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Hartlepool Boat Trip

Dustybin

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Well we were hoping for a good day fishing today, but it did not happen as there was no wind for us to drift along. Only 15 Cod and 6, Ling that's between 7 anglers and very few mackeral. We will try again in a fortnight. Thanks Chris
 
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Nice one Dusty! I would have thought 15 Cod & 6 Ling was a bloody good day! :unsure::unsure:
 
Our last trip from Hartlepool was two weeks ago, between 8 anglers we had well over 100 cod, probably more like 150 nothing big, probably 6 lbs or so being the biggest , most in the 3- 4 lbs bracket.
Taken on a mixture of shads, and baited hokkais or muppets.
I had 30 takers myself , taken on mackerel baited muppets and shads.
On top of that we were lucky and before we really started , we covered a shoal of really big mackies, in ten mins we had enough for bait for the day and also enough to take plenty for the pot. It was a good days fishing .

Biggest cod of the day taken on baited hokkais , bait was pink shell on prawns.

But.

A friend who is a good angler, who was on the above trip went on the same boat 4 days later with his lad, what a different story, same number of anglers aboard , but the catch rate was well, down, he and his lad only had 6 ling, and mackies were hard to find, a few undersize cod taken but that was all, lean pickings really after a red letter day on the previous trip.

Just shows what a difference a few days can make.

Failure is not always down to a lack of skill, it can equally be that the fish just arent feeding.

Dave
 

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