Well whatever the reason only two boats and 6 anglers turned up for this comp which was switched from a Ray comp to be fished at laxey bay to a heaviest cod comp fished in the port Grennaugh area. The back of douglas head was the 1st port of call for some bait and it did not take long to obtain both Launce and Mackie.
Off we went and it has to be said what a glorious night to be out on a boat doing a spot of fishing for Cod in good company. Merit 1 with 4 anglers onboard were straight into fish at P/G whilst Kirsty 111 with just me and Skip emmo onboard found the going to start with a little slow.
With us all fishing for Cod i decided that the side pool with emmo would also be for the heaviest Cod. Hey presto my rod bends into action only for it to be a small Pollack, next up i have a Cuckoo Wrasse followed by my 1st cod but to my disgust the skipper is to slow with his new net that the fish slipped off the hook at the side of the boat much to the joy of Micheal.
However on the very next drift i did get another cod on and this time it was landed safely on to the boat , a fish of about 1.5lb . still no sign of any fish on Micheals line yet so to add insult to injury i then landed a ling of about the 5- 51/2lb mark,good job i had not said it was a species comp .
both boats decided to move to the outer P/G mark which can be quite productive and it was, as soon as hit bottom i was into a cod of about 3lb with Micheal not far behind with one of about the same wieght, merit 1 were also getting cod and Paul Graham had 2 in quick succession and on the next drift on this mark i was into yet another cod as were Merit 1.
With each drift we seemed to less fish and i then hooked into another Ling which was of keeper size. With this late floursish the time ebbed away and it was time to head for home and the wiegh-in .
Back on dry land and i got the scales rigged up we found that the results were as follows
1ST PAUL GRAHAM COD 4LB 11.5OZS
2ND JAMIE HINCHLIFFE COD 4LB.10.875OZS
Congrats to Paul on his win and to me for getting another of my £'s back off Micheal, still 5 down though.
A few pics of our wednesday night outing
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