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  • 04/06/2011 Fishing Report by Gary Flint on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)

    4 Jun 2011 by Gary Flint

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    Skipper still hospitalised, so Sean(relief skipper) and usual crew Daz, took the trip.
    Had a group of lads out fishing that had never fished before.
    We went out and dropped the anchor, and straight away some of the lads were into mackeral. While the rest of the lads got there lines out a few of the guys carried on fishing for mackeral with the bait bucket being filled in no time. The guys had decided to do a pool for the first fish and heaviest fish. The pool began once everyone was bottom fishing so while we changed the rigs over everyone brought their lines in and rebaited. Once the pool had began everybody was into Thornbacks, the first thornback aboard was 7lb, so things could only get better.
    As the day progressed more and more thornbacks were caught and the guy who had the 7lb Thornback thought he had won the pool, until one of the other guys hooked into a 10lb Bull Huss and the pool had changed hands again. After the BullHuss was brought in, more and more were caught wih each one getting bigger and bigger.
    One of the group had a wire tope trace snapped by a considerably large fish.
    As the trip went on more thornbacks and Bullhuss were pulled in and the pool winner turned out to be a 13lb 7 BullHuss. With the last 10mins in sight Pete thought he had hooked into the winner as his line was stripped from his reel, althought when he brought it up it turned out to be a 9lb Thornback which was coming up backwards.

    In total over 30 Thornbacks, 22 Bullhuss, a spider crab, 60 Doggies, Couple of hundred mackeral, whiting and Dabs.

    An absolutely fantastic day was had by all and hope to see them again soon.

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