People:seirt ,nevskib, myself
Duration:8 hours
Tide:high to low, plus a bit of flood
Weather:lovely ( except for the nagging easterly breeze)
Bait:Black lug, rag,mussle,mackeral,sandeel,crab,razor.
Rigs:gilling,pirk,flowing traces,pennels,feathers etc
Results:codling (small to 1.5lb ) x10, 3 pollock to 4lbs, lots of ballans,cuckoo wrasse, pouting, whiting to 1lb,1x ling 7lb, dogs
Report:fantastic weather, so had to go out, despite the fact there was east in the wind, and everything was saying " stay onshore and don't waste your time"!!!!!
Wasn't disappointed either, a very poor day out, hit a number of wrecks, and though plenty of fish showing, and despite the array of baits and lures used we only scratched out a few fish.
Many of the wrecks, Particularly the Anotony are covered in nets, they appear to be old ones as we had bits stuck to our hooks on many occasions.
decided to head into the 3 mile rock for a little sport with the wrasse, and wasn't disappointed, plenty around with a few small pollock and pouting thrown in.
Decided to do something different of the hook head,we anchored the boat and went for the cod, by uptiding and downtiding.
It worked very well, with good results considering the crap day we had had so far.
Most fish came to the uptided pennels , baited with Black lug, and mussel, surprisingly no interest in crab!
So, all in all, not to bad, but i have to say, even if its a lovely day,and there is East in the wind, I will stay at home and mow the lawn!
Does Anybody else have views on the east wind debate?? is it folk-law, or have you too experienced bad results consistently when its an Easterly