Thread: Fishing tomorrow!

Took Dad out today.
After 5 days of appalling weather finally could see if my pots were still there.
They were I had tucked them up in a sheltered cove.
Nothing in them and remaining bait bloody stinky!
With a good forcast relocated and rebaited.
Small tides the goal was actually to get some oysters rather than fishing as such but by the time we got up to wards the spot current was running and I thought we can't waste this.

Ankor and burly down... deploy strayline it only gets half way down and is taken.
Nice 35cm panni snap.
We had a run of three or four 35-40cm pannies one after the other...then a lull then cuda and tangles....then the wind came up.....like really came up.
Wind against current good times.
Boat side on a meter plus of chop,burly pot and a rod round ankor.
Sort that catch some more pannies and a couple of donky gurnard....it's shit and I keep saying 2 more min if we don't catch table fish we gone and every time I say that we are hooked up.

Both Dad and I are pretty salty ol sea dogs and the wind is not forcast and I hope it will drop but it gets to the point where we are both fuck it we've got more than a feed let's find some shelter and work our way home and maybe get some cod in a sheltered spot.

Off to sheltered cod spot, Dad scored one beauti blue and lots of snags we are drifting too fast in the wind.....but it's dropping
And just like that the wind stopped,sea didn't go flat but it got 90% better so we had a drag for some oysters.
It's very difficult to dredge 40m with a recreational dredge and actually have it work.
Dredge worked but float didn't ffs.
Two short drags for a couple doz then hammer down flat out all the way home to catch the high tide and get on trailer.


Cleaning up and Wifey came down when almost finished "where's the fish?"
Well I gave Sara four snapper and Pip a couple and some gurnard and cod and Dad took the rest and I kept four oysters cos you are sick of fish.
So new diet she is eating fish.....about bloody time!!!!