Macky bashing in Scrabster

[Paula]

Well, stuart and i went out for an hour yesterday evening between 4pm and 5pm and wow, oh boy are the macky in!
in just that time, on spinners only, we caught 21 between us, lost one each, and not one of the little critters was under a pound in weight!
just off out again now as we have a friend with a smoker

we have lots of sand eels in too, i assume that is what the macky are after, a local fisherman had to travel 2 miles out in his boat before he cleared the sand eels! it is that good the dolphins and whales are in the bay too

 

[sless]

are you smoking the sandeeels aswell paula
lol

 

[Paula]

just got back from another session in the same place, come home with 23 macky and 2 decent coley (just under 2lb each).
going again tomorrow evening with a couple of friends(yes one has the smoker) so we reckon we should end up with at least 100 in under an hour on spinners so we will be nicely stocked up then.
mind you, that\'s maybe put the kiss of death on it all now

 

[sless]

sounds like your having fun then

 

[alan]

Paula whats the weather like up there,the sea has turned a bit lumpy down here (Northumberland) with the Northerly wind,i was hoping to get out tomorrow night for a bit of spinning but it does\'nt look like the wind is going to change or ease off much.
It might fetch the odd Bass in if the surf stays up a bit though here\'s hoping anyway.

 

[Paula]

the weather up here isn\'t very summery :exclam: but between the rain it\'s ok. it is a bit breezy......... about a force 5 or 6 from the north to north west and the swell tonight was about 3m. having said that we decided to still give it a go and between the 5 of us (me, stuart, karina and our two friends) we had nearly 20 macky, 5 coley and 2 pollack.
oh yeah, stuart also hooked a seagull when it chased his spinner
think we are all going again tomorrow after we see off the ferry at noon.

 

[sless]

smoked sea gull
never tried it
lol


im oot fly fishing in the morning so good neet

 

[alan]

Sless m8 you got a thing about smoking salty creatures lol

 

[mark]

Sless m8 you got a thing about smoking salty creatures lol

need a canny big roach and several packets of skins

 

[Patrick_Pending]

need a canny big roach and several packets of skins

There you go Sless

 

[sless]

i have trouble keeping them alight
hahaha

 

[mark]

very good!

but which part of the skin do you lick??

 

[Stuart]

well we went out again today just after noon, and fished for about 3 hours. The sea was alot calmer, and we had 38 mackerel between us, though I managed to catch a seal today which was a bit of a shock as there I was winding in a macky when all of a sudden it starts stripping line off my reel like nobodys business, so I tighten up the drag and start trying to get some line back when the biggest grey seal I\'ve seen up here (I would guess about 7/8ft) breaks the surface infront of me. At this point I realise It\'s nicked my macky and I haven\'t caught super macky, and my thoughts turn to where\'s my knife to cut the line when something gives, Luckily it\'s just the clip which fastens the spinner to a swivel so kept my line for another day.

I\'m back at work next week so won\'t be getting as much fishing done but the week after will be back again - I love this week on week off

Stuart