crazy fred Posted April 7, 2017 Report Share Posted April 7, 2017 Rolled up at 5-30 Thursday morning ready for a long day . We had decided to fish the subs to the east , 40 miles plus but the weather is great . We stopped to fish a large bank at 38 miles as we would get the last hour of the ebb . We were plagued with bull Huss which tope were following up to the surface . When we first spotted them I thought they were small sharks in the 60-70 lb mark but no they were tope . The biggest we landed was 35lb whilst suffering plenty of bite offs . As soon as the tide tuned we headed off for the first sub 5 miles away and when we arrived we were straight into pollock , well the two other lads were I never had a fish for six drifts but they were in every time but that's fishing . Picture of sub on sounder . We tried other subs but only had two or three fish on the first drift then nothing weird . We decided to go back and anchor the first wreck to see if we could pull a ling out . On arriving one quick drift to get tide and direction , as the tide was only 1.8 knots I decided to anchor straight away . Well that was a life changing moment steamed well up tide and dropped the anchor straight into the wreck , well I thought I saw 1.8 knots not like the 2.8 that was showing on the analogue . Not such a good start to our anchoring with the thought of cutting off £300 worth of end tackle at the end of the tide . The fishing was good throughout the tide with bullhuss to 13+ cuckoo wrass , congers , tope and pout . Coming up too slack water I winched the rope up tight , straight up and down so it wouldn't wrap in the wreck which might give me a chance of recovering my mess . About 10 minuets into the flood we were drifting , the anchor had just freed itself from the wreck and it was happy days , pull it in quick and let's go home while our luck is in . It was a fantastic ride home with flat seas and a glorious sunset to boot . Best bullhuss 13-9 gjb, Stuie, rich185 and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuie Posted April 7, 2017 Report Share Posted April 7, 2017 Nice session Fred - and a happy ending too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfisher 126 Posted April 7, 2017 Report Share Posted April 7, 2017 Blimey Fred didn't know you had a slim identical twin, you're wasting away!! Good effort on the weight loss and angling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Posted April 7, 2017 Report Share Posted April 7, 2017 OOOOOH ! So o o o o o tempted to post a photo of my Ex. You'd see the resemblance. But I'd be in trouble for something ! ! ! Rob's gonna ask why I keep a photo of her . . . . We use it to scare the flipping trick or treaters away ! ! ! Seriously Fred. Great trip. Jim Happyhooker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted April 8, 2017 Report Share Posted April 8, 2017 Nice one Fred sounds like a great trip and well done for getting your anchor back. We had similar last Sunday, a few fish initially then by about the 6th drift nothing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogfishdave Posted April 8, 2017 Report Share Posted April 8, 2017 Interesting trip Fred, you lost some weight pulling that anchor up!!!!! Kingfisher 126 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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