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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. -
21/04/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
21 Apr 2023 by Steve Green
Bream fishing has been excellent the last week so now is the time to get out with us if you want some of these hard fighting great eating fish.
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09/04/2023
Fishing Report by Steve Green
9 Apr 2023 by Steve Green
A 2 day catch report
Saturday - having hauled in plenty of decent Bream down West Friday with novice anglers we headed back again Saturday with very experienced anglers and plenty of the right bait to give it a good working over ….and with high expectations; they were quickly shattered! A couple of average Bream in as many hours so with little prospect of it improving we upped anchor and blasted out deep for some wrecking (which has been excellent). Caught the back end of the flood, slack, start of ebb so not ideal and the results were the same - A few small Pollock for a whole lot of effort/miles. A fantastic crew, a beautiful day the only thing missing was decent fish. Such a strange day, very rare for us but scant consolation for those onboard for the day and so sorry that you had to experience that.
Sunday (today) - normal service resumed, well kind of! A dense fog all day offshore (which looked like it was going to burn off but never did) saw us undertake 8hrs of Radar Nav with reduced speed to suit conditions and a significant alteration of our plan for the day. The result was a steady flow of god fish, a few decent doubles amongst them and our first Cod of the season to Tom. Lovely to have Mark and his kids along to experience a days wrecking and to see Kieran battle a fin perfect beast to the boat.
A fabulous couple of days with lovely people. The next week looks like a washout so plenty of time to try and figure out what Saturday was all about; such a strange day.
Thanks to all for your company and look forward to fishing with you later in year.
Best wishes
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