Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom
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04/2014
Fishing Report by Bob Marshall
on Duke IV (Ramsgate, Kent)
Apr 2014 by Bob Marshall
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Great sport with the Smoothounds now with Marcs group landing l5 last Saturday, Marcins group today had Hounds, Skate, Gurnard & chunky Whiting The Hounds have a particular taste for peeler crab bait, although we have been catching them on lug, herring and squid so the early birds are hungry and feeding on anything that's going!
Plenty of Skate around now with a good chance of large catches, herring remains the bait of choice but a good chunk of squid often works well.
A few Bass being landed so hopefully more on the way, lug a good bait with hokkies and feathers good when the water clears. We are gearing up for the wreck fishing now with space available on 24th April.
This time of year can be seen as the pinnacle time for fishing with new fish arriving all the time whilst still plenty of quality Whiting and Codling still around!
Pic shows Peter with a tasty Gurnard
Roll on summer!!!
Tight lines Bob Duke IV
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05/04/2014
Fishing Report by Mick Leonard
on Avante (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
5 Apr 2014 by Mick Leonard
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Well it's the start of the first of our boat fishing festivals here in Whitby and the weather looks settled at the moment which can be a problem this time of the year anglers on the avante will be looking for the big one today and I will send another report of results later this week
Over the years I have found large pollock can be found on some of the wrecks early in the season which give good sport as well as good eating the fishing has been great inshore lately and no doubt some days during the festival we will try a bit of uptiding on the better tides which hopefully will produce some Codlings but usually the type of angler who enters a one fish takes all competition prefers the wrecks and ground with big baits hoping to land that £1000 cash prize lets hope we can give a good show today the first day it's always great to get in the daily prizes from the off good luck to everyone especially to my anglers who continue to support me and avante and Whitby tight lines
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04/2014
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
Apr 2014 by Colin Penny
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Ian Youngs age 63 from Loders,Dorset landed two Personal Best fish while fishing at anchor on a Bank to the East of Weymouth.First Ian landed a 17Ib Undulate Ray (Pictured) and new PB and later in the day landed a 15Ib 12oz Spurdog another PB. Both fish were returned alive. Ian was using 20Ib class tackle with a pennel rig of Sakuma 6/0 and 4/0 hooks baited with a cocktail of Ammo squid and mackerel. Such is quality of fish being caught during anchored sessions aboard Flamer IV on Banks and Reefs.
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03/04/2014
Fishing Report by Les Jones
on White Maiden II (Lymington, Hampshire)
3 Apr 2014 by Les Jones
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Last Monday we had a reasonable enough morning forecast to venture out for a decent fish on a small tide before the wind picked up as promised. The total catch ended with Congers of 40lb, 35lb, 23lb, 21lb 12lb, 7lb, 6lb and nothing else. So just Congers and some good fun was had by most. Pictured left is Simon with his 40lb'er expertly controlled to take a fiver from the other five anglers for the biggest fish.
Point of interest I have just completed my Professional Practices and Responsibilities course and passed the assessment. Actually it was very good and really worthwhile getting to grips again with the legislation around our boat work. The outcome for me is a more detailed safety brief and a request for signatures from the anglers to accept the risk before we cast off.
The PBA AGM last Wednesday was interesting too; another directive is in the pipeline for all newly built vessels to have accommodation quarters for crews if they intend to go over to France and the Channel Islands! Be warned, be aware and be a PBA member, their fighting fund is to support us in our professional roles.
This week Rays are showing well inshore. I have been busy with RNLI duties this week but if anyone wants a trip midweek I have dates and spaces, weekends are busy now with fishing charters. View Boats Page
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02/04/2014
Fishing Report by Dave Lumley
on Famous (Hartlepool, Durham)
2 Apr 2014 by Dave Lumley
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Hi
It seems like its been along winter but here we are fingers crossed ready and raring to go lets hope the fish are too
Just had the lovely lady out of the water for a fresh lick of antifoul
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02/04/2014
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
2 Apr 2014 by Paul Kilpatrick
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Another blinder of a day uptiding on sea-otter 2 these 3 had a hell of day the lady onboard got her best ever cod there was around 50 cod on the boat more to come.
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02/04/2014
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
2 Apr 2014 by Rich Cope
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Another fantastic days fishing today, I had nothing booked until my pal Mozzer phoned and asked if i was going, well I couldn't let the lad down!
With the uptiding fishing so well lately we had another crack at it. Id marked a ledge the other day so was keen to get back out and have a crack at it, it payed off for us taking a steady stream of fish all morning and early afternoon until the turn of the tide, by which time we'd managed to rake up around 40 cod between us.
worm, squid and cart taking the fish
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01/04/2014
Fishing Report by peter stubbs
on Sapphire charters (Sunderland, Tyne and Wear)
1 Apr 2014 by peter stubbs
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Uptiding trip out Tuesday 1st april we had some bait left over from weekend with trips cancel due to weather so had to use it up, weather today dull bit sea run good colour in water and cod still here good 4hrs 12 cod keeps 10 going back just me and a friend,
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02/04/2014
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
2 Apr 2014 by David Hancock
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WOOHOO !
The fishing starts NOW !
After a winter rest and a repaint for the boat we're back and in action .
Cod and pollock are showing on the wrecks and the Cod and Bass fishing will only improve over the next few weeks.
Lots of Skate are showing inshore and over the next few weeks the Early Big Bass will show inshore.
The inshore rock marks will fish well with either peeler crab or Lug/Rag baits for Bass.
Herring/Bluey or Squid baits will work best for the Thornback Rays that are prolific at the Goodwin Sands.
Plaice and Turbot are showing at the offshore banks.
Keep it tight,
Dave.
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03/2014
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Mar 2014 by Scott Belbin
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March was a good month for us around the thames estuary. The improvement in weather must have helped all of the skippers and anglers through out the country get afloat. we were out there too making the most of the weather. The rise in temperature early in the month helped the numbers of thorn-backs increase. We have had some good catches of them in January and February and numbers increased into early march with our best day 37. we also managed to get offshore for a trip in search of an early spurdog or late cod. We found a couple of spurs and landed one cod with several good fish lost as is often the case. There were a few thorn-backs known locally as roker) off here too and all in all it was a good day with some interesting sights as I mentioned on my report on my site. The biggest spur fell to Neil at 15.4lbs and he's pictured whilst juggling it.
As the month moved on a bit of cold air from the north seems to have slowed the roker numbers down a little inshore as these fish can be pushed to deeper water by colder weather. Im sure with the current warmer weather and daylight hours increasing the main spring run of roker will be in on the next set of tides.
We had our first bass at the start of the month and I’ve heard of the odd one or two mixed in with catches aboard other boats and I’m sure they will feature more regularly in the coming weeks.
We’ve still had a few sizeable codling mixed in with our catches in places and there's loads of undersized fish that aren't worth counting but will be great sport come the autumn. We will still see the odd codling mixed in and I hope to get offshore in the coming weeks in search of one or two bigger fish along with the spurdogs before its too late.
Over the coming weeks we will be mainly targetting the roker but will turn our attention to the bass if the opportunity should arise. As I mentioned there is still a good chance of the odd decent cod if we can get to the right places but if not there will be plenty of fun, sheltered fishing inshore.
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