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21/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
21 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
just another 3 hr trip today with conditions against us(wind wise!) but the sun shone and the dogfish fed,amassing about 25 and Ian from paisley caught 3 on one drop.
reports are filtering in that mackerel land herring are being landed at Port Logan,some 6 miles south of Portpatrick, so our summer species cant be far behind?? -
19/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
19 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
back out again with steve and jack from Essex plus a couple of others,again the Pollack proved elusive again but doggies were willing to keep us entertained...took about 15 and a couple of times it was 2 at a time! also some small whiting
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18/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
18 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
took a couple of the Essex boys out today and its apparent that we need the mackerel to arrive! we tried drifting and then freelining with sidewinders for Pollack which produced a couple in the 3lb bracket and finally anchoring with bait that produced a small codling and about 10 dogfish.
a couple of days previous we took about 30 coalies in the 1-1.5lb bracket and some small whiting -
19/04/2014
Fishing Report by Jack Ellis
19 Apr 2014 by Jack Ellis
Hi.
Thanks for the great couple of days I had.
I caught a load of pollack and dogfish with the odd codlin. We tried about 3 different types of fishing with all being successful.
Defiantly worth the money.
Thanks Dominic.
Jack -
10/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
10 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
First trip off today with a mixed bunch of lads and only small stuff to report,lots of small whiting and about 20 coalfish around the 1lb mark and this strange brown fish about the 8oz mark!
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09/03/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
9 Mar 2014 by dominic wilson
Small tides,shining sun and 50ft of water were not the best of conditions for uptiding trip but perseverance paid off....we landed 23 codling all in the 1.5-3lb bracket except the one in the photo.....21lb in weight!! what a cracking inshore fish. Squid and worm were the order of the day but adding crab cart made the difference. we also caught 6 pouting upto 2lb and a strap ling
Nice cod Igors at 21lb !!! -
11/01/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
11 Jan 2014 by dominic wilson
uptiding again this Saturday with 8 lads from Selby.only a small tide at 4.4m and we needed to find some tide which we did down at Robin Hoods Bay.
a day of finicky bites,fish on til half way up and then "disappearing" but we managed to land 16 cod (biggest 10lb),a solo whiting and a solo "doggie".
no one bait excelled but squid was the backbone of all combinations -
04/01/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
4 Jan 2014 by dominic wilson
went uptiding again at the weekend(4/1/13)....didn't go afloat on my vessel but on "Tina Dawn" for a bit of a "busmans away-day"!
the water was coloured and a massive tide running(6.0m).I and the skipper managed 6 cod a piece with another 4 being landed on the boat plus half a dozen jumbo whiting(+2.5lb),
squid and lug plus crab cart was the order of the day with most fish being hooked on the top of the pennel.
fish size was smaller than the marks at Robin Hoods Bay but all went away happy.
average fish size was 2-3lb with the largest pushing 6lb and a couple of undersize "chuck-backs
twas a day of finicky bites -
29/12/2013
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
29 Dec 2013 by dominic wilson
had my experienced(and very keen!) Latvian fishers out this sunday(29/12) on a beautiful December day when wind and tide aligned plus colour in the water to give cracking uptiding conditions.
took a gamble and went to fish Robin Hoods bay area and it paid off!
squid,worm and crab cart combinations took all the fish...all bar 2 being hooked on the top pennel (3/0 circle)
final tally was:
1x13.5lb
1x12.5lb
1x10lb
2x9lb
5x8lb
9x1.5lb
10x 4-6lb
best bag was 6 cod for 36.5lb(inc 13.5lb fish)
give a pound or two it is nearly 10st of cod across 29 fish...not a bad stamp -
28/12/2013
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
28 Dec 2013 by dominic wilson
took the Scunthorpe boys out on Saturday(at the 3rd time of asking due to poor weather) for a 5hr uptiding/downtiding trip under hawsker lighthouse in about 45ft of water.
it was a slow start and a poor end .but the bit in the middle produced 12 codling......1 at 9.5lb,4 at 1.5lb and the rest were in the 4-6lb bracket.
all fish were hooked on the top of the pennel on a 3/0 circle and the bait of choice was squid and black lug wrap.
