Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom

  • 19/10/2013 Fishing Report by peter stubbs on Sapphire charters (Sunderland, Tyne and Wear)

    19 Oct 2013 by peter stubbs

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    LETS ALL DO THE CONGER what a surprize today uptiding in 30ft water big south east sea running 2 to 3mt swell 1st small cod came up then one lad had a bite with his rod bent we all new something good coming none of us ever though it was a conger in at just over 10lb and a PB for the angler from Stockton Phil heirs, Also taken today cod to 4lb and some good pouts to 3lb most of all the fish were taken fresh blacks,

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  • 10/2013 Fishing Report by Rich Cope on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    Oct 2013 by Rich Cope

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    Whitby Sea Anglers Uptide Festival. - November 2nd - November 17th

    This will be our last competition of the year, Its was very popular last year, so we have extended it to two weeks.

    We have secured a brand new Main Sponsor for the event this year `The Middle Earth Tavern' giving us a massive prize pool, Top prize for the biggest Cod, gets a WHOPPING £1000!!!

    Heres a break down of the prize pool;

    - 1st Heaviest Cod £1000
    - 2nd Heaviest Cod £150
    - 3rd Heaviest Cod £100

    - Heaviest Bag Of Cod Over The Competition £100

    - Heaviest Any Other Species, All Legal Size Fish Are Eligible £100

    - Daily Prize For Heaviest Cod £50
    - Daily prize for the 2nd heaviest cod £25
    - Daily prize for the heaviest bag £25

    Entry fee is only £5 per angler on top of the charter cost which will be £45,
    last years event was huge with some massive bags landed and fish over 20lb caught

    we still have some spaces available so if you're interested drop me a line on 07977 436903 or drop me an E-mail,

    Tight Lines

    Rich

    Pictured is one of our best fish Uptiding last year - Local Angler Paul Britton

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  • 01/10/2013 Fishing Report by Sam Cumming on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)

    1 Oct 2013 by Sam Cumming

    Report on-board Silver Spray II

    Fishing this last month hasn’t been the usual thing we do at this time of year, rather than heading offshore on the spring tides to hunt down the last of the bass we have been staying inshore targeting plaice which have been in abundance both in Poole Bay and down to the west. Using short traces of 20lb line with 1/0 kamasan hooks baited with rag worm and raw king prawns we have had some of the best plaice I’ve seen thus far. It has been nice to use some lighter tackle and target some smaller species for a change as a lot of the fishing onboard Silver Spray II is done further afield. Also in abundance have been both tub and red gurnard, always good fun on appropriate tackle, Andy Hayden beat over 30 flatties one day with his 1lb 12oz red gurnard which is well over 100% specimen. Our last trip across the channel fell on the first few days in October; we decided to combine the best bits of both Cherbourg and Alderney with great success. Pollock and ling of the wrecks on the first day were in abundance with several ling to 22lb hitting, the biggest one was brought to the surface on a 25lb mono bream rig!! On the second day we took the tide round Cap de la Hague, 27miles only took about 1 hour 20 minutes, and fished down on the shoal bank south of Alderney. I didn’t expect the turbot and brill fishing to be excellent but I was gladly surprised when a half day session produced 16 decent flats. After a few more hours on the banks the third day focused on bream, the hard fighting black bream being in abundance on the north side of the island. One species I have never had aboard Silver Spray II is a couches sea bream, lilac in colour they really are a beautiful fish, despite our best efforts we didn’t manage to connect with one but after one of the most enjoyable multi day trips of the year I will definitely be doing another one at the same time next year.
    Sam Cumming
    Silver Spray II

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  • 11/10/2013 Fishing Report by David Lumley on TRIO lll (Hartlepool, Durham)

    11 Oct 2013 by David Lumley

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    hi its been a bad start to October with strong northerly winds blowing off most of the trips this month
    but when we did get out prior to the wind blowing we had some great cod biggest 23lb and plenty of good doublers let hope there are still some about for those lucky enough to get out there

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  • 15/10/2013 Fishing Report by brian poppy on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)

    15 Oct 2013 by brian poppy

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    Ran off to the Newcome Bank as there are only small fish coming from close in but it proved to be much the same plenty of fish to keep the boys busy but not what we were looking for after 3hrs on the mark we deciced to come in a bit to the s/home area where there were still loads of Whiting and Spottys as well we could not find any decent Cod its still a bit early for them hopefully end of November when water temps drop a bit,BP.

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  • 15/10/2013 Fishing Report by Nick Shennan on Goldilocks (Rhyl, Denbighshire)

    15 Oct 2013 by Nick Shennan

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    Have had 3 trips this year with Gwyn on Goldilocks - all have produced good catches with Gwyn working tirelessly to ensure the boat stayed in the fish.
    Latest trip was 15th October from Liverpool - weather was fantastic, company on board excellent and lots of rays, whiting, and of course doggies, to keep us busy! No cod unfortunately - maybe next time!

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  • 15/10/2013 Fishing Report by Richard Fincham on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)

    15 Oct 2013 by Richard Fincham

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    Headed out for a days fishing on Lead us yesterday with Mark and skipper Colin.
    steamed along the coast for a little while to the usual spot. was a bit of wind blowing but but not much swell.
    started fishing about 10am. the fish were coming in nice and steady all day some lovely codling and whiting coming aboard all day with the odd spotty dog and dab thrown in for good measure, the wind started to pick up with the turn of the tide and it became a bit bumpy fish through until 4pm and called it a day ended up with 23 nice codling around 60 whiting 3 nice sized dabs and half a dozen nice dogfish

    a great days fishing with good company will defo be heading out again some time soon :)

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  • 15/10/2013 Fishing Report by Colin De Block on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)

    15 Oct 2013 by Colin De Block

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    out of Lowestoft on Lead Us 15/10/13
    last minute decision to grab a small weather window and head out for a days fishing with mark and ritchie aboard, we headed out to a well known mark with fish coming in from the off and steadily throughout the day ending up with 23 cod to 4lb and approx 60 whiting to 1lb an excellent day had by all

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  • 11/10/2013 Fishing Report by Ray Martin on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)

    11 Oct 2013 by Ray Martin

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    The summer fish are going out to the deeper water and the winter species have begun to arrive in numbers. In amongst the huge numbers of whiting and dogfish there will be cod.
    The skate are still about plus lots of smallish bass in the 1-2.5 lb mark.
    Now is the time to get out there and maybe get one of the big cod that should be here any time now :)

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  • 09/2013 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    Sep 2013 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    With the last week of August producing some great fishing in the deeps, it was hoped that things would continue in similar fashion with next set of small tides in early September. Sadly the weather decided to play its part and curtailed our movements offshore. Thankfully the fishing was lively inshore, with a general species hunt being the order for a good few days.

    Starting September we were joined once more by the Skegness Pier Angling Club, a great bunch of male and female anglers all eager to test out the varied fishing on offer from our coast. The wind stopped play on the Saturday, leaving a few to brave the elements on Holyhead Breakwater, but thankfully settled down for Sunday and despite blustery conditions we were able to have a good fish both at anchor and whilst drifting.

    Despite a valiant effort from the men, it’s fair to say that the ladies came up trumps with a variety of species on the day including plenty of Gurnard at anchor and both Ballan and Cuckoo wrasse on the drift. Sadly the majority of September was littered with wind, all directions and speeds, leaving us grabbing the odd day here and there.

    During the second week we did manage to sneak a day in the deeps and most of the anglers were rewarded in pollack to 5lb in weight. Not monsters, but quality fishing none the less and enjoyed by everyone catching.

    Towards the last week of the month we started to see some settled weather, and with the addition of neap tides from the Tuesday we had high hopes for some good fishing.

    Inshore for the penultimate weekend of the month we were treated to an abundance of fish again with gurnards once again making regular appearances along with the ever present doggies, huss and whiting etc. Drifting the inshore rocks the pollack and wrasse fishing had fish averaging 2 to 3lb regularly coming to the boat; some pollack staying aboard whilst many others returned for another day.

    Best of the few days inshore fell to the charm of My Way regular Carl ‘Monty’ Burns whilst fishing a slack water over Holyhead’s mussel beds. As the tide started to run once again, Carl changed tactics to fish a whole whiting he had caught earlier on a large hook and 150lb running ledger.

    As the tide strength reached un-fishable, the ratchet from Carl’s reel screamed off and his 12lb class BeastMaster arched over towards the water …. Tope on! This tope ran downtide, using the added momentum of tide to nearly spool Carl’s reel as he delicately tried to apply pressure and slow the tope down; without snapping off!

    After what seemed an eternity, Carl managed to turn the shark and started to make some ground back, only for the tope to take turn after turn back down the tide. 40 minutes later, a magnificent looking tope finally broke the surface and into the net of My Way, a bent net that was showing signs of some great fishing in 2013. Quickly weighed in the sling Monty had his biggest tope aboard My Way a very impressive 45lb specimen! A few photographs later she was returned carefully.

    This was a fishing frenzy for Carl, with a further 2 days booked aboard My Way and both of them looking to be a full on assault in Holyhead Deep for more tope, huss and hopefully a few pollack.

    The 2nd day of Carl’s adventure we were joined by father and son Malcolm and Dave Shepherd form the midlands. Puddle anglers at heart, they wanted to experience the ‘other’ side of fishing and take in some of the quality sport that was being reflected in the My Way galleries. Setting sail to fish the deeps with novice sea anglers can be a little daunting, but I really needn’t have worried. Explaining how the sidewinders needed to work through the water with the drop and retrieve scenario over the wreck, Malcolm and Dave took to this like, erm, ducks to water! On the first drift, Dave hooked straight into a pollack, followed closely by Malcolm, who then went on to catch on all subsequent drifts.

    Poor Monty not having such a good time, however a quick change of lure and the next drift he pulled out a pb pollack of just under 9lb that proved also to be the best of the day. During the anchor work everyone managed to bag a tope or two each. Sadly nothing as big as what Carl had the previous day but for our intrepid fresh water duo, 20lb tope form 200ft of water, 10miles out was indeed great fun!
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    Sadly increased wind overnight left the following morning lumpy, so a day inshore, however with a mass of angling talent aboard My Way it was always going to be a good laugh catching a variety of species. Tompot Blenny’s are not rare, but neither are they a regular catch, this day however we managed to land 7 on the boat, from a mark not known for throwing up too many mini species!

    The follow day with more settled conditions it was back off to the deeps with a first stop on the wreck. Despite my suggestions of heavier leads for the 200ft and 1.4knot drift and also a change of lure (plenty available aboard My Way) the crew decided they knew best. We caught 1 pollack! Thankfully the anchor work made up slightly, but the comment of “Thought the drifting would have been better” really did annoy me!

    So moving on swiftly, back out the following day and onto the wreck, we had a fair few pollack again, amazing difference a change of crew can make. Sadly no real size to them, but a good number around the 4lb mark making it home with the anglers for a nice fresh fish supper. At anchor, the deeps didn’t disappoint. Tope and huss coming aboard fairly regular, with 2 guys catching their first ever tope, Jack first off and then Kris, after failing to connect in previous trips afloat managing to catch a couple during the day. Preston Angler Richard Priest showed his skills with a few double figure tope and also 2 great tope, a 20lb and cool 35lb Deeps tope!

    One great feeling aboard My Way is when regular anglers become friends and take it upon themselves to bring offerings for everyone on board. You often see shared bait, rigs or lures being handed out to anglers slow on catching, not just club bookings neither, but individual days.

    Besides all that there is also the Floating Café tag My Way often receives, and why not! Part of a good day is good food. The last trip I spoke of is perfect example, local rod Dave from Benllech had been busy in the kitchen watching his wife Karen preparing some fantastic homemade shepherds pies for everyone to enjoy. Brooksy had popped into the bakery the previous evening and secured a bag full of cheese covered rolls for the group, whilst Jacks wife Claire had been baking and treated us all to a most delicious Victoria Sponge.

    I love my job!

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