Charter Boat: Deep Blue
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Boat and Skipper Details
The name 'Deep Blue' comes with an incredible reputation on the south coast. My first boat, an Evolution 38 was originally an Eastbourne boat but was sold a few years ago and was sent to Wales. I have had the privilege of bringing her back to the South East. Deep Blue V1 has now been replaced with a catamaran which has been christened with the same name.
Deep Blue is now one of the approved charter boats for the annual Species League competition.
Fishing trips from Sovereign harbour include reef, rough ground and deep sea wrecking.
We have been provided with brand new top of the range rod and reel setups from Penn Fishing. This equipment is available to use onboard, please ask the skipper about availability.
We are also sponsored by Sidewinder Lures and an ambassador for NAVIONICS. We have a great selection of lures available to use while on your trip.
Whole boat bookings:-
Reef/rough ground trips £560 (8 people max)
Deep water wrecking trips. £640 (8 people max)
Specials/Sand banks for Turbot/Brill (ask about availability) £680 (8 people max)
Evening, shorter or longer trips available at request. Please call for a quote.
Individual spaces:-
Small groups/individuals £70/£80 per head.
*a great way to make new acquaintances*
2 hour Mackerel trips £35 per person
Children’s fishing trips (please contact Simon to discuss)
Equipment & bait can be provided, ask the skipper for details.
Sightseeing/nature trips:-
Royal Sovereign Lighthouse to Beachy Head (2hr round trip) £40 per head - min 6 passengers
Deep Blue has insurance for light workboat duties, and is also available for ashes scattering and filming/photography work.
ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴀᴄᴛ ᴍᴇ ʙᴇꜰᴏʀᴇ ᴍᴀᴋɪɴɢ ᴀ ʙᴏᴏᴋɪɴɢ.
Deposits can be paid via bank transfer or cash. The balance of trips to be paid in cash, card or bank transfer on the day of your trip.
Don’t hesitate to ask for more information.
I'm Simon, owner and skipper of Deep Blue. Originally from Newcastle Upon Tyne, I spent nearly twenty years working in Oxford before relocating to Eastbourne in the summer of 2021. Fishing has been always been a big part of my life. My Grandad and my Dad were both real keen fishermen. My Grandad was also a rod builder, and I loved spending hours in the summer holidays as a kid watching him in his workshop.
I left my career in Mechanical Engineering to take up a life on the waves.
I moonlight as a wedding/event photographer. I am an experienced videographer and drone pilot. I was trained to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) standard to fly drones commercially, and held a PFCO for a number of years.
I hold a valid commercial endorsement from the RYA to skipper chartered motor boats up to 24m in length.
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Upcoming Individual Spaces on Deep Blue
| Tue 01/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Wed 02/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Thu 03/04/2025 | 4 Spaces | £75.00pp |
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Fri 04/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Mon 07/04/2025 | 5 Spaces | 4 Hours | £45.00pp |
HALF DAY FAMILY FRIENDLY TRIPS
07:30 - 12:00 & 13:00 - 17:30
£45 per person
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Tue 08/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Thu 10/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Fri 11/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Sat 12/04/2025 | 6 Spaces | £75.00pp |
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Mon 14/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Tue 15/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Wed 16/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Thu 17/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Sat 19/04/2025 | 6 Spaces | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Sun 20/04/2025 | 4 Spaces | £75.00pp |
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Mon 21/04/2025 | 7 Spaces | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Tue 22/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Wed 23/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Thu 24/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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| Sun 27/04/2025 | £75.00pp |
Need 4 more for trip go-ahead.
£600 (£75pp) Mixed fishing - full boat
£680 (£85pp) Wrecking - full boat
Prices based on 8 anglers - we run up to 10 anglers maximum at request.
Equipment and bait available - ask the Skipper.
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Reviews
Summary:
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Alec Roy (22/05/2022)
Brilliant day out on the deep blue.highly recommended to go fishing with Simon no matter what level of experience you have.will be booking another trip
Skippers Reponse: Thank you Alec, I appreciate that.
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Kevin King (25/03/2022)
Had great day my first trip out with Simon great skipper all had fish mostly doggies but that's fishing can only get better will definitely go out again plenty of tea coffee ��
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Kevin King (25/03/2022)
A1 skipper Simon great days fishing we all had fish 1st time out but will definitely go out again
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L Mcnally (03/04/2022)
Had a great day out with Simon the skipper. A lovely group of 6 and it was hard fishing but Simon took us to some marks and we all caught. Dogfish, whiting, wrasse, pollock. Very knowledgeable. Lovely boat. Will be back again very soon
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Dean Levy (03/04/2022)
Had a great day out on Deep Blue
Despite difficult conditions with big tides Simon worked hard to find the 6 on board fish.
All caught fish with a mixed bag of dogfish, whiting, pollack, wrasse and pouting caught.
Will definitely be booking for another trip soon
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Catch Stats
- CBUK Catch Log: 32 Species have been caught onboard Deep Blue, including: Baillon's Wrasse | Ballan Wrasse | Bass | Black Sea Bream | Bull Huss | Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) | Cod | Conger Eel | Cuckoo Wrasse | Dab | Dover Sole | European Squid | Flounder | Goldsinny Wrasse | Greater Weever | John Dory | Lesser Spotted Dogfish | Lesser Weever | Mackerel | Plaice | Pollock | Red Gurnard | Red Mullet | Smooth-hound | Spotted Ray | Starry Smooth-hound | Thornback Ray | Tope | Tub Gurnard | Turbot | Undulate Ray | Whiting
Latest Catches 195 photos uploaded
Latest Fishing Reports and News
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12/01/2025
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
12 Jan 2025 by Simon Logan
Sunday 12th January
What a stunning day at sea, and what a cracking haul of fish for my crew.
4 fish on within a minute on the first drop.
Over 2 dozen pollack, few gurnards and a solitary codling (not forgetting a nice squid) all from drifting the shipwrecks in the shipping lanes.
Biggest pollack was just shy of the double, at 9lb 13oz after being dispatched, but the overall stamp was very good indeed.
Some VERY good fish dropped or lost to the wrecks too. Lots of bites at either side of slack water.
200 litres of fuel burned, 60 odd miles covered. A cracker. -
15/01/2025
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
15 Jan 2025 by Simon Logan
Wednesday 15th January
A mixed crew to fill the boat around 4 of the fishaholic Species League crew.
A day out on the banks (with a few wrecks thrown in for good measure) was the request. Greater weaver and gurnards were the intended target.
Given the success of our last offshore wrecking trip, the other anglers making the numbers up came on board to get amongst the pollack
It was a different day to that of a few days earlier….
Flat calm at sea again. 7.1 metre flood tide turning to ebb at midday. No wind forecast. We found a very steady drift of 2.2kts mid lanes on the banks. Almost that bit too quick. We plugged away until the tide started to drop a little, catching weaver, tub & red Gurnards and the other nuisance fish.
The fishing didn’t really pick up on the sand when the tide started to drop so we made a dash to the first wreck. Another boat was on the first big wreck that I wanted to have a go on, so I chose its smaller neighbour wreck instead. The tide dropped off so quick that we only managed a few drifts before the boat was spinning every way but the right way. A bit of ghost net must be on here as well, due to the fact that when the tide dropped, snags appeared a good number of turns above the wreck.
Steaming several miles to the second wreck got us there just in time to catch the start of the ebb. Fishing was slow, but there were fish marking so we persevered a little while until we started to get knocks.
A few pollack for the table to take home followed.
Back right inshore for the last 20 mins to see if the crew could get some flatties to tick off their lists, but it proved futile in the swamp coloured 6m deep millpond.
Fish there but not feeding much on this big full moon tide. Not a bad day still. -
17/01/2025
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
17 Jan 2025 by Simon Logan
17th January 2025
Common Dolphins, rods overboard and a bit of fishing happened today….. never a dull moment on DB.
Wrecking offshore. Full crew. Overcast, not much wind. Falling tides of 6.8m, flooding most of the day.
Steaming out at nearly 30kts to the shipping lanes with 8 of our regulars on fairly flat seas. I saw a couple of fins off my bow so slowed for a look, only to see a lot more fins start to break the surface and turn towards us. We spent about 5 mins going round in circles playing with a massive pod of Common Dolphins. They were everywhere, the videos don’t do the scale of the pod justice.
Onto the wrecks…. patchy, but fishy. A few pollack we took off one wreck all had very bad net rash along their flanks (see photos). The wreck in question did have a very snaggy end on the flood, presumably these fish live amongst it as residents.
Moving across another couple of wrecks saw us with more pollack, as you do. A quick look around at the south of the reef system on the way back in found more fish, a good few table sized pollack, a nice chunky pollack which fell to a new prototype lure - a collaboration with Sidewinder Lures & our good mate The Fish Locker, and a Codling, to keep up our Cod wrangling reputation -
22/01/2025
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
22 Jan 2025 by Simon Logan
A wrecking day mid channel.
7 crew, 5.35m tide, flooding from 10:30. Overcast and damp. Little breeze to start, a cold NE wind picked up at midday.
Bombing it out to the wrecks to catch the last of the ebbing tide. It was a bit sloppy until we reached the first shipping lane then it flattened right off.
Lots of gurnards, some decent, around the wrecks. A few nice pollack (no monsters) picked off. Best pollack of the day spat the lure half way up. Couple of codling on the reefs on the way back in, with more gurnards.
One of my eagle eyed crew spotted a bit of pot rope round my engine while we were transiting at speed between the wrecks 20 miles off. Thankfully the boat speed had kept it straight out the back and didn’t allow it to wrap the prop, but it was close. -
28/02/2025
Fishing Report by Simon Logan
28 Feb 2025 by Simon Logan
Friday 28th February.
February has felt twice as long as January, and seen us only manage to beat the weather a handful of times.
8 crew, mixed abilities, wrecking!
High hopes for today’s big 7.42m tide. It was always going to be a struggle first thing, with choppy seas, wind against tide, and the dreaded (at least for me) flood tide for the first few hours. Punching the tide out to our first mark was a bit bumpy.
I said to the crew that the best of the days fishing would come towards slack at 11:30 and the first half of the ebb, and that proved to be absolutely ��.
Smaller pollack starting to appear as the tide dropped below 1.5kts, a few better fish before the turn, a good few more fish when things got moving again.
The smaller pollack were released (all bar 1) after slow retrieves from 50m.
The bigger ones were my crew’s rewards for a bloody tough morning, but a lucrative afternoon.
Hard work pays off…..��
