Monday venture

[Gummage]

I was very excited for me and Andy as we left tuckton on Monday morning.

it was on Andy’s Orkney out of Banff that we had a great day on Haddock and 

ling a couple of months back.

 

Tides might be brisk but it was a flat forecast. I wanted to give my all to a Bass project.

Colin and Jerry1 gave me the. Lowdown on how and where. It would be some fifteen miles steaming.

 

we stopped to feather several times on the way out.

On the east drop off at the southern end of th shingles I tussled a handsome bream to the boat only to lose it.

NOTE TO SELF: Throw away the rusty feathers!

 

They are catching any amount of mackerel in the moray firth,  Andy has a freezer full…..in Scotland.

 

wed bought some tiny frozen joey fillets so that and Squid baits were used on our markswhere Colin has reported great success before.

 

we fished and moved many times on the Ebb

One fish only became apparent as I wound in at the end of a drift.

A keeper, but only just

 

Our luck changed with the turn of the tide but not for the better. The wind got up, the sea got up and I started to question whether I dare go on burning fuel for the drifts, 

with the sea getting ever more lumpy we soon lost our nerve.

 

I can up the east side of the ledge with waves beam on. That spared us the cathedral hull slam and we made a useful 10 knots.

 

 

 
I was weary by the time we got near Hengistbury and steered for home

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Greg]

Any trip where you go home with a Bass is a good trip.

Well done on your persistence Martin.

In my experience the sea breezes seem to be stronger this year which means less fishing time and having to make for calmer waters.

May be it’s the extreme heat causing the strong sea breezes currently, who knows?


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[Graham Nash]

well done for the effort again Martin. 

 

One of these trips, it'll all fall into place and it'll remind you why you do it.