Weather: Largely sunny; light ENE wind; warm
Sea Conditions: Wind against tide most of the day, so a rather awkward choppiness. No swell.
Time Spent: 13:00-18:30 – 5.5 hours
Tides: 16:00 – 4.9m
Probably my best day out of Dunbar this year, although that’s not saying very much. I didn’t get a lot of fish, but they were mainly of a good size with the best pollack, cod and ling of the year to date. I started off at the wreck, mainly to get some mackerel but had a couple of drifts with fish bait and picked up a couple of cod, best 6 lbs 12oz. Moving inshore produced several codling and a couple of respectable ling at around 6lb each – a bit of a surprise as I don’t normally get many on this mark.
Wind was against tide and the drift was very slow, so I decided to move right down the coast past Pease Bay, to a mark I’ve not been to for around a year. First drift hit the jackpot with a nice codling and 5 decent pollack, the best just under 8lbs and two more around 7lbs. Things went downhill a bit after that as the drift became poorer, but several more pollack and a couple of codling appeared before it was time to head for home.
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