Hi all I hope you enjoyed the weekend's fishing
It sounds as if all that ventured out to the RIPs had some good fish by a variety of methods well done to you.
We went out at 1730 Friday to catch a few mackerel that seemed vary thin on the ground this week compared to last. after getting a few we anchored and had 3 conger and a ray
Me Conger 28lb
Dad Conger 20lb
Daniel Conger 18lb and Blonde Ray 19lb
we also had pout and dogs but nothing better than above
after waiting for Daniels Drum lessons on Sat we went out with Wendy to have a second go at about 1200
Now that we had mackerel of course they were easy to catch. [ sods law]
we found a rough bit and had conger pout dogs Undulate Ray and other bits, we moved in to get away from the tide which was a waste of time catching just dogs, then moved back out for the evening slack in deeper water or a couple of pack tope and a bigger undulate
Wendy provided great catering, Bacon Rolls dinner, fresh mackerel rolls tea and hotdogs for supper, plus iced buns and Belgium buns.
the only conger we had on saturday wasnt impressed with dad hooking him and was convinced he was going back into the rust.
Saturdays fish
Dad: Undulate Ray 11lb 8oz male
Undulate Ray 16lb female
Conger eel 45lb
LSD 2lb 4oz
Me Tope 13lb
Daniel LSD 1lb 14oz
Very pleased to have two fish over 100% on the boat shame i failed to catch one of them.
even though i was fishing with 30lb gear it is surprising how much sport you can get from a small pack tope.
according to my calculations our best fish to record are
CHARLIE UNDULATE RAY 16lb 0oz 114.29%
SAM CONGER EEL 28lb 0oz 70%
DANIEL BLONDE RAY 19LB 0oz 82.61%
I saw Dave land a decent Ray on Sammy and Tony phoned me to record two good bream on whistler so I hope that both of them have been in touch
as you can sse from the above it was dads day it was nice to see him showing us how to do it again.
tight lines sam
ps cant wait to see the results for the comp hopefully we got a chapman name up there somewhere.
here is are best fish on the boat