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28/05/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
28 May 2025 by Nick Gough
A brilliant trip out today started off with perfect conditions. Not the biggest of fish today but plenty of sport all day and some of the nicest customers we've had in some time.
Fishing was pretty much instant from our first mark with a good amount of codlings and small Pollock.
Over the day we tried all sorts of tackle on the drift with lures having an advantage over bait today which is a very promising sign for summer inshore fishing.
The biggest fish today was only 2 1/2lb but overall all the customers caught a few cod to take home. Aswel as plenty of fish to go back to fight another day.
One surprise today was a few mackerel caught inshore so it shouldn't be to much longer until we're filling strings up soon.
Overall we have caught:
Codling, Pollock, coalfish, ballen wrasse, pouting, mackerel, and sand eels
Best part of the day was seeing all 3 under 16s we had today all having a go, catching fish and really enjoying the fishing, the wildlife and scenery.
It certainly was a belting day for it and I've got the sun burn to prove it �� -
28/10/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
28 Oct 2024 by Nick Gough
What a completely different day today was to yesterday the sea was like glass most of the day with hardly any wind.
We started off anchoring as the tide was at its strongest and strait away we had the rods bouncing with codling and pouting steadily coming over the rail.
We didn't see the dogfish at all and had a smaller stamp of cod showing around the 2 to 3lb area with 1 cod about 5lb
Fishing slowed down halfway through the trip so we ran offside to catch the slacker part of the tide and first few drifts were pretty much blanks just the odd pouting coming up then after a few drifts in we started seeing more codling.
Best fish of the day was a 9lb 4oz cod.
Water clarity off at a mile was quite surprising and we also managed to get a few fresh mackerel aswel which is probably the latest I've ever seen them caught. -
27/10/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
27 Oct 2024 by Nick Gough
8 hour fishing the ground inshore as awe had quite strong winds then when the weather aloud we ran to some inshore wrecks.
We seamed to catch a lot of dogfish and pouting with the occasional better fished mixed in
Nothing huge caught but not a bad stamp of cod around the 4lb area and heaviest fish was a 6lb 2oz ling -
19/10/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
19 Oct 2024 by Nick Gough
It's been a while since our last trip with the run of poor weather and sea conditions
But we managed to still find some really good fish on the inshore grounds still.
Best fish today was a 9lb 2oz Pollock with the same angler also catching a nice 8lb Pollock also
As well as Pollock the customers had a good amount of Cod, pouting, lesser spotted dogfish and Ballen wrasse to keep them busy all day.
The wildlife the customers had pretty much all day leaving the harbour and passing a pod of 40+ bottle nose dolphins heading south. Then seals, porpoise and the dolphins passed us several times while fishing and on the way back we were greatest with them again in the South Bay. -
18/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
18 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
As the tides had dramatically built up in the last few days up to 6.4m we decided to give uptide and downtime fishing ago at anchor.
Withing minutes we the customers started getting bites and a good amount of dogfish and Ballen wrasse made a appearance.
We did manage to get a few codlings aswel then fishing tried up as the tide slowed down so we relocated and fishing picked back up producing a few more cod.
As the tide completely slackened off inshore we tried a few inshore wrecks over slack water which produces more pouting a few more codling and a lonely strappy Ling. -
17/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
17 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
8 hour trip
We don't normally like wrecking on a ride so big but as the customers really wanted to try for a bigger fish we gave it a go.
Fishing was very slow from the start with us fishing the strongest part of the tide drifting at a good 2 knots
The anglers did manage to pick up a few whiting and pouting.
As the tides eased back fishing improved with the anglers managing to catch a few strappy ling around the 5 to 11lb area.
Slack water was the most productive time which we expected
While out fishing we had a lot of gannets diving around us with porpoise surfacing with the odd seal popping it head. We had several minki Whales also passing us.
As we travelled back to the harbour we managed to find a pod of approximately 60+ bottle nose dolphins passing us. -
16/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
16 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
Well what a day with lots of smiley customers
Mainly ling and mackerel caught today with 5 ling over 19lb
Apart from the skippers 33lb ling
The next heaviest fish was 24lb 9oz
Not the greatest conditions for it we had wind against tide for the first few hours then as slack water came on so did the ling fishing
Then when the tides built up fishing became impossible on the wrecks so we drifted down the sides with the anglers getting a good amount of strappy ling, whiting and mackerel still in good numbers
Great bunch of customers on today and thank you for letting the skipper join in -
15/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
15 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
With the neap tides we ventured offside like the day before.
Overall on both trips the anglers had a mixed bag of fish
With many species making an appearance
For cod, ling, pouting , whiting, haddock, coalfish, and mackerel
Heaviest fish today was a Cracking cod for Steve weighing just over 15lb
No rigs seemed to be preference today with shads occasionally working and baited traces and hokkais also.
Not the greatest weather today with torrential rain but the anglers seemed to enjoy themselves regardless
And they all got a glimpse of the passing minke whales. -
14/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
14 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
With the neap tides we ventured offside where fishing was nothing special just steadily plucking at fish all weekend.
Overall the anglers had a good mixed bag of fish
With many species making an appearance
For cod, ling, pouting , whiting, coalfish, mackerel and a gray gurnard.
Heaviest fish was a ling around 12lb but what was nice to see was a good few codling showing
Baited hokkais and flowing traces seamed to be most productive. -
31/08/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
31 Aug 2024 by Nick Gough
Some of the better fish from today's trips
We started the day running out to the inshore wrecks with the plan to keep running offshore.
First wreck fishing was steady with strappy ling coming up with the occasional better ling round 11 to 12lb mark we tried several other wrecks while running offshore this seemed to be what all the wrecks produced today nothing really much bigger. We did find more cod today than yesterday but they were around the 2 to 4lb area so we didn't take photos.
Heaviest fish today was a ling weighing 14lb 2oz caught by Jamie who had been fishing with us on Wednesday and really struggled to get a decent fish.
As well as the ling and cod the anglers also caught whiting, pouting, a red gurnard and a few mackerel.
The 3 hour trip we ran inshore as the sea had picked up a bit and from the start the anglers got strait into the mackerel after a few drift they managed to find a few nice Pollock around the 4 to 5lb area and a codling and coalfish
Everybody caught something to take away
