This is the remains of Mr Mcavoy after a lesurely day's cod fishing !!
You have got to be coding 21/05/2009
After setting out to mid channel for a days cod fishing the target for the day was to beat last years best day of 214 cod.The weather was glorious and with a good tide we set about the task but having got off to a slow start we had only landed 42 fish by 12-00 so i decided to make a move to the west. On arrival at the next waypoint the first drift asccounted for another 9 fish so we were off and running and by 17-00 the anglers were starting to tire and by 17-50 only three anglers were left fishing. At 18-10 fish number 205 was landed and released and the day was called to an end just short of our target but whata grand day's fishing so you could say the cod have arrived
Captain Carling with his winning bream
Phil Carling with the 3lb 5oz bream which gave Crimson Tide the prize of top charter boat and £400 for the anglers to share between themselves in the poole dolphins open bream comp on sunday the 10th May sponsored by Andy at Poole Sea angling Centre. The boat had a total of 100 plus fish with 10 fish kept and all the rest returned to fight another day.
The other side of the channel 13/04/2009
Well we fished the legs earlier this week so we decided to go even further in the fine weather. To say the weather was good was an under statement it was flat calm and wall to wall sunshine lets hope the fishing would match up . We had already decided on our destination but we just had to try one small wreck on the way that we had never fished before, the first two drifts produced 8 fish to live sand eels then nothing for next three drifts so we pushed on. The next wreck paid dividends with fish straight away and all through the tide until slack water when it died. We put on hopper rigs to try for for an unlucky cod , but all the hopper rigs produced were large pout up to 4lb 1oz not bad for a smelly.
We decided to head for home and try the small wreck we had tried on the way, but it was just as we had left it blanco strange seems it had started so promising. The tally for the day 50-60 Pollock up to 16lb and of course the smelly which rolly is holding .
Pollack fishing mid channel 10/04/2009
Fished an area called the Rip's today and to say the tide was ripping would be an under statement it was like trying to fish a washing machine , so we soon put a stop to that idea and steamed south for another 18 miles to find one of Adolph's rusting battleships. With 8 anglers on board we had just over 80 pollack in 3 hours and no "COD" with most of the fish 30-50 turns up in the water which were all were caught on live eels. The weather conditions were fair if you don't include the rain and the ground swell which was making the ships bury their bows in the morning , but by mid afternoon the conditions were great for the steam home.
Fine day on the pollock 01/04/2009
Well to start our day off we had a 25 mile steam to get sand eels which were to be used for bait and certainly ended up paying high dividends. After arriving at the first wreck which was yet another 24 mile steam south of Portland we soon had 41 Pollock on board between the three of us, and in two and a half hours thats not bad fishing i must admit, but that left us with a 42 mile steam home with plenty of time to talk about the day i.e getting on the boat at 7-15am and getting back to port at 11pm,that is one long day.The two in the picture are Tommy Smith on the left and Ronny Lake on the right with some of the catch, with the best Pollock going 13lb 5oz.
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