great white Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Hi all After the fuel problems last week , I had decided that if the weather allowed us to we would leave the Flounder behind and go offshore a bit. Flat calm cold and sunny, saw the worms stowed in the hold and the boat heading SE. over an hour later and we tried drifting while the tide was on full ebb no fish so off to another rusty bit. no pollack as the tide eased in went the anchor and great the Congers are hungry I lost one into the wreck then Dan had the first to the boat at 31lb followed by a steady stream of eels for the end of the flood tide as we swung away from the wreck at slack we had the three heaviest of the day. I was playing a fish of about 35lb when my uptider tried to leave the boat, Sam took that one, it was his first experiance of an eel on lighter gear and it gave him a tough time. When it surfaced we saw why, one of the two Hokias was in its dorsal fin . hell of a way to catch a 38lb eel on 20lb braid son. Dan then caught his biggest this year a fine fish of 48lb. he also went on to a total of 8 fish, and is a bit tired now. [ he is after all only 13] and I followed it with one of at least 45lb that came off as I went to swing it onboard by the trace. In total we had a couple of dozen eels but could not quite manage the heaviest of the year. It may have been the last conger trip on Great White but we will be back Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newboy Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Nice fish(es) They might be Great White last congers, but I'm sure the new Great White will just just as well if not better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBettle Posted December 18, 2005 Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Sounds like a great day guys. Well done! I could only dream about fishing as I cruised back to Weymouth with Quest II. Still it was lovely to be on the water. Well done Sam & Dan especially. Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted December 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 Thanks guys here is another of the boys in action at the same time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted December 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2005 and another double header I only put a second rod down once, after this fish and nearly losing the rod it went away again. Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomBettle Posted December 19, 2005 Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 Thanks guys here is another of the boys in action at the same time Charlie Is that PB in the background of the pic with the boys? If so were you on AS? Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted December 19, 2005 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2005 No to both Tom Due to the tides, size and time of slack we went South East for a change I think that is the Purbecks in the background. Hope you went to Weymouth early and enjoyed the Calm weather, It got a bit lively when we were on our way in, and we had to slow down a bit. we do not have to do that often in GW. at least the spray cleaned the decks off Three trial runs now, have confirmed that the fuel system is OK, so I am very happy with that Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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