At Last A Day Out

Three days three fishing trips part 2

I had a great Christmas holiday with my friends and family but like all good things it must come to an end.  Once again it's time to get back on the job of fishing.  I had taken a couple of weeks off over the Christmas holidays with plans to get out and do a spot of dangling between Christmas and New Year with my good buddy Capt Tuc on Fortius.  There was no break from the wind the entire month of December. I spent alot of the time wave sailing and surfing so it was a nice surprise to see a little break in the weather

Then came this beauty that weighed 5lb  

I had Wednesday and Thursday off work and the weather was splendid so you know what I did... go fishin. Wasn't able to go either morning but did manage afternoon trips both days, Ormering (see last post) on Wednesday then out banking for flats on Thursday.


Weather always plays a role in fishing, and early season fishing for brill and turbot can adversely be affected by the winds. Wednesday saw flat calm conditions for ormering. Thursday was a whole different ball game.  A slight breeze predicted but very achievable winds unexpectedly came up from now where. 
Guernsey Airport live data was reading North West 5 gusting 6.  It’s been so long since we’ve had an outing we decided to go for it out of St Peter Port. We meet around 12:15 and were setup within 30 minutes ready to roll.  We steamed out to the mark.  Godine bank off Sark can have some nasty overfalls but if you get the timing right they are not too bad. I guess we were tossed about for around ten minutes a drift before being spat out on the other side in relatiely good order. Every now and then we had to run in the wheel house to avoid getting soaked when one would lurk its head on the back deck.     
 I guess they don't look much but these wee beasties in front of Captain T were one and a half metres high and had curling tops, but hey we have survived much, much worse and I have the laundry bill to prove it.

Captain T winkling out a fish in the over falls

It took around 30-40 minutes and the action began on Tucs rod, the rod started going nuts. Very distinct flattie taps. Then came this beauty that weighed 5lb 

Half a fresh garfish makes an absolutely deadly flattie bait in the winter months.

The key ingredients for catching



Our shore fishing exploits for long nose back in November paid off.
Yuck. My fridge smells of fish! (Long nose). I have emptied it, washed it out with soap and water and then wiped it all over inside with anti bac wipes and STILL the smell.  Any tips on how to get rid of the horrid smell please before Jen finds out that I've used it as a bait store!?.