Craster 22/05/2013.

[mick dunn]

Well lads we managed to get out in lovely weather with a nice flat sea. Black hockeyes baited seemed to be the best lure/bait of the day. 60-70 codlings caught and good spring run. Best about 3lb but majority keeper size.
Few big coalies as well. No mackeral to date.
Douggie as usual top dollar skipper. Longest fish 54 cm. I had second at 49 cm.
(we now fish compos on the boat which allow catch and release).
Fred from Northumbria won longest fish and biggest catch.--well done mate.

Tight lines Mick..................oh and i was,nt sick.

 

[lingking]

win win win mick,catch and let go canny few fish caught and no sickness

not a bad day,and also duggies a damn good skipper:exclam::exclam:

 

[CHOPPER]

Nice one Mick! Pleased you got a decent days fishing in!!!

 

[david.northeast]

Well done mick plenty fish for you's and a bonus of not vomiting

 

[Norman]

Well done Mick, good to see yous get out and have a good day, seems it may have really started now ..... just need to get away from work on one of the decent weather days .....

all the best Mick well done !


norm

 

[blackrat]

Gutted I had to drop out Mick. Had to make a few more dollers helping a mate with a fence. it must be nice to be retired and rich Mick.

 

[canman]

well done mick & lads, better than you thought it was gonna be Yeh, Dougie must have fished every inch of the ground up there and knows where to find them.

 

[Captain marky mark]

Nice 1 mick well done, looks like you got the best part of the day this morning.

 

[dave craig]

Well done Mick! Fish fish fish!

 

[northeast1]

Cracking Mick, nice to see so many codling showing from the ground and wrecks

 

[The Jester]

Great report and catch Mick, just the report to raise hopes...

 

[Bob C]

Nice Trip Mick, good catch that.:thumbup:

 

[Hadji Kareem]

Yeah Mick, cracking day. I had one cod at 39cm on shad then nothing. Swopped to my usual black Hokkai shrimp. Bang several more cod and as for coalie..... 3 & 4 at a time. Cracking day up until crabgate. And if he reads this... I never got one.

 

[TJ-Gannet]

Wel done Mick, great report and plenty of fish

 

[mick dunn]

Douggie knows the ground like the back of his hand. He kept going out to the Newton Bouy and drifting back towards Dunstanbrough castle.
Mick.

 

[Hadji Kareem]

I went through the score cards and we totalled 88 legal sized fish and easily twice that, that were close to legal size and put back. Cod, Ling, Coalie and a Granny Fish??? Were caught. Fingers crossed its the start of a good season.

1st place Fred (LB) 546
2nd place Martin Willis 436
3rd place Paul Halpin 360
4th place Andy (guest) 341
5th place Dave Wolfe 340
6th place Mick Dunn 297
7th place Kev Woodcock 285
8th place Pete Walsh 280
9th place John Foreman 255
10th place Bob McKay 170
11th place Pete Chadwick 153

 

[mick dunn]

Martin scored really well with his 99p Boyes green hockeyes. Seemed to smash into a shoal of coalies - and big ones too. I was next to him and struggled big time with the white sindwinder and blue shad. Peter kept putting down some cracking baits of peeler,squid,lug looking for a big cod or ling but the bigger fish were not there. Still i now have 12 lovely fillets of cod in my freezer and two coalie fillets.Doug just about managed with the cards but if we had more fish i think he would have struggled. wonder if having own scorecard like shore fishing would be better and marked by other angler ??..
Mick.

 

[Hadji Kareem]

I thought about that but unlike the shore we have nowhere to put the rods when marking the cards. You can bet as soon as we lean it against the rails we'd either snag the bottom or catch that big one and the rod is over the side. There's also the wind and spray/waves to consider. The cards would last 10 mins and be soggy. I'll speak to Doug, if it gets too much we'll have a re think. At least we don't count mackerel, when they finally arrive.

 

[mick dunn]

Imagine if we did--ha ha Doug thats 60 mackeral for me.........