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16/04/2023
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
16 Apr 2023 by Simon Logan
��Today: Sunday 16th April��
Flat calm, no wind, short tides - still not t-shirt weather yet.
A leisurely start this morning. Heading out at slack water, which felt like it took forever to start to gain momentum.
We headed to a bass mark, with the tide still not doing anything, the fish were slow to start biting.
A quick change of location and our fortunes picked up straight away, with plenty of good codling and pollack being caught on soft plastics.
As the tide started to run I decided to revert back to PLAN A.
On approach to the mark, birds were working and the Bass were feeding, breaching the surface of the water in numerous places.
We must’ve had well over 100 bass in a couple of hours. Including a couple of stonkers.
It’s so nice to see more and more kids and teenagers on the boat this year. They are the future of the sport, and should be encouraged to get involved as often as allows.
I’ve been very busy today, and that’s just the way I like it.
We go again tomorrow ����
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09/04/2023
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
9 Apr 2023 by Simon Logan
Well that’s a wrap!!!
The impending foul weather brings the Easter Bank holiday weekend’s fishing to an abrupt close. It’s been a great weekend to be fair, and getting out for 3/4 of the time is pretty lucky going off tales from years gone by.
Today, Easter Sunday saw a family group book the boat for a mixed fishing day. Only the grandad had ever properly fished before, and that was only on lakes in Moldova, so being single handed I thought I could be in for a busy day. I was.
The day started off slowly, which came as a massive shock considering the marks my sounder was picking up.
The seabed was literally undulating with fish in pockets. Using a mixture of rigs/lures, and with massively differing techniques, my crew of newbies just couldn’t tempt the fish to bite.
When the first fish finally succumbed to a hook if fell to six year old Sebastian. He was so chuffed with his prize, as you can see, and that is what it’s all about.
We started picking up more fish, all of which were under sized. We headed to another mark to drift some different rocks and broken ground (at Sebastian’s request), but after everyone got tangled, and snagged, on the first drift, I suggested that maybe going back to plan A would be wise.
As their experience grew, more and more fish were caught. Considering today was Deep Blue’s first Bass of the season day, and the gazillion tangles, and lost lures, and weights, it was a pretty good da with a group I’m certain will return.
��All the crew were using our newly serviced and fantastic Penn Fathom and Squall reels, and the full carbon Penn Prevail 2 rods.
4” & 6” Sidewinder skerries and sandeels in blues and whites doing the damage.�� -
05/04/2023
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
5 Apr 2023 by Simon Logan
A tale of two halves.
We had a lovely family onboard today who were over on their holidays visiting a family member.
The morning conditions were fantastic. Flat calm and no wind. The wind picked up after lunch and things got a bit choppy.
Morning, fishing the flood at anchor. Big baits, small baits, with a mixture of squid, mackerel and frozen lug (curse those short tides). It was a struggle. Our baits were getting nibbles, but no firm bites.
Afternoon, fishing the slack and ebb on the drift. It couldn’t have been more different from the first half of the trip. After bumping into Muscle Fishing 6 miles out in his little Tuffy, he said that they’d had some mackerel. So we hung around and sure enough, a couple of strings within seconds of each other.
A nice codling and a bigger pollack quickly followed. More mackerel, half a dozen more pollack, some gurnard, one of which was a big’un, and a string of scad rounded off our afternoon nicely.
I also snapped one of my PENN Fishing rods ��♂️
⚫️⚪️ HOWAY THE LADS ⚫️⚪️ -
10/12/2022
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
10 Dec 2022 by Simon Logan
Saturday 10th December 2022:
A day spent on the wrecks.
Leaving the marina to freezing temperatures and flat calm seas. It was the first time I’ve ever had to scrape the ice from a boat.
Car trouble forced a couple of the crew to bail out, so a crew of 5 headed out to some of the deeper wrecks that litter the seabed along the East Sussex coast.
We got to the first wreck right in the middle of the 6.9m tide. With little wind we were still drifting at a canny rate of knots. That didn’t seem to matter to the fish. We had a nice bass (5lb guesstimate) first, followed quickly by a tank of a pollack weighing in at 16lb’s.
Alex, the big fish’s captor, would go on to land a couple more pollack at and around the double figure range. He also had the biggest pollack of the day, I reckon towards 20lb, spit his lure out on the surface, and I just couldn’t stretch any further to get it in the net before it kicked off and swam back to the dark. The one that got away indeed. I could’ve cried.
The other Alex, who landed the bass, had something huge take his lure and snap him off back on the wreck frustratingly. It was great to see these big fish so early on in the winter wreck season.
A couple more smaller bass were caught, and ALL bass were returned back into the sea as per the current bass ban Dec 1st - April 1st.
Quite a few squid about still. The biggest was an absolute lump. Must’ve been heading towards 3lb.
All in all a good day had exploring some old, and some new marks.
This will be the last trip out until after new year, when all things going well, will see this Deep Blue going to a new home, and the launch of my new boat, Deep Blue V2.
This year has been an absolute whirlwind. I’ll do a year recap on here soon, but for now, Deep Blue out.
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29/09/2022
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
29 Sep 2022 by Simon Logan
Thursday 29th September 2022 (how is that the end of Sept already???):
A funny old day.
The weather forecast was wrong but in the right way. We had sunshine all day and lovely flat water.
We could only find a single solitary mackerel. The sounder was pretty quiet all day actually. Drifting the end of the ebb/start of the flood didn’t bring us much reward.
We managed to turn that one singular mackerel into a decent sized Conger eel. We didn’t weigh it so feel feee to have a guesstimate on our behalf.
A few bream upto 3lb, Dean’s first ever Smoothhound and some other bits and pieces were also tempted onboard Deep Blue by way of squid and lug worm.
A hard, but enjoyable day.
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08/10/2022
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
8 Oct 2022 by Simon Logan
Saturday 8th October 2022:
Saturday was another good day. A crew of six regulars onboard Deep Blue. A bit of a swell and a stiff breeze first thing, but conditions got better as the day went on. It felt like summer again in the afternoon.
Kevin Meadows landed the best fish of the day. A lovely TURBOT falling to a mackerel fillet weighing in at 5lb 5oz. Great to see fish like this being caught here in Eastbourne.
Lots of good sized bream around still.
*The fish had already been dispatched at the time of weighing, a sling to avoid having to gill or mouth hook the fish during the weighing process has been ordered* -
18/10/2022
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
18 Oct 2022 by Simon Logan
Tuesday 18th October:
AM. Flat calm, sunny and little wind to start.
PM. It got lumpier come lunchtime with strengthening winds and a few decent sized rogue waves.
Anchoring on a brand new mark for the remainder of the ebb tide this morning produced a lot of thornback rays, pretty much instantly. A lovely fat bass and a (not mahoosive but fair) Tope was boated too.
Drifting slack water, and the start of flood at a regularly used spot saw us straight into bream. They have been here for what seems like forever now, and there’s no sign of their numbers starting to dwindle just yet.
Moving away from the consistent bream mark (we could’ve stayed and caught a ton more but we already had plenty) for the remaining hour or so proved pretty thankless. A couple of small Huss, and you guessed it, another couple of small bream were our meagre reward. Fishing made all the more difficult with building swell and wind, we headed back to the marina in following seas for the 15:30 lock. Cool boxes full.
Overall - a belter of a day out with a small group of 3.
Species caught: 11
Bass
Bull huss
Black bream
Gurnard
Smooth hound
Tope
Thornback rays
Scad
Mackerel
Poor cod
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12/11/2022
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
12 Nov 2022 by Simon Logan
After a LOOOOOONG layoff due to the repetitive strong winds and big seas, Saturday 12th November gave us our first opportunity to get out and sea what fish are about.
I was approached by Will Parkinson from Smart Fishing UK about running a trip for himself and Squidward 3 Fishing adventures South Coast & Isle of Wight. The aim was to film some fishing content in conjunction with the BoatLife boat show 2023. This year, the boat show has a designated boat angling section for the very first time. Top angler, YouTube’s favourite fisherman and friend of Deep Blue, The Fish Locker, will be there to open the show. It should be a pretty amazing few days.
Anyway….. we set off in lovely morning light to our first mark of the day, a rock shoal that has fished reasonably well for smaller species all summer. The first fish came on the first drop for Darren, a nice little bass. More bass followed for Luke, Caz and Will.
To maximise the chance of getting plenty of different footage, we decided to hop about on a few differing marks so that things weren’t too repetitive. After a quick location change, the anchor was down and we were into our first Thornback Ray. Several more followed. A couple more bass were also found at anchor.
Overall, a great day was had. Will, Darren Caz and Luke all caught fish, content was gathered and a good day with good company was achieved. -
13/11/2022
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
13 Nov 2022 by Simon Logan
Today trip, Sunday 13th November.
Similar starting conditions to yesterday, but with a bit more cloud cover and a cooler feel in the air.
A mixed crew 7 strong. Drifting was the first activity during slack water.
A couple of nice wrasse, 2 small pollack, a keeper bass and Deep Blue’s third John Dory of the year came up from the glittering (murky) waters of the channel.
We headed to the skate grounds for mid morning. Anchoring with baits has been more productive for me during the ebb tide all season long. We didn’t have that luxury due to the somewhat awkward tide times, so we attempted to prove my theory incorrect.
The session started slow, with a few dogfish taking out massive squid/mackerel/worm baits.
After two of the crew being bitten off by something 25 metres below us, Brian managed to hook into a nice smoothie. Dan followed up with a very healthy Bull Huss. A couple of bonus bass were also boated. Zero, ziltch, not a single ray was found today. Maybe the ebb vs flood theory has some gravitas.
Lifting the anchor, we headed for this summer’s tried and tested bream grounds. After being told that the bream had all but gone, we found the little spiky sods with ease. Small hooks and the usual squid slivers doing the damage. There were lots, plenty lots. All a decent stamp. One of the crew commented on how productive the bream fishing has been out of Eastbourne this year, comparing it to the Kingmere, which is revered as a bream Mecca.
Lots of fish, some quiet periods, some busy periods, great fun.
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14/11/2022
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
14 Nov 2022 by Simon Logan
Today, Monday 14th November:
��The first DOUBLE figure Bass this season��
What a beast. This 11lb 2oz silver bar was brought up from 30 metres of water on light tackle after taking a mackerel filet on a pennel rig.
This nearly doubled Darren’s previous PB Bass.
The fish was revived and released back to get even bigger for us to catch next time.
The bigger bass are coming inshore and shoaling now, it’s a great time of year to target a PB.
Darren had the lucky spot on the boat today. After a morning session with all the anglers catching a bucket load of decent Bream, we went to anchor for skate. Darren also had another couple of bass, and a decent Huss.
Skate, gurnard, doggies, small Huss, pout, small pollack and whiting were also caught.
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