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  • 12/05/2014 Fishing Report by Paul Smith on Rapid Fisher (Poole, Dorset)

    12 May 2014 by Paul Smith

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    Rapid Fisher has recently carried out her first trip to the famous fishing grounds in Alderney. The weather gods obviously didn't realise that they should have been kinder but with one of the the most fuel efficient, wave piercing hulls on the market I knew we would make it across, sure enough we made it there in 4 hours!!

    Second day saw us travel round to the Schoal bank in a heavy swell. Despite challenging conditions we still managed to boat 7 turbot. The weather also made bait fishing a struggle but we had enough for the days fishing. A well deserved pint was enjoyed by all on our return to Bray harbour.

    Day three saw much better fishing conditions with flatter seas so we headed to the south west banks. Bait wasn't a problem in these conditions as the mackerel & launch were obliging. Boat regular Malcolm Nightingale boated a cracking 7lb brill on the first drift. After moving around on the banks we ended up with a 10lb 3oz turbot, caught by Tony Moore, 4 tope up to 35lbs, 3 bass & 13 more turbot of varying sizes.

    Day four was perfect conditions for wrecking. After setting off form the harbour we made a steady 22 knots to the wrecks off of Cherboug. First wreck which is normally very reliable for pollack we blanked on! This was a worry but we moved on to another wreck to the east which produced very little. I then made the decision to move to a bit of ground i know which paid off. We had a few big pollack then moved to another wreck mid channel which produced 3 big pollack. We then moved to the rips which was fishing quite well for pollack. Whilst not big fish the numbers made up for it. We did 110 miles on the way home searching for the fish.

    All the guys on the trip were a great laugh and a great time was had by all.

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