theguyfulla

you not had one of them big dabs this year laddy ??? shame on you !! stop chuckin that fluff an get out an do some real fishin !!

hi paul welcome to the forum , what type of fishing do you want to do ? if its cod then you will need to go east coast , if your after lsd spurdog thornies etc then the west is your best bet ! plenty up there at most of the sea lochs will give you a variety of species all year round , with even more in the summer months !

hi TT , norrie will keep you right , he,s beginning to get quite good at the etive lark , as for loch awe i,ll send you pm !!

ohhh billy being bad ...would like to see that !!

yep seasons greetings to all at AN hope everyone has a bend in their rod and a slipping clutch many times next year john, first weekend in may i,ll be down whole weekend see you then !!

hi all , had a wee days fishin planned for etive with captain norrie for today, crew was myself, peterthefisherman and as before mentioned norrie ! set off from norries at about 6.30am nice fresh an frosty morn it was ! after an uneventfull drive up towing the boat we arrived at taynuilt slip, we were quite surprised to see the loch flat calm , we were very dubious after seeing the weather reports from the night before ,but on getting out the car we found it was pretty breezy ! but we got the boat ready and launched pretty easily we tied up to a bhoy for our first mark with peter getting into the oll chineese fish straight away , closely followed by yours truely, then peter had a spur of a couple of pounds followed by me and then norrie getting in on the action with probably the best spur of the day which only went to about 3lb (ha ha we bumped you for your 50p ), this was followed by a succesion of whitting and small spurs with peter picking up about 5 spur all in, my self and norrie a couple with plenty whitting to us all , during this time the wind had really found some strengh and with the boat nose diving into the waves we decided on a move to find a bit of shelter next mark was another few whitting , but the wind had decided that we were,nt getting away that easy and started to give us a right good few slaps ! so off again ! we found a wee bit of shelter after another couple of moves where we picked up a couple more whitting and a dab for myself the wind was getting a bit excited in itself by throwing up a couple of crackin water spouts , so we went hidding at our next mark which produced a few more whitting an lsd , an couple small thornies for peter a small thornie for me, more whitting , an with norrie deciding to take advantage of the gently rocking boat an having a snooze , me an peter fished on untill it was just tooo fookin windy ,too hard to stand up, an just not fair because the wind was now throwing stinging rain at us so we decided to get the boat out the water and head home, we retrieved the boat with as little fuss as possible , and off we went ! got to glen oggle when the snow started and it kept going all the way to falkirk ! motorway was white but still passable , but it never lasted long , it was already melting by the time we left norries , all in the fishing was a bit indifferent today , but the craic , an spicy chicken wings made up for it , big thanks to captain norrie for letting me off lightly with the kelpie jokes , an both peter an norrie for crackin company all day !! got a couple pics which we,ll get up soon !! __________________

i wonder what he could have cooked up with 20ft of lovely looking kelp

crackin report there again john know how you feel about that hill the more i fish it the steeper it gets for me aswell it,ll not be too long before your back over , an i,ll pop in an see ya any time i,m down !!

lol thats just john being john everytime hes on davys boat he falls asleep !! .... like the drool though nice capture ,...

aye nice one guys looks like a good weekend was had pity lenny never got his blackmouth , but a cukoo ray was a very good bonus !!

i hear through the grapevipe , that norrie has just popped the cherry of the skate virgin on his boat , had a nice fish of 150lb or so , well done to adeys an well done to norrie

sad news indeed ,

that really would have been a once in a lifetime event !! would have been fantastic to see , crackin pics !!

you,ll find it here very similar to a pouting though different species mailto:aquarium@ukonline.co.uk redfox check your messages

tope were,nt playin ball today john small tides killed the fishin a bit doggies were,nt even feedin !! but had a play around for the small stuff while we were waiting an had nearly 90 wrasse between the 3 of us nothing over 2lb but plenty sport an laughter , i had 4 species of wrasse ballan ,corkwing ,goldshinny an rockcook , with davy takin the honours with 5 wrasse species by adding a couple of male cukoo,s also had pollock ,coalies,lsd,gobys ,poor cod, pouting mackeral (plenty) ,dragonette codling ,an hooked a few infuriating mullet , failure to land mullet , 3 busted rigs, an the hook pulled on another 4 , but would,nt you know it a wee local asked us what we were fishin for with bread told him mullet , so he preceded to blag a bit of bread and would,nt you know it landed a plump 3lber on a set of 3/o feathers !!