APOLLO Cork March 15

Date: 15.03.09……. Launch no. 7, 2009

Crew: John Warner

Duration: 09:20 – 17:55

Mileage: 42.7 nautical miles

Tide: L.W. 14:25

Weather: Pleasant

Bait: lug, king rag, blacks, mackerel, sand eel, mussel crab and razor

Rigs full selection of battle rigs

Results: 9 species- pollack, pouting, poor cod, cuckoo and ballan wrasse, ling, cod, whiting and
Dab.

Report:
First stop-off was number 6 buoy in the harbour to try for some herring which Screeming Reels had picked up earlier. We gave it about ten minutes without any success. The next move was to the open sea and north of the Ling rocks, minor panic, all the waypoints were gone. I must have deleted all my waypoints instead of my last track before I set off earlier.

Long live the Garmin 550 and its SD card a 5 minute burst of speed back to lower Aghada, downloaded the waypoints from the laptop to the card then on to the GPS and we were back on the move again.

Drifting around the area north of the lings produced very little fish so we move onto the rock itself. A quick chat to Petekd and the Scotsman we headed to one of the peaks for some pollack and ling. No shortage of good size pollack, best about 7lb, and ling to about 8/9lb.
With the orders fill for the lads in Kennedy’s Bar we moved back onto the softer ground. This again proved to be slow fishing.
One or two more stops on the way back got some more whiting and 2 cod. This was the first time this year I had 2 cod on the boat on the same day. On the last stop I landed my first dab of the year .
In all not a bad day out with plenty of happy faces in the pub that night.

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Good day out.............good to see Apollo is still going well

Nice one Donal - yes the SD cards on the Garmin units are the dogs

Nice one Donal - yes the SD cards on the Garmin units are the dogs

Scary what you can do with it.
I now save every trip on to the laptop. The info it holds is infinite
I had a problem trying to put it on Google Earth so I removed it (G.E) from the laptop and downloaded it again. Now I can save all my waypoints and track to G.E.
I’ve bought three 64mb cards and saved save some drifts of the better reefs on to them in a different colour.
These can now be downloaded back onto the GPS and I can see where it fished best the last out.
Scary what you can do with it.

Good day out.............good to see Apollo is still going well

Should that have not read "now going better"