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01/07/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
1 Jul 2018 by Philip Higgins
To all Anglers and Skippers
if you want to protect the right to fish for Bream within the Southbourne Rough, Poole Rocks and from Old Harry to Ringstead Bay areas (poss up to 6k from the shore) you need to respond to the DEFRA MCZ consultation paper, trying to fill the online version does not allow you enough space to voice your thoughts please send in letters before 20th July 2018 re socio economic looses to the areas and what it would mean to you to not fish these areas.
It all helps as the data presented is not accurate and no stock level assessments have been carried out so they have no point from which to start the Bream recovery or any idea to where it end, other areas are set to follow.
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17/06/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
17 Jun 2018 by Philip Higgins
The last few days have been frustrating with the strong winds and big tides we have endured but we have still manged to find fish for the anglers mainly Bream, Tope, Rays and Dogs. it has been good to see Mackeral starting to be caught on a regular basis. Inside the harbour as evening sets in some good smoothhound fishing has been had not big fish but plenty of fun in shallow water.
More next week
Phil -
11/06/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
11 Jun 2018 by Philip Higgins
Fishing has been excellent with so many fish coming onboard it is hard to keep up with the scores, Bream and Tope have been the main targets inshore, we have been using spinning rods Tope fishing and it has been challenging for some anglers to control the fish but all have successfully mastered it and are enjoying the style. Over the last few days we have had 2 new species to the list a Worm Pipefish and a Shore Clingfish, this little guy was so cute with his extraordinary spotted eyes and colours.
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20/05/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
20 May 2018 by Philip Higgins
Another busy week with plenty of good size Bream and Smoothhounds giving the rods a good bend, fishing all across the Poole Bay and Dancing Ledge marks we have covered the distance to find the fish, to the west plenty of signs and catches but the fish are very finnicky with more missed than landed and apart from a cracking 4lb Bream the rest have tended to be on the smaller side. The hounds have been fun with the biggest just touching 10lb not a big fish by some areas standards but good for our area. As a bonus a few Pollack to 5lb have graced our rods and provided much fun on light gear. This week our attention turns to what proved to be very illusive last winter COD, we are targeting them on some new areas to us thanks to some info from the commercial sector.
Tight Lines
Philip Higgins -
12/05/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
12 May 2018 by Philip Higgins
Last weekend we had the pleasure of Lymington SAC on saturday fishing their species league, mostly it went to plan but the Garfish remained illusive on Sunday we headed out to target Bream with the Gannet AC team who found plenty of small to medium sized Bream all day. The bites were very tentative and many were missed but a good day was had by all. Today we did the same and again the fish were very finnicky but we managed to boat plenty and again feed the fish on many occasions. I averaged a fish per drop so was well happy.
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06/05/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
6 May 2018 by Philip Higgins
At least the Bream are coming in thick n fast with good fish being landed, todays Wessex Angling Bream comp was no different fishing 3 marks and all produced good numbers of Bream but those illusive big ones were not playing, eventually a few came aboard but as is so often the case the person not entering the comp was cleaning up and Keith landed more than the rest of the boat but welsh team angler Brian Moss did find a few and came 2nd in the comp giving us Top charter boat status
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26/04/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
26 Apr 2018 by Philip Higgins
The last few trips have all been inshore looking for some quality Bream fishing, although this season is slower to start than the last few years the Bream have still been coming in increasing numbers each trip and with good tides this weekend we should have some excellent sport. Have a few spaces on Sat if you are interested
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20/04/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
20 Apr 2018 by Philip Higgins
After a long cold winter the season has started with the start of the 1st of thevBlack Bream being caught yesterday and more today, although they are very finnicky feeders and are only mouthing the baits they have to be teased into taking it, as soon as the water temp rises they will be full on. Along with the Bream we have enjoyed plenty of fun with small Hounds afew rays,plaice and the odd Turbot.
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26/03/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
26 Mar 2018 by Philip Higgins
At last we managed to get a few days afloat and the fishing proved very rewarding, on the Saturday we ventured out to the wrecks in what was very challenging conditions far worse than forecast but once there the Pollack fishing was very good with several fish being landed each drift the best of the day went to Ian Napier at 14lb 6 ozs, after a few hrs and plenty of Pollack onboard we chose to head back inshore and see if the Spurdogs were still around. At anchor the fishing started very slow but just as we thought about heading home the Spurdogs started to feed and several fish between 17 and 20lb were landed and quickly returned then that man Ian Napier hooked into a good fish that put his light gear to the test and was rewarded with a PB Spurdog of 24lb 10ozs. Sunday we opted to go after the Spurs again and were duly rewarded with 4 of the Poole Dolphins AC landing PB Spurdogs to 19lb along with a few Rays, spurred on (pardon the pun) by our recent success the crew on Monday wanted to sample the sport and we again headed out to the same area and again were rewarded with more success and another 2 anglers setting new PBs for Spurdogs , due to the very light tackle we were using the strength of the tide forced us to move closer to shore out of the tide and once at anchor we managed a small Turbot and a Brill to round the day off. Overall a very successful weekend and it felt fantastic to actual be at sea fishing instead of looking at weather patterns.
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17/03/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
17 Mar 2018 by Philip Higgins
Hi
Thanks to a sustained period of strong winds the fishing has been severly hampered with just the odd weather window appearing, when it is possible to get out the offshore banks have produced some cracking Spurdogs, Rays and Congers. Some of the wrecks have produced a few Pollack to a reasonable size but many others have yet to see the fish arrive. Inshore Plaice are the main target with Bream soon to start feeding ( some have been caught by netters) and when the weather warms up other species will quickly appear. It is now that time of year for the annual spruce up and polish hopefully no surprise things will come up during the period ashore.
all the best
Phil
