Crew: Noel and Mathew Fogerty
Mileage: 39nm.
Tide: High water 09.10
Weather: Foggy to start but cleared to be a pleasant enough day in light s/w winds
Bait: king rag, blacks, mackerel, mussel, crab and razor
Rigs full selection of battle rigs
Results: Pollack, ling, whiting, ballan and cuckoo wrasse poor cod and octopus
Report:
Launched and ready to go by 10.15 it was full steam ahead to the open sea. A few stops on the way to the ling rocks produced some whiting poor cod and small ling. Having the wind against tide did not help with the drift down to a stand still at times. Nice if you’re on fish.
Drifts over the peaks on the lings turned up the usual wrasse and pollack and small ling but nothing spectacular to show for. The next move was to head west to a mark that has not let me down the last few times it.
About a mile short of the mark we pass a green fishing well at least he wasn’t on the mark. He wasn’t but his net was
. To hell with it as the tide was still dropping we gave it a drift up tide of the net.The first drift had pollack up to 6lb
and again only small ling.No complains about that, net or not, we were staying and going further up the net on each drift.
Best catch of the day came to Mathew
. Having been using his fathers, the shore angler, set up all day I changed him over to a one of my favourite set up for drifting reefs. A few minutes into the drift his rod was doubled over and line racing off the spool and on a good pollack. He struggled to get the fish to the boat a nice 5lb pollack. As I lifted the fish out of the water the white belly of an other fished showed on the bottom rig about 8ft down an other fine pollack over the 4lb mark. Not bad going for a lad his size.Finished off the drift and headed for home. If you’re going to end the day on a good note you’ll find it hard to beat that one.
OOOOPPPPS for forgot to mention
the green boat was pulling the net next ups as the double fish were been landed Not a bad day out, far better than the last time Noel came down.
