Norman
Well-known member
The Longest Day ......... well certainly the longest so far this season ..
Seemingly there`s a few doubting individuals that dont believe there are two 3 o'clocks each day, well I can confirm it there is .......
Early start today 3.00am at marina with a view to Catching the last hour of the flood tide and hopefully bagging up a good catch and back home by lunchtime .....
Oh dear it all went wrong ....... and turned out to be one of the longest days out for some time.
Stopped off in still almost dark conditions at the usual close in spots outside the piers but after 20 mins or so realised that even the scotchies were not biting.
So, decided to try some wrecks with pirks dressed with daylights (mackerel catchers) over the top of the tide, hopefully as day broke the mackerel (if they are there yet) would come alive and provide us with loads of fresh bait. Not that we needed any more bait than we had as Tony and Steve had provided well for the the day, including a bucket of fresh and active crabs ......... and stacks of squid .... (and muscle and rag etc etc)
The sun was just beginning to rise which meant for me a difficult time to fish .......... (can`t leave me camera alone at a sunrise)
I think deep down I just suggest the early starts to be able to catch the sunrise ...... but don`t tell the crew !
Pictures and video taken of sunrise and it was off again wreck after wreck all with the same result .......... nothing but snap offs and tackle loss .....
There was quite a southerly breeze blowing up and although (by the end of the day) it was warm on land the whole day at sea was rather cold (not that the colour of our faces would point that way)
by 9.00am just an hour or so before low tide we`d caught nothing and covered in excess of 30 miles .........
Eventually Tony hit into what felt and looked like a good fish only to find it was the biggest Scotchy in the area ...... time got on and a look at the fuel gauge prompted the decision to return to the Marina .....................
But ONLY for fuel before heading out again rejuvenated and with a mind to catch cod ...........
As low tide approached Steve started to catch codling and tony and I followed suit, unfortunately ours were scotchies.
We did all dig into codling over the period however all three of us at some stage lost codling on the lift, whether this was because they simply didn`t want to feed and so had taken the hook lightly or what we don`t know ......
All in all we covered more than 50 miles over a period of 10 hours with only three fish to return home with, still we all got fish suppers and let a few (or maybe accidently let a few) return to grow bigger .....
Again as has been said ......... it keeps you on your toes and just goes to show it`s not always an easy catch ........
From conversations among a few other private boats today we`ve all suffered the same ... a slow catch rate ........ I wonder why , if only we knew ....
Thanks again to my good friends Steve and Tony for the company and the endless fun all day .......
Long , it may have been ...... Fun , It WAS
Not a lot of pics but just a couple with a quickie video at the end
The obligatory Sunrise
Tonys Scotchy
And a couple showing some of Steves codling
And a quickly put together Video of the day
cheers for reading
Norman
Seemingly there`s a few doubting individuals that dont believe there are two 3 o'clocks each day, well I can confirm it there is .......
Early start today 3.00am at marina with a view to Catching the last hour of the flood tide and hopefully bagging up a good catch and back home by lunchtime .....
Oh dear it all went wrong ....... and turned out to be one of the longest days out for some time.
Stopped off in still almost dark conditions at the usual close in spots outside the piers but after 20 mins or so realised that even the scotchies were not biting.
So, decided to try some wrecks with pirks dressed with daylights (mackerel catchers) over the top of the tide, hopefully as day broke the mackerel (if they are there yet) would come alive and provide us with loads of fresh bait. Not that we needed any more bait than we had as Tony and Steve had provided well for the the day, including a bucket of fresh and active crabs ......... and stacks of squid .... (and muscle and rag etc etc)
The sun was just beginning to rise which meant for me a difficult time to fish .......... (can`t leave me camera alone at a sunrise)
I think deep down I just suggest the early starts to be able to catch the sunrise ...... but don`t tell the crew !
Pictures and video taken of sunrise and it was off again wreck after wreck all with the same result .......... nothing but snap offs and tackle loss .....
There was quite a southerly breeze blowing up and although (by the end of the day) it was warm on land the whole day at sea was rather cold (not that the colour of our faces would point that way)
by 9.00am just an hour or so before low tide we`d caught nothing and covered in excess of 30 miles .........
Eventually Tony hit into what felt and looked like a good fish only to find it was the biggest Scotchy in the area ...... time got on and a look at the fuel gauge prompted the decision to return to the Marina .....................
But ONLY for fuel before heading out again rejuvenated and with a mind to catch cod ...........
As low tide approached Steve started to catch codling and tony and I followed suit, unfortunately ours were scotchies.
We did all dig into codling over the period however all three of us at some stage lost codling on the lift, whether this was because they simply didn`t want to feed and so had taken the hook lightly or what we don`t know ......
All in all we covered more than 50 miles over a period of 10 hours with only three fish to return home with, still we all got fish suppers and let a few (or maybe accidently let a few) return to grow bigger .....
Again as has been said ......... it keeps you on your toes and just goes to show it`s not always an easy catch ........
From conversations among a few other private boats today we`ve all suffered the same ... a slow catch rate ........ I wonder why , if only we knew ....
Thanks again to my good friends Steve and Tony for the company and the endless fun all day .......
Long , it may have been ...... Fun , It WAS
Not a lot of pics but just a couple with a quickie video at the end
The obligatory Sunrise
Tonys Scotchy
And a couple showing some of Steves codling
And a quickly put together Video of the day
cheers for reading
Norman
might be worth just heading straight for Whitby next week.
also today was the first day this year it actually felt warm outside in the sunshine .
