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  • 27/05/2023 Fishing Report by Brian Forsyth

    27 May 2023 by Brian Forsyth

    Well what a fantastic day we had. We have done about 7 trips but this one exceeded all others by miles. Carl the skip was so good with helping the novices bait up how to cast explaining what bait would catch what as for his patience outstanding. We had various types of fish coming all day George won the day just with 10 a nice mixed bag all returned for next time. Which we are already planning. Apart from catching fish all day the icing on the cake was the Skipper could make a pucker cuppa coffee what more did we need well happy and sorted. Many many thanks the Finsbury Park Mob.

  • 07/2017 Fishing Report by carl porter

    Jul 2017 by carl porter

    Well the last couple of months have been fishing their socks off. Excellent numbers and sizes of smoothounds caught with multiple double figure fish caught each day. Biggest so far this season is a shade over 18lb, but there is always the chance of those elusive 20lb fish. In the last month or so we have done a couple of way offshore sortees with good results on the plaice. The Tope fishing hasnt really kicked off in ernest this season although we have had them to just over 33lb.

    Now the Bass ban has been lifted, we have started to target the bass with great success. plenty of fish in the 2 to 8lb bracket, but by far the best specimen locally this season is a 14lb 2oz beauty caught by the skipper. Yes she swam off happily too, no point in killing breeding stock in our eyes.

    We are now offering our evening trips as and when required at a reduced rate from full day charter.

    We look forward to seeing our loyal customers on the boat soon and welcome any newcomers who have not fished with us before

    Shane and Carl

  • 04/2017 Fishing Report by carl porter

    Apr 2017 by carl porter

    Skate are here in amazing numbers 60 to 70 fish a day most days one day produced 103 to 6 anglers mostly 6-7 lb with a fair smattering of double figure fish
    Went offshore earlier this week and found plaice to 2.5lb along with mackerel dabs sandeel whiting weevers and red /tub//and grey gurnard
    First hounds are starting to show although small they will increase in size and numbers as the month goes on

  • 04/2017 Fishing Report by carl porter

    Apr 2017 by carl porter

    Saturday saw us back on the skate again with our anglers taking over 60 many in double figures ...good rod bending fun !!!!
    sunday we wanted something different and we got it ......
    mackerel / grey gurnard /tub gurnard /sandeel / weaver/ dab / whiting/ herring and about 15 plaice to 2.5lb
    summer species are here on the banks and the turbot and brill wont be far away
    not to mention the bass and smoothounds that will arrive this month
    we often have spaces available at the weekends and during the week so give us a call
    to get amongst the fish

  • 04/03/2017 Fishing Report by carl porter

    4 Mar 2017 by carl porter

    WERE BACK
    seeng as the cod fishing failed to materialise this winter we decided to pull the boat out and have a proper clean up and add some more gadgets!!
    a new five year codeing has been issued ensuring she is fully compliant and is fully up to date with all safety an life saving equipment
    refurbished propellors and a sqeaky clean hull will ensure a fast ride out to those offshore banks
    looking forward to the summer now and those big smoothounds and the plaice and turbot fishery we only just
    scratched the surface of last year
    our first trip this weekend produced over 50 skate for one of our regular crews !!! no monsters but a lot of fun after 3 months ashore ! as the days grow longer and the water warms we should see plenty more and the big girls

  • 08/2016 Fishing Report by carl porter

    Aug 2016 by carl porter

    after our sucsess with the turbot thought we might turn our attention to plaice
    sundays charter had about 35 up to 4lb 4oz along with a couple of turbot plus loads of gurnards
    plenty of mackerel around and sandeel /weevers/bass/garfish/scad

  • 15/07/2016 Fishing Report by carl porter

    15 Jul 2016 by carl porter

    after a change from the regular thames species the hard labour crew set sail for something different
    after a 4am start and a 5 hour steam we arrived at our first mark and it was plaice and turbot from the start
    nothing huge but all keepers
    along with the flatties came a steady stream of gurnard/ weavers /mackerel and sandeels
    then mark latched on to something better a...20lb blonde ray !!!
    mid afternoon saw us put into a south coast port for a well earned beer and steak supper
    day two saw us back on the same grounds the weather was much more agreeable with nice straight drift lines
    and it was fish from the start !!!
    this time we had some lovely turbot and plaice and I had lovely brill ...and some truly huge mackerel ..
    back into port that evening with a well satisfied crew !!!
    day three we tried a couple of wrecks which were full of Pollock pouting and small codling
    so it was one last drift for the flatties before we headed home and another 5 turbot and a nice brill for steve
    midday we swung the bows for home with around 80 turbot and plaice for the weekend we were well pleased
    as well as the amount of species

    turbot plaice dab brill mackerel scad sandeel Pollock cod gurnard blonde ray pouting weaver .....and dogfish!!

    so after almost 200 sea miles for the weekend we arrived back in wallasea sunday afternoon ...knackered!!!!
    tight lines shane

  • 10/2015 Fishing Report by carl porter

    Oct 2015 by carl porter

    well the 2015 cod season has kicked off with a bang with good numbers of fish with a good average size still plenty of rays around though mostly smaller ones with the odd bigger girl
    looks like this could be one of the best cod seasons for many a year both in size and number
    we still have dates available for groups and individuals so don't miss out on them cod
    give us a call and lets go fishing !!!!!

  • 01/11/2014 Fishing Report by ian curtis

    1 Nov 2014 by ian curtis

    today was a trip out for the youngsters we had geoffs and stus sons out with us today we met up at 645am for a cuppa before we left port at 7am we got to our mark around 815 and out went our squid baits from the off we had codling most around the 40cm mark all these were returned as they were lipped hook as we lost the tide we had a move up to walton and as we set the hook we waited for the tide to push round and again our squid baits were sent out we didnt have to wait to long some better codling came over the side and the youngsters were fishing well bringing in there own fish at the end we kept 6codling and 3 skate shane lost a better fish at the end as frank would say (shane do you want the net) excellent day would recomend aday out with hard labour friendly skippers and if you have got youngsters get on thank you shane for a good day out with excellent company hope to see you all soon

  • 07/09/2014 Fishing Report by Carl Whalley

    7 Sep 2014 by Carl Whalley

    We booked up with Shane for our first trip out.... Great day had by all 8 of us!..plenty of fish , including a couple of reasonable skate , and Shaun was only too happy to help the novices out........great boat , and a comfortable trip !.....many thanks Shane!...we will be booking up our next trip soon!...........Carl and all the lads from Coates Builders!!.

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