Tweed 36's and 50's - Sat 16/07/05

[Somethn_Fishy]

Hi all,

Went out the tweed in my new rig on Saturday. headed out at 5.00am and the seas were a bit choppy. Smoothed out the longer i was out there and by 11.00 the ocean was a mirror.

Caught quite a few a squire and some trag on the 36's, got some small pearlies (nothing like in the mags) that were legal but nothing to brag about at the 50's.

Anyone have a problem with the massive schools of Leatherjacket out wide. The little buggers bite through my trace and everything. \

I was also wondering if anyone could tell me what a good school of pearlies look like on the sounder. I have a Raymarine DS600X colour sounder. I read somewhere that pearlies appear as a triangle shped school???

Thanks all.
Rick

[Heath]

Yep, massive schools of leatherjackets all along the coast out wide. They bite at anything, sinkers, swivels damn things.

Classic school of pearlies for you.

[Burley_Boy]

Great shot Heath, should add that to the sounder pages as I think there are quite a few newbies who have not seen them. I've been meaning to get a shot of the pipeline in the seaway too just to show what this structure look like too.

[kevin]

I fished out on the 50s NE Seaway leatherjackets thick like you said bite anything
the only thing that kept us there was the occasional pearlie
Next time I will take a bucket of lead
Not much tide out there Sunday

[Somethn_Fishy]

thanks for that heath,

Don't know if my colour sounder shows a defined triangle like that or maybe i need to turn up the gain??

I will take some shots on a digi next time i'm out to ask some more questions with.

Anyhow - bloody leatherjackets are everywhere. Do i need to head out further than the 50's to avoid them??

any ideas on better depths for Pearlies. Anyone fishing the 100 faths?

Rick