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 !!

i,ll be there..... tomorrow !!

well the oll codger won the fish of the week in our daily rag up here well done "captain norrie "

crackin report an pics again john , pity them tope were,nt playtin ball just means i,ll have to go get em this weekend !! whooo hoo

what a monster! lol but on another note thats about the same size as some of the bass some neanderthals are killing up here at the power stations to sell to the chineese restraunts !!

any body thought it could have been something that had taken the bass

just got a text from snacher there , he was going out for a spot of fishin last night , but got as far as his steps on the caravan an had a wee tumble he,s fractured a couple of ribs , so thats the end of his fishin for the week ! one plus point though he cant drive so he,s got to stay at the van untill fit to drive

dynon 3000 , best in my opinion , but useing braid over mussel beds could get a little more expensive than casting and birds nests , under load braid has very little abrasion resistance and will go if it has caught on any rocks or mussel , but again the only way to find out is try u might be surprised , you also have to be super smooth in your casting style !!

i,ll see you sat at some point john , gonna be down early for a pop at a morning tope an then chasin the bass all day an evening , will, be doing the "boy scout " thing so gonna be mobile back up the road sun/mon??? depends on the fishin , will be back down next weekend also , out with ian on the sunday so will be down on sat , just because les is there mind !!!!!

aye got a call from davy who passed me on to norrie to say he was a wee bit excited was an understatement !! even more of a gibbering wreck than normal , well done to norrie crackin fish

crackin report as usuall john just a pity the silver bars were,nt playin but i,m glad you left some tope for me on the sunday gonna be down again in a fortnight so might get another sesh in !!