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  • 19/09/2017 Fishing Report by dominic wilson on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)

    19 Sep 2017 by dominic wilson

    Report on-board Dawn Venture

    reporting period 16th to 19th september 2017.....

    finally we managed to get to sea since the 3rd september because of the windkeeping us in harbour!
    species caught: cod,haddock,whiting,pouting,mini- ling,mackerel,herring,launce,pollack,coalies,huss,spurs,tope,lsd,common skate,red/grey/tub gurnard,dabs

    saturday; 60+ spurdogs all into double figures(12-14lb) with best going 17lb 10oz.Also 6 huss with best at 14.5lb,5 common skate hooked but only 1 landed at 65lb and a single 12lb tope.
    sunday; 20 huss with biggest at 14lb 10oz,no spurdogs,2 tope at 18lb and 11lb and 3 skate hooked and all lost.plenty of pollack in the weeds with some 40 fish caught with average size around 3lb and a single ballan wrasse
    monday: 2 spurdogs,some huss and 1 common skate at 118lb,also plenty of pollack in the weeds to mackerel strip with biggest at 4lb
    tuesday: 1 spurdog at 14lb,1 spotted ray,several huss with best at 14lb and 2 common skate at 22lb and 64lb

    whiting flapper is the preferred bait for the sharks and common skate

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