Bigger tides this time so a change of venue and some more sedate and organised fishing.
Apart from the hordes of pout on the flood the fishing was slow. Fed up with the persistent pout I deployed double pout head and guts to find the first respectable fish........no cod, but a good scrapping eel around 35lb.
More pout followed until I had a better bite on the uptider which fought like a cod to the net. Turned out to be a blonde around 16lb though.
We were fast loosing the flood tide and getting ready for a move to hopefully find a cod on the first of the ebb at a different mark. Just on slack, Dave latched into another good eel and as his neared the surface mine was off again so an eel on each. Managed to get a few close up shots of one along side the boat. The best shot below:
With that the anchor was up and we motored off in readiness for the ebb tide. Anchor down, first time perfect positioning and the rods were deployed once more.
Instant pout found the bait as always until I noticed Dave winding like a loon trying to catch up with what ever was hitting his uptide bait. The result......a fine cod around 13lb laying in the net.
I managed one too about 30 minutes later and not long after that we headed back in.
Another good night and cod fever has set in!
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