IMELDA:Greystones 13/9/09

[Tony Fella]

Vessel:IMELDA

Crew:John1 & Tony

Duration:8 hours

Weather:fantastic

Bait: rag, mack, frozen&Live Crab, Razer

Rigs:Whatever we found on the floor

Results: Dogs, Wotings, Hounds, Bull Huss, Grey Gurnard & Fish ID?

Got a phone call of john last night asking if i was interested in joining him on a day on his boat only a fool would turn down an offer, launched at 10am and first on the list was bait tryed for a few macs in two spots but with no joy we had around 12 frozen macs so we made do with that.. as we waited for the animals we kept our self's busy with a few dogs john got a nice gurnard and a hound things were quite untill i heard a bang johns rod bounced and water splashed we didn't know what happend untill we seen a big lump of flesh floating on the water it came out of the sky i looked up and around but didn't see anything or anybody (anybody hear of any exploding whales in japan?) Does anybody know what animal its off?? this thing weighed around 2lbs and bent an eye on johns eye anyway quick pic and sent it on its way,next on was john with a nice huss 9lb! Its the first time i seen one so big next was me with my first big huss it weighed in at 8lb..as we had no runs yet from a tope our mac supply was low we decided to have one more drop for the day,johns bait was only in the water 1min and his ratchet was screaming (Doesn't it sound nice ) he striped 150 meters of braid in no time and it was nearly down to the backing after getting tangled on the anchor rope and a good fight he was close to being landed but he must of seen johns face and let go its a pity would of liked seen his as never had the opportunity meeting one all in all a great day

[Tony Fella]

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[bigsod]

Great day to be out lads, well done on all the fish caught and hard luck on the tope John.

[twinkle]

it could have been a seal suicide bomber??????

[gfkelly1969]

well done some nice fish caught,the bit of flesh looks like a bit of a seal

[seanie35]

looks like the fin off an ocean sunfish

[JOHN1]

nice report tony i couldnt have put it together better myself, it was a nice and very unusual day
defo not any part of a seal iv been up close to seals before and they have fur/hair, this flesh didnt i still cant get my head around where it came from never mind what it came from.

if it was a fin it would of had 2 sides

not to bothered about the tope shane i would have been more dissapointed if tony had lost it, it was one of the best tope runs i can remember 150+ yards on first run ah well better luck mext time

[The Austrian]

Good fishing and great report Tony, so you got out at last and a big well done on the new PB
The peace of skin looks like blubber from a seal cadaver, might have been dropped by a sea bird, luckily it missed you, if it does that damage to the ring it could have easily knocked you out

[oneillphil]

Looks like whale or dolphin/shark skin to me with the two tones, a seal would have Fur/hair and a fin would have skin on both sides

[masterkeane]

nice huss fella

[concancook]

it looks like a bit of dolphin,did it hit your boat or it could of been a shark attack ,your going to need a bigger boat

[JOHN1]

[quote="concancook"]it looks like a bit of dolphin,did it hit your boat.

it did hit the boat at speed out of thin air and nothing in sight to explain where it came from thats what is so strange about the whole thing.
I was on to IWDG and they cant ID it as yet.

there were a lot of lacerations on it if you look closely you can see them.

[twinkle]

i was standing outside a church at a wedding in santry 4 yrs ago and a crab dropped out of the sky and hit me on the shoulder i remember someone saying could be worse might have been a dolphin im sure that piece of meat dropping out of the sky would have hit u a right clatter lucky it missed you

[Tony Fella]

Good fishing and great report Tony, so you got out at last and a big well done on the new PB
The peace of skin looks like blubber from a seal cadaver, might have been dropped by a sea bird, luckily it missed you, if it does that damage to the ring it could have easily knocked you out

Thanks yea i needed a fix on a boat have to say thanks to john hes a very safe and good skipper..only bad thing now is i cant get bloody tope out of my head just seeing the line stripping of the reel gave me the horn and the force that the blob hit the boat would of easily hurt you if it connected with your head

[junior conger]

nice few fish