Graham B
Well-known member
Well as I am still running on Australian time after getting home from work I may as well do a post to summarise the 2010 season gone's boat fishing.
In a word- Fandabbydosey! I must start with a huge thankyou to a fair few people who post on here, the help and information has made our fishing so much more effective, especialy with regards to wreck fishing which I was brand new to.
For us the season started very well down at Creswell skeers to the usual tactics of a heavily baited flowing trace and we had a couple of trips early on with codling up to 3-4lb.
Also utilised on this trip for the first time in order to stop our eyes streaming, (we are still getting used to the planing hull and 20 knots plus after Nefins 7 flat out!) were the tank goggles!
Once the sea had calmed off a little and cleared it was time to head off and try the wrecks in earnest.
With Mickey at work it was me and Darren who had the first day with nubers of fish and also the first doubler for the boat and Darren! I always try and set myself targets and to have a doubler so early in the season was great.
It just got better from then on with a few trips out absolutley filling the boat and putting anything under 4lb back! I wouldn't have believed that a couple of years ago! Putting four pounders back!
With us getting confident in the boat we also started venturing out when the conditions were borderline, for a 15 foot boat anyway! I must say here we never took any chances and were never in danger.
The new species we had as well were great with Mickey topping the league with the wotsit fish!
I got another good fish of that wreck that day as well.
Two at a time was becoming quite the norm and even getting blase about it! Mickey had the best treble with a Cod on the bottom, a mackeral on the top and a pollack in the middle! The treble hook ups with all three of us bent into fish was a common site, a great site as well!
The biggest cod of the season fell to Mickey with this cracker. It was over 13lb when first weighed but 11 and a bit on dry land a few hours later. You can tell when he gets a biggun on as he goes deadly quiet! Darren on the other hand screams like a girl and every fish he hooks is a yarker! Until it hits the surface!
Darren had these two crackers on consecutive drifts as well.
The biggest fish caught on-board Growler by yours truly! I won't/don't rub it in........much!( as we are the champions plays in the backgound!
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I have still got a cheesy grin of this one yet!
And finally my favourite photo of the season;
The photo above sums up exactly why I love boat fishing. Out at the crack of dawn with great company and no-one around for miles, watching a breathtaking sunrise like that. Amazing! Cod in the boat 5 minutes after that photo! I have to admit I am an early morning session subscriber and enjoy heading back in when most are venturing out.
We have made a fair few changes this season that will hopefuly help for next as well. Logging all the tide times and drifts/marks/Wrecks we have fished with what method to try and get a better understanding.
I am even getting better (slightly!) at gaugeing the correct distance to stop downtide of the wreck so your line is up and down over the wreck rather than almost horizontal! Knowing which way the wrecks lye as well and which one you will get a better drift off has also helped.
Leaving last season alone and looking forward to next season I think the major change for us will probobly be a new vessel(please Santa!).
I am still proud of myself for trying and suceeding with shad's for longer that one drift! I am sceptical about new things even at my age and usually head back for the proven; Muppets and pirk/hokkai's/flowing trace etc, etc! I had a load of fish on shads last season so I am defiently going to stick with them and get some more for next season.
That will do for me, I am just waiting for the snow to melt so we can get over to Windermere to look at a new boat! Hope you's all have a good Christmas and New Year and the fishing next season is better than last! It will be hard to beat!
Graham.
In a word- Fandabbydosey! I must start with a huge thankyou to a fair few people who post on here, the help and information has made our fishing so much more effective, especialy with regards to wreck fishing which I was brand new to.
For us the season started very well down at Creswell skeers to the usual tactics of a heavily baited flowing trace and we had a couple of trips early on with codling up to 3-4lb.
Also utilised on this trip for the first time in order to stop our eyes streaming, (we are still getting used to the planing hull and 20 knots plus after Nefins 7 flat out!) were the tank goggles!
Once the sea had calmed off a little and cleared it was time to head off and try the wrecks in earnest.
With Mickey at work it was me and Darren who had the first day with nubers of fish and also the first doubler for the boat and Darren! I always try and set myself targets and to have a doubler so early in the season was great.
It just got better from then on with a few trips out absolutley filling the boat and putting anything under 4lb back! I wouldn't have believed that a couple of years ago! Putting four pounders back!
With us getting confident in the boat we also started venturing out when the conditions were borderline, for a 15 foot boat anyway! I must say here we never took any chances and were never in danger.
The new species we had as well were great with Mickey topping the league with the wotsit fish!
I got another good fish of that wreck that day as well.
Two at a time was becoming quite the norm and even getting blase about it! Mickey had the best treble with a Cod on the bottom, a mackeral on the top and a pollack in the middle! The treble hook ups with all three of us bent into fish was a common site, a great site as well!
The biggest cod of the season fell to Mickey with this cracker. It was over 13lb when first weighed but 11 and a bit on dry land a few hours later. You can tell when he gets a biggun on as he goes deadly quiet! Darren on the other hand screams like a girl and every fish he hooks is a yarker! Until it hits the surface!
Darren had these two crackers on consecutive drifts as well.
The biggest fish caught on-board Growler by yours truly! I won't/don't rub it in........much!( as we are the champions plays in the backgound!
)
I have still got a cheesy grin of this one yet!
And finally my favourite photo of the season;
The photo above sums up exactly why I love boat fishing. Out at the crack of dawn with great company and no-one around for miles, watching a breathtaking sunrise like that. Amazing! Cod in the boat 5 minutes after that photo! I have to admit I am an early morning session subscriber and enjoy heading back in when most are venturing out.
We have made a fair few changes this season that will hopefuly help for next as well. Logging all the tide times and drifts/marks/Wrecks we have fished with what method to try and get a better understanding.
I am even getting better (slightly!) at gaugeing the correct distance to stop downtide of the wreck so your line is up and down over the wreck rather than almost horizontal! Knowing which way the wrecks lye as well and which one you will get a better drift off has also helped.
Leaving last season alone and looking forward to next season I think the major change for us will probobly be a new vessel(please Santa!).
I am still proud of myself for trying and suceeding with shad's for longer that one drift! I am sceptical about new things even at my age and usually head back for the proven; Muppets and pirk/hokkai's/flowing trace etc, etc! I had a load of fish on shads last season so I am defiently going to stick with them and get some more for next season.
That will do for me, I am just waiting for the snow to melt so we can get over to Windermere to look at a new boat! Hope you's all have a good Christmas and New Year and the fishing next season is better than last! It will be hard to beat!
Graham.
bring all the other lads from the tyne and sunderland (and anywhere else)
