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13/07/2016
Fishing Report by Carl Farrar
on TROT- ON (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
13 Jul 2016 by Carl Farrar
Report on-board TROT- ON
Tuesday saw us joined by Trot On regular Big Andy Pendlebury from Goole fishing in the W.C.S.A summer festival.
Due to looking for the "Festival winning fish" Fresh Bait was the order of the day. We first started of looking for the Mackerel as we were going to need plenty of bait .
Paul "Dolly" Eddon was the man to find them. Out on the 3 mile mark we had a manic 15 mins and must have had over 10st aboard. Arriving at our 1st wreck just in time for Slack water everyone was on fresh mackerel flappers trying to tempt a big Ling. We did manage coddling and Ling to 10lb but no "monster crocs" as the tide started running. Dolly suggested Big Andy try a jigger / baited Jigger. Always one to take the skippers advice Andy swapped from bait to baited jigger. On the 2nd jig he connected to a very nice cod of 15lb 6.5 oz which took the daily festival win. Well done on the win Andy and Sound advice from Top Whitby skipper Paul Eddon
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17/07/2016
Fishing Report by Bill Jonas
on Blazer 2 (Brighton, East Sussex)
17 Jul 2016 by Bill Jonas
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A few Cod being caught and a number of small pollock. fishing not to clever at the moment must improve
Still catching a good `no of Black Bream on the rocks View Boats Page
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20/07/2016
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
20 Jul 2016 by Rich Ward
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Okay here goes,
I was suffering from what I thought was a really very bad back a number of weeks ago (8) I went to the Dr's and they firstly suggested that that was what it was from excessive workload with the fencing contracting business I also run along with the boat. It was an exceptionally busy year this year for the fencing. Several visits on from there and the pain becoming ever more intense we decided to investigate with ever more tests. You name the test and I underwent it!!
It has turned out that I have a cancer in my blood called "Multiple- Myeloma" This has attacked my T6 vertebrae and partially my T10 in my back which is what has been upsetting me and giving me a lot of pain. A good thing really that it has come out somewhere as it could have gone unnoticed for even longer!!
Fortunately, they have detected it very early and we started the treatment "Full on" last Friday. The cancer isn't a curable one yet, but IS very treatable. I am going to be one of the very treatable patients!! Positive thoughts all the way.
All positive vibes in response only please. We are NOT doing negativity at all on this one.
Sadly, this has left my 2016 season up in the air and I am hoping to be active on the water again in 2017. Not sure when exactly as this will depend on my on going treatments. I will not be sailing until the end of the 2016 season. We will have to see what the pain levels are like come December and go from there. Anyone who has deposits on with us can be assured that they are safe with us until we are ready to sail again.
I thought I would tell everyone my news before they heard it through IDLE chittle chattle here at Whitby or from anyone anywhere else.
Kind regards
Rich.
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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 -
07/2016
Fishing Report by Sam Cumming
on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
Jul 2016 by Sam Cumming
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Well its finally July and we have been able to catch the first bass of the season for the table. Good numbers of small fish are out on the ground taking lures as well as the bigger fish usually taking the live baits. We have seen plenty of mackerel and scad out on the sand in Poole bay , probably the most I have seen for a few years. Next month will see the start of our free lining trips to target the bass on light gear. Further afield the fishing out in the Channel has continued to be excellent with large pollock still plentiful on certain marks along with cod and ling as well. We have been lucky enough to be treated to 2 john dory's in as many weeks both around the 4lb mark and both taking shads fished over wrecks. The first trip to Cherbourg this year was very successful with the middle day seeing 15 species come to the net including bream, cod, ling, whiting, tope and many others. Alderney has produced some cracking fishing on the banks, both brill and turbot are in abundance. Roy Turner producing our biggest of the year so far at 13lb 4oz.
Sam Cumming
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 09/02/2025 1 Space £120.00pp Banks fishing spurs huss tope rays congers whiting hounds £120 1 spaces 7 anglers onboard Bull Huss / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Sat 22/02/2025 3 Spaces £120.00pp Banks fishing spurs huss tope rays congers whiting hounds £120 3 spaces 7 anglers onboard Bull Huss / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Sun 23/02/2025 5 Spaces £120.00pp Banks fishing spurs huss tope rays congers whiting hounds £120 5 spaces 7 anglers onboard Bull Huss / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Tue 25/02/2025 6 Spaces 11 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for pollock with turbot fishing over the slack £160 7 anglers max. 6 spaces Pollock / Turbot / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 07/03/2025 3 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 3 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Sun 09/03/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 6 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Mon 10/03/2025 3 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 3 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 21/03/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 6 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Sun 23/03/2025 4 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 4 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Mon 24/03/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Banks fishing spurs blondes hounds tope huss congers £120 6 spaces 7 anglers max. Bull Huss / Conger Eel / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details -
19/07/2016
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
19 Jul 2016 by TERRY BATT
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What a lovely couple of days we chose to go on a long 24 hour trip, exploring mid-channel wreaks and offshore banks..!! with temperatures hitting 32 degrees we were glad we took the huge Igloo ice box I brought back from Florida..!!!
We steamed 42 miles South West to make a start, we tried a couple of wreaks but with little success, it was possible pilot error but we didn't go blind we did have co-ordnance but the wreaks were not as big as I was expecting but we did find one that was defiantly there as some of the guys hooked pt on it...lol But Dave Barham had a lovely Gurnard off it , then we started to search for the under water terrain that looked like it might throw up Plaice and Turbot, and we found the perfect spot so we marked it on the plotter with a view to come back to it, as the tide was running to hard to fish it at that moment in time.
Looking at what it was we were trying to achieve, and that was to unlock the mystery of where the Plaice hand out, and with no inside help it was very much a coming together of heads with my 30 years knowledge, and Dave's vast knowledge of all types of fishing, we set about looking at the ground available to us in basically our area, and not having to steam to the Goodwin sands or the Varne ..some 52 miles away, but I was tempted to say the least, as I think I would have found Turbot, but I wanted to find fish on the wreaks and banks off Essex not Ramsgate, or Dover, that would have not posed so much of a challenge as they are known hot spots for these fish, I needed to find these fish on my manor.
Well after a bit of a disappointing start with the wreaking thing we steamed 16 miles Nor-east to some ground me and Dave thought it screamed fish..!!! but more over we though Plaice..!!.
So we covered the distance in roughly 40 minutes, the we started to survey the area, then we found exactly what we were looking for, with large Knowles rising and falling beneath us and went on for miles, this had to be the place..(no pun intended) but first we wanted to see what bait fish was available... and there they were...!!! Sand Eels, mackerel, and launts
As some of you know, me and Nicola have been going to Brighton to learn to fish for Plaice for the last couple of months, and with some success I must say, but learning how to set up the drifts and getting the right set up were critical, and on the first drift, I got a bite, and promptly landed my first ever Plaice on Vanishing Point at £3.5 lbs that was followed by everyone catching Plaice not all as big as mine I have to say..... well it is my boat...lol
But we steamed through the early hours of the morning to an off-shore bank and thought this looks great for some Bass fishing, and with the stern of the boat backed up on to a shoaling bank we were set..!
The only thing that concerned us was although everything was looking good, fist light, calm sea, with just the surf braking over the bank, tide just flooding nicely, no birds were working the the bank, not even patrolling which did not bode well we thought, and after an hour of nothing but a doggie, we thought this is not going to happen so we decided to move on and have another go at the wreaks.
We didn't have to go to far until we came on a huge wreak about 300 foot long, and I set up the drift, it took a few goes to get it right, but once I managed to doge the pot buoys around the wreak I managed to get Vanishing Point drifting right over the bulk and we had Cod, Pollock, Pouting, Gurnard, and the wreak it's self...lol but that was a bit more successful than the attempt the day before.
Well during the night the huge wheelhouse on VP-2 was a sanctuary to everyone as we had a lovely curry for evening dinner which was prepared by our special guest Dave Barham with pilau rice...Emmm,,!! then a bit more fishing, before everyone put their seats back for a well earned sleep in the nice warm dry wheelhouse for a few hours.
Well we will be running more trips similar to this one, but will trim up the distances per trip as we know where we need to be and at what time.
I would like to finish of this report with thanks to some of our regular fishermen for coming on the trip with us to share this adventure .. Tom, Andy, and Dave, well done guys, and to think you were there, to catch some of the first Plaice to be caught as a target species...!!!
And a special thanks to my good old mates Dave Barham, for all his input to this success for the hunt for the elusive Plaice, and also to Jim Midgley for his amazing photography skills and great humor ......Tight lines. View Boats Page
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19/07/2016
Fishing Report by peter stubbs
on Sapphire 2 charters (Sunderland, Tyne and Wear)
19 Jul 2016 by peter stubbs
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Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th July, 20 lads out in two days both on 5hr trips and I think you done pretty good taken cod ling Pollock and coalie, Pollock to 5 half lb, Coal fish 4lb, Ling 12 half lb, Cod to 8lb, weather very good flat seas hot and sunny,
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07/2016
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
Jul 2016 by Colin Penny
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Mark Cooper had a good first day on his annual five day angling break aboard Flamer IV catching several good fish which included a 3Ib 14oz Black Bream a 5Ib 2oz Plaice(pictured) and an 11Ib 5oz Undulate Ray.
Weymouth Angling Breaks -
A few days away fishing out of Weymouth along with the social side is a nice trip to do.The variety of fishing and the amount of different species caught at Weymouth is probably second to none.There are plenty of places to stay which are angler friendly and some excellent places to wine and dine around the harbour and in Weymouth Town centre.
If you want to try a Weymouth Angling Break then contact me, I cater for whole boat charters and individuals.
Planning your trip well in advance is essential you need to arrange your boat booking and your accommodation as early as possible to avoid disappointment, some of my regular groups plan their trips at least 12 months in advance, this allows them to discuss with me the best tides for the type of fishing they are targeting.
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20/07/2016
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
20 Jul 2016 by Paul Kilpatrick
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Sea -Otter 2 wins the £5000 top prize in the Whitby charter skippers summer festival Fred King will be dancing now £5000 richer well done Fred we also got 3rd and 4 th joint top heaviest in the competition plus we also got the biggist cod another great festival for the lads and lasses its the 4 th time the top prize of £5000 has been won In the last 7 years on Sea-Otter 2 .
Here is Fred with his £5000 fish happy days for this man . View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 15/02/2025 2 Spaces £60.00pp Uptide/Downtide fishingView details Sat 15/03/2025 3 Spaces £60.00pp View details Sat 29/03/2025 3 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Uptide/Downtide fishingView details Sat 05/04/2025 9 Spaces View details Thu 17/04/2025 View details Sat 03/05/2025 8 Spaces Wayne Hancock + BrinView details Sun 11/05/2025 View details Sat 07/06/2025 6 Spaces View details Tue 10/06/2025 9 Spaces View details Sat 28/06/2025 Uptide/downtide fishingView details -
18/07/2016
Fishing Report by Malcolm Collins
on Just Mary (Christchurch, Dorset)
18 Jul 2016 by Malcolm Collins
Report on-board Just Mary
A busy week of trips now that the Sun has finally appeared. Police from Winton enjoyed a weekday trip onboard 'Just Mary' from Poole and the lads and lasses all caught fish to take home and eat. Bream the next day for Cyprus Tony and friends with female fish on the 'Mecca' still full of roe.....in Mid July ! Some Chinese youngsters, lads and lasses, enjoyed a lovely day afloat and all caught edible fish to take back to Bristol. My regulars and guests on Sunday found themselves three miles South of the Jurassic Coast fighting the tide and the Tope and the Eels, pics on this site and FB page.....lovely day in good company. And last but not least four hire rods caught, Mackerel, Scad, Red and Tub Gurnards, a Bass, Dogfish, Smoothounds and a decent Undulate just off the beaches in Bournemouth.....rest now before we go again, ta Malc.....
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07/2016
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
Jul 2016 by Colin Penny
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Mark Cooper had a good first day on his annual five day angling break aboard Flamer IV catching several good fish which included a 3Ib 14oz Black Bream a 5Ib 2oz Plaice(pictured) and an 11Ib 5oz Undulate Ray.
Weymouth Angling Breaks -
A few days away fishing out of Weymouth along with the social side is a nice trip to do.The variety of fishing and the amount of different species caught at Weymouth is probably second to none.There are plenty of places to stay which are angler friendly and some excellent places to wine and dine around the harbour and in Weymouth Town centre.
If you want to try a Weymouth Angling Break then contact me, I cater for whole boat charters and individuals.
Planning your trip well in advance is essential you need to arrange your boat booking and your accommodation as early as possible to avoid disappointment, some of my regular groups plan their trips at least 12 months in advance, this allows them to discuss with me the best tides for the type of fishing they are targeting.
*** NOW TAKING BOOKINGS FOR 2017 *** View Boats Page
