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16/04/2023
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
16 Apr 2023 by Nick Gough
It's great to be back out at sea with passengers again.
Today started off just like yesterday with us coming across a pod of dolphins shortly after leaving the harbour.
Fishing today seamed to start like a dream with codling coming over the sides of the boat constantly for a good 45 mins. Unfortunately, it didn't last, and as the tide eased, so did the fishing with us having to keep moving to keep finding the tide and the odd codling.
At the end of the day, the anglers had some good sport on light tackle,
Heaviest fish today was a codling weighing 4lb 6oz.
We have seen a few different species over the weekend codling, pouting, lesser spotted dogfish, a sea scorpion, and a dab.
Over the weekend, the wildlife has been stunning with gannets already gliding about, razorbills and guilimots, and kittiwakes buzzing about.
This is a really good sign that summer will soon be here -
30/10/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
30 Oct 2022 by Nick Gough
A short video of today's trip which was similar to yesterday's
Every mark we went to today produced a good few fish then seamed to dry up so we did steam about abit today following the tide to maximise fishing for the lads.
As you can see from the short video they had a good mixed bag of really clean fish in fact only 1 codling we had to day was a local kelp cod.
Species wise we had a nice mix of codling, pollock, pouting, dogfish, and ballen wrasse today
Not the best of conditions today with the wind and rain.
On the trip we did see see a good amount of wildlife with a lonely half black beaked puffin following us around for a bit. a few gannets still showing, two bottle nose dolphins, several seals and even a Peregrine Falcon hunting a poor bird which we couldn't Id as it was frantically trying to get away and it did. -
29/10/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
29 Oct 2022 by Nick Gough
Photos of today's better catches on our winter uptiding trip
Overal everybody on the boat caught a cod to keep which in it self is a massive bonus some of them up until the last hour really struggled but managed to be kept busy catching other species like dogfish, ballen wrasse, pouting and even a whiting.
Best bait today seamed to be dirty squid fished on its own which was slightly unusual as normally tipping off normally gives it a slight advantage.
Noticed today when gutting the fish they are slowly getting small roes forming so hopefully we shouldn't be far away from those better fish which come in the winter months. -
21/09/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
21 Sep 2022 by Nick Gough
It's been a while since our last catch report, unfortunalty we have cancelled alot of trips due to sea and fishing conditions been poor.
Good news though there seamed to be plenty about today with everyone catching and all nice clean fish been over 40cm.
Below are some of the better fish caught on today's uptide and downtide trip every mark we went to produced a good spell of fish keeping the customers more than happy.
Best fish today was a 6lb Cod -
27/08/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
27 Aug 2022 by Nick Gough
Some of the better fish from todays 3 hour trip
Nearly all new anglers on today's trip and they all caught mackerel a few of them got some nice sized codling, and we also had a few pouting aswel. -
25/08/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
25 Aug 2022 by Nick Gough
Some of the better fish from today 8 and 3 hour trips
Loads of mackerel about now and a good amount of codling and pollock about today. -
23/08/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
23 Aug 2022 by Nick Gough
Some photos and report from todays 8hr and 3hr fishing trips.
8 Hour
As we were catching bait we had a pod if bottlenose dolphins come and feed around us this morning.
Then when we got a few mackerel, sandeel and herring we headed offside and worked a a few wrecks
The lads caught a good amount of Cod and strappy ling and we headed further out again and managed to get a 16lb 3oz ling.
As the winds wipped up not as bad as yesterday we ran back inshore again and fished the more inshore wrecks.
Overall the lads managed to catch 11 species and the trip with one customer catching 7 himself
Dab, weaver, whiting, mackerel, sandeel ,herring, pouting, coalfish, pollock, cod and ling
Back out again for a 3 Hour trip
Mainly new anglers on this trip they all caught plenty of plump mackerel.
A few caught some sandeels, herring codling, and a cracking 9lb pollock for this Young Lady -
22/08/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
22 Aug 2022 by Nick Gough
Seamed like a perfect morning
Picked some mackerel up on the way out got to the first wreck and the first drift produced a few strappy ling and small codling then 2nd drift it was like fishing 20 years ago with some really nice fish coming up.
After a good hour or so fishing slowed down so we ventured to the next wreck and then the winds picked up making drifts difficult for anglers but they still got a few fish.
Then the south easterly came through and pretty much doomed the trip, fishing became hard the sea just built up so we kept plodding on taking the odd fish each drift.
Overall the lads had some cracking fillets to take home and plenty of mackerel
And the Ling from this morning is a new PB for the angler and the boat weighing 24lb 9oz (at 126cm long). -
19/08/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
19 Aug 2022 by Nick Gough
Some of the better fish from today's 8hr trip
We had a really good mixed day with some really clean cod and pollock and some strappy ling.
Winds were difficult today making drifts hard to fish but they kept persisting and were rewarded with some cracking fish. -
11/08/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
11 Aug 2022 by Nick Gough
Photos from today 8 hour inshore fishing trip.
Some cracking fish on todays trip majority taken on shads and feathers
Weather was perfect this morning but by lunchtime the swell did pick up a bit again but this didn't put off the fishing it seamed steady away all day.
Also a some jumbo size mackerel about
