Really Wrecked S.A.C.
Newsletter number 10: Wednesday 15th of September

And now on with the fishing reports. In the absence of Chris, we booked a couple of trips with Larry Ryan, amiable skipper of Timerlin, which we’ve sometimes shared wreck space with. By the time the first trip came around though, Larry had got himself a new ride, this being Trinitas, a 38’ Lochin, which used to be Electric Blue, the famous Plymouth charter boat.

The weather was pretty poor as we set off on what we hoped would be an eeling trip. The wind was force 3-4 and forecast to rise throughout the day. This made Trinitas roll around quite a bit – more than we’re used to with the boats we’ve fished on recently.

There isn’t too much to say about the trip itself because it was more or less a complete washout. Larry wasn’t used to the electronics on the new boat, so it took an age to locate the wrecks. And for most of the day the wind and tide were pushing in the same direction, so we drifted over the productive areas very quickly indeed.

Despite the fact that there were fish showing over most of the wrecks we fished, we didn’t have a single take. Nothing worked – not ’gills, pirks, Rapalas, baits, nothing. On top of that, it was too rough to get the hook down, so we didn’t have a chance to fish for the eels we’d come for. On the up side, we did lose vast quantities of tackle in the various wrecks we visited, so we had a lot less to lug off the boat at the end of the day.

We moved closer inshore for an hour or so at the end of the day, and slowly drifted another larger wreck (the wind was against the tide by this stage) where Mick picked up a couple of small bream and the rest of us had a few scad on light tackle to remind us what catching a fish felt like. But that was it. Not one of our better days, but then, as some foolish optimist once said, you need days like that to make you appreciate the good ones.

Next section (Trinitas: Monday 11th of October)