Another Day out on Madness

[Jim]

Another Day out on Madness.

Left Cobb's for the 08:30 bridge.

It was a pleasant morning with a gentle breeze & hazy sunshine.  The harbour was quite calm and we made our way to the chain ferry.

Once outside it was a different story.

It was quite breezy & lumpy.

We decided that Ballard would be a good choice so off we went at a gentle pace.

We lined up for anchor and found there was a problem with the windlass ( Martin will explain ).

We had a go at drifting and I "winkled" out a Pollack.

It's too rocky at Ballard for drifting so a change of plan was needed.  We headed for the beaches at B/mouth to drift for flatties.

On the way Martin sorted the anchor so we then headed for the patch.

Anchored on a nice spot but there were only a couple of boats out there (both charters) so we guessed that it had been overfished and not producing much.

We were right!

Martin had one and put it back.

Martin and Phil had a couple of doggies.

We all hooked a couple and lost them.

I had a Bream as well.

Then we moved and had nothing but a wrasse to me and a better Bream to Martin.

We decided that the Harbour would be better but just caught Weed.

Last few minutes by the Ro Ro and I had another Bream.

Back in at 3:30 lift.

Thanks Martin & Phil for another great day out.

Not many fish but so good to get out.

Thank you.

 

 

 

[great white]

Sounds like a lovely day.