Latest Fishing Reports: England
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07/2021
Fishing Report by John Peck
on Lady Margaret (Poole, Dorset)
Jul 2021 by John Peck
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The fishing during July has been a bit variable. There have been some good days with lots of fish coming aboard and some good individual fish landed. There have also been a few days when the fishing has been a bit slow. Generally the weather during the month has been favourable.
The plaice fishing remains reliable with plenty of fish around. We found the average size dropped off during the middle of the month and keepers were more difficult to come by but the fishing of the last few days has produced plenty of fish of a good average size with lots of keepers. The best plaice we landed in July was a fine fish of 4lb 4oz which is our biggest of the year so far.
There are also lots of black bream around. We landed fish to over 3lb at the start of the month but haven't been catching any big ones lately. No giltheads or couch's for us yet but the water is warm now so we may see some soon.
The bass fishing continues to be erratic. Both the ledges and the banks have produced reasonable fishing at times and also some slow fishing. We haven't landed any big fish during the last month.
The anchored fishing has produced a nice mixture of fish. There are lots of rod bending tope and congers around and quite a few rays along with the ubiquitous dogfish.
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07/2021
Fishing Report by John Dickens
on Lisa Jane (Canvey Island, Essex)
Jul 2021 by John Dickens
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Been out a few times in July had hounds bass lots on feathers another small conger some nice soles few skate as the water gets warmer lots more birds diving so easier to feather for the bass odd gurhard .
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26/07/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
26 Jul 2021 by Colin De Block
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Lead Us charters, Lowestoft fishing trips
27 July at 07:42 ·
WHAT A DAY ON LEAD US MONDAY 26/07/21
With perfect conditions we headed out of Lowestoft on Lead us once on the mark the Bass started coming in one at a time to start with then in 2's, 3's, then 5's and 6 at a time providing some very hectic sport for the team and keeping me on my toes with the net, with almost 40 being landed
A short move at slack water also produced some nice hounds a ray and plenty of whiting thanks to the team for their efforts and a great day had by all
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30/07/2021
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
30 Jul 2021 by Lee Brown
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Good evening fishing cod to 8 lb call lee for spaces
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30/07/2021
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
30 Jul 2021 by Andy Savage
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Today was a day for mainly teaching and learning. In amongst the ten anglers, we had a group of six lads on board who had not sea fished before. They were keen to learn how; which is something we take pride in doing on Sea Urchin. Using all the gear provided by us, the lads quickly got to grips with keeping the lead tapping the bottom on the drift and started picking off Codling and Ling from the rough ground on our baited muppet rigs.
We then moved to a wreck for slack water (yes, we do fish wrecks with people on hire tackle, instead of fishing on rough ground all the time), where we picked off some better fish. Dave Oxborough had a nice 6lb Ling and Andy the Skipper had a lovely Cod just short of double figures at 9lb 12oz, which fell for a big mackerel fillet.
Once the ebb tide was away again, we moved back to rough ground and finished where we left off, picking away nicely with more Codling and Ling. Another enjoyable day with a great group of lads. View Boats Page
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09/2021
Fishing Report by Roger Lennon
on Skerry Belle (Ramsgate, Kent)
Sep 2021 by Roger Lennon
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Plenty good bass action onboard, mainly falling to livebaits,
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26/07/2021
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
26 Jul 2021 by Lee Brown
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Good day ling to 14 lb cod to 6 lb
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27/07/2021
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
27 Jul 2021 by Andy Savage
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Well I didn’t really expect that…..
We’ve got some big tides running at the moment, which has certainly made for some challenging fishing conditions. We had a run off today with a fantastic bunch of lads. Arriving at a wreck around an hour before slack water, the first couple of drifts yielded only a Ling and a Cod, then as the flood tide slowed, we started to pick off some nice Codling in the 4-6lb bracket every drift.
This continued until the ebb tide got away once more. A move inside to another wreck saw more quality codling come aboard. Almost all the fish fell to squid today, mostly on bait traces with muppets.
All in all, it was a thoroughly nice day out, with a decent picking of fish. We ended the day with a bit of Mackerel carnage on the way back. Great day out lads, thanks a lot. View Boats Page
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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 Fri 14/02/2025 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.28m Will sail with 4 anglers. Tom Allen - 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 -
25/07/2021
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
25 Jul 2021 by Lee Brown
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Ling in double figures COD to 6 lb pollock to 5 lb
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07/2021
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Jul 2021 by Scott Belbin
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Despite being busy on our general trips lately we have still made time to head offshore in search of tope in between. It can be a risk for a skipper to set aside certain tides for fishing like this but thankfully they were all filled quickly. The weather has been kind to us this season as well as the boat meaning we could work more weather when we wanted to. This meant we only lost one tope trip to weather and there’s no substitute for time when it comes to this type of fishing.
Our first trip of the year started well with a 39lb male fish for Richard. Not a bad fish to start the season. This would have been followed a while later by a very lively fish that managed to clear 300yards of braid from Deans reel in 3 powerful runs! With all the other lines in I started to haul the anchor but it was too little too late as it had already straightened his 10/0 circle hook! I reset the anchor for one last cast and Dean re-tackled while licking his wounds. Luckily he had another run soon after however this fish was different gravy to the one he had just lost. Still a nice fish to start his season with as it was a male of 33lbs.
We ended up chasing another fish on our next trip too. This was a decent fish although no monster. The reason we gave chase was a rather dodgy jerky clutch on Martins antique reel. I think the whole boat was relieved to see that fish in the net after such a nerve wracking fight in a strong tide.
After a strong start, we managed to find a few fish on most trips. Some times we had to work harder than others, moving around or staying later to get the best of the tide. most of our trips we were lucky enough to see fish to over 40lb if not just shy of it and we found steady numbers too. Tope fishing around here is often a waiting game nowadays so it is important to make the most of any fish that come our way. Using circle hooks has meant fewer missed bites and the majority of fish made it to the boat once hooked. Of course loosing fish is part of angling and we did our fair share of that too. A few fish were lost through hook pulls mid fight. I put this down to an unlucky hook hold most of the time. There were some gear failures too which are frustrating as many are preventable. These include people using mono rubbing leader that were too light as well as mono bite traces which were bitten off when the fish took the circle hook deeper than expected. Some are just unfortunate though Stephen Charles has had his fair share of bad luck tope fishing. on one busy day when we had a total of 13 tope he had a cracking bite which hooped the rod tip over before going completely slack. The bait must have been laying back up the mainline which meant when the fish took the bait it bit straight through his mono leader too! Shortly after I found my self berating Stephen Clarke instead as he had just lost a fish. I must confess after seeing several fish lost to tackle failures I can be a little fussy with the lads, I check tackle, traces and clutches regularly to try and prevent lost fish. Stephen is one of the lads I don’t worry about normally. He hadn’t long returned a fish of over 30lb when his reel screamed into action over slack water. With a bit of sea running the boat had already started to sheer on the anchor rope and the other lads soon reeled in out of the way when he hooked up. The fish went on some seriously powerful runs at distance which is better than waking up on a short line. one of the other lads even had time to pop to the loo and return with the fish still fighting hard then suddenly after some more head shakes it went loose. We assumed the hook had pulled however it turned out the fish had pulled through his double crimped trace! It seemed the previous fish had weakened his trace and a decent tope wont give you a second chance with weakness’s in your tackle. After this we took extra care to change traces after each fish to avoid loosing another decent fish. the following day I was joined by more regulars and we had another busy trip. No tackle failures although we did pull the hook on a decent tope. Andy had bought his daughter Honey with him for her first tope trip. Honey has fished with us several times over the last year and I have mentioned before how she is a natural angler. We were all keen to see how she would handle her first tope and we weren’t disappointed. Honey managed two decent tope. One at 27lb and one at 35lbs. her Dad Andy just pipped her with a 37lb male, one of several fish that day. Another young gun I was pleased to see amongst the tope was one of our other regulars Alex Canham. Alex has fished with Dad and myself since he was very young so to see him set a new PB tope of 39lb at the ripe old age of 15 was a pleasure. His Dad Steve said he enjoyed seeing Alex catch that fish more than he enjoyed catching his own PB of 47lb a few weeks earlier. Steve’s fish was joint biggest of the year. He shares this honour with Chris Bendall who now had also has a new personnel best to beat.
Other notable fish included a tope with a bent dorsal fin for Stephen Charles. It resembled the captive orca from ‘free willy’. Paul Willis had a tope with half of its tail seemingly cut off? Also a recapture of a fish that had already been tagged a fair while ago by somebody else. There wasn’t much info on the tag other than an address in leatherhead. If anybody has heard of this project please let me know and I will pass on the relevant info.
Although there is a chance of us picking up one or two more stray tope this summer we have finished our run of tope trips for now. For the next few months our offshore trips will consist of mainly bass trips with a few other special trips thrown in too. Please book these trips in advance where possible as they often require certain tides.
We should see plenty more hounds and bass over the coming weeks as well as sneaking some other trips in too. If I cant get you out soon then please remember the bass will hang around offshore into November so please ask to get the best tides.
i have individual and full boat availability from October onwards although my father Stuart (07850234077) on the Razorbill may have spaces before hand.
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