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15/01/2017
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
15 Jan 2017 by Ian Dale
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Hi Guys,
Happy New Year to you all, hope you all had a good Christmas, and have managed to eat the last of the cold Christmas meats and mince pies that were left over.
Well it certainly has been a funny few weeks since we wrote our last blog, we seem to have gone from a very mild winter to a freezing one in less than a couple of days, “Brrrrr”!!
It seems that for us the cod fishing has slowed up somewhat, we have gone from our best day this season of 4 cod boated in a day to scratching around to find one lucky one, in saying that thought, the lone cod we have been finding have been a better size and better quality of fish.
One of the good points of the inshore ground fishing, is that the congers seem to have declined, I know they keep the rods nodding, but they do get a pain when you aren’t fishing for them and some of the anglers were losing quite a bit of gear with them. Shouldn’t moan really as it keeps them catching!
We have landed some nice size whiting over the winter this year, some reaching near on 4lb. The whiting fishing this year has certainly blossomed compared to the last few years of many pin whiting. Whiting was on the menu 90% of the time over the last few weeks, YUM!
Now, the other funny thing this winter, it seems the water temperature hasn’t dropped as much as normal, meaning that our wrecking season has kicked off a little earlier than expected. We have managed to find some nice Pollack out there so far, and we do hope that this will continue well into the wrecking season.
Come the end of January our winter cod competition will be ending, the leader at the minute is Mark Lennox, with a cod of 18lb. The winner will receive one space on our inshore trips and £100 tackle voucher for Allans Marine.
We still have some spaces left to be in with a chance of beating this, they are:
Jan 19th: 4 spaces
Jan 27th: 4 Spaces
Jan 30th: 6 spaces
These trips are £50 each. Please get in touch for details and booking.
On the 1st of February, our new competition will be starting, this will run until 31st August. This will be for the biggest Pollack caught on board Kelley’s Hero. Likewise to the cod competition, the prize will be a space on one of our wrecking trips for the next season and a tackle voucher worth £150 for Allans Marine.
The spaces for wrecking over February are:
Feb 5th: 6 spaces
Feb 13th: 4 spaces
Feb 17th: 6 spaces
Feb 22nd: 7 spaces
Feb 25th: 5 Spaces
These trips are £75 each, and again please get in touch for details and booking.
Our Alderney trips are now filling up, available dates for these are:
May 4th-7th: 1 space
May 22nd-25th: 1 space
June 19th-22nd: 5 Spaces
July 3rd-6th: 6 spaces
July 14th-17th: 5 spaces
Aug 3rd-6th: 4 spaces
Prices for these trips are £375 per person, Plus your accommodation, you will also be required to pay £100 deposit
If you would like any more information on any of the trips we have here, please contact us on 07795 538933.
Tight Lines
Ian
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04/12/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
4 Dec 2016 by Ian Dale
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Sorry we haven't written a blog for a while guys, but there has been a lot going on at Kelley's Hero. Since we last blogged, as many of you know we have bought a new boat. We now have a 11m South Catamaran, and we can carry 12 passengers. She is now back home in Southsea Marina and has already been put to work.
On the first trip since the last blog, we had a small group book the boat, they hadn't been out fishing for a few years and they were really excited about getting out on the water. The only fault we could have picked with the day is that we nearly ran out of bait by 2pm. Thankfully we caught enough live bait to keep us going. We ended the day with nearly 300 whiting upto 3lb, and 3 cod up to 12lb. It was certainly a great day with some great weather to go with it.
The trip after that one wasn't as successful, and after staying out and trying for 10 hours, our patience wore a bit thin and we ended up going back in with no cod.
The new boat had to come down from Hartlepool, which is 375 nautical miles, this should have taken 24 hours non stop. As it was, it took 3 days over a week due to the weather, We arrived back into Southsea Marina at 0130 in the morning, and we had a trip going out at 8. So it was all hands to deck, getting the new liferafts on, and all the gear swapped over.
We did manage to get out at 0800, but the fishing wasn't the greatest, with only whiting, pout, dogfish and a conger to be seen, but at least our anglers got out and were able to test the new boat out.
We had a few evening trips booked in over the month, no cod caught, just a few colds, whiting congers, rays and the usual dogfish. These night trips are very popular and are becoming a regular thing.
Many of you may know that we have a competition running for the biggest cod of the season, which runs from October to January 31st. The winner receives a free inshore trip aboard Kelley's Hero, and £100 voucher for Allans Marine. The last weekend we managed out, we had a new leader, this was Gerry, with his first ever cod, weighing 16lb 7oz.
One that competition ends, we will then have one for our wrecking season, with the biggest Pollack winning a similiar prize.
Things have been very busy, with the new boat arriving, and christmas coming up etc etc. But we are now sorting our bookings out for next year. We are doing Alderney trips, Weymouth Trips, and 2 day trips to Brighton. As well as all our normal wrecking and inshore trips.
If anyone would like any information on any dates etc please feel free to text or email with what you are after
iandale@kelleys-hero.com
07795 538933
We look forward to seeing you soon,
Ian View Boats Page
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12/2016
Fishing Report by Rob Hickin
on Sea-Juicer (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Dec 2016 by Rob Hickin
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Fishing has picked up well during November with good size Whiting to 2.5lb turning up in the eastern solent along with some bigger Cod,
On Deep water marks Cod ,Bullhuss , Spurs , Congers to 35lb seem to have switched to their winter feed up .some days they are becoming a nuisance as other fish not getting a chance on the baits .but cant complain they still put a nice bend in the rod . best Cod to date a nice 24lb for Aidan which fell to a dirty squid bait.
Things should continue to improve for December lets hope the weather is kind & i can get offshore on the Small tides for Blondes Spurs & Bull Huss along with the bigger Cod & no doubt Congers
The .Solent should continue to produce good bags of whiting along with the cod
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04/11/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
4 Nov 2016 by Ian Dale
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The weather has definitely been a little bit kinder to us this month, we haven’t managed all of our trips but the ones we have, we have had to head up The Solent. As before this paid off on most of our trips.
Not only have we been busy with day trips, but the nights trips are also getting popular.
We have managed a few of these now, not all productive but still nice to get out there and try.
We produced a lot of whiting, pout and a few dogfish, with the smallest dogfish we have ever seen i think.
We had a run of nice weather last week, and we managed to find a few nice fish, with the biggest one around the 12lb mark. The whiting have been in in numbers, and we have also seen a bass or two and a few nice rays as well.
We are running a competition for this Cod season which runs until January 31st, that is, the biggest cod caught aboard Kelley’s Hero wins one free individuals spot on the boat and £100 voucher for Allens Marine.
If you would like to take part in the competition, please feel free to contact us and book on to one of our individuals days. They are filling up fast so be sure to get in and have a chance at our winter giveaway.
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14/10/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
14 Oct 2016 by Ian Dale
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So the plaicing season has just about come to an end for us now, and it's time to start looking some of those winter cod. The plaice weren't as prolific as previous years but the fish that we were getting were in better condition and a lot of them were better sizes. The biggest place we had on board was a 3lb 12oz fish. During our place trips, we had a nice number of brill come up, the biggest being 4lb. Normally we only see around one or two a year on these but this year we had near on 20.
On the 17th September we headed out on our first evening trip for sole. It was hard work but we managed to find a few. With the biggest weighing in at 2lb 4oz. The rest were smaller. We had red mullet, bass, bream, silver eels, dogfish, pout and whiting as well that night. The fish didn't stop biting all night.
The first weekend that we started for cod, we definitely found them, we landed 4, up to 13lb. There wasn't a quiet spell all day and we ended up with conger eel, silver eel, pout, whiting, dogfish, bullhuss, smoothound and of course, cod. It sure is nice to see them this time of year and makes a nice change to all the rushing around done in previous months. Lets hope this is the start to a good cod season.
Monday evening saw another one of our evening trips for sole. Unfortunately we didn't see a sole, but we had lots of activity including cod whiting and pout.
Lots has been happening at Kelleys Hero, for those of you that don;t know, the boat will be getting upgraded to an 11m South catamaran. This will be able to fish 12 comfortably. It will then allow us to do Alderney runs and Weymouth runs next year. If anybody would like any any information on these trips please feel free to contact me.
So lets hope we manage to get out and find some more cod, and some more pb's.
Don't forget if you want to get out fishing, call 07795 538933
Tight Lines
Ian View Boats Page
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10/2016
Fishing Report by Rob Hickin
on Sea-Juicer (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Oct 2016 by Rob Hickin
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Fishing starting to improve inshore with Cod around 10lb showing in the Solent along with the whiting which should improve in size in the coming weeks . Offshore still a bit hit & Miss but some nice fish turning up . on the next set of neap tides should see some improvement with Cod & conger putting in good appearance . Best baits normal for this time of year Black lug squid & cuttlefish
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17/04/2016
Fishing Report by bernard medhurst
on Malaki (Hayling Island, Hampshire)
17 Apr 2016 by bernard medhurst
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Me and a few friends deciced to have a days wreck fishing so we booked up wiith Barry Handley on Malaki . We were told to be at sparks marina for 7am start.Well we all met up at 6:30am,loaded the tackle on the boat ,then we left the marina at 7 sharp. The weather was great, the sun was out and the sea was flat,so we were all looking at each other hoping for a good day.Little did we know what was in store.We made our way out to the first wreck which took about 2hrs,which we took a few fish off,then we moved to the next wreck with the same result. Barry then said lines up we are going out further to the next wreck. When we arrived barry lined the boat up and gave the call to drop our lures down,then we were all into big Pollock.on each drift we were taking double figure fish. Sreve harber on the back had 5 fish up to 15lb 9ozs, Stuart had 9 fish up to 16lb, Brains biggest 11lb and Jason the skippers son after mixed start had fish up to 12lb 6ozs. When we had enough fish we upped lines headed for home. what a great days fishing with most fish into double figures. Thanks barry for putting us onto the fish and the rest of the crew for making it such a good day. Some of catch can be seen on the web site
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09/09/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
9 Sep 2016 by Ian Dale
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We haven’t had much to report on over the last few weeks. A lot of our trips had to be cancelled due to the heavy weather that was coming in. We had to cancel a few of our plaice trips, our last wrecking trip of the season and an evening sole fishing.
Thankfully we have managed to get them all to book again. Lets hope the weather agrees.
Our first trip we headed on was a Plaice trip, we had a boat full of eager fisherman waiting to see a few spots. Once we got there it was slack water so it took a while for the bites to start. As the tide picked up so did the amount of fish that was caught. We saw plenty place up to the 3lb mark, a brill of 2lb 5oz, and a few mackerel. Everybody caught and had plenty, and we returned a load to fight another day.
On the 26th Kelley’s Hero had an appearance from Total Sea Fishing Magazine, we took them out on another trip looking for Plaice mainly, with the aim to go hunting for a bass as the tide picked up. Yet again as we got there the tide was just about slack and we had to wait for it to pick up to get some bites. The plaice were hard work and after a flurry, it went dead again. So after a lot of thought, we decided to head out and see if we could catch some bass whilst the tide was right. In an hours fishing we had around 20 bass, all bar two were sizable. This made the day. On the way in from this trip we had the rescue helicopter come along and practice putting a man on the deck. That was the perfect way to end a days fishing.
We had a couple more trips over the next few weeks. Again the plaice were slow on the ebb and whilst the tide was slack, but we had to hit it hard whilst the tide was flooding to get the most out of our day. The biggest plaice was 3lb and we also saw a nice red mullet of 11oz.
Things are looking up and we have the winter cod fishing to look forward to. Bookings are coming in and the diary is filling up nicely. If you would like to book a last minute plaice trip or a winter cod trip please get in contact via email: iandale@kelleys-hero.com or call: 07795538933 View Boats Page
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26/08/2016
Fishing Report by Steve Eastman
on Kittiwake 111 (Gosport, Hampshire)
26 Aug 2016 by Steve Eastman
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What a great days fishing with excellent weather.We had plenty of Mackerel on the way out to use for bait.
For most of the lads it was their first boat trip . At anchor they boated a total of 15 Rays the largest weighing in at 16lbs.
On the way back drifting for Mackerel , one of the lads caught a rare Red Band weighing approximately 10oz.
I have never come across this species before during my 32 years of chartering.
Is this due to climate change as apparently coddling have been caught on our shores ????
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18/08/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
18 Aug 2016 by Ian Dale
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August has been a funny month so far, but then again it always is.
We started the month with a good run of mackerel and a few different species showing to where we are now with the inshore trips being hard work.
As the inshore trips are now getting harder, we have decided to focus our trips on the Plaice fishing. We have done a few Plaice trips this month with many nice plaice showing. Along with Plaice we have had a nice few Brill and turbot. This is nice to see as last year we only had 2 brill altogether, and this year we are doing this per trip.
The last plaice trip we did, didn’t end very well for us as the boat decided it was going to spring a leak, and as many of you know this is never good on a boat, so we had to head in early. We had a great start to the day though, the weather was calm, the sun was shining and the plaice were biting.
We have done 2 inshore trips this month so far. The first one which was earlier in the month wasn’t as hard as the latest one. We have had species such as smoothounds, undulates, thorn backs, blondes, and small eyed rays, bream, mackerel, plenty of scad and tope.
The second trip was very hard work and we only had a handful of mackerel, scad, 2 dogfish and a smoothound.
Two other trips we did this month so far, were the Cowes week fireworks, and a half day trip.
We headed up towards Cowes for some mackerel fishing, before heading to our spot to watch the fireworks and eat our hot dogs. We caught a few mackerel scad and a herring.
The half day trip produced many dogfish, a nice thornback ray and some smoothounds. The mackerel weren’t playing again but the scad were. The only thing we have noticed about the mackerel we have had this year is that they have been perfect bait size.
Looking forward at the weather it looks like we are going to have to cancel our evening trips that we had scheduled and our last wrecking trip of the season. We will be putting on another evening trip or two but not another wrecking trip. Seems our bait freezer is going to have to stay full for another few days.
We will be mainly plaice fishing for the remainder of August, if you would like a chance to catch a nice plaice, brill or the odd turbot, then please call on 07795 538933
Ian :-) View Boats Page
