oldessox
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Decided to take the day off and make the most of the weather that promised to be , picked melamine up at 6.30 and left the marina sometime after 7.00.
We went out to a wreck that had produced for me the last time out and Mel filled a box with mackerel whilst I took a cod or three on pirks .
The drift was perfect , even though the sea was a bit lumpy, to say the least
Mel changed to a pirk but failed to connect with anything but the wreck.
I decided to move to a wreck that I knew would fish well with this drift and sure enough the cod came , one every drift for me and none every drift for Mel
I don't know what he was doing wrong but he couldn't catch a cod to save his life
Slack water was imminent so I suggested a move to another wreck where we could try for a big ling , Mel was all for it and we set off .
We both baited up with a full mackerel fillet each and I put the boat bang on top of the wreck , the leads were on the bottom for maybe 30 seconds before mels rod bent over and at last he was into a fish, and a good one , but no sooner had he felt the weight it was gone.
He was gutted , but within three seconds my bait was taken , and my rod bent over , this was a good fish as well. I made the most of the situation by telling Mel it felt huge and was probably the same fish that had just let go of his bait.
It weighed 13lbs and I was about to chuck it over he side and Mel said to keep it, I thought about it and decided it would probably die anyway as it's stomach was blown out and killed it.
I then sat and filleted all my cod and turned to the ling which I wasn't looking forward to, and even though the sea had calmed down considerably from the morning , I managed to fillet not only the ling, but my little finger as well
That'll teach me to take the p out of o someone not catching
Now the wife wants me to go to the hospital to have it checked , she won't look at it herself though
A great day out spoiled by a half a second not watching what I was doing.
We went out to a wreck that had produced for me the last time out and Mel filled a box with mackerel whilst I took a cod or three on pirks .
The drift was perfect , even though the sea was a bit lumpy, to say the least
Mel changed to a pirk but failed to connect with anything but the wreck.
I decided to move to a wreck that I knew would fish well with this drift and sure enough the cod came , one every drift for me and none every drift for Mel
I don't know what he was doing wrong but he couldn't catch a cod to save his life
Slack water was imminent so I suggested a move to another wreck where we could try for a big ling , Mel was all for it and we set off .
We both baited up with a full mackerel fillet each and I put the boat bang on top of the wreck , the leads were on the bottom for maybe 30 seconds before mels rod bent over and at last he was into a fish, and a good one , but no sooner had he felt the weight it was gone.
He was gutted , but within three seconds my bait was taken , and my rod bent over , this was a good fish as well. I made the most of the situation by telling Mel it felt huge and was probably the same fish that had just let go of his bait.
It weighed 13lbs and I was about to chuck it over he side and Mel said to keep it, I thought about it and decided it would probably die anyway as it's stomach was blown out and killed it.
I then sat and filleted all my cod and turned to the ling which I wasn't looking forward to, and even though the sea had calmed down considerably from the morning , I managed to fillet not only the ling, but my little finger as well
That'll teach me to take the p out of o someone not catching
Now the wife wants me to go to the hospital to have it checked , she won't look at it herself though
A great day out spoiled by a half a second not watching what I was doing.
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, but a sliced finger is not a tetanus wound anyway 
