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03/03/2024
Fishing Report by Steve Green
3 Mar 2024 by Steve Green
Not often that we get the weather that enables us to get where we want to go at this time of year out of Brighton, today with near perfect conditions we had our pick of wrecks and the guys onboard made the most of it.
Pete Stotesbury was top rod (that's not unusual!) with a personal tally of 13 high quality Pollock, the best nudging 13lb but everyone got in on the action with 40+ fish kept, plenty into double figures and no fishing trip is complete without a few of "The one that got away" tales! We had quite a few today including bite-offs on 25lb leader with some very hard fighting fish lost.
A beautiful day to be out on the Ocean with a wonderful crew, glorious sunshine , calm sea and plenty of high quality fish..... wreck fishing at its best, a huge thank you to all for a wonderful day.
Best wishes
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14/01/2024
Fishing Report by Steve Green
14 Jan 2024 by Steve Green
2024 brigand 1st trip
First trip of 2024 for ustoday and the target species was Pollock.
Always exciting to be heading out for the first trip of a new season so with a fantastic crew onbaord, full tanks of fuel, a determination to keep our 8 year, 100% catch rate intact we headed South in near perfect conditions.
Water clarity is vital when targetting Pollock with lures and we could see the colour changes from 3 miles away, really stark .......and really positive as inshore clarity was poor to extremely poor.
The first fish aboard was not particularly inspiring, a rather surprised looking Pouting! Then the guys got into it - 3 double figure fish on the bounce with probably the deepest Pollock that we have ever seen expertly boated by Max..... looked more like a Cod with a hugely distended belly, very unusual. A smattering of smaller Pollock in the 4-7lb range as we worked out around the wrecks before heading in before the forecast F5 on the nose kicked in.
All in all, a solid start to the season with a wonderful crew and plenty of valuable intelligence gathered.
Huge thanks to all who fished with us today, was an absolute pleasure sharing time at sea with you all.
Best wishes -
26/11/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
26 Nov 2023 by Steve Green
An early start for us today in order to get the best of the weather before what looked like a stiff Southwesterly kicked in - turned out to be the right call!
A glorious, if somewhat moody, sunrise greeted us as we headed across the shipping lanes and into deep water in search of Pollock. This time of year can be fickle with the bigger fish generally appearing later in Winter/early spring but we had a fantastic crew aboard, conditions were great and once clarity improved it was looking good.
Fish to the boat from the off and a steady stream of very high quality fish throughout the day. The weather began to deteriorate around midday by which time we were way out to the SW so a very comfy ride in.
Didn't quite manage to get into double figure fish, 9 1/2lb was the best of the day, very respectable for this time of year and my thanks to a wonderful crew, an absolute pleasure fishing with today guys ��
We will be running more wrecking trips throughout Winter but ONLY when conditions are very good and at very short notice so keep an eye on here for those. This weekend Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd looking fantastic weather & tide so we are out both days split into part drifting for Pollock and part anchored for Pollock/Bream/Bass and perhaps even an early Cod. Bait can be supplied upon request
Best wishes
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02/09/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
2 Sep 2023 by Steve Green
Busy day again offshore with a 12hr Turbot/Brill & Bass trip. Approx 60 Turbot & Brill and 20 Bass along with some cracking Blonde rays and 1/2 dozen other species.
We will soon be targeting the Big Bream and Nick had a little scout today with his Offshore Bream rig - Happy to confirm that they are where we suspected they would be at this time of year and they are certainly Big! We have a few spaces available on these specialist Big Bream trips, checkout the calendar on our website for dates.
Best wishes
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22/08/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
22 Aug 2023 by Steve Green
Well ........ We suspected they were here when last year we were spooled on an offshore wreck and knew that they were here when we watched one take a Turbot from the side of the boat but today we landed our first Porbeagle Shark..... what an amazing fish!
To be clear we were not targeting Shark, just another day merrily boating Turbot & Brill as we do at this time of year when Rhys's rod doubled over. A 20lb mono - leader V a whole lot of teeth, well, it didn't look good at that stage. Nick took over the rod, lightened up the drag and we had a tussle on our hands!
Absolutely thrilled to see such a stunning and very, very rare fish for us in East Sussex.
Like many anglers Nick and I started out fishing ponds, lakes & rivers as kids where you pretty much know what your going to catch. The draw of deep-sea fishing for us is the unknown, or more accurately knowing that you always have a chance of catching something exceptional........ Rhys did just today.
Best wishes
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23/06/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
23 Jun 2023 by Steve Green
A 4am post because that is just about the only time we have to do it - we have been super-busy!
Offhsore wrecking yesterday and a pleasure to welcome father & Son Mark & Alex who travelled down to us from glorious N.Wales in search of Cod & Pollock, they were not disappointed and really pleased to see them heading back home with both after a beautiful day at sea. The fishing machine which is Simon Clark was also with us and landed Cod, Pollock and Bass ...... nothing new there!
Fantastic to see the offshore wreck fishing remaining so consistent this late.
A well needed break for us coming up with some family & friends time planned - just need to get through the next couple of days which consist of 1 Offshore trip and 5 inshore trips. Busy is good, manic not so good!
Best wishes
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14/06/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
14 Jun 2023 by Steve Green
Great to see the Cod still around in reasonable numbers today - currently boating Cod, Bass & Pollock on offshore wrecking trips...... more avid than Pollock this month and I don't think we would be saying that!
Best wishes
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18/05/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
18 May 2023 by Steve Green
More COD than POLLOCK, more BASS than COD more TURBOT than BASS…… a perfect days Offshore fishing ����
Had the pleasure of Fishing with Phil & Jonty Drewe today and what a fantastic day it was.…. even the skipper managed a few!
It’s that time of year when everything comes alive offshore and the biggest decision we have is which of these wonderful fish to target. Our calendar reflects the species that we plan to catch on each trip (we have never failed to do that in 7 years and over 1,000 trips) but we are always open to adjusting plans on the day to suit anglers requests …..and with the Turbot season officially open
that choice just got considerably more difficult!
We still have some availability for the season so if you fancy an excellent day out at sea catching some of these stunning fish drop us a line ����
Best wishes
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23/04/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
23 Apr 2023 by Steve Green
The fantastic Bream fishing continues with each trip delivering plenty of fantastic fish to 3 1/2lb.
We will soon be moving onto Bass trips and targeting Brill & Turbot as Spring moves into Summer, exciting time ahead! -
24/04/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
24 Apr 2023 by Steve Green
More stunning Bream today for our anglers. Mike led the way with a cracking first fish of the day but another 35 followed.
Limited opportunities to target these so if you want to get aboard you have 2 weeks before we move into the Bass & Turbot.
