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• 15/06/2013 Fishing Report by Sam Cumming on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
  

  15 Jun 2013 by Sam Cumming

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  Last month’s improved fishing has continued right into June, with the aid of some good weather, I’ve only had to cancel one trip in the last 4 weeks. It is never fully the summer season until the mackerel shoals arrive properly and they started showing in good numbers in the last week of May. Unfortunatly this was just a touch too late for my first trip to Cherbourg this year as we only managed to catch 3 mackerel in as many days. Despite this the weather was on our side and we had a good trip with mainly pollock and cod hitting the deck but also a few ling and bass aswell. Gareth Awbery landed a nice double figure cod just after slack water to find that something had bit its tail clean off, the wound must have been a couple seasons old as it had fully healed but it amazes me that it could survive after such a major injury. I finally managed to get an Alderney trip in with nice weather to go with it; you know you have had a couple of bad ones when you are saying east/northeast force 4 is nice weather! The banks fished well with Steve Bealing pulling out the best turbot of the trip at 13lb, Steve’s brother Graham managed to catch 3 turbot on the same sandeel flapper one drift after another.
  I mentioned in my last report I didn’t think that the summer cod had fully arrived and I, and my anglers, were glad to see I was correct with a few days bringing over 20 fish to the boat. One day Silver Spray regular Bill Thornton caught 9 cod with the biggest coming on an orange twin tail with a lead head and weighing in at 21lb 4oz, hoping to get out there again soon to find a few more of that size. On our side of the channel the first of the mackerel have of course brought in the tope and bass with them. Although the fishing has been good so far it seemed like the fish were easily spooked and on some days wanted live mackerel on the bottom and others wanted lures high up in the water. I am hoping for another good season with some big fish as we have already seen our first double. Whilst drifting just after slack one day waiting for the tide to build Gary Legg managed to catch something sizeable on a live mackerel, we all assumed it was a tope until it was in the net and had 2 large spikes sticking out of its dorsle fins. The spur dog weighed in at 22lb and could have potentially have been a new record, it was certainly the biggest one I have seen. I’m looking forward to writing next month’s report with the first of the freeline bass trips and a few more journeys across the channel.
  Sam Cumming
  Silver Spray II
  

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