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10/11/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

10 Nov 2013 by jon old

Todays report covers 9/10th of Nov as we didnt bother with any photos from the Sat. We steamed out to a ten mile bank north, reports of blondes from our commercial side, unfortunately on getting to the grounds the weather took a turn for the worse. After a hour we left having caught about a dozen doggies and handful of whiting. Headed inside the Roads again to countless whiting and a few flatties nothing worth shouting about just plenty of small action. On Sun the wind and rain was quite fierce at times keeping us inshore ,determined not to join the other boats at Corton we stayed on the banks outside the Holm ,rather choppy at times, paid off with couple of small skate returned and a nice keeper pictured here with Lukasz from Watton area, thornback of 7.5lb. Ended up with couple of keeper dogs, other small ones returned, few dabs and flounders and too many whiting wish i had a pound for everyone! well done to the lads for braving the conditions it wasnt great but we had fish so who cares.! Many thanks to both parties on the weekend , hope you all enjoyed yourselves.
All the best. Jon. (High Flyer)
02/11/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

2 Nov 2013 by jon old

Lovely start to the day for once, flat sea ,forcast of wind later, perfect tide , pleasure to be out. With the tides being on the strong side the deeper water wasnt a option today especially with talk of wind later so decided to start near the Holm channel. Had a nice little session with whiting from the off, few nice flatties , few spotty dogs and a nice little thornback caught by Steve who put it back as it was female well done for being conservation minded. Went a bit slow so headed north up the Roads to a little hole i use in these situations few whiting again but the weed was just killing us . Moved back again right inside off Gorleston beach as the wind was getting up making the situation a bit lumpy. Plenty of whiting again and more flatties , picture today with some of the fish,the better looking anglers onboard, Kim,Jemma,and Racheal, thanks to Mike and Dave,also Shannon and Steve and Collin. Was an enjoyable day pity no codling again but plenty of other stuff to catch,appreciate you all coming out on the High Flyer. All the best. Jon.
27/10/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

27 Oct 2013 by jon old

Todays trip was skippered by Dave Pike who has joined East Anglian Charters veteran skipper from Felixstowe who has moved local to us now, for those who didnt know Dave has worked the east coast for many years so very pleased to have his knowledge and seamanship skills onboard the Flyer.Same as yesterday with myself ,extremely windy day keeping inshore in the same area, hard days fishing all round, ending up with doggies and whiting again. Pictured today are Darren,Neil and Daniel with their catch they kept, also thanks to the others Andy( who didnt catch me a cod as promised) Curtis ,John and Jack, much appreciated everyone with the difficult conditions well done to all of you. Also to Dave for todays charter , lets hope a bit of cold comes in along with the cod!
26/10/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

26 Oct 2013 by jon old

Strong south westerleys today gusts nearing 40mph! No let up in this weather stating to grate on me. Kept inshore again headed up in the Roads not particulary bothered as fish running inside. Wasnt expecting a spotty dog two minutes into the session got me thinking no codling! The sea still too warm for this time of year ended up with few doggies during the day, nice size flatty and numerous whiting during the day. Few keepers among them ,Steve from Eastheat pictured here for us with some of the fish. Appreciate Steve for organizing the trip, thanks to Jay, Ady,Jamie,Alex,Neil,Roy,Adam and Nick for coming,was a hard days fishing along with a little bit of a bashing from the weather thought everyone done well despite conditions. Hope you enjoyed the day men looking forward to seeing you all hopefully when cod are in.All the best. Jon. (High Flyer)
19/10/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

19 Oct 2013 by jon old

Well this weekend was first time we could get out for a while the wind been beyond a joke really lost last three weekends on a trot. Still windy both days but with a later start and tide change we managed a few hours both days. We fished same area both days well inshore to hide up in the Roads again, no where else to go in the strong SW so really got to make the most of it. Plenty of whitting quite pleased with one or two big ones most thrown back in as no one wants them only my cat! Fish baits taking the larger ones mackerel the favourite we found. Few small early codling to three and half pound still think the waters too warm personally would account for the spotty dogs we caught as well, no flatties at all this weekend not sure why? Temperature still high for this time of year ,no frosts either yet and still not wearing a jacket,i think we need a temperature drop soon to bring in the codling properly, looking forward to calmer seas to try offshore banks which we will do as weather allows. Thanks to all the lads this weekend got bit of a bashing first thing on both days least we got a few fish. picture of local angler Matty with some of the catch who also put his eel back being conservation minded. Well done Matt,top marks! Look forward to seeing you soon with better weather and some offshore action. All the best. Jon. (High Flyer)
01/10/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

1 Oct 2013 by jon old

Just bringing all trips up to date. as we are on what i call change over period summer species leaving, few odd winter fish turning up, fishing a bit patchy. We now need a bit of cold to bring the cod in, have caught few small codling nothing worth a photo, the whitting getting more and more thicker soon the bigger ones should arrive. Still catching spotty dogs of all sizes amazes me how small some are this year! Most of the smoothies have left inshore only caught the odd one lately still connecting with few skate when we can get out to the banks. The strong south easterlies have scuppered most of last week and this week , pictured here is Dave Pike who also skippers the High flyer with myself with a four and half pound bass caught on whole squid. We will be doing more herring trips this year as proved very popular, people love pulling in the nets to see those silver darlings dangling, end up with a feed as well, please ask if you want to organise or be part of a herring trip and we can sort the right tide out for you. Looking forward now to winter hoping the cod season this year is a good one, we are due one! Until then tight lines everyone hope you can join me and Dave on the High Flyer at some point.
Jon.
13/09/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

13 Sep 2013 by jon old

Today was Friday 13th unlucky for us! Our wrecking trip of 5am start was the worst i ever experienced due to the fact every wreck we tried no fish at all were tempted. All baits under the sun used , done the usual wrecks all the biggies ended up nearly off Cromer still nothing. Not even a pouting! Wind kept increasing bit lumpy so as the wrecking was dire we ended up on a bank off Happisburgh at a spot of uptiding. i was lucky enough to end up with this tope pictured here took mackerel head finding best bait this year, few whitting came in along with flatties. As the wind was strengthening we decided to head right inshore and finish the day off Winterton on the flatty grounds. Was dissapointing wrecking wise but thinking we could hopefully if it turns cold be in for a bumper cod year as poor last year, no spring codling run and hardly cod on the wrecks does this mean loads havent been caught?Time will tell, looking forward to the winter and first frosts, this week been few whitting showing up with still odd doggies about , the first herring have been caught so begins another season. Will let you know when first codling appear, this winter hope to increase our night trips weather depending. Watch this space. Jon. (High Flyer)
29/08/2013 Fishing Report by mark crame

29 Aug 2013 by mark crame

Flying High…29/08/2013

Charter boat fishing is a whole different ball game. Though we often fish amongst the local skippers, catch the same fish, use similar tactics, rigs and baits and some of us are on first name terms with them the tactics and feel of the fish are different and it provides both a level of comfort and access to deeper, further, faster marks and species we don’t otherwise see around here. With Garry holding the space from my skydive raffle for High Flyer and the fine summer weather, good tides and tope around at the end of the summer holidays it was perfect timing for a trip to be put together for us yakkers to go and have a play and learn a bit more. Originally hoping to fill three boats, the nine wanting to go who were available would all fit on Jon Old’s Offshore 105 High Flyer out of Gorleston and with the clearer water and Marty and Jon’s recent tope catches to the north of Great Yarmouth the booking was made and Jon planned to give us a day to really get our teeth into…and not just OUR teeth!

I had to work a shift afterwards so an earlier start and return were requested and Jon was brilliant, it was no bother and so we left around seven for a four o’ clock return. It turned out perfectly like that as it happened as we caught the tides right and with us all parked nearby for free (though there was sufficient parking by the boat as it turned out) we said our hellos and wandered down to the berth, clambering down the ladder and making ourselves at home. A safety brief and outline of the initial plan followed and as soon as the shipping entering the harbour was clear we headed out into a brightening morning on a flat sea which showed all the swirls and eddies of banks and wrecks as we steamed north past the Scroby Sands windfarm for the first mark, a bank of 20-30ft by a drop off to a hundred!

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It was a 45 minute journey and in those conditions was very comfortable indeed with a multitude of harbour porpoise being spotted, the first for many of the party. Beautiful creatures which have been a common sight for me this year, seeing them in the progressively clearer water was even better. Surprisingly we didn’t spot any seals at all this time but we did keep away from the sands themselves.

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The first mark was somewhere off Winterton and with the boat sitting at anchor the ten of us onboard dropped down our baits, a mixture of supplied squid, hardback crab, mackerel and sandeel and sat back to wait. There was a pot running for the largest fish of the day and a pot for the most fish (mackerel not included as we wouldn’t all be able to fish for them and the larger stuff at the same time and if we hit a shoal counting would be a nightmare). A quid a time was enough to be fun and to give a 20% discount off the trip cost for the winners without being an expensive burden for those who missed out. My tope rod was rigged and ready to rock!
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Nigel’s son was along and although a carp fisherman primarily he knew how to fish…a rattle after quarter of an hour and he was in. It was the first time any of us apart from Jon had seen a brill and what a beautiful looking flattie it was, a couple of pound or so of prime dinner that I think we were all quite jealous of! Wonderful markings on it and superb camouflage for the sand and shingle.

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That was it though, a bit too quiet for Jon’s liking, seeing as we were where we were…he hauled anchor after half an hour or so and dropped us again a short way downtide so that we could fish into the drop off. Fresh baits on and we sat and waited. Another half an hour maybe and with suntans coming on a treat the excitement was getting dulled…though to be fair most of us were fishing big baits for big fish…then a couple of small taps on Garry’s rod and he struck. Kind of a whiting sized bite.

Some whiting; the line straightened while the rod bent over and the drum of the reel started revolving in the wrong direction! TOPE!

So this is what we were waiting for…all lines in because this was a good fish and the previous day two had been lost so we weren’t taking any chances. 8/0 hooks, 80lb mono and small baits on long flowing traces were the order of the day, the tidal flow strong enough that spinning into the line and cutting it were unlikely. As Garry fought the head-thumping, running, diving fish the rest of us enjoyed the show, willing him on and taking the mickey in equal measure.

It started to come closer. I pranced around with the video camera to record the struggled and passed my rod with the other camera attached to Tim who stuck it under the water to get some footage from that angle – I love my waterproof Olympus compacts! It got closer and we swapped over; Andy was standing up on the seating so I passed mine up for an overhead view and took the other from Tim and continued to film; a fish like this was worth covering from every angle!

Closer, closer, close, nearly…and it’s in the net!

And it’s out of the net!

Dives, shakes, thumps, comes back up and it’s close again. The net, as large as it is, is too small. The leader is grabbed and Jon gets under the rail, leans right out like someone being seasick and tries to grab hold of the pectoral fin while avoiding those teeth…it messes him about a bit and we start asking each other who can drive a boat, who knows how to haul the anchor and so on if he goes swimming…he grabs it, , scuttles back like a crab and gets Garry’s tope up and over the rail and into the boat!

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Neatly hooked in the scissors it’s a female and a decent one at that; we’re all thinking thirty and Jon goes to get the scales. It goes twenty five; the word ‘only’ does not figure, a fish like that scraps hard, there’s no ‘only’ with a tope!
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Weighed, photographed, kissed and released and it swims away and down strongly. Congratulations all-round and the lines go back down in nanoseconds, no time to waste, we all want some of that! Squid and crab did the trick. I want fresh mackerel head and shoulders – and not to make my bald head sprout renewed growth – and with the tide easing I grab a feather rod and start to jig on the bottom for my bait and maybe some lunch for tomorrow. I love everything about mackerel. Besides, I’ve not caught anything yet.

Nothing on the bottom, the mackerel are in short supply this summer. I give it twenty minutes with no joy then decide to try further up in the water column in case. Bang! Straight in.

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Only one but big enough for four baits. I unhook it, drop down halfway and hand the rod to Nigel, bat the fish on the head and do some surgery. It’s on the hook and out before Jon comes back from the bow where he’s just scampered with three more; fresh bait all around and the leftovers get chopped up small and chummed in the hope of more fish. Then he gets a weever and shows us it in case we ever catch one and inadvertently grab it:

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It stays quiet. Half an hour on and the tide is really dropping away, Jon offers to take us over to a wreck he likes for a bit of cod-jigging if we want. We’re all easy; someone asks for a decision! I suggest that we’ve just put some chum down, had one tope and have all caught cod before (well Andy hasn’t as yet but he will) so we elect to stay for a bit longer.

Then Paul is in with a mackerel, he keeps it to do it justice with a pike or two come winter.

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Half an hour goes by but nothing happens so Jon asks again as we’ve only got a window long enough for a few drifts and at least we should get some fish on the boat though the wrecking has been sporadic of late. We reel in, he hauls anchor and we head towards the wreck of the Dutch-Flagged Montferland, sunk on 27th June 1941 by German aircraft with no loss of lives and lying pretty much intact between sandwaves.

Wreck number 10549

WGS 84 position: Latitude = 52°47'.192 n longitude = 001°50'.347 e

Depth: 20,6 m

Water depth : 31 m

Length: 128 m

Tonnage: 6790 gross

Cargo: sugar, meat, steel, wool, milk powder

Built in 1921 by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson ltd and owned Voortzetting van den Kon. Five boilers, two turbines on single shaft. 1066 hp. Machinery by Vickers Electrical Co ltd. On passage from Mackay to London. Cargo 4700 tons sugar, 1755 tons meat, 1389 tons steel, 774 tons wool and 20 tons milk powder. Foundered after attack by german aircraft.

First and last surveying details:

2/7/41 swept in 52 47 13 N, 01 50 19 E. Fouled at 20ft in gen depth 49ft by e/s. Lies 305/125degs. (HMS Franklin, 2/7/41).

22/05/95 located in 52 47 09.8 N, 01 50 27.4E using DGPS. Examined 14/4/95. Swept clear at 20.6mtrs, foul at 20.9mtrs. Least depth 22.8mtrs in general depth 31mtrs by e/s. No scour. DCS3 ht 3mtrs. Length 160mtrs, width 40mtrs. Lies 130/310degs. Strong magnetometer deflection. Lies between sandwaves.

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Jon set’s us up for the first drift; I’m using a Fladen Portland eel, the leadheaded red one on a dropper rig with 20lb fluorocarbon and a ball lead. I’ve watched it just below the surface and it looks irresistible to the fish! Glenn up in the northeast has recommended them and I’ve rigged it how he says. On the 40lb braid I can feel every bump and wriggle as Iift a foot and drop down, jig, jig, jig, trying to keep it tight, jig, snatch, jig, rattle, jig, snag…slack for half a second and snatch and it’s clear; jig jig rattle pout!

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Next drift: jig, jig, rattle, jig, snatch pull…pull…pull snagged! The rod bends over and I can’t release it and I have to straight line it. Snap.

Another drift; I get species number three but only the second to count for the pot; I’m ahead of Top Gun Garry though! He’s on tope and sandeel – the sublime to the ridiculous! Carefully, with pliers and forceps, I unhook and return it, showing mercy on the scary little monster! Then Garry gets his mackerel, kisses it, but it doesn’t count…

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There are a couple of codling on board, two pounders but not for me. Keiron and Jon

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Damn. I tie on a Fladen 3 Hook Deep Sea 1/0 luminous sandeel type rig and drop it down on the next drift. Bump, bump, bump, rattle, pull, fish on! Up it comes, fighting, a pout that felt bigger from that depth and with that lead, it looks okay and is popped back in but takes a while to go down; no gulls around thankfully.

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I drop down again, we’re off the wreck and wind in. Nigel has had a cod, Matty a pout; father and son doing the business!

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Next drop and it’s another pout, around a pound so a decent one. This one’s blown so it’s set aside for bait. Some of the guys are using bait on a commercial trace Jon has shown us – a dropper rig with a 2/0 and a chunk of squid, mackerel or sandeel. I persist with the artificals. Tony’s had one hell of a pout, going on for two pound by the look of it; he guts and gills it straight away in the hope that it may be an eater; it’s blown so isn’t going back down anyway. Tim lands a large edible crab; he’s happy but we’re still over the wreck so no time for pictures just yet and I forget later.

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Next drift and the rig is gone; I tie on some pink Fladen Hokkis…down it goes, I feel some jiggling but it’s not anything much, I continue until we’re off the wreck and then reel up; I have another weever, badly hooked with torn guts; I put it out of its misery and throw it back. Tony gets a brace of pout.

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The tide starts up again and though we drift a few more times the fish are staying down. We all lose a rig or two during this time so at least we can have a break from retying and won’t bankrupt Jon!

We steam to another bank to try for tope, roker and hounds again. Time for hand washing:

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Down go the baits and I wait; I’m ahead but only just…the uptider (I have one nominated rod while bait fishing, the uptider, which changes to the other when wrecking and I’m only using one rod). I get a bit of movement but I’m not sure if it’s a bite. I leave it thinking it’s the lead shifting. Every now and then it jiggles again. Eventually I bring it in and it’s number four, a decent dogfish. It’s slow though and no-one else is getting any knocks.

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Nigel doesn’t get a knock. I’m not sure what he’s doing but he’s left his rod. Loose drag and on the clicker though. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TOPE!
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He grabs it, pulls intot he fish and against a strengthening low sets to work for ten minutes or more. Jon gets the tailer ready, not going to use the net this time and doesn’t fancy dangling again. A long, hard scrap with plenty of nodding from the fish and then finally it’s coming up and closer. It sees us and runs again, stripping line and a few more minutes follow. I’m over the side with the camera and the leader in my hand, Jon’s over the side because the tailer is proving impossible in the flow. He grabs it and wrestles again and Nigel’s tope comes aboard, another good fish though a smaller male of around 18lb. he’s not romantic enough hough, an air kiss and after weighing and photos he goes back and swims off none the worse for his experience. The tope that is.

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A renewed air of optimism, fresh baits and the lines go back down. Only Andy and Terry (who’s joined the kayaker’s party for the day) are still to catch; I’m hoping they get something but I want a tope! But it’s not to be for the three of us…but Matty is another story and the same rod as last time goes and he’s on it!

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An epic battle in this tide, it’s ripping through and he’s hanging on as it strips line, thumps against him, dives, rises, shakes and pulls and quarter of an hour pass before Jon again leans over the side and does his shark wrangling act! A bit bigger this one, another male of 20lb this time and Matty is made up. Far more romantic than his dead he goes in for the kiss but rubs it with his cheek instead…what? First shave and he uses a shark? He relents, kisses it and back he goes!

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We carry on for another half an hour and then we have to go. None of us really want to, it’s a glorious day and we’ve had some serious fish but it’s been a long day too, it’s time and we’ve an hour’s plus steam back to port and the tide’s going full bore now so unlikely to throw up any more fish until it starts to slow again. Up comes the anchor and we’re away. Cups are gathered, bits are picked up, rubbish is centralised, the decks are swabbed, the boards are scrubbed and a reel is relined on the way back. We run through the turbines on Scroby, quite a sight up close and personal and go into harbour behind a windfarm cat for the short run up to the berth and off the boat to the cars.

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We were still in at five but no matter, coffee would see me through my shift so no complaints from me; or the others, we all had a whale of a time trying new things and seeing some good fish boated. Maybe the first time we’ve collectively turned our backs on the yaks but certainly not the last! Jon did us proud!

Now I’ve just got that video to edit…watch this space!
29/08/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

29 Aug 2013 by jon old

Been a bit slack on the reports due to mackerel bashing. Was asked for a tope session by Mark ( Snapper) local kayak nutter who organised everybody today ,thank you by the way Mark! Started out on the Ridges up North with a lovely little turbot from Matthew , had a quick move to deeper water as tide eased for our biggest tope of the day from Gary 25lb,nice fish. Few mackerel came in with the weavers so decided at slack to hit a favourite wreck of mine on the 9 mile mark. All fish well deserved few small cod, pouting,etc hard fishing for wrecking lads done well, not too many snap offs! On the way home ended up on the Newarp to finish up with a tope of 18 lb for Nigel and 20lb few minutes later for Matthew a great day in all really. Big thanks again to Mark, all the lads , Tim,Matthew,Paul,Gary,Nigel,Tony,Andy,Kerian, and Terry was much appreciated and also for washing down to ! Top marks men, look forward to having you onboard soon. All the best. Jon. High Flyer.
15/08/2013 Fishing Report by jon old

15 Aug 2013 by jon old

Been a bit slow on the reports down to us generally bashing mackerel and gets a bit boring to readers about same thing. Most trips filling up was hard to start as keeping to the 30cm size limit with tons of small ones about. Plenty of large launce this year and sandeel too, no shortage of weavers as usual. Nice to see the odd gurnard on the feathers but not the pesky whiting still about! Todays pic is the lads from Leicester, George, Simon,Darren,Wayne,Ricky,Jack,Paul,Collin,and Matty. Plenty of fish about, few dogs thrown in as well , was an enjoyable day all round until the wind blew up! Well big thanks to all especially appreciate the early start and long drive , hope to see you all soon. All the best . Jon.