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09/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
Sep 2015 by Kevin McKie
Well the week long charter in the Isle of Man has come to an end, what a cracking time we have had with most lads catching personal bests.
Plenty of Tope to 28lb, Spurdog to 18lb, Bullhuss to 12lb, Ling to 8lb, Pollack to 7lb, Cod to 5lb, Coalfish to 4lb, Ballan Wrasse to 4lb, Cockoo Wrasse, Tub Gurnard, Red Gurnard, Gray Gurnard, Whiting, Pouting, Dogfish, Dab, Launce, Mackerel and Blackmouth Dogfish!!
Never seen one before, what a strange but a nice looking fish.
Big thanks to all the lads for all there help who booked to make the week possible.
Brigand is now back in Liverpool ready for charters this weekend.
Here are dates available this month!
Monday 14th 5 places,
Tuesday 22nd 2 places,
Wednesday 23rd 3 places,
Friday 25th 3 places,
Cheers
Kev
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09/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
Sep 2015 by Kevin McKie
They say lighting never strikes in the same place twice, well it did today on Brigand.
After that monster tope yesterday of 67lb 3oz caught by Tony, he starts the day off with a tope of 43lb followed by another big tope length 67 inch, girth 25 inch = 52lb 3oz very good fish. I then got my fishing head on and landed the biggest tope I have ever seen. At one point we had to let over 300ft of rope out on the anchor just to keep up with it. After an epic fight we had it on deck it was a team effort with the net it just about fitted in. It tipped the scales at 72lb in the net, the length was 67 inch and girth was 29 inch = 70lb 4oz!!! The photo does not do the fish justice!! I am made up with the size of the tope we are getting!!! Big thanks to tony for his help.
Now that's the boat record!!!
Cheers
Kev -
09/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
Sep 2015 by Kevin McKie
Tony had never caught a tope up until yesterday when he caught a 40lb tope after a bit of guidance (shouting) from me. Today he fished his socks off catching pollack to 6lb,
spurdog to 16lb tope to 26lb and in the last 15 minutes of the trip he hook and landed a monster tope. We weight the tope in the net and it bottomed out my 60lb scales, then I got my other set out that go to 250lb but they hadn't been used for a few years. It tipped the scales at just over 68lb in the net, so we measured the length and girth because it was so big 64 inch length x 29 inch girth = 67lb 3oz!!! New boat record, well done Tony Mcquillan. -
08/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
Aug 2015 by Kevin McKie
Managed to get a charter out yesterday, I took 9 novices Tope fishing. They landed three Tope 45lb, 42lb and 35lb, they losed four and caught plenty of Bullhuss to 10lb, Gurnard, Dogfish and Mackerel.
I have availability this
Thursday 20th,
Friday 21st,
Monday 24th,
Wednesday 26th,
Thursday 27th,
Friday 28th,
Give me a call if you would like to book any of these dates.
07999628511.
Cheers
Kev -
08/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
Aug 2015 by Kevin McKie
Just finished 9 charters in a row, the weather gods have been on our side for once. It's been a very strange few days, we had to call the coast guard for assistance as one of my customers had a suspected hart attack. The rescue helicopter come to the rescue and took the man to Aintree hospital, thank god he is ok and a big thank you to all the lads onboard for your help. On a brighter note I had a customer a few days ago telling me he had the best bait in the world for sea fishing, now this man has been fishing for over 40 years. When he showed me the bait it was wood pigeon breast, I had fresh crab, lug, mackerel, squid, rag and he still insisted on using it all day to catch nothing. The same man was using a pirk and muppets in the Mersey!!! God give me strength ha ha!! On the fishing, we have caught Tope to 49lb, Bullhuss to 14lb, Thornback ray to 13lb, Ling to 8lb, Pollack to 7lb, Cod to 6lb, Ballan Wrasse to 3lb and many more.
Here is a list of all the available dates I have in August.
Friday August 21st, 8 places.
Monday August 24th, 6 places.
Wednesday August 26th, 7 places.
Thursday August 27th, 2 places.
Friday August 28th, 9 places.
Call me on 07999628511.
Cheers
Kev. -
08/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
Aug 2015 by Kevin McKie
As we all know the weather this year is very bad, you get out one or two days then you can not get out for over a week. When you do get out there is some good fishing to be had, catching 12 to 18 species a day. Here is a list of dates I have available this month.
August 6th 2 places available,
August 11th 9 places available,
August 12th 6 places available,
August 13th 2 places available,
August 20th 3 places available,
August 24th 7 places available,
August 27th 4 places available,
August 28th 9 places available,
Give me a call or text if you would like to book any of these dates.
Cheers
Kevin Mckie
Brigand Charters
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25/07/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
25 Jul 2015 by Kevin McKie
The weather this year is the worst I have ever known, just cancelling charter after charter due to the constant west and north west winds. When we can get out, the fishing onboard Brigand is very good at the moment.
Tope to 48lb, Thornback ray to 12lb, Bullhuss to 11lb, Smoothhound to 8lb, Pollack to 8lb 6oz, Cod to 7lb 9oz, Ling, Whiting, Pouting,
Tub Gurnard, Gray Gurnard,
Red Gurnard, Scad, Mackerel, Herring, Launce, Waver, Flounder, Dab, Plaice, Silver Eel and Dogfish.
Here is a list of available dates in August,
5th 5 places available.
11th 24 hour wrecking trip depart at 10pm return at 10pm on the 12th,
4 places available.
13th 8 places available.
17th 9 places available.
20th 9 places available.
24th 4 places available.
27th 7 places available.
Call me on 07999628511 or send me a message.
Cheers
Kevin Mckie
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06/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
Jun 2015 by Kevin McKie
The fishing onboard Brigand in Liverpool Bay has been very good over the last few weeks, plenty of Cod to 8lb 4oz, Pollack to 7lb 8oz, Bullhuss to 15lb, Thornback ray to 14lb 8oz, Smoothhound to 13lb 12oz, Bass, Ling, Gurnard, Plaice, Flounder, Dab, Scad, Mackerel, Whiting, Pouting, Dogfish and pack Tope.
Here is a list of available dates,
July 21st 1 place available.
July 23rd 4 places available.
July 24th 1 place available.
August 5th whole boat available.
August 7th 7 places available.
August 10th 8 places available.
August 13th 8 places available.
Give me a call on 07999628511 if you would like to book any of these dates. -
05/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
May 2015 by Kevin McKie
During the last three weeks we have only managed to get out seven times, due to the strong west and north west winds. When we have got out the fishing has been very good, lots of cod to 5lb 6oz, rays to 8lb, smoothhound to 14lb 8oz, bullhuss to 10lb, dabs, flounder, gurnard, dogfish and a few pack tope. The best day we had was just in the Mersey we totalled 53 codling from 2lb 8oz to 5lb 6oz and 17 rays to 8lb. Not bad for the end of May, I would be very happy with this in the winter months. The smoothound fishing on the inshore banks has been very good, this year the average size is 6lb to 7lb. That's much better than previous years where they have been in the 3lb to 5lb bracket. One day last week we landed four double figure smoothhound in the last few hours of the trip, we didn't get one under 7lb.
Here is a link where you can read more about that day http://www.blog.fishingfilmsandfacts.co.uk/index.php?blog=1
Here is also a video from that day,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_CHc5eQEIDk
I have a few dates available in June, if you fancy a day onboard Brigand give me a call on 07999628511.
June 20th 3 places available.
June 22nd 2 places available.
June 23rd 9 places available.
June 25th 1 place available.
June 29th 1 place available.
June 30th 3 places available.
Cheers Kev. -
02/2015
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
Feb 2015 by Kevin McKie
February was one of the best months we have ever had – over 13 charters on the Mersey, we boated a total of 507 sizeable cod from 2lb to 5lb 4oz.
The best day was when we had Tasker’s Angling onboard for the monthly charter, they totalled 78 sizeable cod from 2lb to 4lb.
We will only be fishing the Mersey until March 17th, then Brigand will be coming out the water for general maintenance. We will then start charters in May, mostly targeting offshore marks for all the summer species.
