollack , coalie , but only about 6 cod .Had a good play on my downscan sonar ( see pic ) this was the Adastra.
Today was total reverse of fortunes , inshore and five wrecks for one cod , what difference a day makes !

 

[Wasabi]

181ft deep?

where have you been?

 

[Davem]

If you read the report it tells you Adastra .

 

[KeithB]

Nice one Dave, thanks again for a great day :thumbup:

We also had Dab, whiting & herring, would of been in with a good shout in a species comp.

That's some kit you've got, fantastic image.

 

[Wasabi]

If you read the report it tells you Adastra .

dont know the Adastra

how far out is that?

 

[Davem]

Forgot to add the important bit , the company was fantastic , today was crap keith we really struggled .
The Adastra is about 6 miles out from shields pier , it has a large net falling about on it as we found out !

Was that you we seen today Wasabi about 4/5 miles out from Souter ?

 

[Wasabi]

no

i was out yesterday afternoon

 

[ships cat]

Nice one mate you can see what your looking at

 

[Tadpoleman]

Nice bit of kit Dave,well done on getting a few out ,the weekend cant come fast enough If the weather behaves that is

 

[Davem]

Looks touch and go Bert , fingers crossed .

 

[Kev1n]

Good day on Tues with near perfect sea state ( at last ) , managed loads of mackerel , pollack , coalie , but only about 6 cod .Had a good play on my downscan sonar ( see pic ) this was the Adastra.
Today was total reverse of fortunes , inshore and five wrecks for one cod , what difference a day makes !

That's not a bad day Dave and is better than I managed. I heard you and Ritchie on the VHF shortly after I left the piers but couldn't find the fish.

The downscan image looks very good, how and where did you mount the transducer?

 

[EddieS]

We headed South Dave 'On a Roll' - glorious weather - good sea conditions - drift was mental for most of the session - a few fish about now on the wrecks with the maki starting to show and some canny coaly.

 

[Davem]

The drift was difficult Eddie and quite fast , not ideal but fishable .I got you on radio at first then lost you .

Kev , the downscan transducer is fitted on the transom and another thru hull brass type near mid ships , these were fitted when I bought her ( Lowrance hds 10 )

 

[EddieS]

The drift was difficult Eddie and quite fast , not ideal but fishable .I got you on radio at first then lost you .

Kev , the downscan transducer is fitted on the transom and another thru hull brass type near mid ships , these were fitted when I bought her ( Lowrance hds 10 )

We did about 9 wrecks - the type of drift on each one determined how long we stopped on them - when we took fish we stayed until it dropped off - couple of drifts over the odd non producers then of hunting again until we found them. Think Ritchie said we had covered nigh on nearly 50 miles in total over the day. Couple of the marks had fish on them showing on the fish finder but they just didn't want to play. A seal kept popping up on a couple of the marks - the bugger must have been following us. There seemed to be a lot of cross radio chatter regards the salmon netters.

 

[Norman]

Great thread Dave
Crackin report mate, it's lookin good from here on in .. I hope

Catch you out there ..... Are you up this weekend? (Maybe Kipling on the boat )

Norm

 

[Davem]

Might be Norman , see what Neptune says . I can take snapshots to a SD card ( these were just I-phone pics of screen ) which I intend for all wrecks .might be of interest , nerdy I know .

Eddie , Rich was on about our offshore trip next week sometime .