Slinky Kate 25th Aug 2007

Norman

Norman

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Gread day out once again with special thanks to the crew of Steve and Jeff.

Left marina shortly after 6.00am and started out down river with a fair breeze following . . . . . . shame about jeff being a mackem supporter, the horror on his face as both steve and I unveiled black and white football shirts was memorable :) still it was just a joke so to save any more pain they were put away (until sunday LOL).

Stopped off at spot x on the way out but nothing but the usual scotchies and whiting (and of course mackerel) .............. steve scored once again with the first scotchie of the day :). The sun was up and therefore not too cold but the wind was increasing by the minute.

Decided at low water to spend an hour or two on the 3 mile wrecks before the wind got any worse. What a good decision this turned out to be with fish now starting to show (eventually) on wrecks. We repeatedly dug into cod and ling (and a monster scotchie).
Jeff was fishing faithfully with shads but it looked at one point that more traditional lures were going to win the day like muppets and daylights until bang in came a cracking cod of around 6lb on a blue shad. Again jeff repeated this never using bait all day - well there ya go them shad things do work ! -------
Best of the day was a Ling of some 9lbd for Steve(maybe even 9.5lbd since difficult to weigh in the conditions). Looked for some time on the way up to be the elusive doubler ............but not quite , maybe next time steve.
Then came a great fish for myself stripping line as fast as I could reel in (must re-set that drag !) was convinced and said so at the time that it must be a doubler LOL only to find it was a cod of about 6.1/2lbs ... haha great sport though.

spent some time close in over rough ground when conditions were at their worst but all the action today was over wrecks, even though the drift lasted only about 45 seconds :)

All in all another excellent day with 6 or 7 cod and a couple of ling all good sized fish around the 6lbd plus mark.
Fish were evenly spread between all anglers today with no feast or famine between us
Back in about lunchtime due to worsening (windy) conditions.

Steve`s 9lbd Ling ;-

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Jeffs 6lbd+ cod (caught on a blue shad)

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My 6lbd+cod (that fought like a doubler)

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Great Day again lads ........................ cheers


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Excellent as ever :thumbup:

Well done lads..that Ling looks like it could have been a scapper too...

Did the wind start swinging round i take it? coz the sea was flat as a pancake up until midnight last night as far as i could see...
 
Yeah...good day despite the sea state, (great conversation, (for black & whites), decent fishing and even a bottle of beer at 09:00hrs.....!!!)..........

Good photo's Norman. I can see them on my Laptop now for some reason. I've just realised our lass is being sarky when she says I look like Brad Pitt in the movie Troy......(Ha-Ha).

Thanks again Norman.

Jeff.
 
Great day ,enjoyed every minute ,gutted when we came back in although I knew it was the right thing to do so I didn't let on . Jeff great to meet you mate although I'm sure we've met before on one of the early NESA midweek boat trips about 2003 I think , thanks Norman yes I thought it was a double as I wound it up ,what a fight ,great stuff .

P.S. the whisky will be opened soon ,just after tea lol .
 
Excellent report norman and well done to the lads on there haul I had a run up to amble today and seen the upholder come in ..mackeral was plentifull and one lad had a canny pollock but didn't see much in the way of cod but most of it was bagged up as they came ashore.
Wind was strong
 
I wish I had a quid for everytime someone has said that Keith.(you cheeky ****.....I'm in the huff now and will never post on here again.......Ha-Ha)
 
Aye steve the wines going down just nicely at the mo LOL , now that you mention it I may just have a wee drop of grouse next :) :)
 
cheers mick, yeah seemed to work out a good day, pleased to see there are now fish on the wrecks again ............

not sure if the reports show or describe it but the last two trips last week and this have been in real bad conditions, a bit warmer today although a big wind whereas last week was searing rain as well as an even bigger wind. Even though the wind was westerly it was brisk enough to churn up the water .......... two very uncomfortable trips, pain killers all around for the aches and pains afterwards :) :)

There were several times today when we had to steam half throttle or less (not my usual) because the prop was out the water so much.

Look forward to a calm sea (just for a change) ......... ;)

:) :) :)
 
Norman took my dog out down Allensford today and was a lovely night.
I spoke to one of the lads who own and run a local hot air balloon CLOUD 9

Plenty of paying customers but the boss was stood looking up scratching his head.

When i asked what the problem was the lad i was speaking to pointed to some high trees on the A 68 and you could see them blowing in the wind.

To dangerous as to windy up above he said.

Conditions good on floor where it was and sheltered, much windier in the open.

Bit like at sea i suppose.

Mick.
 
Aye mick that always seems the case, I often get strange looks when I get home early saying it was too rough to stay out and I only live 5 mile or so from the coast.
 

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