Latest Fishing Reports: Scotland
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20/09/2015
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
20 Sep 2015 by dominic wilson
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had alan and the "clyde specimen hunters" on today on a day that threatened rain but dealt us a snotty SE wind instead
most of the day was spent at anchor and 11 species caught in totalincluding :
6 huss...best 8.5lb another at 7.25 lb and 4 smaller others
1 smoothound at 9.75lb
pollack upto 7.5lb and about 50 of those landed......they really are starting to feed well in good numbers in the weed....chrome leadheads and ragworm were the order of the day
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19/09/2015
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
19 Sep 2015 by dominic wilson
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had graham chappel and his boys on...caught 13 different species and the pollack fishing was great
best went just shy of 9lb caught on mackerel strip and flowing trace in 18ft of water View Boats Page
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18/09/2015
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
18 Sep 2015 by dominic wilson
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the wind has played havoc with the fishing ,but a calm (ish) spell 18-20 let us out to sea.
the main stay of species has been cod haddock whiting dab coalie all 3 gurnards dogfish and then a sprinkling of huss,spurs and smoothies
pollack fishing close in has improved considerably as has the stamp of fish.....mackerel belly,sandeel or ragworm on a leadhead/flowing trace has done the damage.....about 40 pollack today with the best a shade under 10lb View Boats Page
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09/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2015 by Kevin McKie
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Hi everyone, just to let you all know as of March 17th 2016, I will be skippering one of the uk's top charter boats the 45ft Size Matters out of Plymouth. Graham Hannaford the owner has been skippering boats out of Plymouth for over 40 years and is regarded as one of the best skippers in the UK. I have personally fished with Graham as an angler for the last 18 years, catching conger to 86lb, ling to 28lb, cod to 21lb, pollack to 17lb plus many more. He is going to pass down all his knowledge of fishing and skippering to me. This will be a very good challenge for me and anyone who has met me or knows me will know I am a mad keen angler as well as a skipper. We will work the boat together for the spring and summer of 2016, the boat will then move to Liverpool on October 17th 2016 for the winter cod season. Each year from then on I will be operating from Liverpool October to March and from Plymouth April to October.
Operating from Plymouth I will be mostly targeting Cod, Coalfish, Pollack, Ling, Conger and Sharks.
I will also be running 5 day charters to Guernsey for bass, turbot and brill.
If you would like more information on available dates for 2016 please let me know and I will send you a list of available dates.
You can see the boat and the catches at
www.plymouthcharter.co.uk
I would like to say a big thank you to everyone who has already booked with us up to now for 2016!
Regards
Kevin Mckie
Brigand Charters
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09/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2015 by Kevin McKie
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Managed to get out Sunday and Monday, the plan both days was to fish for tope for the last time this year.
On Sunday I headed to a tope mark that has produced well for me this year, but the fishing was poor not one tope run and only a few bullhuss to 10lb, dogfish, tub gurnard, mackerel and whiting to show for our efforts.
On Monday I decided to go well off shore to some deep water, where I thought the tope mite be as they migrate for winter.
First drop a small tope 24lb and then the rays moved in lots of them up to 11lb 8oz followed by some nice bullhuss to 12lb. There was plenty of mackerel off shore as well, this is why the fishing was much better than the day before. The summer is coming to an end now, I have one last set of neap tides to fish off shore then I will start to fish the Mersey in October for the winter cod and rays.
Here are my last available dates to fish off shore for this year.
Tuesday September 22nd 5 places
available. Conger/wrecking fishing.
Wednesday September 23rd 1 place available. Wrecking.
Thursday September 24th 2 places available. Conger/wrecking.
Friday September 25th 2 places available. Conger/wrecking.
If you would like to book any of these dates please get in touch.
Cheers
Kev
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09/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2015 by Kevin McKie
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Well the week long charter in the Isle of Man has come to an end, what a cracking time we have had with most lads catching personal bests.
Plenty of Tope to 28lb, Spurdog to 18lb, Bullhuss to 12lb, Ling to 8lb, Pollack to 7lb, Cod to 5lb, Coalfish to 4lb, Ballan Wrasse to 4lb, Cockoo Wrasse, Tub Gurnard, Red Gurnard, Gray Gurnard, Whiting, Pouting, Dogfish, Dab, Launce, Mackerel and Blackmouth Dogfish!!
Never seen one before, what a strange but a nice looking fish.
Big thanks to all the lads for all there help who booked to make the week possible.
Brigand is now back in Liverpool ready for charters this weekend.
Here are dates available this month!
Monday 14th 5 places,
Tuesday 22nd 2 places,
Wednesday 23rd 3 places,
Friday 25th 3 places,
Cheers
Kev
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06/09/2015
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
6 Sep 2015 by dominic wilson
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stewart walker and boys (sunday)
nw and n winds have plagued us all week and limited the distance we could travel for safety reasons
we did manage half day saturday and got some codling on uptided mackerel along with doggies gurnards whiting coalies and pollack
sunday was less windy and spent mainly at anchor..we managed :
3 bearded rockling(30 cm long )
huss 9lb 12oz
codling whiting mackerel and
tub gurnard 4lb 6oz !!! View Boats Page
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09/2015
Fishing Report by Moira Smith
on Spirit of Adventure (Kyle of Lochalsh, Highland)
Sep 2015 by Moira Smith
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2015 Report (07/09/15 better late than never!) - Been too busy to keep up to date! To summarise the season so far, there has not been a day without good fishing since we started up in April. Big pollock at some of our prime sites, and lots of them. Cod just about everywhere we go. Mackeral came early and will still be around for several months to come. Tope, Spur dog and smooth hound caught frequently this year. Thorn backs in abundance. Going to keep fishing up to 30th November.
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09/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2015 by Kevin McKie
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They say lighting never strikes in the same place twice, well it did today on Brigand.
After that monster tope yesterday of 67lb 3oz caught by Tony, he starts the day off with a tope of 43lb followed by another big tope length 67 inch, girth 25 inch = 52lb 3oz very good fish. I then got my fishing head on and landed the biggest tope I have ever seen. At one point we had to let over 300ft of rope out on the anchor just to keep up with it. After an epic fight we had it on deck it was a team effort with the net it just about fitted in. It tipped the scales at 72lb in the net, the length was 67 inch and girth was 29 inch = 70lb 4oz!!! The photo does not do the fish justice!! I am made up with the size of the tope we are getting!!! Big thanks to tony for his help.
Now that's the boat record!!!
Cheers
Kev View Boats Page
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09/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2015 by Kevin McKie
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Tony had never caught a tope up until yesterday when he caught a 40lb tope after a bit of guidance (shouting) from me. Today he fished his socks off catching pollack to 6lb,
spurdog to 16lb tope to 26lb and in the last 15 minutes of the trip he hook and landed a monster tope. We weight the tope in the net and it bottomed out my 60lb scales, then I got my other set out that go to 250lb but they hadn't been used for a few years. It tipped the scales at just over 68lb in the net, so we measured the length and girth because it was so big 64 inch length x 29 inch girth = 67lb 3oz!!! New boat record, well done Tony Mcquillan. View Boats Page
