Cod and Ling aboard Sweet William

Massive thanks to Paul for organising a run out with the lads today, and Craig Barnes.

It started off promising with a run out the piers escorted by a pod of dolphins, a box full of mackerel at the first stop for bait, then a good steam to the first wreck. The weather was incredible, sweltering hot with flat seas, and at some points next to no wind and 0.4 knot drifts.

Tommy couldn't stop hauling out ling every drop, with good numbers of solid stamp cod coming aboard during the same drifts.

The fishing dropped off towards the back end of the ebb and slack water, and then as soon as the flood began the fishing almost immediately steadily picked up again. A minke whale also breached past in a hurry as we were having lunch which was great to witness.

We kept picking away on each wreck until the steam home, and finished the day with a few more mackerel on some inshore grounds before heading in.