Well, that was a good trip! Fishing has been very slow recently on the east coast (unless you like wee coalies). When Ian invited me out for a session on his Raider 18 my expectations were on the low side! Still, mid-May is when things generally kick off and the weather looked decent, so why not 🙂
We’d a slow start, probing a few different marks with little success. My first codling of the new season was this little specimen, quickly returned to grow bigger. Encouraging to see something other than a coalie though!
Happily, things took off nicely after an hour or so and we were soon pulling some better specimens aboard.
Ian was first with a bigger fish, and this nicely conditioned cod went around 6|8|0.
Mackerel baited muppet rigs were doing the business today, with 80% of the cod hitting the bottom hooks.
I pipped Ian by an ounce or two with this nice fish. It looked a little more beaten up than Ian’s cod, but was still in decent condition for this time of year.
We did anchor for a while and had a few casts for pollack. Ian had this nice fish (a little over 5lbs if my memory is correct), but that was it.
Totals were around 60-65 codling, with 4 over the 6lbs mark, so pretty decent fishing. Only the one pollack and a small number of little coalfish. Definitely a day that exceeded expectations!
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A great day out for the boys & I won’t even make any remarks about muppets either. Beadnell tomorrow for me, fingers crossed !