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25/09/2014
Fishing Report by Adrian Cawte
on Lillie May (Beer, Devon)
25 Sep 2014 by Adrian Cawte
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25/09/2014.
We set off from Beer just after 08:00 with five of us fishing, clear skies and a light wind.
A few hundred yards offshore we stopped for about fifteen minutes to feather for Mackerel to use as bait with everyone catching. That done the skipper, Paul took us a couple of miles out and we anchored over a reef on the falling tide.
My first cast brought in a Dogfish and not long after another angler, Marcus brought in a nice sized Gurnard.
From then on, the Black Bream started hitting our baits and they were coming aboard at a reasonable rate.
It took me a while to connect with one but while I was waiting I landed a Gurnard and a nice Thornback ray.
During the middle of the day on slack water, a shoal of Mackerel moved through and were taking the baits meant for Bream on the drop and on the retrieve. We all changed to feathers and had ten minutes of fast and furious action as we hauled in the fish, most hooks being filled on every drop.
That over, we went back onto the Bream. The action quietened down over slack water but there were enough knocks and the occasional fish to keep everyone interested.
As the tide swung in the early afternoon, the wind got up and pushed the swell up the channel. This made for some interesting fishing as the boat pitched but more importantly, the Bream were showing again with more regularity with everyone on board landing fish and I got four on board within about an hour and a half.
The fish were taking small slivers of Mackerel on small hooks. I think we were all using three hook traces with the bottom two hooks taking the fish.
Eventually good things come to an end and with conditions becoming ever more choppy the decision was made to head for the shore because it was fast becoming difficult to stand up and keep tackle boxes and gear from sliding around. On the return we again stopped for Mackerel but none were showing.
At the end of the day (between the five of us) we landed about 25 Bream weighing in between 1-2lb, 4 Dogfish, 3 Gurnard, a Thornback, countless Mackerel but more importantly we all had a thoroughly enjoyable day with fish showing continuously all day.
Many thanks to Paul for a great day and I think we will all look forward to a return trip very soon.
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07/2014
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Jul 2014 by Gethyn Owen
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After the a great time through June hopes were high of continuing the great run of form into July. Weather gods thought differently and we lost the first few days of July to some strong weather fronts. Towards the end of the first week in July everything started to settle down, for the first couple trips we were restricted to inshore fishing.
Despite wanting desperately to make our way out to Holyhead Deep, the sea state prevented such travels, undeterred anglers still had a great time afloat with a number of different species and what seemed to be an ever present number of smoothhound. Normally numbers start to dwindle with the hounds by the start of July, but this year the smaller sized hounds were around all the way through the month and beyond!
Our first trip to the deeps in /July came at the end of the first week, a mixed bag of individuals in search of some tope and spurdog along with a good few huss. We weren’t disappointed with most on board hooking into a good number of double figure sharks during our few hours offshore.
This settled spell continued for the week of trips afloat to Holyhead Deep. Those who sail with us regular know only too well just how important it is to get the weather conditions perfect. Not often do calm seas coincide with neap tides, a perfect recipe for travel beyond North & South Stack tidal races for some action in Holyhead Deep.
Either side of our anchor in the Deep, we tend to concentrate on inshore drifting with wrasse, pollack, coalies and if we are so extremely lucky mackerel making up the species list. I get a real buzz when drifting inshore.
If using light tackle, even a wrasse or pollack of a couple lb in weight can put up a mammoth fight, testing both angler and gear to the max.
We have some ultra light rods available for use aboard My Way – the small Yuki Ruby rods along with some of the fantastic HTO spinning rods from Tronix, these light yet very capable rods are more than capable of handling hard fighting wrasse and pollack from rocky marks. These rods also been used to land smoothhound well into double figures, with relative ease.
Following the initial few days of woe watching the winds get July underway, My Way sailed regularly barring the odd blip and 24hr weather front. Sadly though things came to an abrupt stop during the third week, when on the way back to the marina after a great day species hunting around Holyhead and Trearddur bay I started to sense something wrong. Not being the fastest boat on the sea, plus being my precious, you notice little things, small changes. And My Way wasn’t performing correctly. Long story short, heat exchanger / exhaust manifold was leaking! Decisions! Patch job or new? Well we went for new.
The unit had been on My Way since she had become part of our company, so the correct course of action really. A grand old cost aside, the worst of it all was that I had to cancel 2 trips. Two trips to Holyhead Deep when the weather was flat, calm and sunny.
In 10 years I've never had to do this and it felt bad! Fortunately the vast majority of the crews that board My Way are great, many of whom have become friends, every one I spoke to appreciated the situation and the need for me to do a 'proper' job! After all our safety at sea is paramount!
Well, everyone except for one person, he had been looking forward to the trip for a whole year and I had ruined everything for him! Not intentional ... cheers for the understanding pal … :p
Once fixed and tested, straight out to the deeps, and back into the action. tope, spurs an big huss.
Fortunately July was full of neap tides and settled weather, and we certainly made the most. With regular outings to the deeper water resulting in successful catches for most anglers, many recording either their first tope or spurdog whilst with us. With Holyhead having quite a tidal range, the Deeps is not always favorable. Tides over 28ft and we struggle to maintain contact with the bottom, not friendliest form of fishing with 3lb of lead and naturally with the bigger tides, the window of opportunity drops. So a 3lb lead for merely an hour is not quite worth it in our day. So when the tides grow, we remain inshore and target an array of species at anchor and on the drift.
Another highly enjoyable month afloat from Holyhead Marina, aboard My Way. We are extremely fortunate to have such varied fishing available to us, and with some great anglers, novice and experienced, perfect for a fun packed day afloat.
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19/09/2014
Fishing Report by Frank Ridley
on Heidi J (Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire)
19 Sep 2014 by Frank Ridley
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Another successful week for HEIDI J again in Bridlington sea fishing week 2014 winning 3 days out of five ,after winning 4 days out of five the year before 2013,in bridlington sea fishing competion week ,some successful wrecking trips the last few months, here is a picture of friday in fishing weeks catch with one one the fish winning the days competion
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25/09/2014
Fishing Report by chris Mole
on Enterprise (West Mersea, Essex)
25 Sep 2014 by chris Mole
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codling and COD showing
been having good mixed bag this last 2 weeks with
skate , cod ,codling,bass,hounds,eels,soles,whiting, dabs
and spottys, looking good ?
TIGHT LINES CHRIS View Boats Page
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24/09/2014
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
24 Sep 2014 by brian poppy
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Fishing has been at its best over the last few weeks and this has been the first chance ive had to put in a report,plenty of Rooker have been coming out with Bass running good in the big tides on certan marks that only fish when the strong tides are flowing like this weekend i hope i can get to this mark as iam sure we will find some big Bass,loads of Hounds and Spottys with Whiting and Cod now showing iam pretty sure it will be an improvement on last season with some good sized fish putting in an appearance,Brian
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22/09/2014
Fishing Report by Carl Davies
on Gwen-Paul-M (Conwy, Conwy)
22 Sep 2014 by Carl Davies
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Beautiful weather made for a pleasant steam to the offshore wrecks yesterday. Steady pollack fishing to a weight of 9lb was realised for most of the day.
Another calm day today made it easy to anchor on a couple of inshore wrecks. Noteable fish caught were 4 congers to 26lb, together with an 8lb ling, a couple of bull huss and a ray. Mackerel have been plentiful over the last couple of days inshore which has meant fresh bait has been readily available.
I have few spaces on a couple of trips over the next week or so.
Cheers, Carl. View Boats Page
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20/09/2014
Fishing Report by Simon Fisher
on Becca Marie (Brixham, Devon)
20 Sep 2014 by Simon Fisher
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September has been dominated by eastly winds which on some days made fishing difficult, we also cancelled a fair few trips during the Torbay Fishing festival due to the weather as saftey and comfort of our Anglers is most important to us...... That said we have had some calmer days and on these the fishing has been great.
Again we`ve been targeting Ling and have had some great sport on our 10hr trips, seeing plenty of Quality Ling coming to the net. Aswell as Ling we`ve even landed Conger on the drift......
The Pollock are still coming up when the tide is running but as yet still no massive fish but nice table size of 5-8lb. Cod are also still about and we are planning individuals trips to target these late sept and through out till Christmas before the boat is taken out...... We plan to be out for January and back in for Feb ready for the monster Pollock. so anyone wanting trips during the winter months dont hesitate in contacting us.
We also have some Individuals Wreck fishing for Bass coming up............hope to see you onboard soon View Boats Page
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20/09/2014
Fishing Report by Malcolm Collins
on Just Mary (Christchurch, Dorset)
20 Sep 2014 by Malcolm Collins
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Hi All ! A weekend of two totally different days so much so that you would hardly think that it was the same week or the same month ! Singles/Individuals Day on Saturday with the regulars including Tom and Johnnie the Brickies, Kev the Chippie, Gary the Builder and the 'overseas contingent' of Mac from the Emerald Isle and Alec from Jockland (and I only ribbed him a bit about the Vote outcome - honest ! Anyway Saturday was misty, murky and downright miserable ....but....the Sea was flat calm.....not a breath.....so with a nice Neap tide we set off down to the West off the Jurassic Coast. Slow start but then.....wow ! Big Tope, Big Congers, Big Rays and some Big Bream.....and plenty of rod bending, arm wrenching action for the boys onboard. We must have had over 200lb of fish and pulling them up in 120 foot of water is not to be sniffed at.....you come and try it ! Great day and I'm pleased that Dan, Tom's mate, took some photos coz my old iPhone 3 had a wobbly moment and didn't store any of my 20 odd pics.....grrrrrrrr !
Sunday was totally different, bright Sun, no mist or fog or drizzle and it was hot ! Sadly it was also breezy and from the North East, and I hate bloody Easterlies. Even so we fished a deep mark out towards the Needles and recorded some interesting fish. Big Pout and a solitary Whiting mean that the Autumn is here and we'll have Cod soon. The rest was an Undulate for the Organiser Colin Moors plus a small Conger and some Bream. I think the hire rod lads best enjoyed the Mackerel and Scad fishing and the wind never did die off like the good old Met Office said it would.....40 million pound Computer and they still can't get it right !
Until next time, tight lines ! Malc..... View Boats Page
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23/09/2014
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
23 Sep 2014 by Paul Kilpatrick
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We are right in the middle of late summer festival and there has neen some excellent fishing stacks of ling the best on sea-otter 2 just short of 20lb but we had cod around the 15lb mark as well so belting fishing for the lads .
Its now not far away to winter cod fishing uptiding festival with over £4000 in prize money on offer over the 2 week competition if the uptiding is anything to go by as to last winter we are in for winter cod frenzy once again the signs look very good indeed a top prize £1000 to angler with the biggist cod over the competition this year we have a top ten leader board with some great prizes plus £125 in dailys as well this is a cod competition so you know just what you are going to catch its all to play for.
The festival starts on the 1st november - 16th november .
Its being ling time over the last week this is a nice fish a 20lb ling. View Boats Page
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20/09/2014
Fishing Report by tony shortall
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
20 Sep 2014 by tony shortall
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yet another great days fishing with kev for the lads from southport sea angling club, the mackeral have been thin on the ground this year but kev put us on them and after bagging up off we went to fish a wreck to total 12 species including bull huss to 14lb all the lads caught fish and had a geat day out not forgetting rounding the trip off with kevs famous chicken curry nice one la, kev even arranged free parking!! looking forward to the winter cod fishing, any anglers wanting to go charter fishing should call kev first..
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