Talk about chalk and cheese last Saturday was chilly foggy and rather oddly was breezy at the same time compared to the wonderful weather on Friday: Oli and I set off from Amble marina at 0900 into an uncomfortable chop caused by the change to easterly winds which were stronger than forecast; on came the fleeces and long trousers!
We motored up to Craster first - water clarity was still good at around 20 feet but today the drift speed was over 1 knot: Using lures we both found codling up to 3lb but it was slow work so after an hour we opted to carry straight on up to Beadnall:
Here the fishing was much better: The largest codling was 60cm but there were a lot of them between 50-60cm: Moreover they were kelpies that fight harder than regular codling: As usual Oli had selected a pattern of lure that seemed to have a better action than mine and he was pulling in 2 fish to my 1
He also got very excited when he landed what he initially thought was a new boat record for a short spined Scorpion fish; turns out it was a long spined Scorpion fish but at 1'5lb it was still the biggest one we had seen with a face that only its mother could love 
We drifted over various marks up there and came across some hard-fighting coalies: Maybe only 45cm long but they pack a punch and fight harder than codling or pollack twice their weight:
It was good to see another pod of dolphins making their way south - dolphin sightings have been really good this summer
After 4 hours off Beadnall we dropped down to Newton and fished various marks around the Faggot and the red can: There were codling around as well as coalies and pollack but they were all slightly smaller than their cousins up at Beadnall
I have to keep a record of my catch for the Sea Angling Diary and found I had caught 45 fish excluding the smaller stuff and the mackerel and although Oli hadn't kept his score I know for a fact that he must have had at good 25% more fish than me: He also got a chunky wrasse that must have been between 3-4lb: Everything went back alive too: Not a bad session but not as good as the solo trip Oli did to Beadnall a couple of weeks back
We motored up to Craster first - water clarity was still good at around 20 feet but today the drift speed was over 1 knot: Using lures we both found codling up to 3lb but it was slow work so after an hour we opted to carry straight on up to Beadnall:
Here the fishing was much better: The largest codling was 60cm but there were a lot of them between 50-60cm: Moreover they were kelpies that fight harder than regular codling: As usual Oli had selected a pattern of lure that seemed to have a better action than mine and he was pulling in 2 fish to my 1
He also got very excited when he landed what he initially thought was a new boat record for a short spined Scorpion fish; turns out it was a long spined Scorpion fish but at 1'5lb it was still the biggest one we had seen with a face that only its mother could love We drifted over various marks up there and came across some hard-fighting coalies: Maybe only 45cm long but they pack a punch and fight harder than codling or pollack twice their weight:
It was good to see another pod of dolphins making their way south - dolphin sightings have been really good this summer
After 4 hours off Beadnall we dropped down to Newton and fished various marks around the Faggot and the red can: There were codling around as well as coalies and pollack but they were all slightly smaller than their cousins up at Beadnall
I have to keep a record of my catch for the Sea Angling Diary and found I had caught 45 fish excluding the smaller stuff and the mackerel and although Oli hadn't kept his score I know for a fact that he must have had at good 25% more fish than me: He also got a chunky wrasse that must have been between 3-4lb: Everything went back alive too: Not a bad session but not as good as the solo trip Oli did to Beadnall a couple of weeks back
