oldessox
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Woke up at 4 am and decided to go fishing 
, forcast was for light winds so off I went to the marina only to hear the dreaded surf crashing on Warkworth beach when I got out of the car ......... I hate that sound
Set off anyway through quite a hefty swell that kept the speed down between marks and had me stumbling about a bit while I was fishing them :red:
Plenty fish about , had cod ,ling, coalies and a pollock , the mackerel were there , I could feel them attacking my pirks and shads on the way down , but I didn't try to catch any and succeeded
I filled a box with nice plump cod of about 3-4lb and put many more back in search of a biggie , but I couldn't find one anywhere , and believe me I put some miles in today
The drift got silly in the afternoon and I'd done a lot of wrecks and was losing a lot of tackle with the speed I was dragging it over the bottom so I called it a day around 3pm and headed in.
Heard an interesting conversation on the radio , Boulmer sea king asking a fishing boat if they could winch a man down on to her deck for a bit of practice , the bemused fisherman on the fishing boat sounded like he wasn't sure if it was a wind up " Err , no problem mate , I'll shift some of the fish boxes and make a bit of space for him , just do what you want"
The chopper had flown alongside me for a while a few minutes earlier , I'm glad he didn't want to winch anybody down onto my deck , I hadn't tidied up!
Ray
, forcast was for light winds so off I went to the marina only to hear the dreaded surf crashing on Warkworth beach when I got out of the car ......... I hate that soundSet off anyway through quite a hefty swell that kept the speed down between marks and had me stumbling about a bit while I was fishing them :red:
Plenty fish about , had cod ,ling, coalies and a pollock , the mackerel were there , I could feel them attacking my pirks and shads on the way down , but I didn't try to catch any and succeeded
I filled a box with nice plump cod of about 3-4lb and put many more back in search of a biggie , but I couldn't find one anywhere , and believe me I put some miles in today
The drift got silly in the afternoon and I'd done a lot of wrecks and was losing a lot of tackle with the speed I was dragging it over the bottom so I called it a day around 3pm and headed in.
Heard an interesting conversation on the radio , Boulmer sea king asking a fishing boat if they could winch a man down on to her deck for a bit of practice , the bemused fisherman on the fishing boat sounded like he wasn't sure if it was a wind up " Err , no problem mate , I'll shift some of the fish boxes and make a bit of space for him , just do what you want"
The chopper had flown alongside me for a while a few minutes earlier , I'm glad he didn't want to winch anybody down onto my deck , I hadn't tidied up!
Ray
, the sea looked spot on this morning as we passed over the Wansbeck on the spine road, going to WORK 
