no porgy BUT a specimen blue, rosguill 30/7/10

People: mac tommy tony stephen jw

Duration: 10-00-1900

Tide: high 1pm

Weather: westerly

Bait: live mackerel

Rigs: wire

Results: 120lb (fl 75") specimen blue, ling, red and grey gurnards, pollack, coalie, dogs

Report: the porbeagle did not show up. Towards the end of the day a big female
blue shark hit one of the live mackerel baits with a powerful screeming run, nearly
spooled the reel and took 80 minutes to get to the boat

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=lvn3KZWYEGc



http://youtube.com/watch?v=8Ssv2qR9fZs

Drummer thats a fine fish

Well done M8 that's a fine Blue.

Yappo

80 mins on 50lb gear, that was some fight! the big blues are some fighters . pat

Nice shark,well done

Well done lads thats some fish!!

Drummer: that one has to impress Connor pity he wasn't with ya

Pity the Porbeagles didn't show up, maybe it has something to do with huge showls of Mackerel being reported in Islandic regions lately, lovely blue nonetheless, well done gents

nice shark
pitty about the porgies

fantastic fish stephen great achievement well done mate

thats a monster fish well done gentlemen

well done drummer cracking fish id say
your still smiling about it nothing that
ya catch from the shore will compare to
that mate

Some pics

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Nice fish lads. JW, where are you getting your weights from, is there a conversion chart for length/weight or similar. Be interested to know, we had a blue aboard Tigger 2 last year, landed by G. Wyse that was well over 7 feet long, be nice to have an idea of a weight. Put it at well over the 100 alright, took the 3 of us to lift her back over the side and after it took a mouthful out of Scotsmans bench seat resolved never again to bring something of that size into an Orkney Longliner.....

there's a formula as well which michael used on the boat to convert from
fork length (as opposed to total length) and girth 33 inches to weight.
Seems to be another formula on the graph below based solely on fl.

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Well done on the fine blue.

What baiting/ hooking technique did you use?

Hi All,
that was one good trip - thank you to all participants for showing up!
Here is short video clip with initial run and all that what happened afterwards.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=xKyc0In0a-4

nice fish there lads, crackin video too tommy.

Excellent Video Tommy.

Kev

Great video Tommy Drummer id say that killed you 80 mins without a smoke