Latest Fishing Reports: Highlands and Islands
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05/2022
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
May 2022 by Paul Timoney
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Yesterday we headed out for what was to be Marc’s last day fishing, and what a day it was! We didn’t have long to wait until the first hookup happened, then throughout the rest of the day the fish kept coming and coming. He hardly had a break between bringing one fish to the next up ��
By the time we decided to head in he had landed an amazing 11 skate, With sizes from 201lbs to 98lbs! A total weight of 1720lbs raised from the deep ����. This equalled his last Pb of 11 fish to the boat in a day, what an effort!! I can defiantly say there arnt to many people that could achieve this, well done ������
Some news about dates.
Below is some skate dates, dates for a shark trip, wreck trip, conger and tope. We’ve picked these dates according to tides and times that we think will fish the best.
Tope trips will be available from the 1st September to the 18th
If your interested please get in touch.
May:
16th, 3 spaces
20, 22, full boat available
23rd, 2 spaces
30th, full boat available
June:
5th, 4 spaces
6th, 2 spaces
7th, full boat available, conger trip
9th, 5 spaces
10th, 3 spaces
11th, full boat available
13th, full boat available
14th, 4 spaces
15,16,17th, full boat available
20, 22,24, full boat available
28,29th, full boat available
30/1st, 2 day wreck trip with overnight gigha stay
July:
6/7th, 2 day shark trip to NI with overnight stay
22nd full boat available, conger trip
More skate trips available July, aug, sept please enquire.
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05/2022
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
May 2022 by Paul Timoney
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With some good weather continuing so has the fishing. A couple of slower days and 3 days of much more productive fishing with the fish coming fast. On Sunday we had to stay out much later than usual to ensure 6 fish made it to the deck. Bait pests a plenty, crunchers, seals, spurs and starfish today!
We’ve had some great laughs with old friends returning to the boat year on year �� and of course good to meet new people too.
Skate up to 199lbs recently with only 2 smaller fish mixed in giving an easy 170lb average size.
We’re almost fully booked for this month with only one day to spare. Looking forward to returning to our highly productive fishing grounds at the end of the month �� View Boats Page
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04/2022
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
Apr 2022 by Paul Timoney
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At long last a decent spell of weather, sun in April in Scotland is rare! Clam conditions have certainly helped the fishing along. ����
No 200s in our last set of trips but had them right up to the wire @ 199lbs.
Fishing north has seen a consistent average size over 170lbs and going south sees the most fish caught in a shift ��
It’s been great to meet some new people and see old friends return to the boat for some more skate action. I would certainly say young jack being the star of the show, hauling several skate to 193lbs!
One of the days with only one customer aboard Graeme managed to up his PB to 190lbs when ally kindly passed the rod onto him, and in true fashion landed it with no butt pad or harness ��������
If you would like to join us for some fantastic fishing and a great day get in touch.
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04/2022
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
Apr 2022 by Paul Timoney
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A few pics from our recent trips, some more big skate up to over the magical 200lb mark, and some pics from some species hunting. So far this year we’ve had skate, black mouth dogfish, LSD, spurdog, mackerel! Coalie, dab, whiting, pollock, herring and grey gurnard and cuckoo wrasse.
Unfortunately we won’t be out this Easter weekend due to the wind but as always we’ve spent some time at home prepping. Dinghy checked for our summer mooring, 3lb lead’s made and a new capstan prepared for installation to assist anchor recovery.
Happy Easter everyone, enjoy the holiday.
Here are some further dates/ spaces for this month and next.
April:
26-27th full boat available
May:
16th full boat available
19-20th full boat available
22nd full boat available
30-31st full boat available View Boats Page
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03/2022
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
Mar 2022 by Paul Timoney
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Good to see some nice weather and as usual the fish are flying in! Settled conditions always make for better days at anchor in the sound ��☀️☀️
So far this season on the limited days we’ve been out we have boated 4 fish over the magical 200lb, one of which coming in at 216lb! Exactly the same as our old boat (Seadog 1) boat record, but we will definitely take that! And well done to Sean taking that fish as his first ever skate, top effort ��. There has also been lots of other large skate putting the boys thru there paces ☺️��
We would like to announce that this year we will be taking a couple of 2 day trips in summer across to NI in search of porbeagle and thresher so look out for dates. There will also be a chance to come aboard for a 2 day wreck trip, again we will have some dates for this soon too.
Here is our current availability for the next couple of months, mainly targeting larger skate, as always good quality tackle and bait is provided on all our trips.
April:
5-8th full boat available
12&13th full boat available
14th, 5 spaces
15th full boat available
19th full boat available
22nd full boat available
25-29th full boat available
May:
6th full boat available
16th full boat available
19&20th full boat available
30&31st full boat available View Boats Page
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05/03/2022
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
5 Mar 2022 by Paul Timoney
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At last a proper shift in the sound. We were graced with calm seas and some sun, and some skate. We were off to abit of a slow start with the fish not feeding but by the time we hit full time 4 fish had been landed at 157-196lbs. The guys worked hard, checking baits, defecting the bait Pests and walked away 3 happy men. Here’s hoping for some good weather in the near future so we can keep at it ����
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25/02/2022
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
25 Feb 2022 by Paul Timoney
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A couple of nice skate for the lads on Friday. And finally put a bend in the new rods. The day started off great with calm seas and Graeme dropping the anchor right on fish. Unfortunately the weather turned for the worst so headed in early.
Tuesday has a perfect forecast (all day!) if anyone’s interested in a trip get in touch ASAP. View Boats Page
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01/2022
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Jan 2022 by Kevin McKie
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Well what a first day that was yesterday, the lads fished there socks off catching and returning 33 Common Skate for a total of 4883lb!!!
They had 5 Skate over the magical 200lb mark with the biggest measuring 215lb, the lads also had four quadruple hook ups!!!
Just shows what you can do using the best possible quality tackle, harnesses and bait.
I have a had a few cancellations in the last week so here is what’s available if you would like to join us.
FEBRUARY
Wednesday 2nd Skate fishing £110 pp
6 places available 7am sailing.
Saturday 19th Skate fishing £110 pp
1 place available 7am sailing.
Sunday 20th Skate fishing £110 pp
1 place available 7am sailing.
Monday 21st Skate fishing £110 pp
1 place available 7am sailing.
Tuesday 23rd Skate fishing £110 pp
6 places available 7am sailing.
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Craobh Haven)
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01/2022
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Jan 2022 by Kevin McKie
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Size matters is about to embark a 235 mile steam from Pwllheli to Craobh Haven in Scotland, on its last leg as a charter fishing vessel, as always we don’t do anything by half’s!!!
90 days, 90 nights, 90 charters, no days off, this is not day sailing or pleasure boating this is Skate fishing, Scottish Skate fishing, what we like to call earning a living!!!
If you have followed Mckies Fishing Charters for the last nine years you will know when it comes to putting meat on the deck Size Matters is the boat that achieves this with ease in any port it visits.
If you are booked on with us in Scotland then you are very wise and know where your bread is buttered when it comes to Skate fishing.
We have just a few individual places available if you would like to join us in Craobh Haven to fish for Giant Common Skate, White Skate and Blue Skate.
All top of the range Shimano tackle is available free of charge and we also have 3 Black magic harnesses available free of charge, this makes catching up to 37 to over 200lb per day a walk in the park for anglers even in there 70s!!
When you have the right tackle fighting Skate you can have a cup of tea, eat a pot noodle or read a fishing magazine, we like to make sure our anglers are very comfortable when fighting Scottish monsters!!
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Craobh Haven)
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12/2021
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Dec 2021 by Kevin McKie
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The end of 2021 is upon us, here is a recap of how the year went onboard Size Matters.
In January we only fished the first two days on the Mersey and the fishing was terrible to say the least.
As lockdown approached we had no option to stay in Liverpool Marina because the lock gates where being taken off till May for scheduled maintenance.
So we decided to get the boat to Scotland as we where fully booked from mid January to April, sadly we never managed to get any charters on in Scotland as the lockdown just kept extending.
We did manage to catch a few Skate while we were in transit and dropped the anchor for a few hours with the biggest at only 197lb, it was a shame we didn’t get to do any charters as the fishing would of been excellent.
Our biggest issue now was finding a port to fish from, Liverpool marina wasn’t ready till May and reports of the lock gates still being faulty made us look elsewhere.
We tried Plymouth, Falmouth, Newlyn and Milford Haven they where all full for any vessel over 12m, then we tried Pwllheli and got a berth from April 1st.
Now I personally hadn’t fished from Pwllheli for over 18 years, but I did have all my old fishing marks, we had our work cut out for us as we never planned on operating from Pwllheli.
Thankfully the fishing marks I had still held good numbers of fish and at the start of the season we went wreck hunting up to 70 miles from Pwllheli this paid off massively as the season went on.
The Tope fishing was excellent from April to June, we had some fantastic Tope fishing with the biggest measured at 67lb, with these big pregnant female Tope we think it’s best to measure them than weight them.
The wrecking was excellent from mid April to mid November with massive catches of over 200 Pollack to 15lb 6oz, we also had Cod, Coalfish and Ling as well.
The Bass fishing was ok from July but the best month was November it was outstanding with massive catches of over 200 Bass per trip.
We also done the first ever 10 day live aboard charters from Pwllheli, these trips where designed to give anglers a chance of going where no other charter boat in the UK has gone before to catch what no other charter boat has caught before.
On three of the 10 days live aboard charters the lads managed to catch Tuna to 620lb, Six Gill Sharks to 548lb, Porbeagle Sharks to 227lb, Blue Shark to 108lb, Blue Skate to 28lb and all manner of different species.
The highlight of these trips is the amount of Six Gill Sharks out there we had 32 in just 3 days fishing, also we hand fed Tuna to over 700lb, seen our first Loggerhead Turtle and a few hooks got straighten on fish we never got to see.
The plan now moving into 2022 is to get the boat to Scotland in January to fish till April for Common Skate, White Skate and Blue Skate, this all depends on the next Scottish government announcement on January 7th.
If is bad news from the Scottish government then Size Matters will be going to its new owner and everyone booked on for Skate fishing will be given a full refund.
We would like to thank our sponsors Shimano UK and Gerrys of Morecambe for there continued support.
From everyone at Mckies Fishing Charters we would like to wish you all the very best for 2022.
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Pwllheli)
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