Eleda Thursday 8 August, I think

oldessox

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Cant work out what the date is but that's near enough :D,(9th august) anyway, I had a couple of hours out tonight after work ( yes I know, I should have had a couple of hours at work after fishing :rolleyes:)
Not wanting to spend all my time motoring I decided to hit one wreck and stick to it and see what I could catch, the drift was virtually non existant so shads and such were probably going to be a waste of time , I set a mackerel rig up und caught half a dozen mackerel and put them in the box, next drift I dropped a twin tail over the side just to see if anything would show an interest , something hit it hard and bent the rod right over , I couldn't budge whatever was on the end and it was kicking hard , I was convinced I'd hooked a monster , eventually I decided it was snagged in the wreck and pulled hard, something gave and I started to gain line and eventually landed a ling of about 8lb and few yards of blue mono line.
After landing another ling I decided to target them and dropped a mackerel fillet over the side and was instantly into a good one, imagine my surprise and delight when it surfaced and it was a nice big cod, I thought it had to be my first double on eleda and got the scales out, yet another 9lb 15 oz cod :rolleyes:, why couldn't it have eaten one more crab before it took my bait :rolleyes:
I was still chuffed to bits with it and put it in the fish box.
I took a couple more ling of about 6 lb or so and my itchy feet got the better of me and I headed for another wreck which produced absolutely nothing.
I headed out another couple of miles and decided to give it till 8 .30 pm before heading in, I picked up another nice cod and a couple more ling on this last wreck before steaming into the sunset at a leasurly 24 knots :D
A very enjoyable couple of hours at sea :)
 
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canny session for ya oldsocks and some good fish maybe at work ya might of had access of a camera though :D:D:D

You remind me of school , "must try harder" :D, I know pictures are worth a thousand words but when you are out on your own , unless you spend a lot of time setting things up with camera mounts and such , all you get is pictures of fish lying dead on the deck and once you've seen one!
To be honest , I only put the odd catch up now anyway, and it's more for my personal benefit so I can look back next year and see what I was doing at a particular time of year.
If I get a full day out with decent weather and some decent fish and maybe someone along with me to take the pics , maybe I'll try and emulate a slinky report, but don't hold your breath :D
 
Great report Ray :), 9lb 15oz how close can you get, leave the mackerel fillet in its mouth next time :D.....Leisurly 24 knotts....:o.....Thats wharp speed..:)
 
I've had one double Chris, 14lb 3 oz , my scales show that weight when I switch them on until I zero them, they are digital and as the boat moves up and down with the swell the scales go up and down too, eventually they find an average and stop fluctuating and this is the weight I go by , they were reading anywhere between 9.5 and 10.5 and settled at 9.15 , I must have had about 8 or 9 fish that have settled at 9.15 over the last couple of seasons :rolleyes:
I can't wait to catch one bigger than the 14.3 to put a new weight on the scales, I presume they "remember" the heaviest weight they have weighed.
I'm off for another crack at them now :D
 
wait 5 mins and weigh it again ray :) :) I would :) :0)
(nowt wrong with averages .... eventually you'll hit on :) )

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If I catch one that beats my PB I'll weigh it ashore , other than that I'm not really bothered what they weigh, I'll happily catch 9.15's , it's a nice size cod even if it doesn't have that magical double figure , I've got a feeling if I can get out a bit more often there will be some bigger fish coming my way anyway ;)
 
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