Latest Fishing Reports: England
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19/05/2025
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
19 May 2025 by jon old
Report on-board High Flyer 2
Another windy day managed to keep inshore had a good day-to be honest. Best fish 14lb smoothound pregnant female returned our heaviest so far this season. Ended up with few thornbacks nice to see usual smoothounds doggies whiting and pouting. No bass but wasn't expecting in these weak tides. Big thanks to all lads for putting up with the testing weather despite that enjoyable day look forward to our June trip. Tight lines people.
Jon. High flyer 2 Gt yarmouthView Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD High Flyer 2
Thu 22/05/2025 3 Spaces View details Fri 30/05/2025 8 Spaces View details Wed 04/06/2025 8 Spaces View details Tue 10/06/2025 4 Spaces View details Fri 13/06/2025 7 Spaces View details Sun 22/06/2025 2 Spaces £60.00pp View details Wed 25/06/2025 9 Spaces View details Tue 01/07/2025 £75.00pp tope trip. Tope.View details Thu 03/07/2025 8 Spaces Tope £75. Tope.View details Fri 04/07/2025 8 Spaces 10 Hours £75.00pp Tope £75. Tope.View details -
19/05/2025
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
19 May 2025 by jon old
Report on-board High Flyer 2
Another windy day managed to keep inshore had a good day-to be honest. Best fish 14lb smoothound pregnant female returned our heaviest so far this season. Ended up with few thornbacks nice to see usual smoothounds doggies whiting and pouting. No bass but wasn't expecting in these weak tides. Big thanks to all lads for putting up with the testing weather despite that enjoyable day look forward to our June trip. Tight lines people.
Jon. High flyer 2 Gt yarmouthView Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD High Flyer 2
Thu 22/05/2025 3 Spaces View details Fri 30/05/2025 8 Spaces View details Wed 04/06/2025 8 Spaces View details Tue 10/06/2025 4 Spaces View details Fri 13/06/2025 7 Spaces View details Sun 22/06/2025 2 Spaces £60.00pp View details Wed 25/06/2025 9 Spaces View details Tue 01/07/2025 £75.00pp tope trip. Tope.View details Thu 03/07/2025 8 Spaces Tope £75. Tope.View details Fri 04/07/2025 8 Spaces 10 Hours £75.00pp Tope £75. Tope.View details -
19/05/2025
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
19 May 2025 by jon old
Report on-board High Flyer 2
Another windy day managed to keep inshore had a good day-to be honest. Best fish 14lb smoothound pregnant female returned our heaviest so far this season. Ended up with few thornbacks nice to see usual smoothounds doggies whiting and pouting. No bass but wasn't expecting in these weak tides. Big thanks to all lads for putting up with the testing weather despite that enjoyable day look forward to our June trip. Tight lines people.
Jon. High flyer 2 Gt yarmouthView Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD High Flyer 2
Thu 22/05/2025 3 Spaces View details Fri 30/05/2025 8 Spaces View details Wed 04/06/2025 8 Spaces View details Tue 10/06/2025 4 Spaces View details Fri 13/06/2025 7 Spaces View details Sun 22/06/2025 2 Spaces £60.00pp View details Wed 25/06/2025 9 Spaces View details Tue 01/07/2025 £75.00pp tope trip. Tope.View details Thu 03/07/2025 8 Spaces Tope £75. Tope.View details Fri 04/07/2025 8 Spaces 10 Hours £75.00pp Tope £75. Tope.View details -
19/05/2025
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
19 May 2025 by Andy Savage
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After a blustery weekend, it was looking touch and go for today. The winds were remaining in the North, but had reduced significantly and the residual swell was at around 4ft; but with a nice 4.7m tide I chose to bring the lads through and have a run out.
Once again we had a mixed group of differing experience levels aboard, we headed out North just before 0700hrs with the Flood tide pushing through nicely. If we could get away with it, I planned to spend the day on the inshore wrecks. A couple of weeks ago we had a fairly decent day in this area, so I had a similar plan in my mind. First wreck of the day, the wind was very light and we got a nice drift, with five fish coming up. That cheered me right up, as I was concerned that the weekend winds might have stirred things up a bit, but that wasn’t the case.
We fished away steadily for the next three quarters of an hour, taking mainly Codling each drift. Robert Blackburn took the biggest Codling at 6lb 8oz on a Rhubarb & Custard Shad baited with a bit of Squid. All the rest came to baited Hokkai’s or Muppets Traces. Once sport slowed down a bit, we pushed on to the next wreck and that was how the day panned out. Catch a few, sport slows up; move to the next wreck.
The wind did lift a bit during the morning, making the lines stream a touch, which made it a bit more difficult for the less experienced lads. That said, they soon got to grips with it and we continued to pick off fish each drift.
Slack water was fairly quiet today, the Pouting were feeding with a vengeance, but little else showed much interest. Martin Eccles hooked into something a little better when a 7lb Ling stuck its head out of the wreck to take his Squid. His Dad Keith followed it up with a similar size one a short while later.
Once the Ebb tide came through, the drift line changed and we started heading back towards Whitby. With a different drift line we could fish wrecks which matched the boats drift that we hadn’t fished in the morning and managed to keep picking up fish.
It wasn’t a Red Letter Day by any stretch, but everyone got a few and the sport was fairly consistent. Overall, the signs are positive. Good Angling ladsView Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
Wed 11/06/2025 4 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.09m Ali Clelland-Ball - x 1 Derek Coulson - x 3 Ian Scrivens - x 1 Bod - x 1View details Fri 20/06/2025 1 Space Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 4.94m Stan Matthews - x 1 Jeff Turner - x 1 John Hutchinson - x 2 Derek Hopkinson - x 4 Bod - x 1View details Fri 27/06/2025 4 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.51m Toby Plotzitzka - x 1 Joe Clough - x 1 Dave Kent - x 3View details Mon 30/06/2025 3 Spaces Available 12hr Offshore Trip - 5.29m £75 per Angler Ian Kellock - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Mal Ruff - x 1 Steve Milnes - x 1 Pete Goddard - x 2 Nik Khan - x 1View details Tue 01/07/2025 Summer Festival 4 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.11m Andy Burrell - x 1 Alan - x 5View details Wed 02/07/2025 Summer Festival 5 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 4.92m Ian Kellock x 1 Stan Matthews x 1 Charlie Hewitt x 1 Chris Chatham - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1View details Mon 07/07/2025 Summer Festival 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.52m Alan - x 7 Steve Whitaker - x 1View details Tue 08/07/2025 Summer Festival 5 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.70m Andy Senior - x 3 Steve Austin - x 2View details Thu 10/07/2025 Summer Festival 3 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.04m Peter Burton - x 2 Shane Broadley - x 2 Ian Purdom - x 1 Steve Storey - x 1 Andy Burrell - x 1View details Tue 15/07/2025 Summer Festival 7 Spaces Available Wreck & Reef Trip - 5.45m Dave & Del - x 2 Brendan Swain - x 1View details -
19/05/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
19 May 2025 by Scott Belbin
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We had really nice mixed trip the other day. The stamp of bass we great with several between 4-7lbs, a few hounds and 15 rays which is pretty good going nowadays. The weather started grey but brightened up so who could ask for more. Special mention to young George who was on his first trip and did a fantastic job!
My next spaces are over the weekend and throughout the school holiday.
Next spaces
24/05- 12.30-9pm 4 spaces @ £60pp
26/05- boat available for individuals and groups
01/05- tope fishing 2 spaces @ £100pp
04/05- tope fishing 7 spaces @ £100pp
07/06- 4 spaces @ £60pp
08/06- boat available for individuals and groups
Not all dates advertised please call 07956411528 for more informationView Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Galloper
Sat 24/05/2025 4 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp General afternoon/evening trip individual spaces departing at 12.30 and returning between 8 and 9pmView details Sun 01/06/2025 7 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 07/06/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sat 14/06/2025 1 Space 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sun 15/06/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sun 22/06/2025 7 Spaces £60.00pp View details Sat 05/07/2025 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 12/07/2025 £60.00pp View details Thu 17/07/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore bass tripView details Sat 19/07/2025 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp View details -
11/05/2025
Fishing Report by Peter Mackintosh
on Mistress (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
11 May 2025 by Peter Mackintosh
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We set off out of the Tyne and headed for some hard ground. After a few drifts, taking mostly juvenile cod, the skipper headed for an inshore wreck as the tide was ebbing. There was an abundance of pouting stripping the hooks and a few just size codling.
Although the sun was out, there was a freezing easterly wind blowing, which made conditions difficult to fish. We hopped from wreck to wreck picking up the odd coddling here and there.
After slack water, the fishing picked up. We hit on a nice wreck, just after lunchtime and a better stamp of fish started to be landed, mostly in the 2/3lb mark but with some better ones around 5/6lb.
A sudden thump of a bite put a nice bend in the rod and yours truly, for once, managed to land a decent cod just shy of 11lb- pictured. When I checked its stomach, to see what it had been feeding on, out popped a small lobster, which a had not long been taken. One of the lads, Tony, managed to land a ling of around the 8 lb mark shortly after.
All the lads had a few canny few to fillet on the way home.
Hopefully, these horrible northerly and easterly winds will disappear soon and the mackerel will come in shore, as the water temperature increases and things will really get going. Early signs look positive for the season ahead.
Tight lines.View Boats Page
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17/05/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
17 May 2025 by Scott Belbin
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It was great to see some better hounds the other day. It was even better to share it with Stacey and the boys as well as our anglers. We had plenty of small bass and some small hounds with some decent ones in between. We even found a few rays too. We are lucky to have fish like this on our doorstep which meant we were able to get out and catch some decent fish while many others had to cancel. Sheltered marks like this are one of our biggest assets from brightlingsea and of course it helps that Galloper is a catamaran too.
The biggest hounds were pushing double figures and great sport fish obviously though a little big for Stanley. Lucky you there were some Stanley size ones there too.
The fishing really has kicked off here now and long may it continue. I have spaces for groups and individuals over the coming weeks so feel free to contact me.
Next spaces
19/05- boat available for groups
24/05- 4 spaces @ £60pp departing 12.30 return 8-9pm
26/05- boat available for individuals and groups
27-30- boat available for individuals and groups
01/06- tope fishing 2 spaces @ £100pp
07/06- 4 spaces @ £60pp
08/06- boat available for individuals and groups
Not all dates advertised please call 07956411528 for more information.View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Galloper
Sat 24/05/2025 4 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp General afternoon/evening trip individual spaces departing at 12.30 and returning between 8 and 9pmView details Sun 01/06/2025 7 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 07/06/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sat 14/06/2025 1 Space 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sun 15/06/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sun 22/06/2025 7 Spaces £60.00pp View details Sat 05/07/2025 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 12/07/2025 £60.00pp View details Thu 17/07/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore bass tripView details Sat 19/07/2025 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp View details -
15/05/2025
Fishing Report by Matt Rowe
on Piscary (Poole, Dorset)
15 May 2025 by Matt Rowe
Report on-board Piscary
2 matches on the boat this week . First it was the Friday species league.16 anglers on Piscary and Ocean Runner. Not great tides for inshore fishing but the weather was loads better than the forecast which made for a really great day out with 16 species between the 2 boats . Loads of Bass,Bream ,Some nice Plaice,Dabs , Smoothound. Top 3 on each boat
Piscary
1st Colin Searles 220
2nd Richard Ferre 215
3rd Stainless Steve Bachelor 207
Ocean Runner
1st Ray Evans 216
2nd Ray Barron 211
3rd Mike Fox 199
Total boat points
Piscary 1,452
Ocean Runner 1,424
Next it was the IBAC latest match . Moderate easterly winds made it a bit difficult but again was a lot better than the forecast.Very similar days fishing 16 species on the boat with the added bonus of lots of Mackerel. Top 3 on the day
1st Jay Hemming 200
2nd Ray Barron 146
3rd Kim Bowden 116
3rd Duncan Beck 116.
Still have spaces on the evening league on the 30th . Next days with spaces for individuals are Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 27th. If you are interested in booking in for any trips the only way to contact me is by TEXT 07775756269View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Piscary
Mon 26/05/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours Spaces for individualsView details Tue 27/05/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Spaces on an individuals tripView details Fri 30/05/2025 3 Spaces 5 Hours Spaces for individuals to make up the numbers for the evening leagueView details Mon 16/06/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Spaces on an individuals tripView details Fri 20/06/2025 3 Spaces 5 Hours Spaces for individuals to make up the numbers for the evening leagueView details Fri 27/06/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours View details Wed 02/07/2025 5 Spaces 9 Hours Spaces on an individuals trip offshore anchoringView details Fri 11/07/2025 3 Spaces 5 Hours Spaces on for individuals to make up the numbers for evening leagueView details Fri 25/07/2025 3 Spaces 5 Hours Spaces for individuals to make up the numbers for the evening leagueView details Fri 01/08/2025 4 Spaces 9 Hours Spaces on an individuals trip offshore anchoringView details -
16/05/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
16 May 2025 by Scott Belbin
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We continue to see some nice bass mixed in on our general trips as they stop spawning and start to feed hard. Together with smoothies and rays they make up our main targets at the moment. Of course there's still plenty of dogfish in between along with an unseasonal amount of whiting and dabs still showing.
There have been some decent hounds starting to show too which really know how to pull your string.
I'm looking forward to our first plaice trip of the year and we'll soon start our tope trips as well. If you want to join us for a general trip or something more specific then please get in touch and I'll offer you the most suitable tides for your trip.
Next spaces are over the bank holiday but not all available dates are advertised.
Next spaces
24/05- afternoon/evening trip 12.30 departure 4 spaces @ £60pp
26/05- boat available for individuals and groups
31/05- tope fishing 1 space @ £100pp
01/06- tope fishing 3 spaces @ £100pp
Please call 07956411528 for more informationView Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Galloper
Sat 24/05/2025 4 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp General afternoon/evening trip individual spaces departing at 12.30 and returning between 8 and 9pmView details Sun 01/06/2025 7 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 07/06/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sat 14/06/2025 1 Space 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sun 15/06/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sun 22/06/2025 7 Spaces £60.00pp View details Sat 05/07/2025 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 12/07/2025 £60.00pp View details Thu 17/07/2025 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore bass tripView details Sat 19/07/2025 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp View details -
05/2025
Fishing Report by phillip browning
on Braveheart II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
May 2025 by phillip browning
Report on-board Braveheart II
Some nice Bass coming over the rails on BRAVEHEARTII, the majority falling to worm baits, but for those who persevere with live whiting some bigger fish can be caught. A nice bass of around 8lb took a live whiting three other day but unfortunately the hook came out before it was close enough to net! That's why it's crucial to keep tight ....especially on bass. The tope have just moved onto the sands and even if we aren't specifically targeting them , I will put a sleeper rod out... and then wait!!!!
Thank you to all my customers for your continued support as always, and look forward to getting you all out, to enjoy a day's fishing and banter aboard BRAVEHEARTII
Many thanks & tight lines
Phil Browning 07970 728707View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Braveheart II
Tue 27/05/2025 4 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Hounds, rays, bass. Bass / Tub Gurnard / Starry Smooth-hound.View details Thu 29/05/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Bass, hounds, Ray's. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Starry Smooth-hound.View details Wed 04/06/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Bass / Thornback Ray / Starry Smooth-hound.View details Tue 10/06/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Thornback Ray / Starry Smooth-hound.View details Wed 11/06/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Thornback Ray / Starry Smooth-hound.View details Thu 12/06/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Thornback Ray / Starry Smooth-hound.View details Mon 16/06/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Smooth-hound / Thornback Ray / Tope.View details Wed 25/06/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 6 more for trip go-ahead. Bass / Dab / Plaice / Smooth-hound.View details Mon 30/06/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Bass / Stingray (Common) / Smooth-hound / Thornback Ray / Tope.View details Tue 01/07/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Shallow water, hounds & bass. Bass / Stingray (Common) / Smooth-hound / Thornback Ray / Tope.View details