[09/02/13 - loch etive - mv cregallan]

09/02/13
Loch Etive - MVCregallan
Weather: Over cast , lightish wind getting cold near end of session
Bait: mackie , squid , kipper , herring , sprat , sardine
Fish Caught : whiting , thornback ray , spurdog , pouting , lsd , poor cod , cod

This trip putting together was a nightmare , it was a work trip out with only 3 guests , but it ended up with 3 short and only myself and Andy from work .

Thank you for Dave , Mike and Mac who filled 3 places and Neilg who had to pullout last min but still paid , a free trip in march for ye bud .
We all arrived roughly the same time , setting up gear while we saw Colin steam up the Loch .
Everyone aboard we headed right down towards the glen etive area of the loch , Al "squid ink" hooked into a thornie and a whiting , not long after andy hooked into a spur , wee brian hooked into a spur then a whiting , while the rest of us stood about .



Wee brian was getting loads of bites reeling up he bitten off once , reeled up again same thing , 7 times he was bitten off . I managed to get a spur followed by a whiting .
I had a good bite reeled into it a fine 8lb spur on a 1/0 hook ,

while unhooking BBrian brung in a spur shouting a net a net ..... i am sure he was thinking about huluo from the kloset bar .......lol...lol.

We moved to another mark , wee brian caught a pouting , i managed to catch a few LSD as did a few of the others on the boat , tiny spurs kept coming aboard .


We headed to another mark where same as last whiting , tiny spurs , Al caught a poor cod with it's eyes blown out , Mac caught a cod and while unhooking it fell right back in a healthy 3-4 lber ...


So a good day out with some cracking craic , 7 species in total
Biggest spur - sultzer - beers
Biggest Thornie - Al - choco bars
Most Species 25 in total" - Al - rigs

Brian shouted Huluo are you one of these , crying o Huluo whereart now :hypocrite


and by god i was starving

[19/01/13 riverside drive , dundee]

19/01/13
Riverside Drive Dundee
Weather : strong cold wind , snow well blizzards
Bait: mackie , herring , prawn
Fish Caught: flounder , coalfish , smelt , sea trout
Well got this urge to go fishing , wife said nutter , txt Brian , picked him up after shopping .
Heading out bang snowing whiteout and by god some are crappy drivers out there , so headed to the wall .


Setting up fingers frozen , casted out and waited , and waited , and waited , i am sure my bait was frozen .
Brian was 1st off the mark a wee flounder , then we had a brew , Brian reeled in a wee coalie , me still blanking , and then came the snow again .


My rod went reeling in it started to snow again , throught the whiteout i caught a smelt ,

Had another brew

then my rod bouncing all over place a sea trout ,

we headed home shortly after .
A cuppa and a big sloe gin .

[13/01/13]

aye they are , but a fish is a fish

[13/01/13]

13/01/13
Riverside Drive Dundee
Weather: sleet , snow , rain all session
Bait:: tesco reduced finest
Fish Caught : flounder , sea trout
Arrived at the wall after txting Brian for sesh there , told him i'll meet him there 1.30 got a txt when i was there just leaving 1.25 typical.
First few cast reulted in 2 micro flounders and a load of weed , even when Brian appeared still weed .
Had a knock thought it was a coalie , but hey a wee trout the smallest i have caught in a long time , returned to grow bigger i hope , this followed by a flounder .

Brian was still blanking even though i told what bait was catching , i caught another flounder.
My rod started to go hooked into another trout brung it in , this was also returned ,

then it went quite , near the end of sesh Brian saved his blanked and his 1st fish of 2013 with a flounder.

[not been on for awhile]

ok i have not been on the site much well practically never for a few years now , this was one of the main forums at the time for scots anglers .

 

well heres a wee vid of my last year trips

 

please feel free to watch my other vids on utube

[loch Awe and Etive]

see you made it back ok norrie

after we left you at lochearnhead we had few trees down at side of road , flooding a few times " my car thought it was boat " plus a few crashed cars.

a good day out apart from weather

[Arvroath 22/05/05 - crap trip for me]

i am trying to find the kandoo as me and my dad worked on the boat when it was in hartlepool my dad has just died and if i can find the kandoo would love to carry out his wishes and use it to scatter his ashes at see.

if you got any old pics of the boat

mail them hear sultzer@blueyonder.co.uk

[Angler Swept To Sea]

Yes but can we make it next summer as its a bit nippy out there now.

scared of a bit of cold then

[riverside drive 29/10/06]

29/10/06

Riverside Drive, Dundee

Wether: Overcast

Bait:Mackerel,Herring/Lug

Fish Caught:11

Arrived at wall seening anglers the length of the wall which is unusual, fisrt cast i caught a flounder followed by my 2nd followed by my 3rd bites were coming in fast, Brian had a double hitter of flounder,

hings slowed a bit but bites were still there Brian caught a codling while i caught a whiting & a flounder , by the end of the session Brian caught another flounder

while i caught another 2 flounder,

speaking to 1 guy near the end must be run on the artifical bait as he told me he bought as well recommended by the tackle shop.

[riverside drive dundee 21/10/06]

not really as the tides will be night for the trout

[riverside drive dundee 21/10/06]

21/10/06

Riverside Drive , Dundee

Weather:fair

Bait: herring/mackerel

Fish Caught: 5

 

Arrived at wall on spur of the moment , just me fishing , escaping for a couple of hours.

Set up just 1 beachcaster , bites were coming in as soon as bait went into water just 10 mins into session a nice trout.

Things slowed down a bit i caught a flounder 20 mins later followed by another . As tide slowed a started to lark around with my spinning rod only used it once before as i am pretty crap at it.

Well my spinning rod went down gave me a shock i reeled in yet another trout,

at same time my other rod was going a flounder on it.

Both trout returned after pics taken.

Brian went out on sun still need to find out what he caught

[riverside drive dundee 13/10/06]

john my locks are growing white thats why i shave my head

norm it was deffo a coalfish - brian thought he had a trout at first

[riverside drive dundee 13/10/06]

13/10/06

Riverside Drive Dundee

Bait: Herring,Mackerel

Weather: Slight Wind

Fish Caught: 12

Arrived at wall waiting on Brian i ate my tea from the chipper.

Brian arrived before i finished.

We started to fish i caught 1st a small flounder follwed by a double hitter 4 mins later, Brian caught a good coalie 10 mins later

folllowed by 2 flounders .

Fishing slowed down but i caught another flounder so did brian after that i caught another 3 flounders while Brian caught 1 flounder not a bad session .

[three sessions this week in sw scotland]

nice report there tack

btw

can you kip there as well cause its pretty noisy at the wall just now

[Anglers net?]

How about a fishing only forum?

i am still psml

[the tack4's head out again]

good report tack

a good fishing report

[arbroath 16/07/06]

16/07/06

Horizon - Arbroath

Weather: light winds , sunny

Bait:ragworm , peeler crab, feathers

Fish caught:14

We left harbour fished fished just straight off it i caught my first cod on first drop.

The boat caught a few as well, second drop i caught a undersized codling boat only got a couple, around 1hr we headed off to east haven where we saw a sea full of creels.

1st drop there i caught another cod followed by Brian's kid with a cod.

I then caught a small ling , Brian caught 2 small undersize codling , then i got tangled with the guy next to me.

Got a shout mackerel , so i snipped my line put a feathers on dropped down caught 1 then dropped down again i caught a ling and undersize codling.

Brian caught a ballan wrasse as well.

We headed back up where i caught 3 sizeable cod all returned and Brian caught a good cod around 5lb.

By this time it was roasting , i also caught a small starfish.

The boats that i saw out were girl katherine 2 , marie dawn , some smaller boats

[sea trout off the beach]

i fish 2 hooks normal flapper rig or what ever you call them in your area , size 1 hooks baited with herring , mackerel strips, on thin tip beachcasters

the tidal run is firece here so if you get a good one great fight.

i am not a fish eater either , but my wife and kids are.

so i do keep the odd 1 or 2.

i keep records and hand them in to the local place for records on how many caught.

but those are crackers of fish you caught TA

hope to see more

[sea trout off the beach]

ta pity about your post great fish

i love catching them

we catch them down here more out of season though.

i release 90% of them the ones i usually keep are the ones who will not make it .

but crackers you got there hope to see more

sultz

[sea trout off the beach]

a great fish to catch

we get a few here during the winter

most of mine go back though but thats down to me no one else

[riverside drive dundee 25/06/06]

there was a lot fishing right opposite tesco but i just took the wee one out due to head nipping.

but yes there are fish

[riverside drive dundee 25/06/06]

25/06/06

Riverside Drive Dundee

Weather: Sunny But Windy

Bait: Boned Kipper

Fish Caught: 1

Took the wee girl on her first fishing trip 1 hour only.

Just to see if my foot healed ok , set up her rod casted out bites straight away but bait was soft.

took her 20 mins to get her first fish .

The picture her very first fish

now thats what fishing is all about.

[how many of you are from NE Scotland (do you fancy a boat hire)]

about 10 of us office wallopers are going out with jim on 6th june for the firts time none of us have sea fished before but are looking forward to it

any tips on what to wear cheers

should be fishing well by then

i was out on the girl katherine 2 last sat caught 15 cod most were size but caught 1 good 1.

also ling , ballan wrasse , coalfish caught

[Catch Report, southend pier 27/4/]

that good must get down there

[Should I Grease My Ball]

Unless of course you have trailer with 'Alko sealed for life' hubs - then you have nowhere to put the grease!

The life expectancy of such hubs (for those who frequently launch into the salty stuff) is not good. They are great on caravans, but I would always recommend the older style hubs with replacable bearings (and grease) that you can do maintenance on.

 

Just my opinion and experience.

 

Bill

quite agree with the older style much easier as you can srtip them down , i always greased the trailer hub not that much but a thin layer so not much grease

every couple of trips with my boat.

my caravan just check it if it needs it .