Latest Fishing Reports: England

  • 09/2014 Fishing Report by Colin Penny on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)

    Sep 2014 by Colin Penny

    Report on-board Flamer IV

    Hi, all, During September the Plaice fishing has been excellent with lots of Personal Bests being broken.
    Pictured is Jim Stone has who at last landed his first 5Ib plus Plaice after 25 years of trying and getting plenty of Plaice just under 5Ib."Congratulations Jim".
    The Black Bream fishing has also been very good.The Ray fishing just continues to be excellent as it has been all year, I have never known so many Undualte Rays to be caught in one year before, "Just Amazing". Tope,Bull Huss, Congers on the reefs have also provided good sport.Wreck trips have produced Pollack,Bass,Ling and Congers. And of course the Porebeagle Shark that a Belgium gentlemen caught, If you have not already seen it check out the Shark video on http://www.deepsea.co.uk/england/south-west/weymouth/flameriv/

    With October approaching fast we can expect similar fishing during the month. Here are some dates with places available which includes some weekend dates - DON'T MISS OUT

    Bream and Flatty Trips - October, 13th - 8 Places Left, 28th - 8 Places Left,
    Flatty Trips - October 5th - 3 Places Left, 6th - 5 Places Left, 14th - 1 Place Left, 29th - 9 Places Left,
    Reef/Bank - 7th,8th,9th,10th - all with 10 Places Left, 26th - 8 Places Left,
    Wreck Trip - 25th - 5 Places Left,

    By popular request I have put up another Bass Trip - November 19th - 8 Places Left,

    Don't forget to book your trips/places for 2015 as well.

    ALL THE BEST,COLIN,FLAMER IV

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  • 25/09/2014 Fishing Report by Adrian Cawte on Lillie May (Beer, Devon)

    25 Sep 2014 by Adrian Cawte

    Report on-board Lillie May

    25/09/2014.

    We set off from Beer just after 08:00 with five of us fishing, clear skies and a light wind.

    A few hundred yards offshore we stopped for about fifteen minutes to feather for Mackerel to use as bait with everyone catching. That done the skipper, Paul took us a couple of miles out and we anchored over a reef on the falling tide.

    My first cast brought in a Dogfish and not long after another angler, Marcus brought in a nice sized Gurnard.
    From then on, the Black Bream started hitting our baits and they were coming aboard at a reasonable rate.

    It took me a while to connect with one but while I was waiting I landed a Gurnard and a nice Thornback ray.

    During the middle of the day on slack water, a shoal of Mackerel moved through and were taking the baits meant for Bream on the drop and on the retrieve. We all changed to feathers and had ten minutes of fast and furious action as we hauled in the fish, most hooks being filled on every drop.

    That over, we went back onto the Bream. The action quietened down over slack water but there were enough knocks and the occasional fish to keep everyone interested.

    As the tide swung in the early afternoon, the wind got up and pushed the swell up the channel. This made for some interesting fishing as the boat pitched but more importantly, the Bream were showing again with more regularity with everyone on board landing fish and I got four on board within about an hour and a half.
    The fish were taking small slivers of Mackerel on small hooks. I think we were all using three hook traces with the bottom two hooks taking the fish.

    Eventually good things come to an end and with conditions becoming ever more choppy the decision was made to head for the shore because it was fast becoming difficult to stand up and keep tackle boxes and gear from sliding around. On the return we again stopped for Mackerel but none were showing.

    At the end of the day (between the five of us) we landed about 25 Bream weighing in between 1-2lb, 4 Dogfish, 3 Gurnard, a Thornback, countless Mackerel but more importantly we all had a thoroughly enjoyable day with fish showing continuously all day.

    Many thanks to Paul for a great day and I think we will all look forward to a return trip very soon.

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  • 19/09/2014 Fishing Report by Frank Ridley on Heidi J (Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire)

    19 Sep 2014 by Frank Ridley

    Report on-board Heidi J

    Another successful week for HEIDI J again in Bridlington sea fishing week 2014 winning 3 days out of five ,after winning 4 days out of five the year before 2013,in bridlington sea fishing competion week ,some successful wrecking trips the last few months, here is a picture of friday in fishing weeks catch with one one the fish winning the days competion

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  • 25/09/2014 Fishing Report by chris Mole on Enterprise (West Mersea, Essex)

    25 Sep 2014 by chris Mole

    Report on-board Enterprise

    codling and COD showing
    been having good mixed bag this last 2 weeks with
    skate , cod ,codling,bass,hounds,eels,soles,whiting, dabs
    and spottys, looking good ?
    TIGHT LINES CHRIS

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  • 24/09/2014 Fishing Report by brian poppy on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)

    24 Sep 2014 by brian poppy

    Report on-board Cleveland Princess

    Fishing has been at its best over the last few weeks and this has been the first chance ive had to put in a report,plenty of Rooker have been coming out with Bass running good in the big tides on certan marks that only fish when the strong tides are flowing like this weekend i hope i can get to this mark as iam sure we will find some big Bass,loads of Hounds and Spottys with Whiting and Cod now showing iam pretty sure it will be an improvement on last season with some good sized fish putting in an appearance,Brian

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  • 20/09/2014 Fishing Report by Simon Fisher on Becca Marie (Brixham, Devon)

    20 Sep 2014 by Simon Fisher

    Report on-board Becca Marie

    September has been dominated by eastly winds which on some days made fishing difficult, we also cancelled a fair few trips during the Torbay Fishing festival due to the weather as saftey and comfort of our Anglers is most important to us...... That said we have had some calmer days and on these the fishing has been great.
    Again we`ve been targeting Ling and have had some great sport on our 10hr trips, seeing plenty of Quality Ling coming to the net. Aswell as Ling we`ve even landed Conger on the drift......
    The Pollock are still coming up when the tide is running but as yet still no massive fish but nice table size of 5-8lb. Cod are also still about and we are planning individuals trips to target these late sept and through out till Christmas before the boat is taken out...... We plan to be out for January and back in for Feb ready for the monster Pollock. so anyone wanting trips during the winter months dont hesitate in contacting us.
    We also have some Individuals Wreck fishing for Bass coming up............hope to see you onboard soon

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  • 20/09/2014 Fishing Report by Malcolm Collins on Just Mary (Christchurch, Dorset)

    20 Sep 2014 by Malcolm Collins

    Report on-board Just Mary

    Hi All ! A weekend of two totally different days so much so that you would hardly think that it was the same week or the same month ! Singles/Individuals Day on Saturday with the regulars including Tom and Johnnie the Brickies, Kev the Chippie, Gary the Builder and the 'overseas contingent' of Mac from the Emerald Isle and Alec from Jockland (and I only ribbed him a bit about the Vote outcome - honest ! Anyway Saturday was misty, murky and downright miserable ....but....the Sea was flat calm.....not a breath.....so with a nice Neap tide we set off down to the West off the Jurassic Coast. Slow start but then.....wow ! Big Tope, Big Congers, Big Rays and some Big Bream.....and plenty of rod bending, arm wrenching action for the boys onboard. We must have had over 200lb of fish and pulling them up in 120 foot of water is not to be sniffed at.....you come and try it ! Great day and I'm pleased that Dan, Tom's mate, took some photos coz my old iPhone 3 had a wobbly moment and didn't store any of my 20 odd pics.....grrrrrrrr !
    Sunday was totally different, bright Sun, no mist or fog or drizzle and it was hot ! Sadly it was also breezy and from the North East, and I hate bloody Easterlies. Even so we fished a deep mark out towards the Needles and recorded some interesting fish. Big Pout and a solitary Whiting mean that the Autumn is here and we'll have Cod soon. The rest was an Undulate for the Organiser Colin Moors plus a small Conger and some Bream. I think the hire rod lads best enjoyed the Mackerel and Scad fishing and the wind never did die off like the good old Met Office said it would.....40 million pound Computer and they still can't get it right !
    Until next time, tight lines ! Malc.....

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  • 23/09/2014 Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)

    23 Sep 2014 by Paul Kilpatrick

    Report on-board Sea Otter 2

    We are right in the middle of late summer festival and there has neen some excellent fishing stacks of ling the best on sea-otter 2 just short of 20lb but we had cod around the 15lb mark as well so belting fishing for the lads .

    Its now not far away to winter cod fishing uptiding festival with over £4000 in prize money on offer over the 2 week competition if the uptiding is anything to go by as to last winter we are in for winter cod frenzy once again the signs look very good indeed a top prize £1000 to angler with the biggist cod over the competition this year we have a top ten leader board with some great prizes plus £125 in dailys as well this is a cod competition so you know just what you are going to catch its all to play for.

    The festival starts on the 1st november - 16th november .

    Its being ling time over the last week this is a nice fish a 20lb ling.

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  • 18/09/2014 Fishing Report by Allan Skinner on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)

    18 Sep 2014 by Allan Skinner

    Report on-board JFK TWO

    although the weather has been mostly against us latterly. with constant east/ north east winds and swell. when we get to the wrecks a really nice stamp of lings are showing up and today gant had a lovely 27lbs ling. and davy
    a nice ling of 16lbs.roll on when we get some nice weather to go with the fishing.

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  • 20/09/2014 Fishing Report by Sam Cumming on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)

    20 Sep 2014 by Sam Cumming

    Report on-board Silver Spray II

    September Report:

    Despite a few spots of high wind since my last report the temperatures have been very high for this time of year and the summer fish have continued to keep the rods bending over the last 4 weeks. Out in the channel we are still seeing cod in the high teens pretty much every trip which is a welcome surprise as, as I mentioned last month, they have usually disappeared by now. Along with them we have had good results on both pollock and ling. Recently Pete Knight boated a monster 26lb 8oz ling whist at anchor fishing for congers, the third biggest one we have ever had aboard Silver Spray. Mackerel continue to be a problem up and down the coast and even over by France and Channel Islands where they are always in abundance we have struggled to find many. Despite this our multi day trips to Alderney and Cherbourg are producing good results on turbot, tope and bream still. Our last trip to Cherbourg was hard going on the second day and we barely saw a fish until 4pm when we anchored a little inshore wreck which went absolutely mad in the last hour of the tide. Matt Todd beat his own boat record black bream onboard Silver Spray II, which he set on the same trip last year, with a whopper weighing in at 6lb 2oz. That is sure going to be hard to beat! Along with that the guys got stuck into cod, pollock, congers, bass and even more bream all on light gear which made it even more exciting, a well earned result. Things show no sign of slowing down over the next month and I’m looking forward to some light line species fishing and more monster bream out on the wrecks.
    Sam Cumming
    Silver Spray

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    UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Silver Spray II
    Sun 09/02/2025 2 Spaces £120.00pp
    Banks fishing spurs huss tope rays congers whiting hounds £120 2 spaces 7 anglers onboard Bull Huss / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.
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