Etive competition

[crazymackem]

Hi folks,
I have to put my hand up and say that i was one of the guys who promised to go to Etive on the 21st and failed to attend. I apologise. Consequently the RNLI was done out of my entrance fee. I will send off a tenner to them, a fiver for the fee and a fiver for the guilt! Fact is the good lady got a late booking to the Greek island of Rhodes, and the 21st was her birthday after all. I gained a good holiday but i also missed out.
I hope there will be other days out so i can join in the fun, also noticed the Northeast boys get out quite a bit so when i go down south i might be able to join in, if i,m not imposing.
Cheers for now.

[tompa]

Your more than welcome mate! Only there is a fine to pay for missing the comp, will let you know what it is when we see you ;D ;D

Unfortunately for you I'm a Geordie, So the punishment WILL be harsh!!!!!!

Hope you had a good holiday mate ;D ;D Think I would have rather been in greece,just not with wor lass ;D ;D

[steveb]

hi crazymackem, glad you had a nice hoilday, the £10 donation will be greatfully recieved by the RNLI ,any time you are down here you can come out with us, we are out most weekends and beware the tompa punishment, he's a devient ;D ;D ;D

[crazymackem]

Thanks Steve and Tompa, appriciate the offer and will take you up on it, but i am comfused,Tompa a devient? I thought he was a Geordie.

[steveb]

hi crazymackem, if you are coming down just pm either me or tompa, with a bit notice and we can arrange a day out, and geordie and devient are just 2 of the things that tompa is but i carnt put the rest on ;D ;D ;D ;D

[tompa]

Steady Lad you'll get me a bad name ;D Or should I say an even worse name ;D

[kenp]

Cheers crazy. you helped restore my faith in my fellow Scots ;D, just watch those Geordies if you do go down, realy funny people these Geordies, I know a couple

[crazymackem]

Cheers Ken.
Steve/Tompa. All things being equal i will drive down to that town with the good football stadium but no team on friday the 16th so i will be up for the fish on Sat/Sun. Can confirm at later date.
cheers for now Oh, bye the way wifey made some mutterings about "will you be going alone or can i come". Whats the score on that?

[steveb]

hi crazymackem , if you missus wants to come then let here , we dont want any fighting at home , if you can let me know if poss by atleast the mon/tue 12th/13th then we can sort a venue and bait. would you be ok to fish rough ground or would piers and / or beaches be better

[crazymackem]

Hi Steveb,
I,ve got the gear for most situations, it,s the experience i,m missing., but if wifey comes i think we should stick to piers/jettys etc.
I,m due home on Tuesday 13th and i will have a definate yes or no for you.
Cheers for now.

[tompa]

Hope to see you and the missus down here crazymakem, Will be good for your sole to fish home turf again ;D
Look forward to meeting you both ;D

[crazymackem]

Cheers tompa,
We have had buckets full of fog over the past four days out here (61NM n/east of Peterhead) but hopefully it will clear by Tuesday so I will be in Sunderland on Friday night ready to fish Sat. or Sun. looking forward to it. Hav,nt got my mobile at present (In cabin) but will mail the number tomorrow. Bye the way, do you get your bate individually or does someone get the lot and every pays up?

[steveb]

hi crazy, the sunday would be a better day for us as one of the lads is having his wedding do on the sat night + it will give us time to sort bait out, me and markzapper get ourbait together and tompa gets his own , you can either get your own ( if you want ) or we can get it for you, will need to know as soon as so we can order it, we were thinking of taking you to south shields pier as its an easy platform to fish off , there are a variety of things to catch, and the parking is easy at £1.50 per day, we will be aiming for plaice and flounder, but there is a possibility of coalfish and codling on the inside of the pier, but its heavy ground and tackle losses can be high, there is also a possibility of mackeral at the end, to hokeye's and daylights, main bait will be ragworm with either squid, mackeral or crab to tip it off, are you a compident caster, just some parts of the pier there is rough ground close in and a cast of 70 yards will put you clear of it, will put the meeting time on later once i have a look at the tides, here is a map of where to meet on the sunday morning

the meet is at the carpark at the base of the pier

[crazymackem]

Hi, Steve,
Thanks for the info.
Myself and the good lady are looking forward to meeting you and the rest of the lads, Sunday will be fine. I will order our own bait on Friday when we get down there.
As for throwing the lead out, well i have just loaded with 15lb line and 80lb leader and i hav,nt used it yet. Only ever used 35lb straight through from my local rocks,casting little distance, so you may be in for a laugh. I wiil also bring a light weight rod (3oz) which i like for the flatties. Catch one on this rod and you think you hooked into jaws!
We leave early Fri. morning so I had better give you my mobile number as there will be no more "E" mail contact once we,ve left home.
Cheers for now,
CM

[tompa]

Crazy mate I fish 30lb staight through and can get past the weed etc!!!
My casting aint up to much either, so you should be Ok!!

If not I promise not to laugh..............much!!!

See ya Sunday man ;D ;D

[steveb]

hi cm, got your mobile and deleted it of the site just incase crank callers, except for us cranks ;D ;D. looking at the tide, low water is 3 in the afternoon, was thinking of meeting at about 1.15 in the afternoon and fish till about 8 or 9 at night, so we will be fishing about 1.5 hours down and then back up , with high water about 9ish and hopefully a flat sea there might be one or two mackeral around, will ring you closer to the time to make sure everything ok

steve

[crazymackem]

Cheers Steve/tompa,
Sounds good to me. We will be in a dark blue funny looking italian moter called a "Multipla"
so you can keep an eye out for us.
Don,t know about managing 70 yards but my missis gets more fish than me. That might tell you something. I take it for granted that the thermos and a bag full of Stotties is par for the course.
See y,all on Sunday.
CM.

[tompa]

Crazy, also take some water mate as we are having some unbelievably hot weather at the moment!!
A hat and some sun cream may be handy also.

[steveb]

that sound like the kiss of death now mr t ;D

[tompa]

Yep it certainly does, doesn't it
Better fetch a brolly aswell then crazy ;D ;D