WOULD YOU BELIVE IT A BLOODY CONGER

[big_cod]

Topic's warming up nicely.

 

The divers will be accused of having boggall eyes next. Let me guess, slow drift over the wreck with bait, rod starts banging away, then up comes nothing, snapped off by a conger, na, not in a million years. Anchoring the wrecks over a full tide, na, it'll never work. Wreck fishing for ling and conger two or three boats lenghts away while at anchor, over a full tide, na, that can never happen. could it.

 

1 divers often get mistaken with ling and conger.

 

2.Who said anything about drifting we are talking about being stationary wind agaist tide and ALL depending just how big the tide is AND the depth of water PLUS the skill of the skipper will know just where to position his boat whether he want his lines to go 30yds in front of the wreck lines to the front of the wreck lines midships or lines to the rear of the wreck or lines 50yds past it with the boat stationary you can put the lines where ever you want them to go IF you know what you are doing and how far uptide you need to be it doesnt take a lot of working out if the lines arent inthe wreck or does it or if you havent got a clue what you are talking about.

 

paul.

Edited August 31, 2010 by big_cod

[Bob Shotter]

1 divers often get mistaken with ling and conger.

 

2.Who said anything about drifting we are talking about being stationary wind agaist tide and ALL depending just how big the tide is AND the depth of water PLUS the skill of the skipper will know just where to position his boat whether he want his lines to go 30yds in front of the wreck lines to the front of the wreck lines midships or lines to the rear of the wreck or lines 50yds past it with the boat stationary you can put the lines where ever you want them to go IF you know what you are doing and how far uptide you need to be it doesnt take a lot of working out if the lines arent inthe wreck or does it or if you havent got a clue what you are talking about.

 

paul.

 

 

Paul like Barry I have been Conger bashing on many occasions and the best results are always with a good run of tide into the wreck the secret is to anchor up tide so that the baited hook can be trotted back towards the wreck but not in to it.. Some big baits to start with so as to get a scent trail into the wreck and once the smaller guys show up send down a decent flapper and the results will be amazing.

Edited September 13, 2010 by Deene'0

[big_cod]

Paul like Barry I have been Conger bashing on many occasions and the best results are always with a good run of tide into the wreck the secret is to anchor up tide so that the baited hook can be trotted back towards the wreck but not in to it.. Some big baits to start with so as to get a scent trail into the wreck and once the smaller guys show up send down a decent flapper and the results will be amazing.

 

Deeno we do all that big flappers in front of the wreck the only difference we dont ankhor but wind against tide is more or less the exact same thing talking to one of the local divers who works at the local boatyard brian who has dived these wrecks of whitby for over 30years what i would call a very experinced diver he was diveing a couple in 50mtrs of water last week he said loads of fish around them isaid any congers he just laughed and said why do you keep asking me that he recons he has only seen 4 or 5 in the last 30 years except on the reefs in shallow water near the shore where the water is warmer cathcing a conger here of whitby is like trying to catch a haddock out of lymington its all down to water temperature you have less chance now than a couple of years ago with the cold last 2 winters we did have a massive pipefish explosion here dureing the mild winters upon till 2 years agao they havent been seen this year at all and this summer there has been a big explosion of red jellys the stingers the cold winter must have given the right conditions dureing spring which would have brought them on again they werent seen hardly at all dureing the mild winters congers dont like cold water that is why they are in abundance on the south coast, wales and up and around the west coast of scotland but there is one fish we have here which the south has in abunace pollock we fished for them on sunday it was as many as you wanted on firetails.

 

paul.

Edited September 14, 2010 by big_cod

[Bob Shotter]

Paul

While I hate to tell a top skipper like your self to suck eggs, from my small experience of the last few forty years, I would have to say holding a boat in the tide using the wind would suggest only a small tide flow into the wreck if any. You will need to stick the pin in having worked out predicted tide movement and wind factor so as to have your anglers bait infront of the wreck with the tide taking the scent of the bait into the wreck at laest 1.5 knots.

Cold water is not the problem as the biggest Congers are from Icelandic waters. The species are very shy so a diver would only find them if they were looking for them.

Tell you what and I have said this before and the challenge remains, we (my good pal Barry L and a few others would like to do a three/five day stint in your festival next year 2011) and the challenge is for just ONE DAY you fish a wreck as we require and if we catch Congers we get a free day if we fail we pay for the day. What have you to loose if we are right you will have learnt some thing which you can then offer to your anglers as an alternative to drifting for tiny Cod, should we fail you can take the P I double S for ever and a day.

[barry luxton]

Paul

While I hate to tell a top skipper like your self to suck eggs, from my small experience of the last few forty years, I would have to say holding a boat in the tide using the wind would suggest only a small tide flow into the wreck if any. You will need to stick the pin in having worked out predicted tide movement and wind factor so as to have your anglers bait infront of the wreck with the tide taking the scent of the bait into the wreck at laest 1.5 knots.

Cold water is not the problem as the biggest Congers are from Icelandic waters. The species are very shy so a diver would only find them if they were looking for them.

Tell you what and I have said this before and the challenge remains, we (my good pal Barry L and a few others would like to do a three/five day stint in your festival next year 2011) and the challenge is for just ONE DAY you fish a wreck as we require and if we catch Congers we get a free day if we fail we pay for the day. What have you to loose if we are right you will have learnt some thing which you can then offer to your anglers as an alternative to drifting for tiny Cod, should we fail you can take the P I double S for ever and a day.

 

Don't forget to Include big ling as well, you can get them on the anchor.

[Bob Shotter]

Bid Cod PAUL where are you. Gone real quiet up north hope it weren’t something I said?

[big_cod]

Bid Cod PAUL where are you. Gone real quiet up north hope it weren’t something I said?

 

So you guys are up for the challenge sounds like you southern boys are confident lets say if you dont catch a conger with the pin down you pay for your trip and keep me in beer for the night sounds like a fair bet to me but if you do then you are allmost sure to be £5000 richer and the last 2 summer comps the lads who have won the big lolly with me they have looked after there skipper very well.

 

paul.

Edited September 27, 2010 by big_cod

[Bob Shotter]

So you guys are up for the challenge sounds like you southern boys are confident lets say if you dont catch a conger with the pin down you pay for your trip and keep me in beer for the night sounds like a fair bet to me but if you do then you are allmost sure to be £5000 richer and the last 2 summer comps the lads who have won the big lolly with me they have looked after there skipper very well.

 

paul.

 

Yep that sounds good I will get the crew sorted and get in touch re deposit or what ever!!!

[barry luxton]

Yep that sounds good I will get the crew sorted and get in touch re deposit or what ever!!!

 

'ere ya go Bob, just want a small to med tide and shall we bring our own anchor? Summer or autumn, don't matter to me.

 

Right folks here's the long awaited festival dates for next year. We will be holding an Uptiding festival next winter but the dates will be posted in due course.

 

Uptiding Festival 2010 - 4th - 12th December

 

Spring Festival 2011 - 2nd - 17th April

 

Summer Festival 2011 - 18th June - 10th July

 

Autumn Festival 2011 - 10th - 25th September

[Brian Carragher]

So what date have you booked?