Duration: 10am to 5pm
Tide: up and down
Weather: bright sunshine, no winds and calm seas
Bait: rag and mack
Rigs: feathers and flowing traces for flatties and huss
Results: scad, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, coalies, pollock, mackeral, whiting, ling, dab, mackeral, lesser weevers, doggie, codling, red gurnard,, tub gurnard and a pouting
Report: with an invite out on a boat trip with dan's BAC we hit the road and were glad to see calm seas as we entered portrush. all the lads greeted us and introductions were passed and the banter began
we were laughing our heads off before we even got onto the boat 
we quickly steamed out of the harbour to our first drift and the action was non stop from the get go. dan and a few of the other lads hit into some scad which scrapped well and jordan and i were hopefull that we might get a few more new species to add to our ever growing lists. but as quick as the scad appeared they were gone 
. i started to get into some whiting pulling them up 3 at a time on baited feathers and from there on out things were a bit hetic with everyone getting in on the action. i had only taken a few pics as i did'nt want to waste any time on the drifts mucking about with the camera as the was action going on all around me 
, i mean afterall, i'm an angler first and photographer second 
. i did take a few pics of dan's cuckoo wrasse and and a few new species for me and jordan including the biggest fish of the day that fell to jordan, his first ever ling . we had a great day out and all the lads from the club were 100% and told us that there was 2 spare seats going on their next trip that was in a fortnight time out of burtonport. so we'll be back out to do it all over again 2 things of interest came out of the trip.
1. the distinct lack of mackeral that's not on the north coast at the moment with only 2 being landed on the trip
2. i'm not sure about the different species of gurnard as we have'nt caught too many in our boat angling career just yet
. but i've checked 4 different sources on line and i think my one might be a piper instead of a red 
. in my reference books it gives the description of the piper as having connected spines that form forward projections from the upper jaw and a white under belly. 2 features that the red gurnard lacks and apparently they are often mis-identified because the piper is also red i found this pic on fishbase.org http://www.fishbase.org/Photos/Pictures ... at=species.anyone any thoughts??
. jordan had me print out the pictures at 6am on monday morning so he could take them into school to show his teacher and classmates 