Loch Etive charter boat outing

10 member's fished the charter boat on Sat. Arriving at taynuilt slip for 8.30am some small boats had already arrived on the beach. We boarded the boat at 9pm and started fishing at 9.30pm.

There were small spurs about at first, Mark catching them 2 at a time. The other guys getting into the action as well nice to see.

Then the bigger ones appeared along with the smaller ones. First one for myself at 3lbs 11ozs but that didn't last long with Iain landing a nice spur at 5lbs 1oz. The whitting also made an appearance and as you see with Iain whitting they did not last long if you did not land them. Eddie then landed a nice spur of 6lbs 1oz the best spur of the day. I came close to what I thought was a good fish as the rod tip got pulled over and a lot of head shaking was going on. Eddie had a wee sweat on almost sure I heard a sigh of relief as it was wrapped up making it feel bigger than it was.

We had a sweep of £2.50 for the heaviest spur that was won by Eddie and £2.50 for any other heaviest species. This was won by Matt with a 1lb 7oz lsd. Well done guys.

A good day and banter too as everyone had a shot of winning any one of the sweeps but just getting pipped by ozs from Eddie and Matt.

Looking forward to the next outing guys.

Arbroath Boat Charter Outing

Frank Shane and myself headed to Arbroath for a days fishing aboard MV Ardent. Arriving at McDonald's in Arbroath around 8.00am meeting the other guys Matt James Davie and Tony for a coffee and a quick tactic's chat. Headed out at 9.00am and drifted a couple of times close in shore.Matt was the first one into a what looked like a good fish on his spinning rod a small cod off 1lb 8ozs.

As there was only small fish about the skipper decided to head over to the bell rock light house which proved to be the better move.Frank had a good solid bite as he hit bottom but after a couple off turns on the reel it popped the hook. A few nice fish were about but as the tide started to pick up the skipper tried to keep us on the fish as the drift became a bit quicker. Through out the day the main stay was cod wrasse and a small ling for Tony.

On the day we ran a sweep of £5.00. £17.50 going to the heaviest cod and £17.50 to any other heaviest fish. James had the heaviest cod at 4lbs 5ozs. Davie had a nice Ballan Wrasse at 1lb 10ozs well done guys a good day out for all.  Looking forward to the next one lads.

Club outing

Went fishing over the Craig aboard the Girvan based Rachel Clair.

Iain would have had the best pollock of the day but was lost at the side off the boat prob into double figures.

Davie and Will shared the sweep money for the biggest pollock. Davie nearly had no rod left as a seal to a fancy to his pollock as he brought it on board.

Iain Shane and Chris Shared the sweep for the heaviest wrasse.

A good had by all cheers lads.

Arbroath

Went fishing to Arbroath with some of the lads out on a charter boat.

Chris the youngest of uz was out the night before this was a no no.

As you can see from the pict Chris nursing a hangover.

Heading out to our fishing mark

The fishing was for cod as we were having a £20.00 sweep for the biggest cod.

And £20.00 for the biggest fish other than a cod. Lines down and I was into a nice coddling of 3lbs.

Then a coalfish of 1lb 8ozs. Gordon landed a coalfish of 1lb 15ozs then Shane had a nice ling and returned it.

Then realised he had not weighed it. A nice 2lb coalfish for myself which put me in the lead again. Hit the bottom again and was into a nice cod of 4lbs this time.

Gordon landed a small ling and a coalfish of 2lbs 1oz, Wee Davie was up the front pulling in mackerel three a time and some nice coddling. By this time Shane had a nice ballan wrasse as well as myself.

Chris did manage a Short Spined Scorpion fish. Then I got one almighty bang on the rod tip and stuck it felt like a good fish shaking its head all the way up. It made a run up the back of the boat and in the mean time trying to keep it away from the other guys lines, Then the skipper is there with the landing net whispering in your ear keep it tight don't lose it. What do you know it throws the hook.Well that's fishing for you.  

Result I got the £20.00 cod Sweep with my 4lb cod and Gordon won £20,00 for his 2lb 1oz coalfish. 

On the way home Malky over come with the excitement