Shad saves the Day

[moocher]

Left the Royal Quays this morning on board Amadeus full of entusiasm. First stop Mackeral for bait, that was not a problem. Now off to the Wrecks no matter what I tried I could not buy a bite. decided on a complete change of tactics changed from a fifty class rod and used a twenty class, with 20lb braid 3ft trace and a blue Shad.

!st Drop a nice pollock of 6lb
ended up with one codling about 4.5lb and another two pollock biggest 8lb.

What a pleasure it is to play a fighting fish on light tackle. Looking forward to the next trip, all in all a good day.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

Nice one mate - nice to meet you at the RQ afterwards too

 

[codseeker]

good result mate welldone

 

[Norman]

well done mate good you enjoyed it , even though the sea was .... "rather large" nice one.

 

[Falcone]

got to agree with the light tackle, i use a 20lb rod all the time whether im wrecking or on the hard ground and you get a great fight even from some of the smaller fish.
i even used to use a little 9ft spinning rod at times and got some nice cod, no better sight than seeing your rod doubled over and hearing it creek lol.

 

[insanojackson]

shads are ace, see my ad in the classifieds!!

there cheap as chips compared to tackle shops!!!

(shameless plug)

 

[kingfisher]

it was nice to be there well done graham, the batterys must have been better in yours than the ones in mine i will book up again