Oh boy, this is a humungously long post! The short version is that the fab four hit Arctic Norway for a week’s fishing, picking up a suntan and some nice fish along the way. Our destination was the Norwegian island of Soroya, which lies around 300 miles north of the Arctic Circle. The A Team… Continue reading Arctic Sunshine
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East Coast Double
Better news to report as we spill into early June (I’m still a long way behind with these reports!). Both sunshine and fish off St. Andrews, including the first east coast double I’ve seen for a good while 🙂 A couple of drifts for mackerel produced nothing, although it’s still quite early for them. Moving… Continue reading East Coast Double
Life Returns…
Mid-May usually signals lift off for codling along the east coast so I wasn’t surprised to hear Ian was catching quite well. Sunday saw me turn up dutifully at St. Andrews, armed with a shiny new Daiwa rod as well as my usual scruffy gear. We squeezed through the tiny gap in the harbour channel… Continue reading Life Returns…
Pollack and Wrasse
A couple of weeks ago I ventured out onto the North Sea on Ian’s Raider. I’d taken along some ragworm, with a view to tackling the numerous wrasse that live close inshore, whilst pollack and codling were also on the cards. The sea was flat, one of those days where it’s hard to tell where… Continue reading Pollack and Wrasse
Dunbar Pollack
The sun rises early in May, and I drove east and directly into it for almost an hour before reaching Thortonloch. I was out searching for pollack and codling off Dunbar and this is nice little beach to launch from. I very much prefer the quiet of the early morning before the world awakes as… Continue reading Dunbar Pollack
Codling Galore
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… Continue reading Codling Galore
East Coast Cod
Chasing cod on the east coast of Scotland in early February from a boat is a very chancy business. Usually the odds are stacked against you even if the weather plays nice. Happily, today was a little different 🙂 The first hour or two saw us plugging away catching a few codling and small pollack… Continue reading East Coast Cod
St. Andrews
It’s been a wee while since I ventured out from St. Andrews, although Ian was reporting some decent fishing between the autumn gales. Conditions looked good as we headed out from the harbour, and better than forecast for a change. Our initial mark produced plenty of fish, but not really the sort we were looking… Continue reading St. Andrews
Slow Drift at Dunbar
I’d my first foray from Dunbar at the end of June, on a beautiful but rather too calm morning. Launching into a glass-like harbour I nosed out past the castle around half-six. I stopped just outside the harbour and hoping for mackerel, plonked a set of sabikis over the gunwhale. Leaving them to fish by… Continue reading Slow Drift at Dunbar
Breezy Day at St A.
Scotlands weather obliterated our plans for a 5 day trip to Galloway, so we had to make the best of a bad deal. Consequently, we snuck out on a very breezy day at St. Andrews for a few hours fishing. Trev and I were crewing Ian’s Raider 18, targetting cod and pollack rather than tope… Continue reading Breezy Day at St A.