northeast1
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Well it had been 37 days since i last stepped onto my boat with being away on holidays so i was gagging to get out and wet aline.
A quick check of the weather yesterday confirmed i would be taken leave and have today off.....so i picked my mam up for her first trip of the year and due to her loving her fishing but not able to do the 10hr+ trips i often do we agreed on a 8am until 3pm trip today and boy it was worth it.
(Sorry for lack of pic's, camera went flat after two pic's)
On the first wreck by 8.25am and we soon had a couple of mackerel, a small codling and a couple of coalies landed, we moved a few miles further off and my mam was 6-3 up on the cod front within 1hr fishing with them all the same stamp 3-5lb.
We moved off hitting a couple of cod on each wreck then as the tide turned we hit a wreck and it was manic, a cod a drop, sometimes 2 at a time that tested my mam's arms.
Then the bigger boys turned up we had four doubles...Cod of 14lb 2oz, 11lb 4oz, 10lb 1oz and a ling of 13lb 9oz landed within 30mins of each other. (all on the nice new scales)
We kept hitting the wreck until someone flicked a switch and it went dead but the final count before we went back in was 36 keeper cod and 2 keeper ling, a few smaller codling put back, whiting, pouting,coalie and mackerel.
We kept 4 cod for the table and put the rest back...cracking day at sea and a good start to the second comming
mind it was a close run thing, i was in the lead fish wise until the last two drifts then my mam drew even with me on 19 keepers each ha
A quick check of the weather yesterday confirmed i would be taken leave and have today off.....so i picked my mam up for her first trip of the year and due to her loving her fishing but not able to do the 10hr+ trips i often do we agreed on a 8am until 3pm trip today and boy it was worth it.
(Sorry for lack of pic's, camera went flat after two pic's)
On the first wreck by 8.25am and we soon had a couple of mackerel, a small codling and a couple of coalies landed, we moved a few miles further off and my mam was 6-3 up on the cod front within 1hr fishing with them all the same stamp 3-5lb.
We moved off hitting a couple of cod on each wreck then as the tide turned we hit a wreck and it was manic, a cod a drop, sometimes 2 at a time that tested my mam's arms.
Then the bigger boys turned up we had four doubles...Cod of 14lb 2oz, 11lb 4oz, 10lb 1oz and a ling of 13lb 9oz landed within 30mins of each other. (all on the nice new scales)
We kept hitting the wreck until someone flicked a switch and it went dead but the final count before we went back in was 36 keeper cod and 2 keeper ling, a few smaller codling put back, whiting, pouting,coalie and mackerel.
We kept 4 cod for the table and put the rest back...cracking day at sea and a good start to the second comming
mind it was a close run thing, i was in the lead fish wise until the last two drifts then my mam drew even with me on 19 keepers each ha
