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  • 27/08/2018 Fishing Report by dominic wilson on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)

    27 Aug 2018 by dominic wilson

    Report on-board Dawn Venture

    this report covers the period 27 july to 27 august......
    the wind,like last year has ripped the month apart and I have lost 17/30 days to the weather
    when we have got out we have we have caught lots of fish and lots of species with most notable days being 2 good days on a northerly wreck with good sized pollack and coalfish and last wednesday the blackpool boys had an afternoon/evening on the pollack with john taking over 30 pollack with 2 over 8lb and 1 at 7lb and and a total boat catch of approx 100 pollack,all taken from the weeds under the cliffs at various points south of portpatrick.we also that day,caught tub gurnards on sidewinders!! we have also landed 3 tope this month,best being 35lb caught on a feather trace by myself and the next best at 28lb also caught on feathers! mackerel are everywhere and in really good numbers
    below is a list of species caught this month with the biggest weight in brackets.......
    tope(35),conger(7.5)spurdog(16)huss(15)blonde ray(12)thornback ray(12.5)ballan wrasse(2.5)pollack(8.5)coalfish(5)cod(3.5)haddock(2.5),whiting,pouting,ling,mackerel,herring,scad,launce,LSD,dab,scorpion fish,red/grey/tub gurnard(1.5)
    24 species in total!

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