Graham B
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After an enforced absence from fishing for me due to work today was the first day off for over nine weeks for me! I looked at the forecast for the week when I got home last friday and plumped for a week all inclusive in Turkey due to the pants forecast and the fact that the brownie points earned would come in handy for the six weeks off I have now!
With the weather being kind it was off to a distant mark at 0600 after seeing Amblecol sneaking out this morning. On arrival there were a load of dolphins around, they had a good look at us and surrounded the boat for a while within touching distance. I managed a drop down inbetween them and got a treble shot of herring!
Photo's of the dolphins:
After the dolphins departed and we had spent half an hour with them we started fishing properly an it was straight into fish with Micky hitting two at a time and me one first drop. The fish in the morning all fell to pirks and baited muppets with the obliging mackeral now all over and being a bugger to get down through.
Some good cod and ling were coming in and I managed the first double of the season with this ling, Just over 11lb.
At slack tide the fish went off a bit and we moved to another couple of marks still picking away. We were headed to one but the Natalie Kristen was on it and had a load of fish from it I heard later!
We moved back out to the original mark with the start of the flood tide and the fish started going daft for shads, on one drift I managed to get three fish out, one at a time, the drift was spot on!
Micky had the biggest cod of the day at just shy of 9lb.
And also a canny ling again just short of a double.
The final tally was quite high with a load of fish returned as well, particularly the shad caught ones in the afternoon. We had a quick go at trolling on the way in but nothing was doing, maybe a little early yet.
I was going to head out at first light tomorrow but it looks a bit blusterry so I will wait until later on in the week!
Can't wait!
Graham.
With the weather being kind it was off to a distant mark at 0600 after seeing Amblecol sneaking out this morning. On arrival there were a load of dolphins around, they had a good look at us and surrounded the boat for a while within touching distance. I managed a drop down inbetween them and got a treble shot of herring!
Photo's of the dolphins:
After the dolphins departed and we had spent half an hour with them we started fishing properly an it was straight into fish with Micky hitting two at a time and me one first drop. The fish in the morning all fell to pirks and baited muppets with the obliging mackeral now all over and being a bugger to get down through.
Some good cod and ling were coming in and I managed the first double of the season with this ling, Just over 11lb.
At slack tide the fish went off a bit and we moved to another couple of marks still picking away. We were headed to one but the Natalie Kristen was on it and had a load of fish from it I heard later!
We moved back out to the original mark with the start of the flood tide and the fish started going daft for shads, on one drift I managed to get three fish out, one at a time, the drift was spot on!
Micky had the biggest cod of the day at just shy of 9lb.
And also a canny ling again just short of a double.
The final tally was quite high with a load of fish returned as well, particularly the shad caught ones in the afternoon. We had a quick go at trolling on the way in but nothing was doing, maybe a little early yet.
I was going to head out at first light tomorrow but it looks a bit blusterry so I will wait until later on in the week!
Can't wait!
Graham.
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I missed you today , I think I actually got out before you and came back in after you 
