With the weather being nothing short of brilliant today I had one of my regular teams onboard. We decided to have a go at uptiding down off Robin Hoods Bay. I wasn’t that confident, but the boats that were off wrecking yesterday had struggled so Uptiding it had to be.

We made our way down to robin hoods and got the boat set on one of my favourite spots. No sooner than the lines were in the water and I was into a fish, only for sammy the seal to literally bite the fish in half at the side of the boat.

Well that was a fine start and to put it bluntly the seal stayed with us for the next couple of hours. We managed a few codlings but I always feel when the seal is about the fish will stay well clear of the area, so I decided on a move.

I said “come on lads lets go and have a go wrecking”. It was such a lovely day and on the plus side the water will be clearing fast. We steamed off for about 1 hour, we started on wreck around slack tide and it wasn’t long before some nice cod were coming over the gunells, plus a couple of nice ling.

The lads were all using squid. As time went by you could see the water was gradually getting clearer. Just before we set off for home one of the lads dropped a shad down with no bait on, and bang he went straight into a fish. On the next drift over the same mark, he went straight into a fish again.

This is the time of year when shads seem to really come into play, and with the weather looking nice for tommorow fingers crossed for some more nice fish. The shads will be put to the test once again.