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  • 02/2019 Fishing Report by Kevin McKie on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)

    Feb 2019 by Kevin McKie

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    Size Matters has now moved to Croabh Haven Scotland, we will be here till mid June mostly targeting Common Skate.

    We do have much bigger plans while we are here, when the weather allows I will give everyone the option of fishing the many reefs and wrecks offshore over 40 to 60 miles out.

    For the more adventurous anglers I will give them the option of trying for sharks and even trips out to the continental shelf on 48 hour charters.

    I have May 2nd and 3rd whole boat available this would be the perfect opportunity to head out to the shelf for a crack at a six gill shark or god knows what else lives out there.

    Just in case you are wondering how we will get the anchor down on the shelf we have 2300ft of rope onboard and 100ft on chain especially for these type of trips.

    On the trip from Liverpool to Scotland we struggled to catch anything on the wrecks and broken ground marks off the Isle of Man.

    So we got a heads up from two of my mates to try a mark off Port Logan for skate bait, thanks lads.

    Before heading to Croabh Haven Marina we decide to try for a Skate because the weather was so nice it was more like costa del Scotland then normal Scotland.

    No wind and the sun was out, in just 3 hours fishing we had 4 Skate 191lb, 190lb, 178lb, 170lb and dropped 2, we even had a treble hook up with just two of us on the boat, that was fun.

    The new Shimano Tyrnos 80lb class stands up sticks and Tyrnos 30 twin speed reels have cut the fight time down to 20 to 35 mins, this is much better for the Skate and angler.

    I got lucky with the biggest and it had a data tag on it with a £50 reward, nice little Scottish sweetener or a welcome back present from the Skate gods ha ha.

    We have arrived early so we have a few dates available this week.

    Available dates for Scotland 2019.

    MARCH,

    Friday 1st 3 places available £110 pp.
    Saturday 2nd 2 places available £110 pp.
    Sunday 3rd 2 places available £110 pp.
    Tuesday 5th 1 place available £110 pp.
    Sunday 10th 1 place available £110 pp.

    MAY,

    Thursday 2nd Whole boat available.
    Friday 3rd Whole boat available.
    Thursday 9th 1 place available £110 pp.

    Please note all top of the range Shimano tackle is included in the price and you can fish from dawn till dusk.

    Thanks
    Kevin Mckie
    Size Matters (Scotland)
    07999628511.

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