oldessox
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Taking a lead from Norman I set off at 4.30am , I should have stayed in bed 
, straight out to the six mile wrecks , nothing doing at all , further out still nothing doing ,even drifted some rough ground with nothing but strings of mackerel to show for it, eventually a pollock and a small cod from two different wrecks lifted my spirits a bit, I thought about coming back in but with the spring tides I didn't want to chance grounding over the bar or cill so made the decision to stay out till the tide had turned and was well on the rise.
The sun came out, the wind turned more easterly , which for once was a blessing as the drift improved , and I found a wreck full of lovely hungry cod
I filled the fish box using pirks and shads in no time at all , I had three small ling to the pirks and a few small coalie, all of which were returned , whether the ling survive or not I will never know , I try my best not to catch them as they always blow, but they insist on taking my lures
By 3pm I was in a completely different state of mind from the morning blues and didn't want to come back in the fishing was so good, I had an appointment with a Cantonese restaurant later in the evening though so had to drag myself away from it all
I weighed the biggest cod which went just on 8lb , there were a couple more similar size to that one, the rest were probably 4-5 lb, nice big fillets
On another note , I've been using an avet reel this season but lost the line off it to a couple of wrecks and had to change back to the Abu 7001 , I jammed my finger in the level wind with a 14 oz pirk hanging over the side , jees it hurt, I had to use brute force to extract my finger from it and took a chunk out of the skin, more blood on the deck
The thing is though, the avet is a lovely reel , but the Abu is far superior for fishing shads, the auto engage makes it much easier to fish the sink and draw method, I might have to go back to the abus full time
, straight out to the six mile wrecks , nothing doing at all , further out still nothing doing ,even drifted some rough ground with nothing but strings of mackerel to show for it, eventually a pollock and a small cod from two different wrecks lifted my spirits a bit, I thought about coming back in but with the spring tides I didn't want to chance grounding over the bar or cill so made the decision to stay out till the tide had turned and was well on the rise.The sun came out, the wind turned more easterly , which for once was a blessing as the drift improved , and I found a wreck full of lovely hungry cod
I filled the fish box using pirks and shads in no time at all , I had three small ling to the pirks and a few small coalie, all of which were returned , whether the ling survive or not I will never know , I try my best not to catch them as they always blow, but they insist on taking my lures
By 3pm I was in a completely different state of mind from the morning blues and didn't want to come back in the fishing was so good, I had an appointment with a Cantonese restaurant later in the evening though so had to drag myself away from it all
I weighed the biggest cod which went just on 8lb , there were a couple more similar size to that one, the rest were probably 4-5 lb, nice big fillets
On another note , I've been using an avet reel this season but lost the line off it to a couple of wrecks and had to change back to the Abu 7001 , I jammed my finger in the level wind with a 14 oz pirk hanging over the side , jees it hurt, I had to use brute force to extract my finger from it and took a chunk out of the skin, more blood on the deck
The thing is though, the avet is a lovely reel , but the Abu is far superior for fishing shads, the auto engage makes it much easier to fish the sink and draw method, I might have to go back to the abus full time
Just for a confindence booster as the last two trips off have been hard graft to say the least! 
