30/04/2026
Well today was a right good bummer!!
To start it off the wind chop and very short periods of swell was horrendous and the wind dealt a second hand launching spray everywhere.
I couldn’t anywhere over 5 knots without putting a wave over the bow (the decks had a good wash now)
I decided to go to Pittenweem first and work our way back home adjusting to the wind picking up as we went so indent have to do the trip in one go home. Which I ended up doing anyway as we ended up well past Anster harbour.
But the real bummer was the absolute tank of a cod we had to turn around on to recover an angle after stripped line and ran through the kelp.
I could feel the slight head shakes but not certain enough that it wasn’t the bottom hence deciding to drive back round and reset broadside again to give the braid a fighting chance on double hard ground.
To my surprise Jamie managed to wrangle it out of whatever chaos it created down there but it didn’t float- the 1.7-1.9 knot drift pulled it to the surface where he was met with a short and sweet goodbye and see you later.
By the looks of it the 40g jig was in the top of its shoulder as its fins broke the surface sticking well out the water almost he was sizing us up before a short and sweet scrap ending in some sort of crocodile roll.
At that point the fish was already side on in the current and swell on a 20lb set up so fair play. I don’t want to put a weight on it but easy over a metre and well conditioned.
Caught po***ck, coalies, sandeels, cod (red and green) and even a ling on the pink plastics towards high tide but still on raging fast drifts.
We didn’t convert the sandeels into anything worth bragging about sadly.
No mackerel before anyone asks! Plenty of gannets diving and birds working the shallow grounds but I reckon it was coalies pushing sandeel up.
All in all it was good to get out and see a bit of life again after a real bleak winter.
Big thanks to Jamie and Dylan for tacking the weather and pushing on with the day 🤙🏼
