Mark from Boat Angling Ireland headed out from Larne on Sunday but with the choppy seas and a dodgy tummy on one little crew member, he had to turn back. Monday however was a different day and all the crew enjoyed some good fishing:
With the weather finally settling down I’d arranged to go out Sunday and Monday from Larne. On Sunday I had a friend and his kid and my wee lad Cain with me , with the boat in the water for first light we headed out to Hunters rock to try and get some fresh bait. The forecast had said very light winds but on way out it wasn’t so calm lol after 15 mins at Hunters my friend’s wee lad started to look a bit green so I decided to look for a bit of shelter in behind maidens and see if he would come round but after 10 mins at the Maidens with very little shelter the inevitable happened from then on it was like dominoes with my wee lad sick then mate so after watching them be sick and all feeling sorry for themselves my long awaited day on the water was called to an end at 10am lol. On the way in we passed Rosco heading out smashing his way through some rough water back on dry land there was 3 happy people and one frustrated boat owner lol.
Another early start on Monday with Mike Barrie and a lot calmer. First stop was Hunters again to hopefully get some fresh bait, as soon as we stopped the finder was solid with shoals of coalies and pollock and within 15 mins had more than enough for baits!
With the small tides we headed straight for deep water and anchored up in 315ft of water and down went some fresh coalies on the big rods and mackerel fillets on smaller gear to see what was about.
We had a couple of good hits on big baits in the first hour and baits came back up shredded but no hook ups. In between this we were getting a steady stream of doggies, black mouths and small spurdogs.
After a couple of hours I got another good hit on the coalie bait and after a good fight managed to boat a good tope not what I was expecting but a nice fish and after few photos realeased back. Never measured it but probably around the 30lb mark. After another 30mins Mike got a good run on his big bait and after a long haul up and a bit of huffing and puffing it was another tope of same size.
The smaller stuff kept coming the rest of the day but no more big fish so at about 3 we pulled up anchor and headed back in very happy with days fishing!!
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