All club members have been looking forward to this trip, which had been planned since last year. 

Off to the Scilly Isle via Penzance. 

We all drove down to Penzance on the Monday and stayed in  "The Beechwood" B & B, (http://www.beechwoodpenzance.co.uk/) where Martin and Dianne gave us excellent accommodation for the first night and provided us with packed lunches for the trip over the following day. On the Tuesday morning, after a good breakfast we were down to the harbour with all our bags and equipment only to be greeted by some very large waves and strong winds, all beginning to doubt if we were going to be able to make the trip over to the islands. The skipper, David Paddock of the "Capriole" (http://www.deepsea.co.uk/boats/capriole/index.htm) decided that we would head out of harbour and if things got to bad we would turn back. Things stayed pretty choppy until we got to Lands End, after that the sea settled down and we were just faced with some long large swells. The crossing to the Islands took just over 2 hours with a strong tide, which helped us along, and we arrived at a mark for some Pollock fishing in the late morning. Using Booms with 2-3mtr traces and Red-gills and Jelly worms as bait we managed to fill a couple of boxes with good size Pollock. As the tide changed the skipper suggested we head closer into the islands onto some flat ground to try and pick up some Plaice and Brill, unfortunately after a number of drifts it looked as though the trawlers had got there before us, no fish and no bites.

We then went back to a bit more "Pollock bashing" and a couple of the lads picked up some nice size Wrasse.

We got into the island harbour, St Mary's, late afternoon and found that our accommodation was within 10mtrs of the boat mooring, right there on the quay side was the "Harbourside Hotel", great rooms and food.

On the second day the weather was still being unkind to us, not only windy with choppy seas, but it started to rain as well. We were forced to stay in the shelter of the islands for nearly all of the day, despite this still managed to get another good haul of Pollock with a few Cuckoo and Ballan Wrasse.

The third and last day was our day to travel back to Penzance and to fish a number of Marks on the way. We started of by heading out to the Bishops Rock lighthouse and fishing a number of the reefs around the area. Here we picked up some of the biggest Pollock of the trip and again managed to fill another large box. After this, and catching a few Mackerel for bait, it was time for some wreck fishing. Here we added a few nice Ling to our bag of fish.

We eventually got back into Penzance early evening; here we stayed again at "The Beechwood" B & B for the final night before heading home on the Friday. 

See photos of the trip here