These were the words uttered to me by one of the marina crew after we came back in early in the afternoon with just a couple of small codling for the past 4 hours effort.
Turns out even yesterday wasn't that great. One angler had landed 9 fish that day. Asking around other anglers how they'd fared, today several said they had blanked down at Cresswell, but someone had reportedly taken 7 fish down there, all on the drift.
We had gone north to Boulmer, having just got out of Amble marina before the tide disappeared. It was a big tide - 5.2m - with SE winds instead of S-SW as forecast, which made it uncomfortable. Had some nice fresh lug and rag, with ok viz, but the fish were not playing ball. No only boats around us, apart from a couple of yaks. Be interested to know how they got on because they were close in.
Saw plenty of guillemots, razorbills, a few gannets that were not diving, no puffins, a few seals, but caught sight of several dolphins a couple of times.
Looking back at my notes for the last couple of years, today seems par for the course, with the fishing only picking up later in May. Never mind. At least the sun shone and the boat got an outing.
Turns out even yesterday wasn't that great. One angler had landed 9 fish that day. Asking around other anglers how they'd fared, today several said they had blanked down at Cresswell, but someone had reportedly taken 7 fish down there, all on the drift.
We had gone north to Boulmer, having just got out of Amble marina before the tide disappeared. It was a big tide - 5.2m - with SE winds instead of S-SW as forecast, which made it uncomfortable. Had some nice fresh lug and rag, with ok viz, but the fish were not playing ball. No only boats around us, apart from a couple of yaks. Be interested to know how they got on because they were close in.
Saw plenty of guillemots, razorbills, a few gannets that were not diving, no puffins, a few seals, but caught sight of several dolphins a couple of times.
Looking back at my notes for the last couple of years, today seems par for the course, with the fishing only picking up later in May. Never mind. At least the sun shone and the boat got an outing.
