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  • 21/01/2011 Fishing Report by Ray Burn on Grey Viking (Brighton, East Sussex)

    21 Jan 2011 by Ray Burn

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    Friday 21st January - Red Letter Day for start of 2011 Wrecking season on Grey Viking

    Well the wrecking season for 2011 got off to an amazing start today aboard Grey Viking, with some of the best early season wreck fishing we’ve ever seen. Today was a speculative trip originally planned as an inshore Cod fishing trip but I decided to offer the crew a go out on the wrecks based on a good weather window and a hunch. Boy did that prove to be a good decision today. If only all days could be as good (I wish) !!

    The distances involved to my chosen area meant we had 5 hours of steaming and 4 hours of fishing, with a 45 minute slack in the middle, so it was a small fishing window. But the crew of 8 (including 5 newcomers to wreck fishing) were up for it, so we went for it!

    Well, we ended up with 27 Cod including a 30lb 3oz monster, a 25lb, 22lb, 19lb and loads in the 15lb to 18lb bracket. Alongside this we had a few smaller Cod plus 3 smallish Pollack giving a haul of 30 fish in total with a total catch weight in excess of 450lb !

    Seven of the eight anglers aboard recorded a personal best as follows:

    * 30lb 4oz Cod – Warren Slatter
    * 25lb Cod – Dan Dice
    * 22lb Cod – Clive Marshall
    * 19lb Cod – Gary Tidd
    * 18lb Cod – Dan Batchelor
    * 18lb Cod Ben Waddington
    * 15lb Cod – Gazza Tidd

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