:b]Boat[/b]:screeming reels
Crew:seirt, merlin, angus, myself
Date:21/4/08
Location:cork, ling rocks
Duration:9 hours
Tide:ebb to full flood
Weather:super, light n/e going to mirror calm in afternoon
Bait:crab, rag, mack,
Rigs:Gilling, spreader, feathers, shrimp rig
Results:12 species, Pollock, lots to 9lbs, coalfish to 4lbs, ballen and cuckoo wrasse, red and grey gurnards, whiting, ling to 5lbs, LSD, pouting, conger to 25lbs, golden grey mullet 2 specimens
Report:Set off out to the lings, and on arrival were straight into some good pollock with doubles to 9lbs coming onto the boat, with a good few coalies also.
With the fish hold getting full, we headed off to have a go at some ling and managed half a dozen small ones to 5lbs.
with the run of tide easing we headed to the clean ground, which certainly lived up to its name!!
Only a few red and grey gurnards and a solatary whitng! not good , so decided to head in at which point the engine decided to go into limit mode of 2500rpm.
looking at the main fuel filter showed a large Glob of water with pink bits in it! suspecting that this may have made its way to the engine we switched the remaining engine onto two seperate fuel supplies to get me home, but with only the one engine running this was only 7 kts! Goodness it felt slow!!! but we had a good look at the scenery on the way back!
we stopped on the harbour rock on the way in and had some good conger action along with a good splash of small pollock and coalfish and ballens.
At that stage the harbour was a picture being a mirror calm, i then decided to have a go at the golden greys.
Within a couple of mins we had fish onboard, and we managed a couple of specimens, and poss and record that was dropped at the side of the boat because of no net !!!ughhhhhh( note to myself, get a new net.) Angus will never forgive me!
Was a great day out, glad i had the twin set up, now to face the job of flushing the tank and engines!!
regards
screeming