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01/09/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
1 Sep 2025 by Nick Gough
Heaviest Fish Caught in August 2025 competition aboard the Skylark.
Well done to every one taking part it was quite close at times but Harry Shaw was the lucky angler this year.
Winning a £60 Skylark Voucher
And for a 2nd time in the completion history was won on a 3 Fishing Hour Trip.
This year we dedicated the completion in a very close friend's name who sadly passed away early this year and had previously won the competition.
In memory of Ben Mennell -
29/08/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
29 Aug 2025 by Nick Gough
Better fish from today 8 hour trip
Well today started off with two returning anglers who both have held the heaviest fish of the month this year battling it out both have never met, fishing next to each other.
Both fished their socks off today in challenging conditions at times and both managed to get good fish.
Steve beat his previous fish with a cracking 9lb Pollock which is also a specimen fish.
Alan managed to get a respectable 8lb Ling
Unfortunately neither of them beat the current winning fish but gave it a really good go.
Fishing today was patchy at times with flutters of fish throughout the day.
With a few cod and Pollock showing aswel as loads of big pouting, a few whiting, a single mackerel again.
We did see two bottle nose dolphins at the beginning of the trip heading south. -
27/08/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
27 Aug 2025 by Nick Gough
Weather hasn't been kind to us this past week and many trips have been cancelled due to the north easterly winds.
Fishing has been challenging with not many cod and Pollock showing up but every trip we have found a few better fish.
All trips we have found plenty of pouting, a handful of ballen wrasse and dogfish taking the hooks.
Unfortunately we haven't seen a single mackerel in the last week or so. With the inshore grounds becoming quite coloured bait fishing has been key.
All photos are the better fish from the last 2 days.
Our heaviest fish competition for the month has only a few days left now
A 14lb 6oz cod caught on today's trip is leading so far.
Can it be beaten
Competition is in memory of a good friend (Ben Mennell) who actually won this competition back in 2016. -
18/08/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
18 Aug 2025 by Nick Gough
Not the greatest conditions at all today but we took advantage of the neap tides and the anglers had to put up with a good amount of North Easterly swell all-day.
Baited traces seem to take the majority of the fish today with a few taking shads.
Nothing huge today but a good stamp of fish to what we have seen recently. -
14/08/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
14 Aug 2025 by Nick Gough
Started off fishing close to the harbour producing whiting and mackerel
Travelled further afield with the anglers catching a few codling, mackerel, whiting, pouting a tub gurnard (we haven't caught one since 2014).
After fishing for a few hours the tides started to build so we anchored up.
Which produced more cod, a nice 5lb Pollock, a 5lb ling, loads more pouting, mackerel and several lesser spotted dogfish
Wildlife we had several sightings of bottle nose dolphins passing by, the occasional seal and pretty much every sea bird which can be seen this time of year.
Overall today the 8hr trip we turned into a species hunt having a go in the sands aswel which we hardly do.
Overall the customers had 11 different species. The young lad on the trip managed 8 different species himself which is a very good effort.
Overall the customers caught
cod, Pollock, ling, whiting, tub gurnard, mackerel, weaver, pouting, ballen wrasse, lesser spotted dogfish, and a dab
When we returned with the 8hr trip is was a swift swap over and back out again with a 3hr trip
As this pretty much followed on from the first trip catching mackerel, pouting, codling, and a cracking Pollock weighing 5lb 3oz -
13/08/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
13 Aug 2025 by Nick Gough
Today we had a 8hr and 3hr trip
We started off running a few miles and fished on the drift with tides coming onto slack water.
Fishing was steady away catching a few small codling, mackerel and pouting.
As the tide increased we dropped anchor which produced a good selection of better fish.
Best fish today was a cracking 8lb 14oz Pollock caught by Alan.
This fish is the new heaviest fish of the month so far.
3hr trip
We started fishing some rock marks close to the harbour catching a selection of Whiting, mackerel, coalfish, and codling.
Overall everybody caught and had something to take home -
07/08/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
7 Aug 2025 by Nick Gough
First we had a 8hr trip starting at 8am
Winds were quite fresh off land but sea was finally flat after having quite alot of days ashore.
Headed out strait away found a good patch of mackerel with a mix of smallish Pollock showing.
First drift this morning on the Mackerel
As slack water approach we kept moving to try and get back on the fish again.
Best fish today and also taking the lead on the heaviest fish of August Competition was a Pollock weighing 7lb 1oz which is a good start.
Everybody caught something to keep with plenty to put back to fight another day.
On the trip plenty of seals and porpoise sighted.
3 hour trip leaving at 4pm
Was productive from the start with mackerel and Pollock been boated.
Overall everyone caught something to keep with majority of the anglers been new anglers.
Species caught over the two trips
Cod, Pollock, coalfish, ballen wrasse, pouting, whiting, and a weaver, -
27/07/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
27 Jul 2025 by Nick Gough
First trip was a 8 hour leaving at 8am
Fishing was straight away with plenty of plump mackerel coming over the rails.
While fishing we had a small pod of bottle nose dolphins passing by.
Amongst the mackerel we saw a nice selection of cod and pollock also boated with loads returned retaining only the better fish.
3 hour trip leaving at 4pm
As soon as we arrived at the fishing location we had a Minke whale feeding close by.
First drop and nearly all the customers we strait into the mackerel and cod.
We watched the whale move further south across the North Bay we were shortly treated with 4 or 5 bottle nose dolphins heading north at speed.
On all the trips everyone caught a fish. The 3 hour trip is the first one we've ever had were we had whales, dolphins and a huge selection of sea birds flying around. -
26/07/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
26 Jul 2025 by Nick Gough
A very long day for us today 3 trips back to back and lots of smiley faces.
Most of the customers today were new too angling and we managed to get them all a few fish.
Nothing huge but a few better size Cod and pollock.
Mackerel were quite patchy today probably the knock on effect of the recent northerly as some areas were quite coloured but we managed to find a few spots which were clear enough for the lures to work
Today felt like it should have been a species hunt as we had 11 different species.
Cod, Pollock, coalfish, mackerel, ballen wrasse, whiting, horse mackerel, weaver, whiting. Red gurnard,
As well as the fishing all 3 trips managed to see harbour porpoises pass by. -
17/07/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
17 Jul 2025 by Nick Gough
Some of the fish caught on today's 8hr trip
Unfortunately we've been tied up most of this week plagued with strong winds and lumpy sea.
Today wasn't perfect with thick fog this morning which cleared then ran in from south for an hour then went. We also had quite a bit of swell still running.
This wasn't a deterrent for today's anglers who still found loads of plump mackerel, some good size pollock and cod.
Also caught was ballen wrasse, coalfish, whiting, pouting and a weaver. Totaling 9 different species for the day.
As well as the fishing we had loads of wildlife throughout the day with bottle nose dolphins passing by for the majority of the morning, loads of playful seals.
Throughout the trip we also had many species of sea birds buzzing about.
