Latest Fishing Reports: Scotland
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05/2021
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
May 2021 by Kevin McKie
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The Tope fishing in Cardigan Bay has finally started to come in to its own, our best day so far has seen 49 Tope boated and returned, with most days seeing 15 to 30 Tope per day and this will only get better.
We have been extremely lucky to catch some cracking Tope to say the least, we have been using the shark measurements in inches,
girth x girth x length divided by 800 to calculate the weight of the big females to insure we don’t damage the heavily pregnant Tope.
Already we have been informed we should be weighing them in a cat fish sling like another skipper does on Anglesey.
So we decided to weigh and measure the first eight Tope we caught today and here is the results.
Measured weight, Actual weight,
Female 29lb 33lb,
Female 25.5lb 29lb,
Male 16.6lb 20lb,
Female 52.8lb 51lb,
Male 15.6lb 22lb,
Male 15.6lb. 26lb,
Female 16.2lb 19lb,
Female 27.5lb 34lb,
From now on we will leave it up to the anglers to decide if the want to weigh the fish in our Skate sling, use the shark measurement calculator or simply unhook it at the side of the boat.
The biggest Tope went to Luke Brennan from Preston it was his first ever Tope and measured out at 67lb 8oz it was an incredible fish a real tank.
Andy Finney from Essex caught a monster Tope that measured out at 63lb and was his first ever Tope.
Colin Higham from Preston has been fishing for over 40 years and he caught his biggest Tope it weighed 51lb.
We have also had a few young anglers fishing with us catching there first ever Tope, just listening to them chatting about how good a day they have had gives me jobs satisfaction and why I love what I do.
Big thanks to Holy Mackerel for sending us some oil that we have used in a recent Sea Angler Magazine article that will be out in the near future.
Sadly we are fully booked in Pwllheli for the rest of the year, we do have dates available for Skate fishing in Scotland.
NOVEMBER
Monday 1st £110 pp 2 places available
7am sailing.
Tuesday 2nd £110 pp 3 places available
7am sailing.
Monday 8th £110 pp 4 places available
7am sailing.
Tuesday 9th £110 pp 4 places available
7am sailing.
Tuesday 16th £110 pp 5 places available
7am sailing.
Wednesday 17th £110 pp 5 places available
7am sailing.
Thursday 18th £110 pp 5 places available
7am sailing.
Friday 19th £110 pp 5 places available
7am sailing.
Friday 26th £110 pp 6 places available
7am sailing.
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Pwllheli)
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26/05/2021
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
26 May 2021 by Paul Timoney
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Our plans for 200lb plus skate on Monday didn’t work at planned, the weather had other ideas for us! With strong westerly winds we opted for a hiding behind an island which got us nothing but a blank! Can’t win them all, but just shows that the water is still too cold for any general fishing on the mid west coast.
Tuesday was to be a much better day weather wise, so we set off to our chosen mark with that 200lb fish in mind. Once we got settled in on the anchor and got the baits down it wasn’t long before the action started! We spent 6 hours of constant skate battles, one rod would go, fish on the deck and then the next rod! Even had to bring one fish up myself ��. I’m really pleased the day worked the way it did for keen angler and Friend Marc, he finely got his fish, 210Lbs! ���� All day we fished 2 rods, didn’t have to check one bait as the skate had the lot. Just incredible fishing. All in all 12 skate were landed totalling 1139lbs. I’ve no idea how Marc managed to bring up 11 of these fish in 6 hours ��
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27/05/2021
Fishing Report by Paul Timoney
on Seadog charters (Oban, Argyll & Bute)
27 May 2021 by Paul Timoney
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Another couple of great days out in the sound:
Wednesday seen somewhat of a slow start for the bite to start, but wasn’t too long before the fish started coming to the boat. The day wasn’t with out it’s hiccups with a customers own TLD 25 breaking off at the reel seat! Not to worry the line was transferred to another rod and the fish brought up safely. Over all the average size was bigger than the day before with fish coming in at 182, 187, 119 and 195lbs.
Strangely enough there were another 2 skate landed, different fish but both had there tails missing, so no sizes there. Great to see them still healthy and compeating for baits ��
Today saw some more skate action but this time the greedy seal decided to pay us a visit for a few free meals! Skate landed came in at 195, 73, 99, 100, 72 and 201lbs! Great to see another magical 200 ������
Very lucky with the weather too with some proper may sun and calm conditions. Great time had by all our anglers, well done guys.
If your interested in booking a trip please get in touch
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05/2021
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
May 2021 by Kevin McKie
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Pwllheli marina has done an excellent job dredging the marina and entrance.
We now have 24 hour access to the marina on neap tides and now only restricted to 1.5 hours either side of low water on spring tides.
This now means we can operate even more efficiently with sensible sailing times especially helpful to anglers traveling from far and wide.
The Tope fishing was hard going with only 2 to 6 Tope per day but the last three Tope trips have been good with 41 Tope caught to 46lb and twice as many dropped.
At the moment we are still using frozen mackerel because it seems to be out fishing everything else, the Tope are very finicky when taking the bait making it much harder for anglers to set the hook and keep the line tight at all times.
Thankfully we have caught Tope on everyone of our Tope trips, long my this continue.
The wreck fishing has been amazing in the last few days some anglers are catching a fish every drift mostly Pollack to double figures, with a few Coalfish and odd Ling.
The biggest Pollack was caught by Stuart Pilkington a cracking fish of 15lb 4oz and a new Layland & District fishing club record.
We did have a very poor trip last week we had some guys on from London who wanted to go wrecking, the first wreck had plenty of small Pollack on to 6lb, I decided to try and find a better stamp of fish for the lads, as we went further off shore all the wrecks had fish on but would not feed.
Then I decided to go over 50 miles out to try and find feeding fish, only to come across French and UK war ships with helicopters hunting a submarine on exercise.
I know from fishing out of Plymouth when the Navy use the top secret sonar equipment to hunt submarines the fishing becomes very difficult indeed.
On that day we hardly seen any sea birds, no dolphins or seals that we see every day sailing from Pwllheli.
Sadly we are fully booked in Pwllheli for the rest of the year, we do have dates available for Skate fishing in Scotland.
NOVEMBER
Monday 1st £110 pp 1 place available
7am sailing.
Tuesday 2nd £110 pp 3 places available
7am sailing.
Wednesday 3rd £110 pp 6 places available 7am sailing.
Thursday 4th £110 pp 6 places available
7am sailing.
Monday 8th £110 pp 4 places available
7am sailing.
Tuesday 9th £110 pp 4 places available
7am sailing.
Thanks
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Pwllheli)
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15/05/2021
Fishing Report by DEREK ANDERSON
on Oceanic & Sagittarius (Eyemouth, Scottish Borders)
15 May 2021 by DEREK ANDERSON
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Well there has been a good run of cod last few days young Leon with his nice 5lb one
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03/05/2021
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
3 May 2021 by Kevin McKie
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The big Welsh girls have started to arrive in Cardigan bay and we have been catching some big female Tope.
Our biggest Tope was caught by Alan Bates from Manchester, the Tope was heavily pregnant so we decided not to weigh the fish to minimise stress so we measured the girth 31 inch and length (tip of nose to fork or the tail) 55.5 inch puts it at 66lb 6oz and is a new personal best for Alan well done, sorry the photo is not the best but we didn’t want to lift the fish too far off the deck and it was during the night so that doesn’t help to make a good photo.
Other Personal best Tope where caught by
Paul Williams 50lb 10oz,
Dave Jones 45lb 8oz,
Mark Thomas 42lb,
Robert Bamber 41lb,
Steve Williams 38lb,
Alan Jones 34lb,
Kevin Marples 33lb,
The Tope fishing has been very hit and miss on some days we are catching one or two other days we are catching up to 14, the lack of bait fish means the Tope are always on the move and no area has fished well two days in a row.
This has seen us moving five or six times per day trying to find the Tope, as more bait fish arrive the fishing will get much better and more consistent, from now till the end of June we hope to catch some very big Tope.
We have also started to catch the first Black Bream of the season along with Huss to 12lb, Grater Weaver, Ballan Wrasse, Pollack, Coalfish, Whiting, Scorpion Fish, Dogfish and Thornback Ray.
The wreck fishing has been excellent with our last trip producing 101 Pollack to 9lb 8oz with most of them averaging 5lb to 6lb for Layland SAC.
We have also seen fishing groups making good use of the mini bus return service from Liverpool to Pwllheli supplied by SDH Travel.
Sadly we are fully booked in Pwllheli for the rest of the year, we do have dates available for Skate fishing in Scotland during November, December, January and February.
Thanks
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Pwllheli)
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01/05/2021
Fishing Report by DEREK ANDERSON
on Oceanic & Sagittarius (Eyemouth, Scottish Borders)
1 May 2021 by DEREK ANDERSON
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A nice weekend of weather is upon us but not for long one of the better fish yesterday afternoon, the fish on the flood tide where small
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24/04/2021
Fishing Report by DEREK ANDERSON
on Oceanic & Sagittarius (Eyemouth, Scottish Borders)
24 Apr 2021 by DEREK ANDERSON
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Well it was a mixed bag at the weekend with dirty water at some areas, best trip was Saturday afternoon with a private charter & 5 lads on the pollock including skipper Ronnie
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22/04/2021
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
22 Apr 2021 by Kevin McKie
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The Tope fishing from Pwllheli on the bigger tides was looking very promising, on our best day we had Tope of 57lb, 54lb, 51lb and dropped 5 Tope in the first hour.
Then as the tide dropped away it was just Huss and Doggies, when the tide turned we had 2 more Tope of 36lb and 22lb.
As we where weighing the 57lb Tope in the sling the Tope regurgitate it’s stomach so we didn’t both with a photo and got it straight back in the water.
Over the next few days the Tope fishing was very difficult with very small tides, bright sun shine and crystal clear water.
We even tried a night fishing trip with lots of chum because the day before we got bitten off on 250lb mono.
Sadly we only managed the one Tope and Huss to 12lb, thankfully we have caught Tope on all of our Tope trips so far.
We also had our first wrecking trip of the season booked in, its was a 23 hour trip with some of my regulars.
I explained to the lads we mite be too early in the season to have a good day and I had not fish any of the wrecks since the 90s.
The first few wrecks where very poor with just a few small Pollack for our efforts, we decided to steam another hour more and then we hit the honey hole, every drift was 4 to 6 Pollack per drift to 8lb but most where 5lb to 6lb.
The lads stopped on just over 150 Pollack then we decided to try a few more wrecks for Cod or Ling but all we found was small Coalfish and Pollack.
We decided to put the anchor down for the last few hours over slack water with only Coalfish and Pollack for bait, two of the lads got smashed up by big fish on there light gear and they managed to catch Spurdog to 16lb, Huss to 14lb, Tope to 10lb and Doggies.
Not a bad day between just 6 of them, I would of loved to have a load of fresh mackerel at anchor on one of them deep water wrecks,
I think there are a few surprises down there that’s for sure.
Here is a full list of available dates from Pwllheli this summer onboard Size Matters.
APRIL
Monday 26th Tope/Mixed £85 pp
1 place available 8am sailing.
MAY
Tuesday 4th Wrecking £105pp
8 places available 3am sailing.
Wednesday 5th Tope/Mixed £85 pp
3 places available 5.30am sailing.
Monday 10th Tope/Mixed £85 pp
1 place available 8am sailing.
Monday 24th Tope/Mixed £85 pp
1 place available 7am sailing.
JUNE
Tuesday 8th Tope/Mixed £85 pp
1 place available 8am sailing.
Please remember all charters are 10 to 12 hours unless stated otherwise, all top of the range Shimano rods and reels are free to hire, you just have to pay for any tackle losses or damages.
Thanks
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Pwllheli)
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17/04/2021
Fishing Report by DEREK ANDERSON
on Oceanic & Sagittarius (Eyemouth, Scottish Borders)
17 Apr 2021 by DEREK ANDERSON
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Great to be back picked away all weekend here’s Dylan with his 4lb pollock
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