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  • 28/03/2009 Fishing Report by fred smith on Crimson Tide (Poole, Dorset)

    28 Mar 2009 by fred smith

    Report on-board Crimson Tide

    The day started with 6 of the most unlikely candidates led by David Fagan. The weather for the day was not favourable with a strong NNW wind and a big spring tide,so we talked tactics whilst they tucked into there bacon rolls and fresh piping hot coffee. We came up with the idea of fishing dancing ledge for early bream or the odd undulate ray ,Well that plan didn’t work all we had was two dogfish so I decided to go 7 miles south to catch the slackening tide and try to fish a wreck. On arriving the wind was howling from the north and bloody cold, after a quick drift to estimate the tide it showed it had eased down to 1.5 knots good enough to chuck the hook in.
    Within 10 minutes we had and lost our first conger then shorty who was 6ft7in tall caught an eel of 46lb which gave us a good bench mark to carry on for the next hour and a half in the tide window. In all we landed 5 eels between 31lb and 46lb and dropped 4 so worth the effort but of all things I forgot to bring the camera so no pictures. We then returned back to dancing ledge to try the ebb but to no avail just the odd dogfish, so while dodging the rain storms we returned to port and agreed that we had had a good day in tough conditions.

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