Eleda 20/11/11

[oldessox]

Had a couple of hours out today ,met Duncan who was pretending to work hard on Warlord and after a few minutes craic about where the fish were I left the marina sometime after 10am and headed straight out to the 6 mile mark to plot a couple more wrecks and see what was about.
I marked the wreck up on the plotter and after a few aborted drifts which seemed to be going in a different direction every time I sent down a pirk , and up came a coalie , sent it back down a couple more times and caught some more coalie , thought to myself , put a string of daylights on and catch a few at a time and the fight will be good as they were knocking 2lb each, so down went a string of daylights and up came a string of Mackerel , yes mackerel on the 20th of November , thought they were summer fish
Anyway , don't like catching too many mackerel so the daylights came off and the solitary pirk went back down , up came a 4lb cod , followed by another the same size and then a gurnard
It was a tad bumpier out at 6 miles than it was inshore , but with the soft southerly breeze and the sun shining and cod, mackerel, coalies and a gurnard coming over the side it certainly didn't feel like November , I was back in by 2.30pm and had marked another wreck up on my plotter in the meantime.
All in all a nice couple of hours afloat

 

[Charlton]

keeps goping like this I will be having mackerel for christmas dinner

 

[lingking]

great stuff ray good selection of species there,well done

you have alan drooling over them mackarel

 

[dave craig]

nice one Ray!

 

[Codfather]

Well done Ray, canny day out and a macky supprise.

 

[The Jester]

Great report Ray , You'll be logging that one in as the "Species Wreck", the further North, the better the weather by the sound of it, well done on the catch

 

[easyfish1]

nice day in the sun.....with maccy too...........

it's good to get out init.....

well done Ray..

 

[KeithB]

Nice one Ray, lets hope those tigers hang around for a few weeks.

 

[Kev1n]

Well done Ray. Gurnard and mackerel at this time of year, what’s going on?

 

[Graham B]

Spot on Ray, if you need a semi skilled Deck Hand over the next couple of months drop me a line! I am home on December the 15th!

Graham.

 

[Funkmeister_Smith]

we were out about 2 miles off Blyth yesterday and caught mackerel too! :s Only managed 1 decent cod and a haddock on top of that, but it was a cracking day out! More like Spring than winter!

 

[oldessox]

we were out about 2 miles off Blyth yesterday and caught mackerel too! :s Only managed 1 decent cod and a haddock on top of that, but it was a cracking day out! More like Spring than winter!

I've never caught a haddock , what method did you take it on? It was nice out wasn't it

 

[Funkmeister_Smith]

It was my sisters fella who caught it and he got it on a simple unbaited pink feather/tinsel lure, believe it or not. I caught one last year whilst bait fishing around Whitley Bay, but can't remember what bait it was I used. :s

We didn't know it was a haddock when I first caught one last year but a few people in the harbour identified it for us. Quite deeper in shape than a cod and with a red tint.

 

[canman]

Great to see a catch report Ray, and congrats on the variation of species. Mackerel and marzipan for Christmas dinner hmmmmm