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The catch report. Jamie’s boat zoomed off to the southern point on Bressay and quickly came back with a cod and a mackerel. on Callum’s boat we drifted a flat sandy patch in the bay and got well into Haddock and mackerel. Cod came up too but were returned as haddock is much favoured there. At he close of play I brought up a foul hooked plaice for good measure. Better include a shot of our hosts The next time we saw flat water we were on our way home looking north over the stern at 1.00am(midnight GMT)

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Endeavour3 is smouldering in the in the insurance claim department so Gummage and the “Angling Saxon “ have decided to visit the vikings again. A sequel to last Novembers raid. Our hosts were twins Jamie and Callum. Both accomplished fabricators and marine engineers and we travelled with their father Andy who has had a lifetime of marine engineering diving explosives pier construction etc .They all did aprenticeships at the Malakoff in Lerwick. Andy’s old schoolfriend Gordon had come shooting with us in November and within a hour of disembarking in Lerwick we were aboard his waiting boat and out into the sound catching cod! Dazzling Mackey lures and 16 oz weight were used almost exclusively as we were fishing in 60 m of water. Haddock was the most prized score and mackerel were harder to avoid than catch. After a few hours we put into Lerwick. Gordon had bigger plans for us tomorrow . Gordon was raised on Yell and had a few creels there that needed checking . We left Lerwick heading north on a fabulous cruise. The company The crew The scene IMG_0393.mov The wildlife The thrilling coast of Yell IMG_0396.mov Relief Good banter IMG_0409.mov Mustn’t forget The catch report . We drifted tackle hungry rocky bottom for ling using feathers and jellies. A few Saithe (pollack ) came aboard . Ling eluded us.

Thanks. Very enjoyable for us so must have been really great for you!

Question..... Leo and I are fishing a charter boat from Poole next Saturday, can we still enter the species comp if not on our boat? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The creels were near waymark 1 on my map. Can’t give the exact location else you will all be going up there and lifting them.😉 In any case the only thing they had in them was a hole. Probably been visited by an otter. With a northerly wind the sea state was uncomfortable so we went south of Lerwick. It was calm in the lee. Here Jamie’s new boat made its debut. IMG_6315.mov without the motor this aluminium hull only weighs 280 kg IMG_6316.mov 60 hp makes it swift IMG_6319.mov

When the fair weather came Jamie was still having fuel line problems which proved to be caused by very similar but incompatible fuel line plugs. I’ve encountered that on E3. While Sam helped him pin down and resolve that I was to go out north of Bressay with Callum to lift a pair of pots and try for some Herring. As we backed away from the mooring lines the Jonah effect kicked in. We hit bottom at 10.45 am IMG_6287.mov We had no spare. So off it came and back to base He groundback the snagged fins leaving a curved edge He ground a matching curve in scrap shaped it TIG welded it IMG_6293.mov And ground it to shape Repeat x3 template made to the smallest Grind back and buff up Prop back on at 12.40 IMG_6293.mov

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As we waited for a weather break we heard how in his diving days whilst at the Malakoff his dad Andy had developed a 10 ftwide one for commercial use. He had taken a dive to watch it working and realised the “queen “ scallops weretrajecting themselves to human eye level and thus evading the net so a piece of net was added to the bridle to hold them down much improving the catch. Also king scallops don’t flush easily and so there was much talk of how some agricultural spring tines might be encorporated to give the a poke . A trip was made to visit a man with an old Jones baler but he thought it might still come in handy so we couldn’t nick the parts. This got produced

IMG_6269.mov Onto check the creels. As luck would have it apart from running inter island ferry services and salmon farm support vessels he is also a hotelier and chef . IMG_6252.mov IMG_6267.mov