Sweat dreams are made of these. April 9th

[canman]

:red:Saw the forcast yesterday for Friday, Mild & light winds. Launched at Cullercoats at 9am, drift fished a wreck about 1-1/2 mls off Whitley, using rag. Got a codling 2-1/2lb followed by a few more on each drift plus a couple of good size pouting. After a while, as the drift was slow, I decided to anchor just uptide of the wreck and continued to catch. 3 times I brought 2 up at a time.
By now I had 15 cod, all between 2-1/2lb and 3-1/2lb, and 2 pouting, so decided to call it a day, back in to Cullercoats for 1 o' clock.
I took some pics so will try to upload them. Arthur.

 

[willywetegg]

Well done Arthur, great start to the season for you mate.

Jim.

 

[Codfather]

Nice one.
Hope i do aswell tomorrow.
Bet the reiver flys along with the 85hp, our was nippy with a 75.

 

[J.J.]

well done mate fish and chips for tea

 

[canman]

You are right jj, just finished. mmmmmmm!

 

[canman]

It should codfather, but she won't go above 3,200rpm at the moment. Seems to be hunting for petol over that, and can't rev it that hard in a tank.

 

[canman]

Thanks Jim, yeh, it was a lovely day, not a breath of wind at times.

 

[The Great Wallsendo]

great stuff Arthur ...I think it's going to be a case "la la la" fingers in the ears time for a few boats out of the RQ this weekend

 

[canman]

The'll be pulling their hair out, wait all winter for calm weather, then jailed....

 

[Charlton]

just reallised who you are, cheers Arthur

 

[Norman]

Nice one Arthur,

Thats the typical spring run of fish ....... here at last !

enjoy it while it lasts mate, great stuff, and great pictures (mind you the one in the second picture looks as big as you, must be over 3lbd


Yeah and as has been said we've waited patiently all winter for this and now Royal Quays "Shut for business"


norm

 

[wearuk53]

Nice job Canman which i had a bit more luck whats best bait to use at the minute i am new to boat fishing been using daylights tipped with macky no joy today for me fished out of Sunderland!!

 

[Iva-Cod-on]

Briliant Arthur mate top notch!!!! Good photos too nice one they have arrived.....
I'm slavering already out tomorrow can't wait

 

[Norman]

 

[PAUL]

Well done on the catch, just waiting for a nice day when i am off work to get and try me luck, just outta curiosity have you changed the prop on the outboard seems strange why it won't go over the 3200 rpm (by that i mean is the orginal one)




codfather:
will you let me know how you get on tomorrow if you manage to get out please, busting to know if hartlepool is doing anything from the boats yet?


Cheers
Paul

 

[canman]

Hi wearuk, Just givem what they want, lug and rag works great this time of year, then peeler crab June onwards in up to 70 ft of water.

 

[canman]

Hi Paul, it's not fitted with the origional prop, it's a stainless one. I take it up to 3000rpm running smooth, then if i push the throttle lever forward it picks up strong for about a second then just drags right back, but if I slowley build up the revs, it gets up to 3500 before it drags back. Any one els got any ideas!

 

[PAUL]

might well be the wrong pitch/diameter on the new prop,did you have the same problem before changing it to stainless?

 

[canman]

Cheers Norman, Hope they get the job done early at RQ . It'll be just like the shipyard at louse when they open the lock gates. Arthur

 

[canman]

Cheers Ivan, Knock em dead tomorrow, it was warm out there today. Arthur