Crew: John Warner
Duration: 09:20 – 17:55
Mileage: 42.7 nautical miles
Tide: L.W. 14:25
Weather: Pleasant
Bait: lug, king rag, blacks, mackerel, sand eel, mussel crab and razor
Rigs full selection of battle rigs
Results: 9 species- pollack, pouting, poor cod, cuckoo and ballan wrasse, ling, cod, whiting and
Dab.
Report:
First stop-off was number 6 buoy in the harbour to try for some herring which Screeming Reels had picked up earlier. We gave it about ten minutes without any success. The next move was to the open sea and north of the Ling rocks, minor panic, all the waypoints were gone. I must have deleted all my waypoints instead of my last track before I set off earlier.
Long live the Garmin 550 and its SD card
a 5 minute burst of speed back to lower Aghada, downloaded the waypoints from the laptop to the card then on to the GPS and we were back on the move again. 
Drifting around the area north of the lings produced very little fish so we move onto the rock itself. A quick chat to Petekd and the Scotsman we headed to one of the peaks for some pollack and ling. No shortage of good size pollack, best about 7lb, and ling to about 8/9lb.
With the orders fill for the lads in Kennedy’s Bar we moved back onto the softer ground. This again proved to be slow fishing.
One or two more stops on the way back got some more whiting and 2 cod. This was the first time this year I had 2 cod on the boat on the same day. On the last stop I landed my first dab of the year
. In all not a bad day out with plenty of happy faces in the pub that night.
