Poo Weather!!!

[glen]

plenty spoons eh

 

[sb002f0864]

Alan you mentioned the Briar earlier in this thread. Was that an old trawler that used to do charter trips, if so i went out a couple of times on her. Used to roll like hell. What happened to it?

 

[Charlton]

thats the one Paul, old John Leithley if i recall, an old trawler that used to take parties out. Had some great times with him, once he found the fish it was hard to get him back in, and if he hadnt found fish he wouldnt come back until he had. Remeber one trip he just kept saying one more wreck, one more wreck and each one was further out, and not being the fastest boat we where all late for something or another, but had time to clean our catch. Sadly you can now catch fish off the Briar as it sunk

 

[boblydon]

Alan, we had one particualar good session on the briar with tynemouth angling club with plenty of big doubles, i remember that a lad called steven willmott had the biggest at 23lb, he also had the most fish ( 23 ) all of his fish were doubles and at least half of them were over 14/15lb...lucky sod couldnt do a thing wrong, also i remember having a huge tangle with you and shuan blake, we each three fish on and all 9 of them were double figures....ahhhh !!! the good all days, finally the sea was flat as a big flat thing and the sun was bloody boiling hot....you dont forget a trip like that in a hurry and it was some 20 odd years ago

 

[Charlton]

Bob the photo of most of the catch is up on the site somewhere, i remember that tangle well, we where trying to get it undone and John came along and cut the lot off and told us to get on with the fishing.

 

[Norman]

wallsendo, answer to an earlier question "whats a bad wind?" (apart from the obvious day after an indian) Anything with Easterly in it ie NE, E or SE, this gives the wind a big area of north sea to build up a swell as it passes over. And eastery 5mph for a couple of days can be enormous however a west 20mph can often give flat seas, so we look for predominatly westerlies.

Also tide/wind is important not to be able to get out, but to fish over wrecks,
Ideal is a down or ebb tide with the wind in North (this is opposition and can slow the drift, or conversly up or flood tide with the wind in the south (same effect)
worst is the opposites of this where tide and wind push same direction .............. only answer to that is take more lead for the snags

 

[jason]

the picture you are on about mr charlton is in this thread.

http://www.nesa.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=4908&highlight=briar

jason

 

[Norman]

Aye Jason, well searched out .... those were the days eh .....

Ah Well Maybe it`s a trip to the briar tomorrow then ....