Duration: 10am to 5pm
Tide:
Weather: sunny dry flat calm seas with hardly a tide running at all
Bait: shads, jelly worms rag sand eel and mackeral
Rigs: 3 hook flowing traces
Results: ME - 1 black goby (shore), 18 pollock to 6lb (new pb), 8 ling to 5lb (new pb), 14 coalfish to 4lb (new pb), 2 pouting to 2lb and 82 mackeral
JORDAN - 18 pollock to 7lb 2oz (new pb), 14 ling to 6lb 2oz (new pb), 9 coalfish to 4lb 3oz (new pb), 2 pouting to 2lb (new pb) and 82 mackeral
Report: i got a call from dan last week letting me know that they needed a few more anglers to make up the numbers for a big fish boat trip out of downings. not one for letting an opportunty like that to pass us by i snapped up 2 seats for the trip quick time
. it would be a chance for me and jordan to smash a few of our personal best records for a few species in one go. so we sat on saturday and tied up a dozen flowing boat rigs with big shads, sidewinders and jelly worms with hooks no smaller than 5/0 and of a heavier gauge metal so we deffo would'nt lose any nice fish this time 
(we live and learn 
). now 3 hook rigs for deep wreck fishing might seem a bit excessive, but it would be a great way to test out our heavier rods and reels as 3 big fish all wanting to tear off in different directions sounded like great craic . and i have boxes of them in the house that have never seen the sea, so i did'nt care if we lost the lot as there are still loads of them at home 
. we stopped off in the harbour for a bash at the minis as we could'nt resist the chance to get something different from a new mark and i was rewarded with my first black goby of 2010 
. so with the messing about over we set off to board the boat and steamed off to the wreck with a brief stop for mackeral to bait our bottom hooks for ling. within 10 mins there was a full box of mackies for a good days fishing and we geared off to the wreck. the fishing was non stop from the first drift to the last with some cracking pollock and ling being landed all day. loads of personal bests were smashed in no time and jordan got a serious work out hauling up big fish 3 at a time. as always the lads in the club were full of craic from the off and our sides were splitting with laughter as people were individually targerted one at a time for a bit of stick and a good winding up 
. the fishing was so frantic that i only got a chance to take a few pics as we re-set the drift on a few occasions. with very little tide running the drifts were brilliant as you got a good bash at the fish as we slowly passed over the wreck again, again and again . jordan even sat out the last drift as his wrists and forearms were cramping after reeling up full houses of pollock and ling 3 at a time with a combined weight of around 15lb from 100 meters below . he decided that he'll hold of on a trip to norway until he's well up in his teens now . all the lads decided that we would spend an hour on the way back in to stock up on mackeral and have a go for big flatties and ray over a sandy bay with skull being the only one to get a thornie and dan and another guy got a doggie each. the offical weighing took place when we got back to shore with the biggest fish of the day (a pollock) weighing in at 8 and a half pounds and some ling not too far behid it . i'll never guess the weight of a pollock just by looking at it again as these things looked to easily be doubles, but all came in at around the 7lb mark on certified scales. i think a lot of the angling mags must allow a heck of a bit of journalistic licence with pics from what i've now seen in the flesh . yet another great day out and i'm greatfull to the club for allowing me and the wee man to tag along on another one of their trips as we throughlly enjoyed ourselves and were made to feel more than welcome yet again. top bunch of lads 
. and great to get out with trevor the skipper as anyone i've ever talked to about him and his boat have only ever had great things to say about him. and on that trip i can honestly say it was all well founded 
