Slinky Kate 22nd August 2015

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The Great Wallsendo

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Very late weekend report from the crew this weekend :red:

Got a 5 week old that is taking up my time a bit at the minute :D

Anywho after a couple of week lay off it was a very dark pre 5am start that saw myself and the Skipper meet up at the RQ

So off we went up the river with dawn still over an hour away - there was no pre-amble this week...we had a plan and that plan was to start about 8 miles away :cool:

Long story short is that this week was all about keeping you honest - fishing is not easy, fish do not always jump into the boat...sometimes you have to graft and graft we did!

After threads and conversation about "where's the macky" we could certainly not say that this week - they were about in plague proportions...any kind of bare hook was hooking into them on the way to the bottom :(

We managed a box full of tigers purely by accident - I shudder to think what would have happened if we had actually targeted them! :o

And so it was that after quite a number of miles of travelling about we did still end up with a number of fish in the box but were reminded that nothing is a given in this world :rolleyes:;):D:yltype:

Pics from the day:

My daughter telling me how big a fish I should catch :D



Sunrise



Fish caught Hartlepool stylee :)



Sun climbing higher in the morning sky



Slightly larger one using the Hartlepool method...



Norman was able to catch them as well :D





Cheers Norman - apologies again for late report :red:

;)

Thanks for reading

Tony :)
 
Well done lads, great photo's too. Looks like the Slinky shads have taken a back seat for the moment:D. Looks like your daughter is already thinking of her first sortie afloat:D
 
ha-wondered where report was:D

great day to be at sea --good day for travelling--was very hard avoiding little tigers on sat,they even taking ripper hooks:exclam:

nice pics and report---roll on next sat:D
 
Well done team Slinky. It certainly is dark at 5AM now, with only a hint of first light – not that we were up that early.
We had an early start of about 9AM and finished an hour later when the skipper wasn’t well :D What were your mackerel like? The ones we found were tiny, more like the west coast joeys.
 
Nice one lads.

We had arranged to meet at 4.30am, I got down at 4.0am and Bert was already over the boat, fuelled up etc. so we were heading down river not long after. As the boat moved there were loads of sprats leaping clear of the water, it continued all the way to the groyne, amazing sight never seen anything like it.

As reported by Tony, fishing was hard graft, we hit a wreck alive with ling, a fish a drift but they were nearly all just undersize. We ended up with 2 ling and three cod to about 7lb.

Thanks for the brekkies lads :p
 
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Kev1n said:
Well done team Slinky. It certainly is dark at 5AM now, with only a hint of first light – not that we were up that early.
We had an early start of about 9AM and finished an hour later when the skipper wasn’t well :D What were your mackerel like? The ones we found were tiny, more like the west coast joeys.
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Variable Kev, some places very small as you say but other places quite large. Got to say that it was the most mackerel I have ever seen, no matter what rig you used you couldn't get to the bottom, usually foul hooked so I guess they were simply there in vast carpet thick numbers.

Norm
 

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