Some variety

Gordon and Martin had a good day scratching around out of the aquarium that is Port Logan in summertime.

Poor Cod, Cod, Whiting, Pollack, Ballan Wrasse, Cuckoo Wrasse, LSD, Ling, Dab, Tub Gurnard, Grey Gurnard, Mackerel, Thornback, Plaice, Haddock and Short Spined Sea Scorpion.

Gordon got the slight edge over the now retired and clearly  in third gear "species master" with 14-12 victory. The total species count for the day was 16.

It would be fair to say there was some competition on the day. The loser will now have to forfeit all sense of reality and join GG on another fun filled jape on the ocean waves at some point in the future.

 

 

 

Arbroath Outing

Report for the Arbroath event.

Seven members fished aboard MV Ardent out of Arbroath. We met at McDonalds for a coffee and a quick chat before starting. We set sail at 9.00am and headed to where some other boats were fishing. Had a few drifts only small fish were about. Matt was the first one into what looked like a good fish on his spinning rod a Cod off a 1lb 8ozs.

The skipper decided to have a shot over the bell rock light house which proved to be a better decision as Frank had a solid take but after a couple off turns off the reel it popped the hook.The tide picked up  and the drift became faster and  the skipper tried hard to keep us on the fish. Over the course of the day it was mainly Cod and Wrasse, Tony had a small Ling

 We ran a five pound sweep on the day. £17.50 for the heaviest Cod and £17.50 for any other heaviest fish. James had the heaviest Cod at 4lbs 5ozs and David had the the heaviest Wrasse at 1lb 10ozs.Well done guys, a good day out for all.

Regards

John Wilson

Two flappers in the sunshine

2016 Shore and Boat dates for your diary

 

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Loch Dornie trip

Went up to loch Dornie with Edddie Wong for a couple of nights. We were targeting pollack

But the weather soon put paid to that

It  poured down relentlessly with high  winds so we restricted ourselves to fishing loch Dornie where we found thornbacks aplenty d big average size too,

Eddde started off with a thornie est 13lb we moved to another mark where  we were catching a  fish a  drop until the tide  eased. After  good nights sleep aided by a few beers we returned to the same mark  in  the morning.

 

Day  2

Back  at the same mark i immediately  got my best thornback of the  trip of about 12ld

With Eddiie catching a codling  of about 2lb whilst feathering for mackerel i caught another Thornback of about 10lb we decided to pack it and go home. So all in all a successful trip (apart for the rain)_ with plenty of double Thornies, Dogfish, Codling ,Whiting, Pollack and  mackerel It was worth the  with  trip ad we will be back

My best of the trip  12lb thornie

 

 

 

Yellow Isle results

1st J Soon with 11 fish for 463pts.
2nd N Wilson with 15 fish for 460pts.
3rd I Grant with 13 fish for 361pts.
4th S Wilson with 10 fish for 334pts.
5th J Wilson with 6 fish for 174pts.
6th R Edmund with 2 fish for 63pts.
7th F Spears with 1 fish for 35pts.

Longest fish N Wilson 46cms.

 

 

Trip to Loch Awe

A invitation to Loch Awe from friends found me fishing for trout and perch from a small pier using  size 6 hook, bubble float, 8lb line and a bunch  of worms, after  10 minutes i noticed my bubble float take a dive ,striking into the fish i soon realised i had hooked into a Pike. No way i was going to get this fish in as i had no wire trace on were my first thoughts. But after 10 minutes i still the fish on when i seen it first time and the hook was just in the corner of its mouth.
After another   5 minutes I  finally beached it. My line finally gave out but i managed  to grab its tail,

                                                                The fish weighed 22 pounds