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  • 12/10/2019 Fishing Report by Kevin McKie on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)

    12 Oct 2019 by Kevin McKie

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    [This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]

    The 2019 summer season in Plymouth has now come to an end for Size Matters due to the very unsettled weather over the last few weeks.

    We started the summer season in June this year two months later than normal because we where up in Scotland catch hundreds of giant Common Skate.

    When we arrived in Plymouth we done our first trip of the year to Jurassic Park, catching no less than 12 Six Gill Sharks to around 500lb, the biggest we boated measured and released was 410lb!!

    That was definitely a trip to tell the gran kids about in the future and a trip that we will try to beat in the next few years.

    The wreck fishing on the drift was good from June to the start of August, once the algae bloom started to die and sink to the sea bed the fishing was very hard.

    Wreck fishing at anchor for Conger and Ling was slow in June and July due to the lack of fresh bait available, but in August and September the fishing really picked up with up to 70+ Conger and Ling per trip.

    Sadly we never caught any big Conger this year our best fish was 55lb, we did catch some monster Ling this year to 39lb 8oz a new boat record.

    Shark fishing was very poor from June to July because of the massive algae bloom we had, I got told by a marine biologist it was the worst algae bloom in 10 years, just goes to show how polluted our oceans really are.

    Once the algae bloom started to die and sink to the sea bed in August the shark fishing picked up a bit with our best day catching 19 Blue Sharks on a 23 hour trip and 11 Blue Sharks on a 12 hour trip, this is still very poor compared to previous years.

    In July we had big plans to go well off the charts but sadly the weather put a stop to that so plan B was to try for Thresher Sharks.

    We managed to pull it out the bag catching three Thresher Sharks to 150lb, pulled the hook on two more and missed one!!

    It was great to go and do a trip like that for the first time and learn so much in just a short space of time.

    It was definitely a very strange season not like any we have had in the last four years, the algae bloom didn’t help things either.

    We only seen a few Sunfish this year, in the pasted I have seen 17 in just one day.

    There was no Atlantic Bonito this year and last year you could catch them daily in September and October.

    We only caught one John Dory this year and last year we caught 11.

    This was the first time the wrecking fishing on the drift was over in August normally you can still chip away catching Pollack, Cod and Ling right through the year.

    From the start of August the weather got more unsettled as the season went on, we had so many good trips booked in but the weather put a stop to them.

    Even sailing back to Liverpool now we normally do some fishing but the weather window is too small so it’s 360 miles none stop.

    We are now fully booked from Plymouth for 2020, we have no whole boat dates available in 2021 from Plymouth.

    I have set a side dates in 2021 for individuals, so if you want the chance to fish on
    Size Matters from Plymouth in 2021 here is your chance to book.



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