Saturday Morning

[DommyBoy]

Met my old man at his house at 4am......went to bed at 1am so a little bleery eyed.....and hitched up the boat in the pitch darkness, fuelled up at the 24hour garage and loaded the food bag with sausage rolls and ready made sarnies...good times! Got to the slip and was still pitch black so readied the boat and got rods set up and parked teh motor in the top secret free spot!

 

Launched about 5am with plenty of water and light enough to get straight out to the macky mark, not so easy to cath this time but after 45mins i had about 30 macky in the tub!

 

Off to x-ray where we clipped upto a buoy in mirror seas, it was bloody lovely and was sat in shorts and t-shirt by only 7am.

 

Bites were hard to come by and the odd doggy kept us occupied for the first hour until one of my rods signalled a better bite, felling for the fish i hit it hard and it hit hard back and took line from the off, i was only on light gear, 8' long 12lb test boat rods coupled with small reels and fine braid, these fish fight well hard on this sporting gear and when only using 6-8oz of lead to hold bottom it was nice to battle these lovely fish, after a 15-20minute scrap a lovely small eyed ray of just under 8lb comes aboard and after pics and making sure she was fine, she went back to fight another day. Half hour passed and the odd doggy and again im in, this time after a good fight up pops a spotted ray at few ounces over 4lb, lovely looking fish and imaculate condition, then its the old mans turn, he is on slightly heavier gear and gets a nice 8lb 10oz smalleyed onboard, back she goes and then im in again, 10 minutes later the biggest of the day comes up and at 9lb 6oz another small eyed is on the boat, pictured and released and it dies off for an hour and then 2 more small eyeds make an appearance, 1 each for me and my dad again at just over 8lb a piece, the tide turns and the fishing dies again. We decide to head for home at about 10:30 to get in the queue to get on the slip and get the boat out. What a greta mornings fishing and was home by 12. we finished with 6a rays upto 9lb 6oz and plenty of macky, about 10 dogs, and the odd small bream on baited feathers. Now i want to get out for a few congers one evening this week, anyone fancy it?

 

Dom

Edited August 28, 2007 by DommyBoy

[Gnasher]

the mark was completley different today and the fish wern't playing ball . 6.30am launch, and waving at an open top orkney which i presumed was alun doing some bassing. We collected some bait and then dropped down on xray to fish the last of the flood.

 

Anyway, the next hour gave a few bites with a couple of dogs and a nice little spotted ray of 3lb 7oz landed before the flood killed the sport as we were anchored windover tide.

Edited August 28, 2007 by Gnasher