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09/2013
Fishing Report by Ross Parham
on Spot On! (Brixham, Devon)
Sep 2013 by Ross Parham
Report on-board Spot On!
This weekend has seen a bit of different types of fishing tried and with some mixed results and wind being a big factor but still the quality of the fish has been superb, from rough ground and reef fishing which included some nice gurnards along with dogfish, pout and abundance of mackerel, small Pollock and a lonely 14lb wreck cod.
Sunday was inshore wrecking at anchor with the aim of conger eels and bream and the lads were not disappointed with congers up to 70lb and all released at the side of the boat as the anglers not wanting to harm the fish, 9 eels broke the surface and 7 more lost during battle, we then decided to try out luck with bream and again Spot On was Spot On with some massive specimens coming on board along with loads of pouting, huge scad and lots of mackerel.
Biggest Bream fell to Mark Wellington of Plymouth with a massive fish of 5lb 6oz.
Thanks guys and look forward to seeing you soon to beat even more of your 'PB's
Pictured is James Ashton with 2 of his biggest bream of 4lb 14oz and 4lb 8oz.
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31/08/2013
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
31 Aug 2013 by Paul Kilpatrick
Report on-board Sea Otter 2
More nice fish today on sea-otter 2 this man gets a nice cod 13lb and pollock 9lb there was stacks of ling onboard as well .
Late summer festival coming up Sea-Otter 2 has had 2 ling around the 20lb mark in the last couple of weeks getting ready to nail the big one in the festival which starts on 14th and finishes on the 29th still some places left .
Sea -otter 2 has won more festivals in the last 10 years than any other charterboat in the whitby fleet .
Once again we are holding the Whitby Sea Angerls Forum winter uptiding competition with a top prize of £1000 to the angler with the biggist cod over the 2 week competition.
If your unfamiliar with this type of fishing just take a look at the results of last years competition to show what quality fish can be taken it was won with 20lb cod caught caught only 300yds from the shore plus stacks of cod between 3-7lb range
The competition will run from the Sun 2nd nov- Sat 17 th nov inclusive 2013 .
There is only 3 boats runnig this competition sea-otter 2 is one of them .
With a top prize of £1000 for the angler with the heaviest cod caught over the 2 weeks , this competition should once again be a major success.
Fishing times are 8am till 4pm each day.
There also prizes for 2nd and 3rd heaviest cod, as well as a prize for the heaviest fish of any other species. There is also a bonus prize for the heaviest bag of fish in the competition, as well as £50 for the heavist cod on the day.
So come lads, uptiding is great fun, catching quality fish in shallow water. Twenty pound+ cod have been caught here at Whitby whilst using the uptiding method. The fish are certainly there to be caught this year and we are anticipating some big catches.
Entry fee is £5 per angler, plus your boat charter fee . There is some fantastic prize money up for grabs, and only 3 boats can fish in this competition so its 1st come first served book early.
Uptiding Competition Prizes
1st Heaviest Cod £1000
2nd Heaviest Cod £150
3rd Heaviest Cod £100
Heaviest Bag Of Cod Over The Competition £100
Heaviest Any Other Species, All Legal Size Fish Are Eligible £100
Daily Prize For Heaviest Cod £50
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29/08/2013
Fishing Report by mark crame
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
29 Aug 2013 by mark crame
Report on-board High Flyer 2
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.
Shaun Zoka’s dive video here, he has quite a few wreck dives locally on his channel: [video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to_3hPxC6fE[/video]
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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Tim gets his:
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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!
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08/2013
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
Aug 2013 by Colin Penny
Report on-board Flamer IV
The Flamer IV Big Plaice competition produced six Plaice of 6Ib and over. With the winning fish weighing 6Ib 8oz caught by Steve Bennett age 56 from Cornwall(pictured).Lots of Personal bests were set and broken during the trip.Tim Neal 6Ib 2oz,Gary Bowdenham 4Ib 4oz,Dan Spearman 6Ib 1oz,Ian Laird, 5Ib 14oz and Steve Bennett 6Ib 8oz all broke their Personal bests twice on the trip.Ashley Storton landed a 6Ib 2oz Plaice which was the fourth time this year he had broken his Personal Best on Flamer IV.The successful baits were combinations of ragworm,prawn,lugworm and squid strips.
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30/08/2013
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
30 Aug 2013 by Paul Kilpatrick
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Had local builders K and D onboard yesterday and with a very small tide perfect combination for big ling to stick there noses out and sure enough that is exactly what happened first time boat fishing John Wood got belter of a ling my eletric scales got damaged the other day so it couldnt be weighed exact and my spring balance only go to 16lb and that bottomed out instantly with the weight of the fish it looked around the 18-20lb a bonny fish john was over the moon .
John with his whopper a big smile he took the sweep one of the lads lost one as big couldnt do nothing with just slipped the hook. View Boats Page
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29/08/2013
Fishing Report by grahame elliott
on Serenity (Amble, Northumberland)
29 Aug 2013 by grahame elliott
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A dads and lads special to get the kids interested a slow start until the tide turned then the kids showing the adults up AGAIN with James mitchell getting his 2lb 6oz cod a few mackerel aboard and a few wee cod to return a sighting of some porpoises and a basking shark a great day.
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29/08/2013
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
29 Aug 2013 by jon old
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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.
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29/08/2013
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
29 Aug 2013 by brian poppy
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Only a half day for Rik, Martin and Martin my secret mark came up with the goods again with 10 Rooker to 9lb and one lost fish only 2 Hounds appeared today conditions were just about perfect with these small tides the fishing is at its best hope you enjoy your fish and look forward to seeing you all again soon Brian
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28/08/2013
Fishing Report by Nigel Lihou
on Optimist (Brixham, Devon)
28 Aug 2013 by Nigel Lihou
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Great day out yesterday 28th August 20 miles out on a couple of large wrecks with a variety of species coming aboard including Cuckoo Wrasse, Pollack, Pouting, Gurnard, Whiting and Mackerel. the group fishing was from Gloucester and the west midlands. More trips planned.
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28/08/2013
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
28 Aug 2013 by brian poppy
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Conditions a lot better today with the tides eased we ran off the town to an area that has had us some Skate in the past and it did not let the party down 5 Rooker to 7lb coming into the boat a few spottys showing and 1 Hound hope you enjoy your fish and look forward to seeing you all again soon Brian
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