Mon Oct 08, 2007 1:43 pm
Boat: Thresher
Crew: Myself and Gavin
Date: 07/10/07
Location: Greystones
Duration: 8am - 6pm
Tide: Ebb and Flood :lol:
Weather: Sunny Skies, Flat Calm Seas, but very foggy :?
Bait: Just fresh Macko and Squid
Rigs: Pennell wire Traces and heavy Mono Leader
Results: Tope 8) Huss, Macko, Herring, LSD
Report: After the mayhem and exertion of the Small Boats Festival I decided to take it easy and try my hand at some Tope today. I rang Gav earlier in the week to give him the heads up for the trip I know he has been waiting for since last year....TOPE. I was up bright and early and was launched and all by 7.30am. Whilst waiting on Gav to arrive, I tried for some Macko and had a half a dozen in the boat by 8am. Back to the Harbour and Gav had arrived and was ready to roll. I was surprised at the large luggage bag Gav was carrying. I said, did you bring bait or something? and with that he said, “no, Sambos”!. Gav opened the rucksack to reveal 30 odd Sambos, a flask of Soup, a jumbo packet of biscuits, a family pack of cheesy puff crisps, more Sambo's, bars and god knows what else. Gav must have told his old doll he was off to sea for a few weeks with the amount of grub he brought :lol: :lol:
With only an hour in we were enjoying Soup, Sambo's Hob Nob's and oh yeah, loads of ratchet screaming from the Tope, but no way were we putting the sambos down for that, no next out was Potato Salad and Ham, following by a double ham salad and a fourth Hob Nob.... :shock:
Anyways the fishing wasn't bad either, plenty of Tope, Huss, and Herring :?
But the sambos and grub were the highlight. I had to drink a can of Red Bull to stop myself falling asleep after my fifth helping ... :wink:
All in all a good day, good craic and good company.
The typical Tope Grin :)
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Gav Wrestles with a Huss
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What a set of dentures
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Herring, great bait 8)
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And the land disappears into the thick fog.
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Mon Oct 08, 2007 5:14 pm
Nice report Rob,
Excellent pics as well.
Kev
Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:07 am
hi there nice fishing just wondering have you fished the codling bank recently i havent fished there in long time ,last time i fished there some years ago i had some cracking BIG spur dogs maybe you could let me know. im thinking of venturing out there soonish
Fri Nov 02, 2007 2:38 am
After the mayhem and exertion of the Small Boats Festival
Just as well you did'nt go on the pi*s :D :idea: as well during the small boats or we might have never heard from you again. :roll: Even I've been invited back on board screeming reels :D :lol:
Any way nice fishing
So who's going to get the last tope of 2007 :?: :?: