Hello Everyone

[Member Removed]

Just thought I would say Hi

Been looking at the site for a while, very impressed......

 

My name is Chris Banks

I am a displaced Southerner living Near Grimsby and am the Secretary of the Humber Cruising Association, which is a boat angling club with 150 members with approx 70 boats ranging from 14 ft dinghys to 40 ft cruisers

 

I own a trailed Icelandic flyer, a 15 ft Seahog lookalike

I fish the Humber and Lincolnshire coast.

At the moment we are waiting for the transition from Summer to Autumn fishing, the Whiting (and Cod) are on their way....

 

Enough about me

 

I will stick my contribution in every now and then, perhaps a different perspective from Up North

 

[Newboy]

Welcome Chris.

 

It's nice to exchange any fishing tales, good and bad.....

[Maverick Martin]

Welcome aboard Chris

 

We all look forward to your contributions

 

Martin

[Afishionado]

Welcome Banksy, I spent some time in my very distant youth in Grimsby. I was working on The Ross Zebra one of the Ross Fisheries deep sea trawler fleet. I can still remember the site of all those (seemed like) hundreds of trawlers in the inner fish dock waiting their crews. And the changing of the muddy waters of the Humber into the cold grey of the North sea, then a day later leaving the shelter of the last of Britain and seeing (and bl00dy feeling) the huge Atlantic rollers that had been running for a couple of thousand miles with nothing to stop them.

 

Mad Mike

[Paul D]

Hi Chris, I am pleased you like the site.

 

regards Paul

 

[Member Removed]

The Ross Tiger, Sister to the Ross Zebra, is now a museum piece, part of the Grimsby fishing heritage centre

 

Part of the old dock in Grimsby is now the Humber Cruising Association marina

There are only a handfull of trawlers left now

But plenty of angling (and sailing) boats

I guess its the same story everwhere

 

The muddy Humber still holds plenty of Cod in the Winter

At times it must be one of the best Cod fisheries in the country

 

As i said in my introduction, we are waiting for the Whiting to arrive

Whiting from October to Jan, Cod from Dec to April

When the Whiting turn up, there are millions of them

When we are after the Cod they are a pest

But in October, it is good fun catching them on light tackle, spinning rods and braid

 

 

 

 

[Paul J]

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The Ross Tiger, Sister to the Ross Zebra, is now a museum piece,

thats funny so is Mad Mke

 

Welcome aboard Banksy