Report By : Martin Lewis
Date : 8th September 2005
Vessel : Sabre Tooth II
Trip Type : Bass (Cancelled Shark Trip)

This was originally scheduled as a club trip for Shark. Because of the lack of interest it was cancelled but John Bentley kept the fixture as a private trip in his own name. However, the Shark trip was blown off due to the weather and 8 anglers, including 6 Danglers :-) set off from Neyland with bags full of optimism!

Onboard were 6 Danglers;  myself, John Bentley, Ian Phillips, Joe Barnikel, Gordon Wheatley, Pete Tadman and also along for the ride were ex-Jock now repatriated to Wales, Mark Tamilia, and Neil Landymore, a holidaymaker staying at Martin's Haven.

A huge sense of Deja Vu came across me as the only angler onboard who'd made an identical trip just two days before but this time I was lucky enough to draw position #7 away from the bait tank this time!

With the tide running we set of to the same bank as Tuesday and the day started with a bang on the second drift with 3 decent Bass landed. Ian Phillips struck into the first fish, followed within seconds by Neil Landymore and almost simultaneously I had a Bass on the end of my line. Ian as usual made hard work of his fish, trying to make it appear a LOT bigger than it was :-)

I pulled up a 4lb'er but Neil wiped the grins of both our faces with a fine Bass of 5.5lbs. Full credit must be given to Neil because, as he was on a camping holiday he had no way of cooking his fish and it was duly despatched back to Davy Jones' locker after the obligatory photographs. Myself and Ian had a similar problem experienced by Clive Jones in the past where the Bass were both deeply hooked in the lip and had to have it's brains humanely scrambled before being dropped into the cool box.

Another steady day was on the cards. With Mark Tamilia to my left and John Bentley to my right I had every reason to be confident, fishing next to two very experienced anglers. John proved his class by pulling up a FINE Bass estimated by Phil at about 8 ounces!!!!! Credit must go to John for practicing a catch and release policy.

Approaching slack water we departed the bank to get in a few drifts at the Gnoll before fishing for some fresh launce for the bait tank.

Ian 'Evil Knieval' Phillips provided the lunchtime entertainment with some terrific wheelchair stunt riding before we headed back to the first sand bank to continue the hunt for Bass!

My optimism was still high and fuelled even further when Mark Tamilia pulled in a nice Bass WELL OVER the 1lb mark!

Ian had another two fish along with a nice brace of Bass for Joe Barnikel, 1 for Gordon, another couple for Neil as well as an unexpected Dab for Pete Tadman.....well done Pete!

The day was drawing to a close and although Mark & myself were willing fish onto our hooks right towards the end of the day "This time".......with only approximately 30 minutes fishing left it looked like we'd seen all the action we were going to that day........

Mark Tamilia : "I think I'm going to get one this drift Mart"

Martin Lewis : "Yeah, me too Mark, I think we're going to go through a shoal of two and me and you will have them between us and leave nothing for Bentley"

Literally at that moment we must have gone through a 'shoal' of ONE because John's rod bent right over and line was stripped from his reel in several bursts by a seriously angry fish, even Steve came out of the wheelhouse, took one look and reckoned on a Tope being on the end of John's line.

Expertly played by El Maestro himself the fish that broke the surface was a STONKING Bass. Netted amongst about 6 other anglers knitted lines it was finally bought on board and tipped the scales at a highly impressive 9lbs.

After much congratulating we finished the day with a few more drifts which were totally unproductive.

No doubt about the fish of the day, but much muttering from John about how his private trips always yield fish worthy of several club trophies at the end of the season but unfortunately not eligible due to it not being an official club trip.

That didn't stop John from grinning from ear to ear for the photos below......well done JB! The envious thought that your fish must have been about 6ft away from my launce never even entered my head :-)
 

The "Usual Suspects" included moi, Clive Jones, Dave Frampton, Dave Bentall, Derek King, Jim Kelly, Peter Mathias, Mike Middleton & Charlie Chase. With the tide flooding as we departed Neyland we headed straight for The Islands and to a popular sand bank to start drifting straight away with some Launce from the live bait tank which Phil had kindly collected for us prior to sailing with the plan to restock the Launce at slack water.

After a couple of drifts Mike Middleton started the ball rolling with a nice Bass around the 2lb mark. This set the tone for the day and a steady stream of Bass cam onboard but unfortunately nothing exceptional was caught. A break at midday to catch some fresh launce didn't make any difference and after a busy day drifting next to 3 other boats on the bank, we departed for Neyland with a total of 15 Bass landed.

Mike Middleton & Dave Frampton both did very well and Mike lost what looked to be a very good fish. Pete Mathias who took the day's kitty with a nice Bass of 3.5lb and only Dave Bentall & Derek King found their luck mission on the day and failed to land a fish.

I drew position #6 right next to the live bait tank - a position to be avoided at all costs when on a Bass trip, especially when Clive-Alive-Oh has drawn #5 and you have to listen to his crap jokes all day! :-)

Pics below of Pete Mathias with his kitty winning fish. Also, my Bass of 3lb which I've tried to make look bigger by having my daughter Lana hold it for the pic :-)
 

Danglers for the day bore little resemblance to the people listed on the fixtures list. Those that departed Neyland on a drizzly morning were : Yours Truly, Greg Laycock, Pete Tadman, Gordon Wheatley, Mark James, Graeme Middleton and Mr Conger himself, Nigel Davies. Three replacements unfortunately didn't show up so the Magnificent 7 drew lots and after a bit of confusion because of the presence of two #3's and two #8's and after mutterings about the tiles being in such a mess because of constant tampering by El Maestro Sloop John 'B'entley, we finally settled into our positions for the day.

After filling up with Mackerel at the ever reliable Tesco's we set off to the dumping grounds in search of Conger.

With some difficult weather and sea conditions, constant drizzle and a fair old roll to contend with, Mark James was the first to hook into a Conger which Senor Phil Hambridge duly estimated at 15lbs and was then returned to the deep.

Not so long after, I was woken from a deep doze (only one eye shut of course) by a tap on my own rod. I lifted into another Conger and things seemed to be set for a good day's Conger fishing.

Graeme fishing next to me hauled in a very respectable Pollack estimated by Phil at about 6-8 lbs and which was duly filleted in preparation for Graeme's dog's dinner!

Nigel "Conger" Davies was next, with a big grin on his face, hauling up what looked like another Eel bigger than the one I'd landed, the big grin due to the fact that I'd asked him 10 times since landing my own Conger whether he'd caught one yet!

Well, he didn't land a Conger bigger than mine, but he did haul up a very nice Tope estimated at around the 20lb mark - NICE FISH DON!

Gregory added another species to the day's list with a Spurdog estimated at 6-8lbs and safely returned.

I was in my element making hard work of another bite on my rod and ribbing "Conger" Nige about his lack of Conger bites when Phil noticed Pete Tadman had an excellent knock and was already lifting in to what looked a good fish.

The ever quiet Pete eventually landed an EXCELLENT Tope which was bought aboard for weighing and which tipped the scales at a whopping 39lbs!!!!

Well done Pete! We were all well chuffed and not at ALL envious...........

The fish puts Pete in line for the clubs Tope trophy this year with no more Tope trips booked..........but of course, this wasn't a Tope trip either but he still landed a considerable fish so maybe there's time yet for someone to top that fish, it will take some doing though.

Unfortunately, with me making hard work of what proved to be an 11.5lbs Bull Huss, Pete's Tope had already been returned with nobody digging their camera out of their tackle box which was a great shame!!!

Greg weighed my Bull Huss in a bucket, then proceeded to subtract the weight of the bucket which I saw him fill with seawater from another bucket and a couple of 2lb weights and gave me 11.5lbs........I'm sure that Huss was close to 20lbs myself!

Gordon finished the main day's fishing off with another very fine Tope of 32lbs and after a few drifts of the wreck that we'd been fishing at anchor and a few further Pollack and Pouting being landed we headed back to Neyland with everyone having landed something of worth, something that doesn't happen on many trips.

Thanks to Steve & Phil for a good day out and putting us over the fish.

Species for the day : Conger, Tope, Spurdog, Bull Huss, Pollack, Pouting & the ever present Dogfish, of which there were thankfully few.

Apologies for the lack of photos for this trip.

With the weather blowing off the chance of a wrecking trip to St George's channel it was agreed to rescure the day with a general trip in closer waters. Danglers onboard were Yours Truly, Steve Owen, Greg Laycock, Ceri Matthews, James Phillips, Ian Phillips, Peter Tadman, Mike Middleton & Gordon Wheatley.

With a couple of disappointing Bass trips behind me I was chuffed that some Bassing was the first species on the menu. With the Launce easy to find on the first stop off, we made several drifts over this bank. Although the tide was not really conducive to Bass fishing, James Phillips was soon into a Bass, followed by another in quite quick succession. This made us all pay attention hoping that it would be a good day generally for Bassing.

I was lucky enough to hook into a baby Bass on the next drift and things were looking good. I like Dangler Clive am also a strong supporter of catch and release and after about 3 seconds consideration I dropped mine gently back into the drink. However, if mine had been 5.5lbs like Clive's I might not have been so generous :-)

Sadly, the first indications of a good Bass day did not hold and so we moved off towards the Turbot Bank. With Tope having been taken from there recently some of the boys rigged up their Tope gear, other's targeted the flatties. Ian Phillips pulled out a few tidy Dab, Mike Middleton almost hit double figures on the Dogfish and everyone else had a pretty quiet day.

At least the weather held and while we were prevented from going wrecking far offshore, the afternoon proved blissfully sunny and a pleasant afternoon was had by all. No photos this time as there not really any fish worth writing home about.

The magnificent seven set off from Swansea Marina to enjoy a fantastic day's fishing. The Danglers waved them off to try our own luck. Porbeagle, Mako & Blues were just some of the sharks we didn't see!

Mike Middleton, Dodgy Dave, Derek, Mike G, John W, Clive and Greg boarded outside the lock with great enthusiasm and a modicum of skill.

On a small tide we headed for the outer banks hoping for some good Rays, bait fish were plentiful and we parked about three quarters of the way out pending slackening tide on the far banks. Uptiding with specialist Bass tackle of 5/0 hook and 80lb trace I had a tremendous bite and skillfully played in a lovely bass of 5.5lb after assuring everyone it was a Huss!

As a firm believer in catch and release I pondered for an eternity on what to do with the fish. Those 3 seconds seemed an age before it was humanely despatched.

I had no real option since it was deeply hooked in the lip. We had some Dogfish and some small and medium Huss before we ventured out to the outer mark where after an hour we only had one fish, a small Tope for Dave who was trotting a 3oz lead from the wheel house to the next post code.

After untangling the lines we moved back to the original mark where sport was a little slow. We then moved back inside to a rough ground Bream mark where we caught a few Bream and Mike G had a small Tope.

A slowish day highlighted by a nice Bass fluked by me. Thanks to Skipper Dave who. as usual, worked hard to put us on fish but I think the small tides prevented premium sport.

After leaving the winter fishing to the hardy old men of the club, I decided that now that the warmer weather was with us once again I would book a trip and show the old lags how it should be done...........the best laid plans etc......

Everyone arrived on time, as usual, and although this was not an official Danglers trip, the anglers on the day were all Danglers of the highest quality; There were the  two Quiet Petes (Tadman & Grundy), Wayne 'Multiple Rods' Edwards and
El Maestro John Bentley who had cadged a lift from yours truly.

The tide was not very well suited to Tope fishing this day and the plan for the day was to do some general fishing on the banks and other marks and to try for Tope for a two hour window one hour either side of low water.

Skipper Dave, his usual hard working and friendly self steered us to various locations in search of Mackerel. Around a dozen were caught on our last location before we decided to head off to do some proper fishing and use our worms and frozen baits.

The day proved to be 'steady' rather than spectacular. For a change I was the first to boat a fish, an absolutely MONSTER of a Red Gurnard that would have tipped the scales at about 8oz if it hadn't been chucked straight back in the drink.

The Doggie's showed up very soon after and we all had our fair share of those. JB bought aboard a nice Thornback Ray of around 8lbs, Pete Grundy boated a much smaller Dab, the only one of the day and I myself landed my first ever Bull Huss which although not a great feat still made me happy, a new species is always welcome!

After some more steady general fishing we headed off to a Tope mark for a couple of hours. After only a few minutes, El Maestro Bentley was into a small Tope of about 8-10lbs. This was a very encouraging sign which prompted much optimism but unfortunately the good Tope fishing of recent weeks did not materialise.

JB bought aboard the next Tope and this was weighed at 23lbs! Peter Grundy also landed another decent Tope of around 18-20lbs and that was it for the day.

We set off back towards the Marina, stopping off on the way back to try for some Bream, in particular for 'MultiRods' Wayne. None materialised though and a few late stops closer to home bagged another few Mackerel for each of us.

A nice day's fishing in terrific weather. Skipper Dave should thank his lucky stars that he's such a friendly guy and much respected because a less liked Skipper may have found himself in the salt water when we found out that he'd come to sea with an empty Calor Gas bottle! Luckily we all had plenty of cool drinks of our own and this saved Dave from an unexpected swim.

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Danglers for the day were : Clive Jones, John Bentley, Greg Laycock, Bob Preedy, Roger Reynolds, Steve Owens, Ian Phillips.

We were told by the skipper, that there were no mackerel in the bay at the moment, so we had to bring our own or buy some when we arrived in Swansea.

We were also informed that, we had a very good chance of catching some Tope as they had caught 18 Tope the day before.

We all arrived on time and set out for our day’s fishing in the direction of Worms Head.

After about an hour and a quarter travelling to our designated area, the anchor was dropped followed slowly by our baits. Within ten minutes 2 Tope were caught and released.

The tide began to slow down, so we dropped some baited feathers down hoping to catch a few Whiting to add to our bait, which was running our quite fast. We caught about 20 Whiting, a Red Gurnard and a tiny Tope on baited feathers, also some better Tope were being caught around the boat.

During our days fishing we caught a total of 28 Tope. John Bentley caught 11 Tope and an 11lb Bull Huss, Bob Preedy had the biggest Tope of the day at 24lb, Steve Owens had a 6lb Smooth hound, Ian Phillips had a 17lb Thornback Ray and every body also caught a few inevitable Doggies each.

Mackerel counted for the majority of Tope, but we also caught some on whole Whiting. We were also bitten off a few times. During the strongest part of the tide, a 2lb weight could not hold bottom. A good day was had by all even the Tope Tosser had a gud un.

A full boat of 11 anglers left Neyland Marina in great anticipation of what was in store for them on this "Skips Special" trip. On heading towards Jack Sound we knew that we were going after the early summer Smoothhounds in St Brides Bay.

An unsuccessful visit to Tescos in Martin's Haven meant that we would have to do without fresh Mackerel. Luckily, the Skippers had provided frozen Hermit crabs to use as our primary bait.

We anchored over the "Ray Hole" which is about 3 miles offshore from Martin's Haven and waited for the bites to begin. To everyone's surprise, Doggie Dave was beaten to the tuck box on this occasion by no-one less than co-skipper Phil who was munching a sandwich as he was tying the anchor rope. After a bit of a wait the first LSDF came aboard and then fishing began.

Graham Middleton was first to land a Starry Smoothhound which weighed in at5.5lbs. Starrys then came in at regular intervals over the next couple of hours. Doggie Dave, Pete Tadman (twice), Graham Middleton & Mike Middleton all boated fish until Mr Pollock himself decided to get into the action.

Our club Vice Chairman, Mr Wheatley, started reeling into a big fish with a bit of an attitude. Such was the battle that Gordon had to strip down to his Jubilee striped braces to keep cool and stayed like this for the remainder of the day in preparation for the POLLOCK to come. The result of his efforts was a fine Starry at 6.5lbs which ended up as the heaviest of the day. Eight Smoothhounds in total were caught.

Fishing then went quiet with few or no bites so around lunchtime it was decided to move on and try some general fishing over rough ground. Just before the anchor came up Gordon was at it again winching up a very heavy dead weight. We all thought he was saving the Capstan a job by bringing up the anchor single handed but no, up came the biggest Spider crab I have ever seen. It weighed in at around 5.5lbs and a fine specimen it was. Seeing dressed Crab for tea Gordon decided to put it in his cool box. Clive Jones' great, great Grandfather must have been turning in his grave as Gordon managed to get one claw in and then one leg, one claw came out and then it was really running about. Finally the lid was forced shut and a little later Gordon was able to catch a couple of Mackerel which he immediately fed to his spider to fatten him up even further.

We moved and anchored on the reef off the SE tip of Skokholm but the fishing was generally disappointing with no significant catches. For the final hour we drifted the southern reefs off Skokholm but only caught a few small coalfish and Pollock. The weather  and sea conditions were kind throughout the day and a very pleasant experience it proved to be.

The other members aboard were Dave Bentall, Ian Phillips, Mike Yates, Mike George, Derek Williams & yours truly.
 

The 11 excited and expectant souls leaving Neyland at 8am were Mike & Richard Middleton, Doggie Dave ,Derek Williams, Mike George, John Willis, Glandyman Clive, Wayne Edwards, Smasher Laycock, Steve Hobley & Mark Stovell.

I was very plesed to be out after an awful week when my great, great, grandfather passed away. He was quite famous as the writer of the Hokey Cokey. We had quite a scene when the undertakers arrived and tried to get him into the coffin. We did manage to get his left leg in but then the trouble started!!

Any way I digress, we turned left out of the Haven instead of right to the Islands which was quite lucky really because there was a mini disaster there when a ship carrying blue paint crashed into another ship carrying red paint. Both crews were marooned. We eventually anchored on the Turbot bank and then the action began. First we had one cup of tea and then another, followed by another and another. Luckily the skipper was not troubled by having to use the net or unhook fish. We had loads of small dabs, spider crabs and a few doggies.

Incidentally Dabby Dave has changed his name following a spectacular catch of Dabs and again to Lucky Bas***d when he caught a kitty winning ray of 3.5 pounds. The only other fish of note were a 12oz plaice and an 8lb Smoothie for Mike and a Turbot of about a pound for me which I understand is a catch and release record for the club? I was particularly pleased because I caught more than Smasher, but then again so did the skipper and he wasn't even fishing!!!

The hardy members were : Steve Owens, Mike & Richard Middleton, Greg Laycock, Dave Frampton, Mark James and Clive Jones.

We set off for the 1 hour steam to the bank just inside the Hugo but stopped at a
mark on the way to allow the offshore tide to ease a little.

Defrosted squid were lowered in keen anticipation and even before Doggy Dave had finishes his first (of many) rolls the bites began.

A steady stream of LSD were boated to the usual chorus of derision and the occasional thwack from Doggy Dave's position where he was testing his new cure for insomniac dogfish!

As the tide eased we were able to move out to the Hugo where the doggies were still very obliging but the rays also moved in, against a stunning background of surf crashing over the exposed banks. I was then able to show how it was done by catching a small eye of 5.8lb quickly followed by a smaller one. My offers of one to one coaching were not taken up but plenty of doggies kept rods nodding and Greg managed to fluke a whiting. Unfortunately he also lost a large fish which surprising snapped his
line and not his Red Wolf uptider!

Towards low water more rays were taken steadily until low water and as the tide turned into the 4/5 wind we came inside and tried two marks around Aberavon and Sker. More thornbacks followed and we ended the day with 6 small eyed and 6 thornbacks.

Richard had the largest fish and overall weight (apart from Steve's 50 dogfish!) with a small eye of 9.8lb closely followed by Greg's thornback of 9.7lb.

Greg also hooked into another 20lber but it turned out to be the anchor rope!

The weather was typically April with rain and sunshine and a bit windy but the company was good and the skipper tried hard as usual.

Yet another group of optimistic anglers gathered for this Conger trip on a cloudy Sunday morning in Swansea Marina. The members onboard were John Bentley, trip co-ordinator, Greg Laycock, James Phillips, Nigel Davies, Wayne Edwards, Steve Owens, Clive Jones. I took the place of Craig Roberts who was unable to make the trip and Ian Phillips was unable to make the trip due to illness, hope you're feeling better soon Ian!

Skipper Dave Axtell steered us expertly to an offshore wreck and soon 8 lumps of mackerel, squid & cuttlefish were quickly lowered into the depths.

The initial optimism displayed by 8 keen standing anglers lasted for the first half an hour before rods were placed into the rail mounted rod holders and the anglers took their front row seats and watched their rod tips whilst opening the ever present sandwiches, sausage rolls etc.

Things were very slow and the first fish of the day was hooked over an hour into the trip. Rather than the usual dogfish, today's first show was an eel caught by 'Splasher' Greg Laycock & estimated by Skipper Dave Axtell at around 12 pounds.

'Splasher' did a fine impression of a giggling John Wilson whilst retrieving the eel and with lots of hoohoohoo's and 'hahaha's he eventually pulled the eel up through the depths and when the eel was released he was heard to exclaim "Now, was that a FISH or WHAT?"

Yes 'Splasher', it was a fish, excellent observation.

This eel was released immediately because, obviously, it wasn't worthy of a photograph as much bigger fish would be caught during the day ahead......Alas, apart from a few Dogfish, Splasher's 12lb eel was the only targeted species offering landed that day. A short trip to a nearby bank to offer some bait to a passing Ray also passed without incident.

Although on fishing activity it proved to be a very disappointing day, a LOT of fun was has by all onboard, a lot of banter was exchanged and the forecast rain did not appear literally until we got back to the car park when it started chucking it down. Small consolation, but could Splasher have the answer to the question "Where have all the fishies gone?"

See the forum discussion to view his theory and drop him a line in the land of men in white coats to let him know what you think about his barmy theory!

This was the Clubs’ last trip of the so called winter Cod season.

The boat was made up of the normal Swansea crew, including the Middleton Mob with hit man Doggie Dave, Wayne 2 rods, The King, John B "The Co-ordinator", "Wheels" Phillips and the Cashman himself. (Big Clive was resting after firing blanks for the previous 3 weeks)

The day started slightly ugly when Doggie Dave drew No.6 (Cod corner) once again. This was the fourth time in five draws which raised the question "had the Coordinator" been got at?"

The boys’ spirits did improve, however, when they saw the sea conditions and Skip Dave Axtell announced that he was taking us to Porthcawl on the former Welsh Riviera. What a treat.

After  45 minutes steaming in the early morning sunshine the Skip dropped the hook at our first mark. We were fishing by 10am and Doggie Dave was quickly into his first visit to the box for two sausage rolls, this was shortly followed by The King with a cheese and onion Bap whilst a little later Mike and Richard Middleton settled down to granary hobs filled with smoked Salmon roll mops served on a bed of rocket and cress.

The Skip was hoping that we might pick up an early Small Eyed Ray at this first mark but after an hour or so fishing we had hardly had a bite from anything. One Dogfish was finally boated which was a good sign to move on.

We moved further up the coast towards the Swig Buoy and anchored over more mixed ground of gravel and stones. This produced more Dogs but at least they were of a good size. To everyone’s surprise a Richard Middleton Dogfish suddenly turned out to be a very nice small eyed Ray at 8lb 4oz. Well done Richard and the Skip.

The boys fished with increasing enthusiasm and rods started bending with Dog after Dog.

Then came the highlight of the day when the boat was  approached by a Coastguard Cutter and was boarded by a gang of heavies from Her Majesty's Marine Control Agency.

Skip Dave offered no resistance and spent an hour in his cabin dealing with these intruders. Luckily they were not interested in our activities so all knives and clubs were safe. Wheels Phillips pacified them by explaining we were just a nice bunch of boys from Milford. They finally left and apparently intercepted another charter boat further up the coast  who blankly refused to be boarded.

We moved to another mark which was rough ground hoping for an eel but after hour or so of battling the Dogs the Skip decided to move yet again. The second highlight of day came as the Skip lost his anchor during recovery but with all credit he had another one rigged in a matter of 10 minutes. With moral slightly down at this point the Skip decided to give us one last mark from his archives in the hope of finding some decent fish.

Again it was Dog after Dog; their decent size only pleased Doggie Dave who appeared to have an order for half a dozen LSDFs. A Priest was regularly called for and after  sickening triple thuds eight were dispatched to his box. At the eleventh hour The Cash Man did land a good sized Whiting in excess of a pound but all indications from this day and  previous trips was that the Swansea season was over and had been for some time.

Thankfully there are no trips for a month which seemed to raise spirits. We all left for home with smiles on our faces.

Thanks go out for their perseverance to Mike and Richard Middleton, Wayne Edwards, Derek King, Ian Phillips, John Bentley, Dave Frampton, Greg Laycock and Skipper Dave Axtell.

Final 2005 Cod season stats :

Dangler trips completed : 8
Cod caught : 0
Rogers’s Tackle : £640.00

This trip consisted  of Dangler members although it was not an official club trip. Celtic Wildcat skipper Nick O'Sullivan asked for up to 6 anglers to join him on an experimental trip to wrecks in the SW approaches. Provisional target species was cod. Along for the ride were myself, Greg Laycock, Brian Ramsey & Steve Hatton.

We skipped around a few wrecks that Nick had on his GPS from previous trips as well as a couple of others that showed up on the sounder as we were travelling around. Pollack were aplenty but unfortunately Mr Pollack himself, Gordon Wheatley was not on the trip.

Best fish of the day went to Greg Laycock with a nice Pollack that tipped the scales at 9lb.

Not a single cod was landed all day but plenty of fun was had by all regardless.