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  • 26/03/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    26 Mar 2025 by Simon Logan

    Wednesday 26th March��
    Day one of the Sandford Police Dept (Hampshire) po’po, 5-0, rozzers…. etc. 2nd annual Eastbourne Social �� ��‍♂️ ��.
    2 boats, 12 suitably warranted blokes, armed with half the ragworm in the south of England. One of them happened to be recently retired Patriot Charters skipper Alan Jones - no pressure there then.
    Offshore day. Absolute pea soup as soon as we left the marina. Radars on. Eyes peeled. Couldn’t see diddly squat.
    A slower that usual steam out to the shipping lanes for species hunting. Stopping off at a wreck to snag half a dozen pollack on the way.
    We waited until the fog had lifted somewhat before dancing with the big container ships in the lanes. 30 metres of visibility and fog horns sounding all around you tends to give you a bit of nerves.
    The dense fog hung around until lunchtime, then it got hot (fuzz).
    A few species onboard today, across 3 terrain types - wrecks, banks and reefs. The best fish came from the rocky bits.

  • 25/03/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    25 Mar 2025 by Simon Logan

    Tuesday 25th March ��
    6 onboard. Lures on the reefs. *GREAT FORECAST*
    Well, the forecast was completely upside down from yesterday when sorting the trip out. It was awful out there, the wind from the west was blowing hard, tide against had white horses all around us. The wind was stronger than the tide, so drifting in the flood direction on the EBB tide had lures dragging round everywhere.
    Anyway…….. half dozen codling, more pollack, a fin perfect coalie and a load of wrasse - including a bloody stunner

  • 23/03/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    23 Mar 2025 by Simon Logan

    Sunday 23rd March.
    3 guys 1 boat….. and me��
    An ‘inshore’ trip on the reefs (to 7mile).
    Drifting then anchoring (still anchored now but not sure there’ll be much more to write about).
    Several pollack, including a double shot to Agelos, a few codling, wrasse and then dabs, doggies, whiting….
    Flat calm at sea, with a bit of drizzle throughout the morning. I even broke out my new waterproofs.

  • 22/03/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    22 Mar 2025 by Simon Logan

    Saturday 22nd March.
    7 onboard, slightly later pickup to allow the sea to settle from last nights forecast.
    Straight out to the reefs this trip. Pollack, mackerel, herring and lots of stunning Ballan and Cuckoo Wrasse.
    The first DOUBLE figure pollack off the reefs for 2025. This beaut came in at 11lb 7oz ��.
    The waters are clearing, the fish are returning.
    Love to see it…..

  • 20/03/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    20 Mar 2025 by Simon Logan

    Thursday 20th March.
    7 crew, stunning conditions, wrecking.
    Flying out to the lanes with the last of the ebb assisting, saw us get to our first wreck of choice with a half hour window to fish before the turn of the tide. A few wrecks looked at over the course of the trip.
    The wrecks fished ok at slack water, and then again when the tide started running.
    Some very nice Codlings, pollack, herring, mackerel, gurnards and weaver boated.
    The cod spitting out herring, the pollack spitting out dragonets.
    Not as warm in the sun as forecast, but still a glorious day in the mid English Channel.
    We’ll not mention the 50 metres of braid and leader around my starboard prop, he had a right ‘Wellard’ there ������. IYKYK.
    Fish marking the sounder all day. It’s getting lively ��

  • 03/03/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    3 Mar 2025 by Simon Logan

    Monday 3rd March.
    A small crew of 4, wrecking.
    Lovely conditions forecast, lovely conditions found. Flat calm and sunny all day.
    The flood tide has been a pig recently, and that’s the tide that is making most of the days up currently. So with that in mind, along with the dense fog forecast overnight, a 10:00am start was arranged.
    Getting out of the locks, straight off (at warp speed) and onto our chosen route of wrecks, saw another boat already on our first one. We opted to join them on the wreck, being conscious not to steam over their drift, leaving plenty of room behind them, and not creating wakes. Shame they didn’t have the sense or courtesy to do the same. Cutting right past us several times, and steaming directly over the wreck to start another drift ��. If any of them follow me on here I hope they read this, and then manners are needed to be learnt.
    Regardless of that, we were into double hookups from the first drift. This didn’t stop until slack water. Great fishing, and my job for the day was pretty much already done ������
    Wreck hopping for the 2nd half of the trip saw us find more fish, but it was a single here, then nothing for a few drifts, then a single there, then nothing…. you catch my drift. Bumped into a mate at the end of our route, joined the wreck they and another boat were on, and all boats were skippered impeccably ����.
    Overall then, a thoroughly enjoyable trip which ended as the sun was setting.

  • 28/02/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    28 Feb 2025 by Simon Logan

    Friday 28th February.
    Firstly, thank the fish gods that it’s March tomorrow. February has felt twice as long as January, and seen us only manage to beat the weather a handful of times.
    8 crew, mixed abilities, wrecking!
    High hopes for today’s big 7.42m tide. It was always going to be a struggle first thing, with choppy seas, wind against tide, and the dreaded (at least for me) flood tide for the first few hours. Punching the tide out to our first mark was a bit bumpy.
    I said to the crew that the best of the days fishing would come towards slack at 11:30 and the first half of the ebb, and that proved to be absolutely ��.
    Smaller pollack starting to appear as the tide dropped below 1.5kts, a few better fish before the turn, a good few more fish when things got moving again.
    The smaller pollack were released (all bar 1) after slow retrieves from 50m.
    The bigger ones were my crew’s rewards for a bloody tough morning, but a lucrative afternoon.
    Hard work pays off….

  • 19/03/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    19 Mar 2025 by Simon Logan

    Wednesday 19th March.
    The 'Eastbourne Spring Challenge" 2025
    5 boats, 38 anglers, 1238 fish landed across 3x two hour anchor sessions.
    Species landed:
    Thornbacks, Smooth-hounds, Plaice, Dabs, Flounder, Gurnards, Whiting, Dogfish.
    �� Well done to Paul Hollyoake, who was fishing onboard Deep Blue ����, for winning the competition outright, and thus taking away a plethora of trophies, along with a top prize bundle courtesy of Sidewinder Lures and Cox & Rawle.
    A massive effort from all involved, with a special mention for John Little for organising and being the main instigator of the comp, Malcolm Durrant for presenting the goodies to the anglers, and Shaun for helping onboard today.

  • 12/01/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    12 Jan 2025 by Simon Logan

    Sunday 12th January
    What a stunning day at sea, and what a cracking haul of fish for my crew.
    4 fish on within a minute on the first drop.
    Over 2 dozen pollack, few gurnards and a solitary codling (not forgetting a nice squid) all from drifting the shipwrecks in the shipping lanes.
    Biggest pollack was just shy of the double, at 9lb 13oz after being dispatched, but the overall stamp was very good indeed.
    Some VERY good fish dropped or lost to the wrecks too. Lots of bites at either side of slack water.
    200 litres of fuel burned, 60 odd miles covered. A cracker.

  • 15/01/2025 Fishing Report by Simon Logan

    15 Jan 2025 by Simon Logan

    Wednesday 15th January
    A mixed crew to fill the boat around 4 of the fishaholic Species League crew.
    A day out on the banks (with a few wrecks thrown in for good measure) was the request. Greater weaver and gurnards were the intended target.
    Given the success of our last offshore wrecking trip, the other anglers making the numbers up came on board to get amongst the pollack
    It was a different day to that of a few days earlier….
    Flat calm at sea again. 7.1 metre flood tide turning to ebb at midday. No wind forecast. We found a very steady drift of 2.2kts mid lanes on the banks. Almost that bit too quick. We plugged away until the tide started to drop a little, catching weaver, tub & red Gurnards and the other nuisance fish.
    The fishing didn’t really pick up on the sand when the tide started to drop so we made a dash to the first wreck. Another boat was on the first big wreck that I wanted to have a go on, so I chose its smaller neighbour wreck instead. The tide dropped off so quick that we only managed a few drifts before the boat was spinning every way but the right way. A bit of ghost net must be on here as well, due to the fact that when the tide dropped, snags appeared a good number of turns above the wreck.
    Steaming several miles to the second wreck got us there just in time to catch the start of the ebb. Fishing was slow, but there were fish marking so we persevered a little while until we started to get knocks.
    A few pollack for the table to take home followed.
    Back right inshore for the last 20 mins to see if the crew could get some flatties to tick off their lists, but it proved futile in the swamp coloured 6m deep millpond.
    Fish there but not feeding much on this big full moon tide. Not a bad day still.

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