Stevie69
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I left the land of Prince bishops this morning at 6.30 and arrived in the land of the monkey hangers at 6.40 and we were off at 6.45. it's was already warm at that time and things just got hotter as the day went on. Half way down to skinningrove and we stopped to have a go at getting some mackerel for bait we got nothing I kept the feathers on for about an hour once we got to skinny and managed to get 3 where the feck are they ?. Anyway I set up with baited day lights and a 10 Oz pirk and steadily started picking codling up around 1 1/2 - 2 lb all returned I wanted bigger ones. One of the lads has got himself the same rod as me, an ugly stick kayak rod 15-20 lb class used it for the 1st time today and manage to capture a 14lb ling he said the rod performance was excellent and so much fun ( what I've been telling him for months). Things slowed down around dinner time till the tide turned and we were back into them as the drift picked up a little faster. About 1 pm I decided to go back to my faithful red head shad, down it went to the depths 164 ft. Oh bollox plugged so I thought then it started giving and then banging decent fish on all the way up saying to myself please don't come off then I seen it coming up about 25ft down a codling a good un, Got it
aboard and the skipper was on it like a rash with the scales 8-9 lb chuffed to bits with myself my biggest cod so far this boat season. I'm after a double this year. The weather was just getting hotter and hotter then a breeze showed up to cool us down a bit we headed back in about half 2. So a good day for all of us ending up with fish to take take home. Roll on next weekend ?.

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