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12/2024
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
Dec 2024 by Luke Evans
2024
ROUND UP
It's been a busy year for Odyssey Sea Adventures. We’ve had some great captures, contributions to science swabbing and tagging programs, a new skipper, a new boat and a PB for me!
The fishing in West Wales still never fails to amaze. The reefs offer an abundance of fish of many different species. Some superb pollack fishing was had from March-November, with excellent numbers of fish up to double figures including a bonus tope on SPJ gear! I got in on the action, finally catching my reef nemesis, a beautifully coloured cuckoo wrasse.
With a keen interest in marine life, this year, it was a privilege to spend time with likeminded people in the shark science world. We took more than 30 DNA samples and tagged over 150 blues for Pat Smith and NOAA. The highlight for me had to be the multiple 200lb+ blues caught over the course of the season. We even had tuna deciding to join in on the sharking action so coercing them to the boat on light sharking gear was great fun.
The later half of the year proved to us that the numbers of tuna in the waters of the Celtic Deep has increased so the chance of Tuna, Blues and Porbeagles on the same day is possible. The best of the year was circa 800lb and another 5 over the 500lb mark. To hook up these monsters both on dedicated tuna trips and on our mixed trips. It provides further evidence just how world class the fishing is off the west coast of Wales.
On a personal level, the most exciting part was to see Emma complete the qualifications for her commercial endorsement. I'm super proud to see her on the helm, running trips on Odyssey single handed as well leading the charge on our new addition, Ocean Odyssey with me as crew for shark trips. It can be a male dominated profession but that hasn’t stopped her in the slightest! It also allows me more chances to get few trips on the SPJ gear too!
As we look forward to 2025, we hope for more of the same with a few extras! We will continue to offer a wider range of trips with a greater number of available dates, including some dedicated wildlife trips to make the most of our amazing encounters with whales, dolphins, gannets, porpoises, puffins, the list is long! We will continue to support the scientific community with more tagging and swabbing of sharks where possible.
Overall, we are looking forward to getting back out on the water and making memories with all our customers! -
09/2024
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
Sep 2024 by Luke Evans
Over the past few weeks the tuna fishing has really switched on in West Wales. We have been targetting these fish when we are out sharking, often stopping for a go on the way home from a days sharking. This has allowed us to enjoy some of the excellent sharking as a warm up before getting arms aching with a BFT on the line to end the day!
We have managed to locate the fish on multiple trips and its multiple fish per day. Best fish so far is a 105inch beast so in the 700-800lb classs.
As the autumn approaches we will be move to target these fish on dedicated trips, especially as the blue sharks will start to move away in a few weeks time. We have a limited number of dates left for the season so if you want a chance to tussle with a welsh sea monster drop us a line.
More photos and videos can be found on our facebook page and instagram. -
22/07/2024
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
22 Jul 2024 by Luke Evans
Welsh Tuna 2024
We are pleased to say that we will be once again be able to legally target bluefin tuna from welsh waters. We are awaiting full details but we will be looking to offer both dedicated tuna trips as well as a mix of shark and tuna comb trips in addition to our schedule of shark trips.
Please drop us a line to discuss your needs and we will do our best to accommodate!
Please note our tuna and shark trips are strictly catch and release. We are involved in tagging programs for both species and are actively contributing to the pat smith database to collect data on shark movements as well as tagging any tuna for ICAAT. -
07/2024
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
Jul 2024 by Luke Evans
Blue sharks are now around in good numbers.
Best blue is 200lb for the season so far, plenty of ton up fish around too.
The reefs continue to offer excellent sport for pollack, wrasse, mackerel, coalfish and a few cod as well. -
07/2024
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
Jul 2024 by Luke Evans
We are now running 2 boats.
We have the existing Odyssey (a lovely Evolution 30) as well as a 10m Cougar Catamaran.
Both boats are coded for same operating range. As a husband and wife team Emma or Luke will be your skipper for the day. If you see a date your interested in is booked on one boat, feel free to drop a line as the other boat maybe free.
Both Emma and Luke are both fully commercially endorsed skippers, we are all fully insured and both boats comply with the MCA regulations and are coded by the YDSA coding agency. -
20/04/2024
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
20 Apr 2024 by Luke Evans
So we finally found a weather window to get out to the local reefs. Plenty of action on the lures. Using a mix of soft plastics and SPJ the team captured in excess of 150 pollack to around 6lb. No monsters but great sport on light gear.
In addition we had, launce, coalfish, pouting, cuckcoo wrasse, and a greater weever. Final species total was 7.
Now awaiting the next weather window to get out again :) -
22/10/2023
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
22 Oct 2023 by Luke Evans
There are still plenty of pollack on the reefs around west wales. On a recent trip we had pollack to approx 7lb, wrasse to 4lb along with scad, mackerel, pouting, poor cod, dogfish and coalfish.
SPJ fishing taking the biggest and most fish in the day. -
10/2023
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
Oct 2023 by Luke Evans
Plenty of blue sharks over the past few weeks. Check out our facebook page for some vides and pictures of the action. Now open for 2024 bookings.
individuals or whole boat welcome for reefing, sharking or tuna :)
https://www.facebook.com/people/Odyssey-Sea-Adventures/100087999231282/ -
15/08/2023
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
15 Aug 2023 by Luke Evans
On Tuesday 15th August the Odyssey team with 2 willing anglers on board took a recce trip out to the Celtic deeps in search of tuna. The signs were promising as previous shark trips showed that there were some around.
1 hour into trolling spreader bars we had our first run of the day. After emptying over 300yards of line on its first run and a few others also Julian soon had it to the boat and the fish was tagged, revived and released to fight another day.
An hour later we had another screaming run with a tuna but sadly we suffered a hook drop and it was the case of the “the one that got away”. We did a bit od drifting with dead baits but no tuna. We did manage a bonus 100lb blue shark so a nice consolation prize!
A great day out and hopefully the numbers now increase as the tuna season is wales tends to kick off from September onwards.
If you fancy a crack at a welsh tuna on a fully licensed CHaRT Cymru charter boat get in touch -
04/06/2023
Fishing Report by Luke Evans
4 Jun 2023 by Luke Evans
Odyssey took her first trip of 2023 out to the Celtic Deeps on 3/6/23. It’s still quite early in the season. Given the nasty Easterly wind it made for tricky conditions.
After a quiet morning and a change a location to get our drift back into an area that delivered the goods lass year we had our first run of the day. A very healthy fish of approx 180lb was landed after a 15 min scrap. It was the anglers first time fishing for porgies so I was glad to find him a lovely fish to open his account with!
Next run was a few clicks on the ratchet. This went on for 5 mins but the skipper managed to work his magic to get the fish to take the bait. After a 20 min battle and thinking that I had actually hooked a nuclear submarine we got first sight of her. She looked us in the eye and promptly took all the line back… However after giving me the runaround, doing her best to swim under her the boat she was soon alongside the boat. A right lunp at approx 300lb she was released and shot off like a rocket and skipper had to have a sit down to recover!
Not long after we had another run and it was fish on again. Another prime porbeagle of about 160lb was soon boat side to be released.
We had a group of 3 blue sharks swimming in the slick off the back of the boat but sadly no takes. Hopefully they will increase in numbers over the next few weeks. An excellent start to the season hopefully it continues along with some settled weather.
