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  • 15/01/2017 Fishing Report by Ian Dale on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)

    15 Jan 2017 by Ian Dale

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    Hi Guys,

    Happy New Year to you all, hope you all had a good Christmas, and have managed to eat the last of the cold Christmas meats and mince pies that were left over.
    Well it certainly has been a funny few weeks since we wrote our last blog, we seem to have gone from a very mild winter to a freezing one in less than a couple of days, “Brrrrr”!!
    It seems that for us the cod fishing has slowed up somewhat, we have gone from our best day this season of 4 cod boated in a day to scratching around to find one lucky one, in saying that thought, the lone cod we have been finding have been a better size and better quality of fish.
    One of the good points of the inshore ground fishing, is that the congers seem to have declined, I know they keep the rods nodding, but they do get a pain when you aren’t fishing for them and some of the anglers were losing quite a bit of gear with them. Shouldn’t moan really as it keeps them catching!
    We have landed some nice size whiting over the winter this year, some reaching near on 4lb. The whiting fishing this year has certainly blossomed compared to the last few years of many pin whiting. Whiting was on the menu 90% of the time over the last few weeks, YUM!
    Now, the other funny thing this winter, it seems the water temperature hasn’t dropped as much as normal, meaning that our wrecking season has kicked off a little earlier than expected. We have managed to find some nice Pollack out there so far, and we do hope that this will continue well into the wrecking season.
    Come the end of January our winter cod competition will be ending, the leader at the minute is Mark Lennox, with a cod of 18lb. The winner will receive one space on our inshore trips and £100 tackle voucher for Allans Marine.
    We still have some spaces left to be in with a chance of beating this, they are:
    Jan 19th: 4 spaces
    Jan 27th: 4 Spaces
    Jan 30th: 6 spaces
    These trips are £50 each. Please get in touch for details and booking.
    On the 1st of February, our new competition will be starting, this will run until 31st August. This will be for the biggest Pollack caught on board Kelley’s Hero. Likewise to the cod competition, the prize will be a space on one of our wrecking trips for the next season and a tackle voucher worth £150 for Allans Marine.
    The spaces for wrecking over February are:
    Feb 5th: 6 spaces
    Feb 13th: 4 spaces
    Feb 17th: 6 spaces
    Feb 22nd: 7 spaces
    Feb 25th: 5 Spaces
    These trips are £75 each, and again please get in touch for details and booking.
    Our Alderney trips are now filling up, available dates for these are:
    May 4th-7th: 1 space
    May 22nd-25th: 1 space
    June 19th-22nd: 5 Spaces
    July 3rd-6th: 6 spaces
    July 14th-17th: 5 spaces
    Aug 3rd-6th: 4 spaces
    Prices for these trips are £375 per person, Plus your accommodation, you will also be required to pay £100 deposit
    If you would like any more information on any of the trips we have here, please contact us on 07795 538933.



    Tight Lines

    Ian

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