A couple of mates went out fishing yesterday. Got a call from Will Steven had just boated a nice tope. Will had a nice 7lb smooth hound and Steven ended the day with a 3lb tub gurnard. All fish were returned alive and well. Well done lads.



May species Hunt

Well that's us into may now and the species hunt is starting to pick up a bit now.

Results so far.

Willie with 1 species.

Gordon with 1 species.

Stephen with 2 species.

Jamie with 4 species.

Chris with 4 species.

Iain with 4 species.

Malky with 4 species.

Stuart With 4 species.

Will with 5 species.

Martin with 6 species.

John with 7 species.

Shane with 7 species.

Expecting a few more as the weather is getting warmer.

Challenged update

Fished Port Patrick with my son Shane, Jamie, Malky, Iain and Gordon. Winner was Jamie 4 fish for 148 points. 2nd Shane with 3 fish for 111 points. 3rd myself with 3 fish for 104 points. 4th Gordon 1 fish for 39 points and 5th Malky 1 fish for 34 points. So round 1 to Shane. 

Loch Etive

Went down the beach and dug my bait for the arbroath boat outing, when I got back from bait collecting I got a text message from Gordon the outing was cancelled due to the weather. Sitting with a 150 lug worm and no where to go I thought. Then Iain gave me a call and asked if I wanted to go fishing on sat anyway. Iain Chris Malky and myself headed for loch etive a good call we thought nice chance of a spur or thornie. Arriving we notice a couple of boats out as the loch was flat calm. Started fishing about 2pm and chris had the first fish a coddling about 1lb 5ozs. This was the norm for about a couple of hours small coddling till the gurnard showed up. We fished for 7 hours and caught coddling and grey gurnards and not a sight of a spur or thornie. Some chaps on a boat came along side to see how we were getting on. I asked how they did after we reported we were getting coddling and gurnards. Their reply was not had a bite all day. They had been on the  all over the loch and had not connected with any fish. Not a good sign if the boats are not getting anything. I think Iain had the most bites off the day midge bites nearly go my pen out to connect the dots. lol.... Chris won the £8.00 sweep we had with his 1lb 5oz coddling and we added a few new species to the hunt.