Popular Post GPSguru Posted November 24, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2021 (edited) Today was the lull before the storm, with very strong winds forecast for the next few days. Yesterday the sea was 1.5m @ 4secs and the forecast was for it to slowly flatten overnight and 0.3m @ 5secs today with the wind veering NW - WNW. Well, for a change, the forecast was correct, at 6:00am I checked the local wavebuoy and the sea was 0.53m @ 4.9secs, also the trend was a flattening sea, so we were good to go. It was going to be a morning trip as I had grandad school run duties in the afternoon. My crew was James (Brother in Law) and we launched at 08:00am. I decided to head to the 9Nm wreck that has fished well for me on the last few trips. We made pretty quick time out to the wreck into a 0.5m @4sec head sea at a steady 22knts. Just a rolling swell with no white tops and very little wind. Once on the wreck James went with a pearl white shad and I stuck with the slow jigs. Soon we were both into jumbo pout, every drift was jumbo pout and nothing else ! Mid morning we were joined by another local boat (Endeavour 500) from Torquay who also found the pout, so he quickly disappeared in the direction of the 'Clay Boat' (a 12Nm wreck). James and I decided to stick it out as we only had a couple of hours to spare. A little later a commercial appeared (who I know quite well) and he was surprised that the wreck was fishless. He soon disappeared in the direction of '3 in a row' which is another wreck on the 9 mile line. My take on it is that the wreck had been 'fished out' during the weekend and early part of the week by the commercials. What is needed is a bit of rough weather for a few days and the fish will return. The tally for the day was 17 jumbo pout, so not great, but also not a blank. Pout suffer badly from Barotrauma, so they almost never go back down. James made me smile when he pointed out that even the seagulls weren't eating them, we saw a gull pick one up and spit it out ! We came back in at 13:00, the sea was very flat, and we had a good run at 30knts plus. At about 4 miles out, we were treated to a spectacular display of BFT, which we stopped to watch for a few minutes. It is a long time since I have seen bait fish coming out of the water by 3 or 4 feet followed by a f'off big BFT. Using the bino's, the baitfish looked like a white fish, so maybe Pilchard or herring. The BFT's were in the 300 - 500lb class. TBH, it was a lovely morning to be out there and the total trip was 23Nm. No pics , as there was really nothing of interest because pout don't count ! There is always next time .................. Edited November 24, 2021 by GPSguru mike farrants, Geoff, mick and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 Good write up, pics or no. Plenty of fish aboard too. Top work 👍 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike farrants Posted November 25, 2021 Share Posted November 25, 2021 got to be in it to win it! good write up! id rather be catching pout than sat at my desk GPSguru, Andy135 and Saintly Fish 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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