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  • 04/2016 Fishing Report by Kevin McKie on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)

    Apr 2016 by Kevin McKie

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

    On Wednesday we had the lad's from Taskers Angling Liverpool onboard for there first trip to Plymouth. The pressure was on to show them just how good the fishing can be in the English Channel.
    I told the lad's the weather was perfect for Wednesday but Thursday was going to go bad in the afternoon. I suggested we have a very long day on Wednesday then Thursday just fish inshore till the weather turned bad.
    The lad's all agreed to do just that, we started at 6am on Wednesday. We headed out, after a few hours we where at our first mark. From the first drift the lad's where into fish and it didn't stop till the lad's had enough at about 2.30pm. What a first day 64 fish on the boat, Ling to 22lb, Pollack to 16lb and Cod to 12lb.
    On the Thursday we started at 6am and just fished the inshore marks, the fishing started off well then as the flood tide picked up against the east wind the fishing became much harder so we headed in about 2pm. We totalled 21 fish on the boat Ling to 17lb 8oz, Cod to 10lb and Pollack to 9lb. Not too bad for a few hours inshore fishing.
    The lad's still enjoyed the day even though they where still tired from the day before.
    At the end of the two day's the lad's had enough fillets each to start there own chippy ha ha.
    Also on Tuesday we managed a trip to the skerries plaice fishing, three lad's from Nottingham booked the whole boat.
    When we got to the skerries the water was very coloured due to the south east gale's a few days before. The fishing was going to be hard with far from ideal condition's we totalled 20+ plaice to 1lb 8oz, 4 small blonde ray to 7lb, 6 spurdog to 10lb, whiting and dogfish. All on the drift fishing for plaice, we spoke to a few local boat's there and they where struggling as well. One boat said he was out before the south east gale's started and he caught 53 plaice to 4lb. With that in mind we will be having another go for them on the 20th or 21st depending on the weather.
    Here are the next available date's in April,
    Monday 18th whole boat available,
    Wednesday 20th 6 place's available,
    Thursday 21st 5 place's available,
    Saturday 23rd 7 place's available,

    Cheers
    Kev
    Size Matters
    07999628511.

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