Signs of the May water clearing – 04/05/13

We managed to get to sea today, following a a few days off with my partner and my new born Daughter, Lily.

We started out uptiding due the fresh winds making conditions a bit shabby.  We moved around a couple of marks, landing 4 codling, 1 coalie, and a dogfish. with quite lot of bites and a few lost fish.

The wind eased and allowed us to get offshore where we managed to get amoung a few codling s to white and blue shads, with us having several drifts with 2 or 3 rods in at a time,

The signs of the algae clearing are certainly there, fingers  crossed for it to stay settled so we can get on to the main summer shad fishing.

Pictured is Mark Storey with a sample of the Codling today