March

Bad news Diva spent the whole of March tied to her moorings due to bad weather and that ment no fishing.
April has started well but i will tell about that next month.

February

Although its been the worst winter for 30 years February has been good with not to much wind but cold.
Fishing has been good inshore wrecks have been producing Coalfish Pollock, Codling and very large Whiting.
Some offshore wrecks are full of fish.This time we played the waiting game it was over 4 hours before the fish came on the feed and when they did the fishing was awesome.
The best Cod went 11lb 3oz best Pollock 8lb 5oz and best Coalfish 6lb 9oz.
The only regret is that my camera a Sony Cyber-Shot will not work in cold weather yet it works fine indoors?

JANUARY

January had its highs and lows inshore marks are fishing well specially between Oust Rocks and the Craig Laggan Beacon with a good showing of Dabs Whiting Codling Pollock and Coalfish.

Inshore wrecks have been fishing well with mostly Pollock Coalfish and Codling.

Offshore wrecks are full of fish but there not playing the game.With hindsight it may have been better to stay on one wreck and wait until the fish come on the feed rather than keep moving from wreck to wreck in hope to find one were the fish are feeding.

TOP TIP ground bait/swimfeeder
I have just started using my home made swimfeeder,Its a length of drain pipe about 18 inches long with one end blocked off and holes drilled in the side attached to a length of chain and then to 6mm rope.
At the moment its loaded with a sponge soaked in Sardine oil and refreshed about every half hour.
It works very well much the same as in course fishing fish come into the swim looking for food if you can keep them there you have cracked it.
Iv only used it twice but on the last trip 3 of us had over sixty fish then ran out of bait.

December

December has been a good month with not much wind.
The winter fish have arrived with Codling and Whiting in abundance also large shoals of coalfish.
Inshore wrecks are producing mostly Pollock, codling, coalfish, Whiting and Spur dogs.
Very large shoals of very small Whiting in Loch Ryan.
January and February will see the Pollack move out into deeper water.

Merry Christmas

2009 is almost at an end its been a very productive iv spent a lot of time surveying the North Channel for wrecks and now have over 25 logged into my plotter most hold lots of fish and most have never been fished before all within an hours steaming time.
2010 will be the year i will reap the rewards of my effort's cant wait.
As I am chartering full time i now run a policy that i must have a deposit with a booking.
NO DEPOSIT NO BOOKING.
That should take care of the time wasters.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to one and all.