Watchet Scoobydootoo

[twilks]

Hi guys just to let you know we are heading out , on scoobydootoo this morning . Looks like the weathers gonna be ideal, and theres a fair heap of cod showing our baits are mackerel ,calamari , dirty squid, and frozen black lugg!!!. ill give you all report later cheers

[MRG2000]

Good luck .... There seems to be plenty of fresh "greenbacks " in the channel at the moment ,so fingers crossed you gatr a good result

[twilks]

Hi guys sorry on the late report,but this week has been madness!!.
We got out with steve on scoobydootoo on tuesday the weather was beautiful and the sea was a mill pond , we had frozen lugg some dirty squid mackerel and some sprat , unfortunately finding somewhere that had fresh lugg proved to be like looking for hens teeth.

We set out for the reef where the cod had been showing which was only a few minutes steam and we were soon fishing , most of the guys were just using standard down tide rigs and one lad was uptiding as well , the first hour was very slow,with only a couple of vague bites, producing no fish , we moved along to another mark on the reef nearer blue anchor , i decided BIG baits were the way forward and was using black lugg and nearly a whole squid on a pennel rig, almost straight away one of the guys hooked into a cracking cod of about 5lb he was real short stocky fish. things were looking up!!, then one of the guys lost a fish after a couple of turns on the reel ,
Eagerly waiting for a nod on the ugly stick in the beautiful sunshine everybody seemed to be getting knocks ...... apart from me!!!! grrr. Under these situations theres only 1 thing you can do!!! , bust out the sandwiches !!!!, always provides some nodding action!!!!... and sure enough half way through my sandwich.. slackline ..... hmmmm a couple of turns of the reel and bang im into a fish ... good ol sandwich!!. .a nice little codling about 2 n a half lbs, a few small codling show up but there older bigger tastier relatives become rather shy, a few doggies turn up , then all goes quiet.

After a while steve suggests we ship out and try n find if theres some early spur dogs about in deeper water, we steam out and its all fairly quiet with a few whiting showing up and a little thornback about 3lb.Then one of the guys hooks into a better fish which baffles everyone by the way its resisting his attentions and it turns out to be a beauty of a blonde ray just over 9lb. with time running out one of the guys runs into a little bootlace , and a few codling under a lb ..

Overall not a great day cod hunting , but didnt blank !! , the weather was beautiful .... and any day spent fishing has to be a million times better than a day spent working!..........
at the end of the month im off to tenerife , hopefully gonna get out on crested wave for a days sport!!! ill fill you all in when i return cheers

[pingu]

sounds good to me

dave

[tjnorton]

Unlucky on the bites but as they say beats a day at work.

tj

[chrismc]

wel done m8 sounds like a good day out

[bulletproof]

Blimey. I thought that name rang a bell. Sailed on Scoobydootoo many years ago out of Watchet to Lundy.

[twilks]

if it was before may 2000 , you probably went out on scoobydoo steves last boat , we sail out quite a bit with steve always a very accomodating skipper and extremely competitively priced for a trip out

[bulletproof]

Just thinking back it was the summer of 2002/2003. We chartered the boat to sail to Lundy for a stag do and to do a bit of feathering en route. A very memorable trip for it's beauty, goats pies in the Marisco Tavern and getting kicked by wild horses whilst trying to stage a game of cricket on the landing strip.