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  • 01/10/2016 Fishing Report by dominic wilson on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)

    1 Oct 2016 by dominic wilson

    Report on-board Dawn Venture

    finally the wind eased and we got out fishing!!!Had 4 boys on for a full day and it was a great days fishing.Initially looking for mackerel(which were scarce and very small(4")),we put the anchor down to sit and wait and fish thru' til the tide started to ebb.....we got 10 huss over 10lb and lots more were lost on the way up,we got 1 tope(27lb) lots of whiting(which were used for bait) and 2 common skate(54lb and137lb).the tactics were then changed and we had a couple of long drifts which produced many more whiting(4 at a time),codling that were just undersize(2 at a time) some haddock for the table and 4 small ling along with doggies and pouting.The last hour was spent in the harbour entrance for pollack and we landed about 20-25 pollack (biggest 5.5lb) and a couple of coalfish

    the biggest skate is shown and took 45mins to land.

    bookings are now being taken for 2017

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