Latest Fishing Reports: England
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29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Rob Lee
on Luna-Sea (Merlin) (Liverpool, Merseyside)
29 May 2021 by Rob Lee
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***Fishing Report May 2021***
Merlin has been a busy boat of late and the fishing is really starting to pick up with lots of species back in our waters.
The general fishing is good and every trip has produced lovely fish of a vast variety.
Some of the Species caught in the past week are as follows:
Tope
Smooth-Hound
Bull Huss
Thornback Rays
Mackerel
Whiting
Bass
Dab's
Flounder
Gurnard
Dogfish
Herring
Launce
Our Bookings are filling up very quickly now and we have very limited availability in the coming weeks so if you would like to book a trip, please visit our website www.merlincharters.co.uk to check our dates and call Sarah on 07863774909 to secure your trip.
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29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
29 May 2021 by Allan Skinner
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sat 29th may
another cracking days fishing fog never lifted all day. but that didnt stop the fish playing .with well over 60 fish boated. from both wrecks and ground marks,
some nice ling upto 10lbs and cod to 8.5lbs
pic darren with some of his fish nice one darren View Boats Page
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28/05/2021
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
28 May 2021 by Andy Savage
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It ain't all Champagne and Skittles......
I'm not one for pulling a bluff; and it's fair to say that the last two days fishing have been very hard. After the strong winds, the water has been stirred up again and is holding a lot of colour. Combined with big tides and a bit of swell; we've certainly had our work cut out.
Fishing has been best an hour either side of slack water and we've picked off a few fish; with an 8lb 8oz Ling being pick of the fish for Don "Wang" from Kings Lynn. There are signs of the Mackerel making an appearance, but these fish were taken from above a wreck at 18 miles.
Whether you're catching or not, I will do everything I can to tip the balance in your favour. All I want, is happy anglers who get a few fish to take home. Lets hope the water clears out in the next day or so.
Tight Lines
Andy
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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 2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1 Samuel Pashby - 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 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1 Rodrigo Branco - x 2View 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 -
29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
29 May 2021 by Lee Brown
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Lovely day cod all day long cod to 12 lb call lee for spaces ������������
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28/05/2021
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
28 May 2021 by Lee Brown
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Lovely day out plenty cod cod to 4 lb call lee 4 spaces
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29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
29 May 2021 by Rich Ward
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Talk about “after the Lord Mayor’s show!)
After the great fishing 2 and 3 weeks ago we returned back yesterday after a week off.
Completely crap is the way I’d describe it !!!
6 fish boated all day and 3 of those were chuck backs!
The last weeks Northerly swell on the big tides has scuppered us temporarily with the water clouding up again. Still, at least the sun shone and the sea was calm!
That’s why we call it fishing and not catching I guess and I’m a big believer in saying it as it is.
The current settled conditions will help clear it out quickly.
Cheers for now and hopefully today’s rods will bend more than they did yesterday LOL!!
Cheers
Rich
07733 233352 View Boats Page
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 2 Spaces 8 Hours Uptiding trip. 5.4m tide. Tom Allen 6. 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 -
05/2021
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
May 2021 by Scott Belbin
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Although I never rule anything out with sea fishing, it is safe to say our spring season on the spurdogs is now over. Due to the lockdown from Christmas onwards we lost a large chunk of our season this year. However the northerly winds throughout April bought the water temperature down and helped keep them here long enough for us to find a few.
To be honest Stacey and I couldn’t resist heading out on our own during the lockdown. We had a lot of work done to the Galloper while we couldn’t operate. Once she was back in the water we wanted to give her a good run to check everything was ok which was a great excuse to head offshore. As well as finding vast amounts of dogfish and a few roker we located the spurs too. Of course Stacey had the biggest at 17.8lbs shortly before we headed home.
Our next trip was with a group of lads from Norfolk, the lads have all fished with me before various times. Some have been off for spurs with me before and others like Tom were one their first trip. Tom told me he would be happy to catch a 2lb spur as that would be his first and therefore a new personnel best. After a good steam out we arrived at our first mark and the lads sent their first baits out. First cast and Tom had a bite, it was fighting better than a dogfish but wasn’t of any size. As luck would have it he had a spurdog on his first cast! It wasn’t much bigger than that 2lb but it was a start. this wasn’t the only spur around either as one or two others started to come out too. Billy was fishing next to Tom and soon pulled in the first double of the day. this was a lovely fish of 16.8lbs in weight. A couple of other double figure spurs followed for Tom, Dean and Steve but Billy must have trodden in something as he was finding the big girls. We had a move in between but billy had a great run of double figure fish starting with one at 16.8lb followed by a 17.6lb, 18.4lb three at 14lb and a 15 before I stopped counting! A couple of packs of big females passed through after which everybody had double figure fish including Joe and Ian. After Toms modest target of just catching his first spur of any size he went on to crown the day off with a cracking fish of 22.6lbs! this was obviously a PB for him but also a new boat record for me on the Galloper beating Stacey’s long standing fish of 21.3lb from back in 2007/2008 some time.
We finished the day off with 37 spurdog, several roker, hounds a few whiting and plenty of dogfish. our next few spur trips didn’t disappoint either. We had to work harder to find them on some day than we did on others but we still found some good fish. one of our regulars Leon Saville has tried a few trips for spurs over the last couple of years without much luck. However his persistence paid off with a lovely double figure fish on his first trip this year. The same day produced some big for all on board including Neon with a mid-double and Dave with a beast that just broke the 20lb mark. The next trip saw Russells crew boat even more Spurs with several more mid doubles up to 18.8lbs.
Our best trip of the year was when all the ducks seemed to line up. The weather was typically snotty on the way out although it settled a bit during the day. our first mark produced very little appart from a few roker but a short more made all the difference and the fish came steadily throughout the rest of the day. As is often the case when there are numbers we had a lot more smaller ‘pack’ spurs but there were no shortage of big girls out there too. At times I was nothing short of carnage as a pack passed through and several fish went banging away down the tide. once again there were lots of mid doubles mixed in and a couple of upper doubles too including two over 19lb for Steve Hill and Stephen Clarke.
After seeing all these big female spurs It was hardly surprising that our next trip produced a lot of tiny pup spurs. I would wager some of these were not long born. despite struggling between adverse weather and tides we did still find some spurdogs and the biggest fell to Ian Hewett at 15lb. we were now getting very late in the season for spurs and we failed to find any one trip. It wasn’t the last we saw of them though as they had one last hurrah and a few found their way closer inshore before migrating for the summer.
Its not only spurs we see on our offshore trips and we have been lucky enough to catch a few hounds and roker each time. We caught one or two of each into double figures too mixed in with the spurs. There have been lots of dogfish and a few whiting as well as a few other species here and there as we try different marks depending on tides and weather. We had a few bass, a codling and a coalfish, a nice brace of pollock and even a spotted ray. This fishing is not for beginners and to be honest I wont take bookings from just anybody for these trips. The fishing can be challenging, the conditions can be tough (we were offshore on days other boats cancelled) and it can be hit and miss. As long as we are allowed to operate as normal this winter I will be running my first spurdog trips from January next year. For now my offshore trips will concentrate on tope and then from July right through to mid-november my offshore trips will be targeting bass. These are better suited to anglers of most abilities although the sea conditions can be a little testing for those without sea legs.
I don’t really have much availability for tope but I can offer plenty of spaces for offshore bass trips over the coming months. Please remember we encourage catch and release but you are allowed 2 bass per angler in line with the current rules.
NEXT SPACES
I have plenty of midweek availability please contact me to discuss midweek dates.
Weekend spaces as follows
05/06/21- offshore trip 1 spaces @ £90pp max 6 anglers
19/06/21-offshore trip 1 space @ £90pp max 6 anglers
04/07/21-3 spaces offshore trip £90pp max 6 anglers
18/07/21-6 spaces offshore trip £90pp max 6 anglers
25/07/21-6 spaces @ £70pp or boat £400 max 6 anglers
Please call me for more information on 07956411528
Stacey is still operating the ‘lady grace’ on a bookings only basis both mid-week and weekends at the
Moment but and is likely to fall under the same restrictions as me. so please call her on 07791859624
Dad (Stuart) has availability on the ‘Razorbill 3’ please call him on 07850234077
COVID-19 UPDATE
We have now had confirmation that the large deck area on Galloper we have some good news. we are able to accommodate up to 8 anglers plus the skipper as of 17/05/21.
This is great news for anybody planning a full boat booking as they can try and keep the cost per person down a bit.
However we are keeping any existing bookings as 6 anglers plus the skipper for now and I will only take bookings for later in the summer on this basis. I would rather leave the date open for now until we are out of the woods with covid. It wasn’t much fun re-arranging things last year and I hope to avoid it this year if I can help it.
If you wish to book a trip with more than 6 people at short notice and the guidelines are still the same then I will gladly take you. View Boats Page
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 -
28/05/2021
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
28 May 2021 by Allan Skinner
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JFK TWO FRIDAY 28TH MAY
at last a weather kind day with a almost flat seas and warm .a bit like summers supposed to be after all its june in a few days
mostly cod in the morning a few here and there. nothing really big most about 3lbs mark still no mackrel yet
a better afternoon once tide turned and started to produce a fair few ling averaging 5-6lbs
and rays ling tipping the scales to 10.5lbs View Boats Page
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28/05/2021
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
28 May 2021 by Nick Gough
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skylarkfishing Photos from todays trip
A few better fish starting to show around 4 to 6lb with a
good mix of species caught today.
Alot of lessor spotted dogfish caught today as well as
pouting, ballen wrasse, cod and pollock View Boats Page
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27/05/2021
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
27 May 2021 by Andy Savage
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First day back out after some unsettled weather. Once the wind had backed off, we picked away for a good few hours.
The water wasn’t crystal clear, but it was better than anticipated. Bait fishing dominated the captures, and Jamie Skov did some solid angling; taking a number of good quality Codling. A few Ling made an appearance, with Martin Cooper taking the biggest around the 7lb mark.
If you’re at a loose end this bank holiday, there’s a few spaces available on Saturday, Sunday and Monday if you fancy enjoying the weather and catching a few.
Tight Lines
Andy
07855439380 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 2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.66m Dave Johnson - x 4 Howard Chuck - x 1 Samuel Pashby - 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 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.20m Will sail with 4 anglers. Keith Pickering - x 1 Rodrigo Branco - x 2View 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
