Phillip many thanks for the kind remarks!

Cheers Mark

@@shorefishingessex No worries, wouldnt mind a bash at that myself! Looked a great trip!

Barnfield Fishing thank you, I used to see the massive cod in the angling press from the Yorkshire coast when I was younger, they've all but disappeared in the South, hardly any decent cod get reported in Essex these days, sadly. I hope they remain to be caught up North. I will check out your content, all the best.

Dave Seamark thanks, we did take our fair share for the table & to give to the lady in the guest house but we also released lots to fight another day, it's a good feeling to see them swim back down.

i get a buzz releasing as much as i get from catching :)

Wish I was back there now!!

lozzfish thanks!!

leakproofj20 thanks!

neil hellens Lol!! thank you.

Les Thankyou my friend!

No worries, thanks!

Tom thank you!

Fazbats cheers!

Doug Thank you, The lady in the guest house cooked our fish!

Give it a go!!

Gary thank you!

I was thinking of that place just the other day Phil!

@@shorefishingessex dont know what is like today , but was the dogs back in the day .

Robbie thanks my friend.

Glenn Mcloughlin, I'm going to Norway next year!!

Cheers Phil, it was!!

Lol Julian, glad I got to fish in the Shetlands with him as I think he's going to concentrate more on the marlin & tuna in the Canaries from now on.

Genine Curtis it wasn't but it was worth every penny, I've always wanted to go to the Shetland Islands, it's a magical place & I'll definitely be going back!!

Thanks Steve, good luck with your April trip, I must say I'm a little jealous!! I will definitely make my way back up there one day not just for the fishing but for the overall experience, thanks for the helpful tips too, all the best my friend, Paul.

Smokey Canopy outdoors thanks, and some of the fish were too!!

Bell D I wish it was a shark!! It was a Grey Seal, they are massive!!

Lol!!

william thank you, My friend actually booked it all up so I don't have the details to hand but I'm sure John Keggie is on facebook, his boat is called Yell Rebel & he fishes out of Cullivoe, if you search around you should find his details somewhere, he usually spends the winter marlin fishing in the canaries but with this pandemic I'm not sure what he's up too at the moment, good luck!

Charlie, this skipper only fishes Shetland during the summer months usually so I would say when I went in June is a good time, although he said in May they caught even more fish, larger too!

Chris I could find out who made it & yes the trip was wonderful, nothing beats fishing with your pals! I'm not one for explaining the tackle & tactics, I think there are so many people out there doing that sort of thing better than me so I leave it to them!

David Storton thanks, nice to hear from you, who's stopping you driving? The missus or the law?!!

I know the feeling. If I hadn’t had all my computers seized and banned from the internet I’d be arranging this trip too.

Peter the skipper should advise you better than us but we were using 30-50lb class gear jigging with savage gear 460 gram cutbait herring in a variety of colours, the skipper also had 3 hook traces that he made up out of red tubing that accounted for some decent fish, we also caught on live & dead coalfish & fresh mackerel when we could get them, I'm sure everyone's opinion differs but take a range of tackle to cover all eventualities, cheers!

@@shorefishingessex thanks👍

pj Collins yes, this was Dave Elliot's boat & he sold it to Keggie, strange thing is, I caught my previous pb cod of 18Ib on this same boat out from Newhaven over a mid channel wreck on a whole cuttlefish!! You couldn't make it up but it's absolutely true!!

@@shorefishingessex i went out on this boat had some brilliant days out on it pb cod 20 pound and 80 pound conger had some good tub gurnards aswell dave knew some good marks he was a good skipper has he packed it in now?

@@pjcollins1885 I've had some great days out with Dave in the past but unfortunately I've heard he's not in good health lately, which is a shame, I remember when he was learning the ropes way back in the 90's aboard Nikaria skippered by Chris Martin, I had my pb conger of 65Ib back then, we used to steam right across the channel to the French side & stay a couple of nights in Fecamp, good old days!!

Jan that was a grey seal, a massive creature & a privilege to see in it's natural environment.

Mark yes, apparently our few days up there wasn't the greatest according to the skipper!

@@shorefishingessex OK....so I know where we are going to fish next. Thanks

Too much grief in the comments plus a life changing event resulted in some rash decisions!!

@@shorefishingessex Aw never! Hope now all is well? and don't take any notice of the "keyboard warriors". Some folk have nowt better to do than twist about other folks.

Lol Robert I've been out with some grumpy skippers in the past, I don't mind so long as they put you on the fish, we've also had a couple of blokes in our group who used to go green with sea sickness, it can't be nice but I'm glad I don't suffer with it, all the best pal!

In fact there were a few nice fish there now I finished watching the vid. That was the business.

@@branchinghenk thanks, I generally do like to take fish home to eat but we had already taken a few back to eat at our digs so we started releasing some of the fish that looked fit to go back, I know what you mean though, I would like to have seen the fillets off of that! All the best pal.

live let liv lol!! They didn't all go back but the fella who caught that 32lber is big into his catch & release so it was his decision, that would have made a few nice meals but hopefully it will go and make a more cod!!

And how do you release the air bladder? Are you suggesting we should have pierced it? That would definitely kill the fish! if you believe that piercing the internal organs of a fish that has blown it's innards will survive when you throw it back, then you are seriously deluded! Fish in that state will definitely die & throwing them back with a hole in their swim bladder will not help in any way whatsoever! A lot of these fish were not caught in very deep water & their condition onboard dictated whether we released them or not, of course if they had blown their swim bladders & their eyes were bulging we would have kept them for the table. I'm not misguided enough to say that every one of those fish thrown back survived but we had a well respected & very experienced skipper guiding us through our actions, if he had said that a fish had a chance of survival on being returned we would have taken his advice & I would trust his professional judgement over an ill informed keyboard warrior with ideas firmly rooted in the past.