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  • 14/06/2011 Fishing Report by Gary Flint on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)

    14 Jun 2011 by Gary Flint

    Report on-board Discovery

    TUESDAY 14th JUNE

    Fished over Liverpool Bay yesterday, with 10 novices and 1 guy who had fished before. Went to a mark and dropped the anchor, the lads began catching mackeral for bait and filling the buckets up. The guy who had fished before decided to stick a ground bait down and go for Tope.
    It didnt take long for his rod to have a few bites then all of a sudden his line was stripped from his reel. Once he had hooked into the fish, and began reclaiming some of his line, we lowered the diver recovery lift so that it was above the water, but still easy to bring the fish in. When the fish eventually surfaced it was a decent Tope. Once on board we weighed it at 35lb. The guys had some photos taken and then it was released for another day.
    After we decided to have a move further out and anchor another mark we have for conger. The lines were all out, when one of the group was shouting "fish on" so myself and Dave went to investigate, we found that he had hooked into a large fish. The fish didnt want to come up and it took 25mins just to get it to the surface. Once on the surface the diver lift was lowered again and the fish was brought aboard by Dave this time. The Tope was weighed in at 62lb, photographed and returned.
    Also caught on the day were Grey gurnard, Red Gurnard, Tub Gurnard, Pollack, Pouting, Whiting, Mackeral. Doggies, Weevers.

    Cracking day and remember these guys had never fished before and were using our equipment.

    Daz

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