Latest Fishing Reports: Highlands and Islands
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03/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Mar 2016 by Kevin McKie
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Well there she goes, sailing from Liverpool to Brighton with her new owner.
Brigand has served me well over the last 4 years, it was the perfect charter boat to get started with. I must admit it's been hard work and very long hours to build my business but it's all been worth while.
I have met so many good people since I started and most are now good friends, thank you to everyone who helped make Brigand a success.
Now the time has come to take the next step for a bigger, better and faster charter boat. So watch this spaces because SIZE really does MATTER!!
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03/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Mar 2016 by Kevin McKie
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We where back on the Mersey again today with a group of lads from Winsford and they come loaded up with a bag of bananas.
A big no no on most charter boats as they bring bad luck and after the winter we have had we didn't need anymore of that.
The day started of very slow so the blame was on the bananas ha ha (any excuse will do). But as the flood tide kicked in the cod where on the move, best we had was
5lb 8oz, along with plenty of good size whiting and micro cod. Even I had a go and caught a few cod to 4lb, it's very rare I fish when I have a charter as I like to help everyone onboard as much as I can.
Your last chance to fish onboard Brigand is this Friday, I have 7 places available!
Cheers
Kev
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02/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Feb 2016 by Kevin McKie
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After a very hard day fishing off shore yesterday, it was a great sight to see the lads catching cod in the Mersey today!
Best cod went 6lb 10oz and all the cod caught where fresh run cod. We mite just start getting a later winter run.
This is the last week Brigand will be on the Mersey before she moves to the south coast with her new owner.
Here are the last available dates.
Tuesday 5 places available,
Wednesday 9 places available,
Friday 7 places available,
Cheers
Kev
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27/02/2016
Fishing Report by Moira Smith
on Spirit of Adventure (Kyle of Lochalsh, Highland)
27 Feb 2016 by Moira Smith
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Almost ready for the 2016 season. First trips start out on the 22nd March. Book ahead or call the day before to secure your place onboard. We do trips most days, evening trips also available. Varied fishing available.. We will be submitting fishing reports as the season develops.
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02/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Feb 2016 by Kevin McKie
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Fishing in the Mersey over the last four days has been up and down, catching cod up to 6lb 10oz, thornback ray to 6lb, whiting and dabs. Some anglers are catching up to six cod per trip and some are just catching the odd one. They are all using the same bait and rigs, but that's fishing for you!
Here is a list of my next available dates!!
Monday 15th 4 places,
Tuesday 16th 8 places,
Wednesday 17th 9 places,
Sunday 21st 9 places,
Monday 22nd 9 places,
Give me a call on 07999628511 if you would like to book a trip.
Cheers
Kev View Boats Page
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01/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Jan 2016 by Kevin McKie
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Just got home after doing a Saturday night charter and then a Sunday day charter.
We caught cod to 9lb 2oz, rays to 5lb whiting and dabs. The cod are getting bigger on each set of neap tides but the big numbers are not there, maybe they will arrive in the coming weeks.
I have a got a few places available this week if you fancy getting out and having ago.
Wednesday 3rd 4 places,
Thursday 4th 3 places,
Friday 5th 2 places,
Cheers
Kev
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01/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Jan 2016 by Kevin McKie
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Over the last week there have been some nice cod getting caught in the Mersey.
The biggest I have heard of is 12lb with a few around 9lb to 10lb. On Brigand we have been catching up to 12 cod per day to 7lb 10oz (most are about 5lb to 6lb), thornback ray to 5lb, whiting to 1lb 8oz and dabs.
On two of the days we fished spring tides, one day we fished a mark about 3 miles from new brighton. We caught hundreds of whiting and dabs along with the odd codling to 3lb, flounder to 1lb 8oz and small thornback rays. On the second day we fished the Mersey mostly targeting the back eddies and marks where we could get out the main tide flow. We caught our biggest cod of the season so far 8lb 12oz, a long with a few more around the 4lb mark. There was still plenty of whiting and dabs to be caught over low water, with one angler catching six dabs on a six hook trace I have never seen that done before.
During February we will be doing a few more charters on spring tides and if the weather is kind we will venture off shore if anglers are willing to give it ago.
Here is a list of available dates during February.
Monday 1st whole boat available,
Tuesday 2nd whole boat available,
Wednesday 3rd 6 places available,
Thursday 4th 4 places available,
Friday 5th 1 place available,
Sunday 7th 5 places available,
Sunday 14th 7 places available,
Monday 15th whole boat available,
Tuesday 16th 8 places available,
Wednesday 17th whole boat available,
Thursday 18th 3 places available,
If you would like information or book any of these dates give me a call on 07999628511.
Cheers
Kev View Boats Page
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01/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Jan 2016 by Kevin McKie
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Finally with all the flood water gone and temperature starting to drop we are starting to see the cod fishing on the Mersey improving.
During the last 5 charters we had only one hard day the other days we caught up to 16 coding from 2lb to 8lb per day with most of them around the 5lb mark. We also caught thornback rays to 8lb 12oz, plenty of whiting to 2lb and dabs. A few small boat anglers have been doing well catching cod to 10lb with quite a few around the 8lb mark as well so they are there you just need to fish big baits for them. The way things are going this winter season, it looks like we are just starting to get the main cod run. So I have decided to put a few extra weekend dates
on, the tides are around 29ft to 30ft. This just means we will have to move around the Mersey more often to get out of the main run of tide. As always we just need mother nature on our side, no more heavy rain, no gales from the NW or SE and we should see some very good catches of cod throughout the coming months.
Here is a list of available dates in January,
Saturday 16th 1 place,
Sunday 17th 1 place,
Monday 18th 1 place,
Friday 22nd whole boat available,
Saturday 23rd 3 places,
Sunday 24th whole boat available,
Sunday 31st 2 places available,
If you would like to book any of these dates just give me a call on 07999628511.
Cheers
Kev View Boats Page
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12/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Dec 2015 by Kevin McKie
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With 2015 coming to an end I would like to take this opportunity to thank all customers and friends who have helped make Brigand a success over the last 3 years.
2015 will be well remembered for being the worst year ever for strong winds anyone can remember. Brigand was fully booked for 174 days more than any other year and we only managed to get to sea 109 days.
When we did manage to get out there was some very good fishing to be had, at the start of the year we where catching 30 to 70 codling and cod to 10lb. This was the best cod season on the Mersey for the last 20 years and this continued up till mid May. This was then time for the smoothound we caught more double figure fish than ever before with the best being 14lb 8oz.
By the time the summer kicked in we where catching cod, ling and pollack on the wrecks but not as good as previous years. The tope fishing was much better this year than the last few years, with lots of anglers catching personal bests. The highlight of the year was the two week charter to the Isle of Man, where we caught loads of tope to 70lb 4oz, spurdog to 18lb, cod, ling, pollack, coalfish, bull huss, wrasse, whiting, pouting, gurnard, and many more. We even caught several black mouth dog fish, first time I have ever seen them in real life.
There are some big changes for 2016, In March Brigand will move to Newhaven marina to be used as a pleasure boat with its new owner.
Then from March 18th I will be skippering Size Matters based in Plymouth, those of you who have fished on this boat before will know it's one of the best charter fishing boats in the UK.
On October 20th Size Matters will move to Liverpool for the winter cod fishing season, then each year we will be fishing both ports. Plymouth April to October and Liverpool November to March, we have been taking bookings for 2016 at both ports. If you would like any info on booking a charter please contact me on 07999628511.
Happy New Year and all the best for 2016.
Cheers
Kev View Boats Page
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12/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Dec 2015 by Kevin McKie
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Cod fishing on the Mersey over the last six days has been hard going at times to say the least. This must be due to the unusual warm temperatures for this time of year and all the rain water we are getting.
We still managed a few nice fish,
Cod to 8lb 8oz, Thornback rays to 8lb, loads of Whiting to 2lb and Dabs. Things can only get better as they say!
Here are a list of available dates onboard Brigand in January.
5th 1 place,
6th 5 places,
18th 6 places,
We would like to wish everyone a very
Merry Christmas.
Cheers
Kev View Boats Page
