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09/04/2022
Fishing Report by nick smith
on Lillie May (Beer, Devon)
9 Apr 2022 by nick smith
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Its been a long time since I fished Beer, and i I was really looking forward to the whole Beer experience, from launching off the beach to being hauled back up on your return, it really just adds to the day. not to mention the fishing can be something special here, and you just never know what you might hook into.
Anyways the plan was to fish as light as possible with most of us hoping to fish with our LRF set ups, which we managed to do for most of the trip, stepping up from the normal 2 - 5g lead heads to using 20g weights to a couple ounces which the rods could easily handle but which made the fishing really hands on....and so much more fun when you get a fish...bait used was squid, mackerel, herring, sand eel and rag worm.
Have to admit it was a rather slow day, due in part to me picking too small a tide, and the dreaded bloom already in the water, but we carried on and it wasnt long before the banter was interupted by Ian jumping up as his rod bent over, this was followed by the usual questioning of "what is it then bud?" from all the other's, along with "cor your milking that dogfish mate," Then George called out he could see colour and it looks very breamy.....and we could not believe it, the first fish of the day was a lovely looking black bream.
Now we had the fish biting, and we started working on the species count...dogfish, whiting, grey gurnard, smoothhound, conger, black bream, and the then George caught something special, infact it was the main reason we had returned to Beer as it was the only place I had ever seen them caught, we had thought it would be too early for them but George called out he had a fish on and it was a male dragonette, and In my opinion the best looking fish we have in our waters, it would look more at home in a tropical sea than our cold water's.
For the last hour of the trip we steamed back inshore and had a drift over the sand to see if we could find any plaice, but it wasnt to be and before long it was time to call it a day and bring up our gear for the last time.
I am back out there again in a few weeks time with more trips booked up for later in the year, big thanks to Paul and look forward to fishing with you again soon....
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08/04/2022
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
8 Apr 2022 by Scott Belbin
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It looks as though the weather will improve for sunny Essex over the next few days. Fishing has been great of late with the spring run of rays well under way. There have been some big females showing regularly as well as plenty of scrappy males to keep us busy. Chris Bull has caught the biggest so far this season at over 16lbs. The dogfish and whiting have been in biblical proportions with some unseasonably large whiting mixed in. there have been several around 40cm long and the biggest at 43cm (17inches) long. As If large whiting aren’t exciting enough on their own we have still been seeing the odd baby codling too.
Prior to this cold snap things were warming up nicely so we were catching increasing numbers of smooth-hounds and bass on our trips. Worm certainly seemed to help attract the bass and there have been some decent fish coming out already so hopefully this bodes well for the coming weeks and months. Barry Wood had the largest of several bass the other day with a fish of 4.12lbs that made his day.
Over the coming weeks I expect to see plenty of rays on our general trips. Hopefully the short blip in the weather wont affect the Bass and hounds too much. We will see plenty more mixed in on our general trips until all of a sudden they will be here in force marking the start of our summer fishing.
If you fancy getting out aboard the Galloper then please keep your eyes open for spaces that come up. I have a few individual spaces as well as availability for full boat bookings (mainly mid-week) as well as the occasional evening.
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Galloper
View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 08/02/2025 3 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp offshore tripView details Sat 22/02/2025 3 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 08/03/2025 3 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 15/03/2025 9 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sat 22/03/2025 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 05/04/2025 2 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 19/04/2025 2 Spaces 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 03/05/2025 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp View details Sat 10/05/2025 9 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details Sat 17/05/2025 9 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp View details -
03/04/2022
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
3 Apr 2022 by Andy Savage
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Well that wasn’t too bad a weekend......
Saturday saw a 50/50 split between experience and new anglers. Sea Urchin regulars, Gary and Andy Townend joined some friends of mine who had booked on to try uptiding. Gary and Andy got stuck straight into the Codling and one of them was usually playing a fish during the Ebb tide! Once they’d caught enough, they went onto catch and release!
Dan and Martin took a while to get to grips with things, but still managed to get a few Codling, Doggies and Pouting throughout the day. It was a good example of you’ve got to fish well to catch. Andy and Gary made it look like easy fishing.
Today saw another group of inexperienced Uptiders’ onboard, but they were all keen to learn. After a busy first hour, getting everyone fishing properly, the fish started to come aboard regularly. It was nearly all Codling, apart from Remigijus Zokas who found a lovely brace of Pollock as well.
The boys were on my hire tackle and used the #standard Unwashed Squid and Black Lug hookbaits. Biggest fish of the day fell to William Louch, with a nice 5lb Codling. Everyone caught a fair few and the weather got progressively better as the day went on.
All in all, an enjoyable day out in good company. Thanks everyone. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
View Full Charter AvailabilityTue 04/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.07m Davey Mayne - x 3 Peter Burton - x 1View details Fri 07/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.46m Will sail with 4 anglers. Barry Allcock - x 1View details Sun 09/02/2025 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1View details Tue 11/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.06m Will sail with 4 anglers. Stan Matthews - x 1View details Wed 12/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1View details Wed 19/02/2025 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.86m Nabeel Ismail - x 4View details Mon 24/02/2025 6 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.27m Will sail with 4 anglers. Robin Lever - x 3View details Tue 25/02/2025 2 Spaces Available Wrecking Trip - 4.59m Stan Matthews - x 1 Steve Whitaker - x 6View details Sun 02/03/2025 2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.68m Colin Frankland - x 6View details Mon 03/03/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.59m Will sail with 4 anglers Joe Clough - x 1View details -
03/2022
Fishing Report by Nick Coffin
on Better Days (Ramsgate, Kent)
Mar 2022 by Nick Coffin
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Spring seems to be here already! Bass,Hound & Rays feeding up with this warmer spell. Fresh crab doing the trick available on the boat along with other top frozen baits. All trips come with rods,tackle,tuition and fish prepared for the pan. We are now offering afternoon and night trips along with the day trips. For bookings call
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29/03/2022
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
29 Mar 2022 by Rich Ward
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An unexpected trip out for us yesterday as we didn’t have a booking until Chris Beddard from Stockport rang me the evening before to see if we would take them which of course we obliged.
Because they were only a group of 3 we were obviously limited to where we could get to so we chose the inshore anchor fishing to which the lads were very pleased.
A young “potter” mate of mine had told me about the Codling they had been getting in the pots over the last couple of days so we headed to that area.
The lads were straight in to fish from the off until slack water where it went quiet, like it usually does.
We decided to stick with it where we were until the flood came through and on the first push of tide the rods were tapping again.
Chris, Phil and Bernie gathered around 25 fish between them with best falling to Bernie, a lovely Codling of 6lb 3oz.
The lads thoroughly enjoyed the day with us and will be back next month hopefully for some more action.
Cheers
Rich
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Shy-Torque III
View Full Charter AvailabilityThu 13/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.4m tide. Will sail with just 3 anglers. John Short 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 15/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.4m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 16/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.3m. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 17/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.1m tide. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Lawrence Byrne 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 20/02/2025 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 1 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.5m tide. tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cliff A 2. Bill B 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Fri 21/02/2025 2 Spaces 8 Hours Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Cliff A 2. Chris Ibbotson 1. Craig White 4. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 22/02/2025 1 Space 8 Hours Offshore trip includes wrecking. 4.1m tide. Room for 1. Cole Dempsey 4. James 1. Marius 3. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 23/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. James 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 24/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.2m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 25/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Offshore wrecking trip. 4.6m tide. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details -
18/03/2022
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
18 Mar 2022 by Ray Martin
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Fishing improving with plenty of Thornback Rays about
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29/03/2022
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
on Mistress Linda / San Gina3 (Poole, Dorset)
29 Mar 2022 by Philip Higgins
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As the spring season starts we have had some fantastic weather, the fishing is improving with some nice catches of plaice are being landed and it will not be long before we start catching the very fiesty Black Sea Bream which size for size put up a great fight on the right gear, I am running plenty of midweek individual trips again this season so if you fancy a relaxed day fishing from Poole give me a call.
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28/03/2022
Fishing Report by Ryan Jones
on Ocean Runner (Poole, Dorset)
28 Mar 2022 by Ryan Jones
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With the weather starting to improve the inshore Plaice fishing has got off to a awesome start with a great stamp of fish in quality condition. Yesterday saw us offshore anchoring with some decent sized congers and our first Tope of the year which is a good sign our summer species are just about to start and in the coming weeks hopefully we see the first of the Bream arrive on the inshore reefs.
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Ocean Runner
View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 08/02/2025 4 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp Anchoring the banks for Blonde Rays and Spurs 4 spacesView details Thu 20/02/2025 7 Spaces £85.00pp Anchoring the banks for Blonde Rays and Spurs £85pp Max 9 on the boatView details Mon 10/03/2025 8 Spaces 10 Hours £135.00pp Wrecking for Pollock and Cod £135ppView details Tue 11/03/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £135.00pp Wrecking for Pollock and Cod £135ppView details Thu 20/03/2025 7 Spaces £135.00pp Wrecking for Pollock and Cod £135ppView details Sat 22/03/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £110.00pp Fishing the shambles for Turbot and Brill £110pp 6 SpacesView details Fri 28/03/2025 6 Spaces 8.5 Hours £75.00pp 6 spaces Drifting for Plaice with chance of early Bream £75pp 10 spacesView details Sat 05/04/2025 4 Spaces 10 Hours £110.00pp 4 spaces Turbot fishing on the shambles for Turbot and Brill £110 per person Max 9View details Sun 06/04/2025 8 Spaces £75.00pp Fishing at anchor for Rays congers etcView details Thu 17/04/2025 9 Spaces 8.5 Hours £75.00pp Fishing on the drift for plaice with time at anchor for Bream 9 spacesView details -
26/03/2022
Fishing Report by paul eddon
on TROT- ON (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
26 Mar 2022 by paul eddon
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We have been at sea for the past few days.Saturday was by far the best day .keeping about 30 cod .well done to Roland and his party .cheers tight lines
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD TROT- ON
View Full Charter AvailabilityFri 06/06/2025 4 Spaces Cod / Ling (Common).View details Fri 04/07/2025 4 Spaces Cod / Ling (Common).View details Wed 06/08/2025 4 Spaces Cod / Ling (Common).View details -
27/03/2022
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
27 Mar 2022 by Allan Skinner
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sunday 27th march
was a lovely day out with the sea as flat as a witchs tit and nice and warm as well, was a slow morning with just a few fish coming aboard,
however after dinner as the tide turned, they woke up with a bang, with plenty bites and fish keeping us busy most just over size. so they were all returned
but still a good number of 2-2.5lbs cod being kept. tommy keeping 10 reasonable fish
nothing bigger than 3.5lbs but still a nice sign of the spring run of cod turning up View Boats Page
