Latest Fishing Reports: England
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19/10/2014
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
19 Oct 2014 by Ray Martin
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Been a while since I updated , what a brilliant couple of months- not one cancellation due to weather, and loads of fish caught.
We are now catching a few codling and lots of whiting and dogs, plus loads of skate and the odd straggler smoothound.
The winter species will be around for the next few months and fingers crossed the weather is kind so we can get at them.
I still have a few dates left this side of Christmas so treat yourself to a trip
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18/10/2014
Fishing Report by chris Mole
on Enterprise (West Mersea, Essex)
18 Oct 2014 by chris Mole
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Most of us cacelled today what with smallest tide of the year good drop of wind and no chance of getting on decent fishing and not wanting to take the pee out of our anglers but better tides next week looks ok
Tight lines chris View Boats Page
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16/10/2014
Fishing Report by Allan Yates
on Skerry Belle (Ramsgate, Kent)
16 Oct 2014 by Allan Yates
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Well what a wonderfull day treated to a glorius autumn sunrise at Ramsgate Kent On the Skerry Belle Charter Boat with Roger Lennon and a mixed crew of new faces and all of us keen to get onto the magnificent fish that this area offers. First mark targeting skate using a basic Portland rig with 1.5m trace rigged pennel style and two 6/0 Aberdeen hooks, bait were chunks of herring nothing fancy just cut the head off and cut into three chunks and discard the tail. First drop a small ray, then another along the boat and a codling not a bad start. More rays and the usual dogs kept us active until the tide died away and so did the fish. So a move to deeper water and see if we could find some Cod, with slackwater and no tide it took a while to kick off and the rays started coming thick and fast, David Zippy Long after a lot of effort earlier started landing some nice size rays and similar so did others and I was getting a fish a chuck virtualy. I put a second uptide rod out and that saw plenty of action with both rods into fish at one stage. So I can claim the honours as top rod catch wise and heaviest fish at 11.5lbs oh and a new PB for me in the time it took me to eat two bacon sanwiches on a boat when inconsiderate fish kept jumping all over my baits !!! as to Cod well I suppose I will just have to go fishing Again to hit those ... Bummer Eh!
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View Full Charter AvailabilityThu 06/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod / Smooth-hound (Common).View details Fri 07/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod / Smooth-hound (Common).View details Fri 21/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod / Smooth-hound (Common).View details Sun 23/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod / Smooth-hound (Common).View details Mon 24/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod / Smooth-hound (Common).View details Tue 25/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod / Smooth-hound (Common).View details Wed 26/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod / Smooth-hound (Common).View details Thu 27/02/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod / Smooth-hound (Common).View details Sun 02/03/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod.View details Mon 03/03/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours £60.00pp Offshore trip Equipment baits supplied Bookings 07805250427 Cod.View details -
17/10/2014
Fishing Report by Sam Cumming
on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
17 Oct 2014 by Sam Cumming
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October 2014 report
We have almost finished a large variety of our trips for the year and it will soon be time to settle into a couple months targeting the winter cod. Over the last few we weeks we have done the last of the bassing, wrecking and also our trips across the channel. The last trip over to Alderney surprised me with some of the calmest and warmest days of the year, not often you can get sun burnt in October. It was a brilliant 4 days with 19 species brought to the boat including the elusive couches sea bream. Not often these days we catch a species we haven’t had before and such a superb looking fish at that. Andrew Kennedy was the man of the hour catching 2 of them using an ounce bullet lead and a short flowing trace baited with squid head, the biggest weighing just over 2lb. The mid channel wrecks really produced a lot of big black bream this year with fish up to 5lb coming on most sessions. Along with these we have also had a few red bream which we haven’t seen for 5 years or so. Gerry Todd brought the first one ever onboard Silver Spray II which he thought was a scad. On the inshore side the shambles is fishing very well for turbot and plaice along with a wide variety of other species. One day recently we tried vertical jigging on inshore reef marks which was a first for us on Silver Spray and turned out to be brilliant sport. Using spinning rods and fixed spool reels the lads managed to catch 7 bass, a dozen or so monster wrasse and more pollock than you can shake a stick at. I’ve only spent a half day down off the Needles so far which produced plenty of congers rays and the first of the years whiting but I’m looking forward to heading down again soon and bagging our first winter cod.
Sam Cumming
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11/10/2014
Fishing Report by rich dean
on Reel Deal (Watchet, Somerset)
11 Oct 2014 by rich dean
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hi all
once again had a fantastic time aboard reel deal.
i caught 12 species over the two trips.my best day being saturday as i caught blonde,thornback,small eyed and spotted ray,as well as tope hounds dogs pout conger and plenty of other fish.dan got us on the fish very quickly and kept the tea and coffee going all day.looking forward to the next trip. View Boats Page
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10/2014
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
Oct 2014 by Colin Penny
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The anchored sessions on Banks/Reefs are producing good Ray and Tope fishing along with lots of Congers also the Whiting are starting to show.Ian Slater landed his first ever Blonde Ray weighing about 7Ib and then followed that up with a whopping 26Ib 8oz Blonde Ray and of course new Personal Best.Whole Clamari Squid and Mackerel cocktails presented on pennel rigs of Sakuma Stinger 6/0 and 4/0 hooks are proving the most successful.
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10/2014
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
Oct 2014 by Colin Penny
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The Reef and Bank fishing at anchor is producing some unexpected late Tope fishing with plenty of fish in the 10 to 30Ib bracket being caught and with some bigger fish being lost by biting through 100/150 Ib mono traces and some dodgey knot tying. Birthday boy Ray Seddon landed several Tope and is pictured with his biggest of the trip a 30 pounder. The successful baits being squid and mackerel either in cocktails or seperate.
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11/10/2014
Fishing Report by Malcolm Collins
on Just Mary (Christchurch, Dorset)
11 Oct 2014 by Malcolm Collins
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Hi All ! Recent weekends trips have proved what a difference some Gales can do to the fishing ! A good day with Paul Cox and his mates from Bristol and Reading way produced catches of Conger Eels on Scad and Mackerel flappers caught on the way out to our mark. We also had some other typical Summer fish like Gurnards and Black Bream. Then a good blow.....Gales and heavy seas to keep the fleet at home and tied up. Then a weekend with a party celebrating their mate Bob Crow's birthday. We had four seasons in one day ! Left the Quay in bright Springlike Sunshine and flat seas, got to the open Sea and the rain belted down harder and harder as we crossed the Bay and passed Matt Rowe on 'Piscary' on Poole Rocks.....then visibility zero and intense Thunder and Lightning right above us followed by hailstones.....wow ! Tried for Mackerel on the Sadler, two drifts.....nothing.....so on to our first mark. Anchor in and Bingo ! Straight into Channel Whiting ! More of those at a steady pace during the day and a Conger and followed by a Bass ! Nice ! Fish coming in at a nice steady pace. Lads did well as they were all hire rods and my traces and my baiting up and showing them how it was done. Weather cleared, we could see 'Piscary' again about two miles inshore of us but no other Poole Charter boats, guess only a handful of us Skippers had ventured out. Sea was flat and Sun shone brightly, lovely ! Species then followed, Dogfish, small Smoothound, Pouting and more Channel Whiting coughing up Sprats ! Then wind got up again from the South West, tide turned so wind over tide and conditions less than ideal. Last hour bit slow but job done, never know after a blow just what the fishing will be like. Coloured water and fish feeding by scent alone so we use a little trick to help them find our baits and it worked ! A good day was had by all.....it says so on my Facebook page !.....'Onamission Charters'.....Cheers lads and Happy Birthday to Bob ! See you again sometime !
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11/10/2014
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
11 Oct 2014 by jon old
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Forcast today of SW decided to head south of Lowestoft on the banks rather than Hemsby Hole as previous thoughts , wind against tide to start and a 2.8m tide raging through i was rather thinking fishing was going to be bit on the hard side! Had four first timers on the Flyer so no pressure, was on our mark within three quarters expecting to wait a while before the fish started feeding but straight away small codling onboard followed by few very tiny spotty dogs . The whiting were not quality fish like beginning of the week but todays were generally all small and returned to grow. Few more spotties through the day about a dozen, couple of flatties thrown in , no skate for us today or smoothounds which was strange. Ended up with 33 keeper codling average 2 to 3 pounds overall, returned quite a few smaller ones as well. Was a great start to the season for codling as we are in change over period water still warm really. Big thanks to Dave for catching too many, and all first timers on the Flyer Andy,Dan,Lawrie and Frank enjoyed the day men had a good result and thanks for washing down too! Todays results strengthen my belief we are going to have a good season this year hopefully bigger fish than previous years , looking forward to a bit of cold for once! All the best. Jon. High Flyer
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09/2014
Fishing Report by Ross Parham
on Spot On! (Brixham, Devon)
Sep 2014 by Ross Parham
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September was yet another great month for weather and the fishing did not disappoint as Spot On travelled to Weymouth for a 3 day fishing trip, day 1 fished the wrecks on the way over across Lyme bay were we caught Bass and Pollock the biggest Bass going 7lb 12oz then we headed for a few drifts off Portland where we managed just 2 bass and both small so returned, a last couple of drifts over the mussel beds when the tide turned produced some great plaice with the biggest going 4lb 8oz.
Day 2 was straight onto the mussel beds where we again picked up some more plaice and small bream, a great Plaice of 5lb 12oz.
Day 3 we started off on the plaice before the tide became too strong and we headed home via a detour to some mid channel wrecks were we hit into some great action of Pollock and Cod.
The guys for the second 3 day Weymouth trip changed there mind and decided to head across the channel to Guernsey and I must say what a great decision, the wrecking on the way over was superb with lots of double figured Pollock, a few cod and ling. The banks produced bass and turbot although none huge still good numbers, but the trip was made when we landed on a great little Bream mark where it was as soon as we hit the bottom the bream were biting and we ended up with great sport, again lots of small ones to be returned and a few bigger specimens kept for the pan, alongside this we found jumbo mackerel and garfish to complete the trip.
Hats off goes to Gordon of Manor angling who has been trying for 60 years to catch a Turbot and he managed 7 in one day.
Skerries trips have been producing some mixed bags with Blonde rays still showing strong, a couple of plaice touching the 5lb mark have made some great catches for the banks.
Wrecking has started to produce larger Pollock and a couple of sporting Coalfish have also made an appearance.
Thank you to everyone who has supported Brixham and Spot On and I look forward to seeing you all again soon and beating more PB's for you all.
Pictured is Terry with his fine Skerries Plaice of 5lb
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View Full Charter AvailabilityMon 09/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip, wrecking on the way over and on the way back and targeting Turbot and Brill on the banks. Max of 8 on the boat.View details Tue 10/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip, wrecking on the way over and on the way back and targeting Turbot and Brill on the banks. Max of 8 on the boat.View details Wed 11/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip, wrecking on the way over and on the way back and targeting Turbot and Brill on the banks. Max of 8 on the boat.View details Thu 12/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip, wrecking on the way over and on the way back and targeting Turbot and Brill on the banks. Max of 8 on the boat.View details Fri 13/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip, wrecking on the way over and on the way back and targeting Turbot and Brill on the banks. Max of 8 on the boat.View details
