Annual Tay outing

The clubs’ annual outing to the River Tay went ahead this year on the 20th February. Only four hardy souls braved the elements, Eddie Wong, John Wilson, Willie Kennedy and myself.

After a late start (Eddie being lost) we hit the water. Eddie and John starting off in the boat, Willie and myself on the far bank. The morning past with Eddie getting a hit on his lure but alas was not able to connect. After a spot of lunch to recharge the batteries whilst getting the feet warmed up it was soon our turn for the boat. 

After about an hour my rod slammed over and I played and landed a well mended Salmon Kelt in the 8 -10lb range. It was the only fish of the day but everyone enjoyed the experience and are looking forward to the trip again next year.

Any members reading this, can you please forward on some fishing pictures with a few words  to the committee as we move forward through the year please?

Thanks

Martin's first fish of 2015

Martin made an early start to  his Sea Trout kicking off as early as seasonal rules would allow.

The weather was bleak , the dog didn't fancy the sleet but there were one or two fish around falling to lures over a couple of trips.

 

That's fishing !

Stuart and I fished the small boat competition at Port Logan last weekend along with Jason & Gordon on Tartan Spartan and Cammy & Scott on Outcast. The event organised by Tom Stevenson was for the combined weight of the boats biggest nominated species .... Cod, Haddock & Pollock. 19 boats fished on what was a lovely day to be afloat.

Fishing was a little slow at the start in the bay but Stuart managed a sized Haddock which got us off the mark. We headed out to fish the wreck and arrived to find Tartan Spartan and two charter boats from Portpatrick fishing away. The fishing however was useless with Stuart managing the only Pollock between us all .... And it was only a small one at 1 1/2lb ..... Two fish in the bag !!!

As the tide was due to pick up we headed in shore .... We decided on a drift and managed several Haddock & a couple of small Cod before deciding to put the hook down and try some anchor fishing. We steadily caught some nice enough Haddock in the regions of 3/4 - 1 1/4lb so managed to increase our Haddock scoring fish. Stuart also managed a Cod that was just over the line on the stick at 35cm. We had fished this match last year and knew the importance of getting 3 counting fish to have a chance ( we couldn't catch a Haddock at last year yet this year there were more Haddock than anything else ).

We then decided to try in Logan bay for a last shot before the end of the match ....... And a good decision it was !  I wasn't long on the bottom when the rod buckled over ........ I shouted Stuart to get the net as I thought I had a reasonable Cod from the way the fish was fighting. To our surprise up popped 3 Cod between 1 1/2lb - 1 3/4lb ............. Superb  --  that's fishing !!!!!!

We headed in shortly after with our 3 counting fish which was gave us victory in the match .... Only 1 other boat managed to catch 3 counting fish but ours were bigger. £95 in the pocket and off we went home smiling.

A big tanks to Tom & his team for organising and to the Sands Of Luce caravan site for hosting the prise giving.

Unfortunately the club guys on the other boats didn't do very well ...... Maybe next time !!

Willie and Stewart on Loch Ken

I had at last tempted Willie for a trip to loch ken  for a bit of pike and perch fishing

It started off slowly with only a small jack about 4lb coming to my rod on  my favourite  copper spoon.       

   Later in the  day ,after a nap (see below), and giving him a spare spoon Willie was soon into fish with perch of about 1 pound.

Then he weighed  in with a 6 pound pike before ending  the day  with a near 2 pound perch.

Willie's first ever Pike

 

 

Flounder Festival 14th Sept Prestwick

July round up

ASAC Shore League - Yellow Isle - 26th July 2014

The 5th match in the Club shore calendar was fished at Yellow Isle, nr. Portpatrick. 7 members fished the match with the addition of one guest.

Fishing from the venue produced mixed bags of fish for all members, with species including, Wrasse, pollack, haddock, thornback, smoothhound, grey gurnard and a surprise spotted ray for Robert Edmond. The fishing was pretty non eventful for most until the light went, then the venue pretty much came alive!

 Results are as follows ...

 

1st R Edmund with 10 fish for 465pts.
2nd J Soons with 8 fish for 298pts.
3rd I Grant with 9 fish for 271pts.
4th N Wilson with 5 fish for 128pts.
5th D Grant with 2 fish for 84pts.
6th J Wilson with 2 fish for 70pts.
7th M Bletsoe with 2 fish for 67pts.

longest fish J Soons for 46cms.

 

 

ASAC Summer League - Ballast Bank 23rd July 2014

The 2nd Summer league match of 2014 was fished at the Ballast Bank, in Troon, with 3 members attending the match. Sandy Wason, John & Shane Wilson. The results are as follows...

 

1st S Wason with 9 fish for 254pts.
2nd S Wilson with 3 fish for 101pts.
3rd J Wilson with 1 fish for 28pts

 Martin had a shot at some mini species adding these two below, Rockcook and Tompot Blenny as well as catching some Bass

 

 

 

 

 

Sharkatag Weekend - Solway Area - 19th & 20th July 2014

The results I have for last weekends club match at Sharkatag are as follows:

Willie Kennedy (Sunday)  Tope 120cm, Huss 102cm, Smoothound 92cm, Thornback 72cm SUPER GRAND SLAM   =  23 points (Winner)
Stuart Cresswell (Sunday) Tope 136cm, Huss 84cm, Smoothound 85cm, Thornback 48cm SUPER GRAND SLAM  =  23 points
Scott MacAleese (Sunday) Tope 120cm, Huss 94cm, Smoothound 60cm GRAND SLAM  = 22 points
Jamie Soons (Sunday) Tope 122cm, Huss 90cm, Smoothound 84cm GRAND SLAM  = 22 points
Gordon Goldie (Sunday) Tope 137cm, Huss 105cm, Smoothound 95cm GRAND SLAM  = 22 points
Martin Alison (Saturday) Tope, Huss 2 QUALIFYING SPECIES = 21 points
Camie Donaldson (Saturday) Spurdog + Huss 2 QUALIFYING SPECIES = 21 points
Steven Toner (Saturday) Tope + Huss 2 QUALIFYING SPECIES = 21 points
David Tracey (Saturday) Spurdopg 1 QUALIFYING SPECIES = 20 points

Fishing was pretty hectic on all the boats with large number of tope and huss showing out from Whithorn and plenty of spurdog offshore from Drummore.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martin's Bonefish

Honeymoon Bonefish Aruba from Martin A on Vimeo.

Martin had some decent fishing off the beach on his honeymoon. Here is one of his catches.