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08/06/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
8 Jun 2025 by Nick Gough
Well what a day.. two 6 hour trips with plenty of fish on both
First 6 hour trip we saw a good mixture of fish from cod, ling, coalfish, red gurnard, haddock, mackerel, whiting, pouting the majority of the catch was a good amount of cod from what you can see in the video.
Heaviest fish wasn't huge but plenty of fish around the 5lb area and best been 7lb at all but the amount certainly made up for that
2nd 6 hour trip was an absolute cod fest
With most of the fish taken on shads .there was also pouting and a few ling caught as well and similar stamp of fish to the first trip -
02/06/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
2 Jun 2025 by Nick Gough
Another great 8 hour trip today
Fishing started off slow for the first few drifts then slowly picked up as the day went on.
A good stamp of clean cod caught today
With a few ling, Pollock, pouting, a Ballen wrasse, mackerel and even a lonely haddock.
Everybody caught a cod to keep which seams to be the norm this week and all the anglers had plenty of fillets to take home
One of our regulars Lorance seemed to be on fire today catching nearly every drift and ended up with a nice tub a Cod.
Dirty squid baited hooks seemed to be the preferred method today.
Shads we're working today but we're catching the odd ling and getting ripped to shreds in the process. -
01/06/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
1 Jun 2025 by Nick Gough
Back out today for a 8hr trip
Two days are never the same but we did still find a good amount of fish overall.
Winds today were a lot stronger up to 25kts at times from the south not really picking the sea up but definitely increasing the drift speed.
Like every other trip this week everyone caught a few Cod to keep which for quite a few anglers was their first time.
Best anglers today were all the younger anglers who just seemed to find a better size fish every time and made sure they made that known. The friendly banter today was brilliant.
Heaviest fish today was a cod weighing just under 6lb
Plenty of species caught today from Cod, Pollock, ling, whiting, coalfish, ballen wrasse, dogfish, and even a lonely dab.
Overall a brilliant day to be at sea as always -
31/05/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
31 May 2025 by Nick Gough
Well what a 8hr trip we've had today
Non-stop fishing all morning with 4 or 5 rods in at the same time all catching cod.
Then it was steady away for the rest of the day
All Cod were a good stamp and really clean fish between 3 to 5lb with the odd better 6lb been caught.
Overall the lads boarded well over 100 size fish and Sam's dirty squid was certainly doing the business today. Quite a few wrasse and pouting also showing an appearance.
Best fish today was a Ling weighting 7lb 3oz
I definitely believe these customers will be back soon, It was their first time fishing with us today. -
29/05/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
29 May 2025 by Nick Gough
Out today with totally different weather to yesterday showers when the customers arrived on the boat. And a fresh south westerly blowing through not really picking the sea up much but a bit splashy in places
Overall everybody caught something to take home which is always a bonus the stamp of fish was alot better to yesterday's catch
Best fish today was a 7lb 3oz Pollock
Today baited feathers seamed to out fish the lures today possibly due to the conditions and stronger tide. -
28/05/2025
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
28 May 2025 by Nick Gough
A brilliant trip out today started off with perfect conditions. Not the biggest of fish today but plenty of sport all day and some of the nicest customers we've had in some time.
Fishing was pretty much instant from our first mark with a good amount of codlings and small Pollock.
Over the day we tried all sorts of tackle on the drift with lures having an advantage over bait today which is a very promising sign for summer inshore fishing.
The biggest fish today was only 2 1/2lb but overall all the customers caught a few cod to take home. Aswel as plenty of fish to go back to fight another day.
One surprise today was a few mackerel caught inshore so it shouldn't be to much longer until we're filling strings up soon.
Overall we have caught:
Codling, Pollock, coalfish, ballen wrasse, pouting, mackerel, and sand eels
Best part of the day was seeing all 3 under 16s we had today all having a go, catching fish and really enjoying the fishing, the wildlife and scenery.
It certainly was a belting day for it and I've got the sun burn to prove it �� -
28/10/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
28 Oct 2024 by Nick Gough
What a completely different day today was to yesterday the sea was like glass most of the day with hardly any wind.
We started off anchoring as the tide was at its strongest and strait away we had the rods bouncing with codling and pouting steadily coming over the rail.
We didn't see the dogfish at all and had a smaller stamp of cod showing around the 2 to 3lb area with 1 cod about 5lb
Fishing slowed down halfway through the trip so we ran offside to catch the slacker part of the tide and first few drifts were pretty much blanks just the odd pouting coming up then after a few drifts in we started seeing more codling.
Best fish of the day was a 9lb 4oz cod.
Water clarity off at a mile was quite surprising and we also managed to get a few fresh mackerel aswel which is probably the latest I've ever seen them caught. -
27/10/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
27 Oct 2024 by Nick Gough
8 hour fishing the ground inshore as awe had quite strong winds then when the weather aloud we ran to some inshore wrecks.
We seamed to catch a lot of dogfish and pouting with the occasional better fished mixed in
Nothing huge caught but not a bad stamp of cod around the 4lb area and heaviest fish was a 6lb 2oz ling -
19/10/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
19 Oct 2024 by Nick Gough
It's been a while since our last trip with the run of poor weather and sea conditions
But we managed to still find some really good fish on the inshore grounds still.
Best fish today was a 9lb 2oz Pollock with the same angler also catching a nice 8lb Pollock also
As well as Pollock the customers had a good amount of Cod, pouting, lesser spotted dogfish and Ballen wrasse to keep them busy all day.
The wildlife the customers had pretty much all day leaving the harbour and passing a pod of 40+ bottle nose dolphins heading south. Then seals, porpoise and the dolphins passed us several times while fishing and on the way back we were greatest with them again in the South Bay. -
18/09/2024
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
18 Sep 2024 by Nick Gough
As the tides had dramatically built up in the last few days up to 6.4m we decided to give uptide and downtime fishing ago at anchor.
Withing minutes we the customers started getting bites and a good amount of dogfish and Ballen wrasse made a appearance.
We did manage to get a few codlings aswel then fishing tried up as the tide slowed down so we relocated and fishing picked back up producing a few more cod.
As the tide completely slackened off inshore we tried a few inshore wrecks over slack water which produces more pouting a few more codling and a lonely strappy Ling.
