Latest Fishing Reports: England
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29/04/2011
Fishing Report by nick coster
on Ocean Warrior 3 (Brighton, East Sussex)
29 Apr 2011 by nick coster
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Well what can i say about Dave Elliott ?
Top skipper, courteous and simply the best at what he does.
Out on Friday with him.......lots of medium codling about, mix of medium sized pollack and a sprinkling of good sized conger. One things for sure , he tries and tries.....takes it personally if his anglers don't catch fish; now thats gotta be good.
All my personal bests have come on Ocean Warrior 3. Thoroughly recommend him to anyone and reasonable rates to boot. Top skipper. You never caught a decent conger or cod.......Speak to Dave, he'll soon put you straight. Tight lies.
Nick Coster.
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28/04/2011
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
28 Apr 2011 by Colin Penny
Report on-board Flamer IV
APRIL 2011 - FLAMER IV REPORT - "WHAT A MONTH" as excellent fish were caught throughout the month although the majority of April's trips were spent concentrating on Plaice and Turbot.Paul Milkins landed the biggest plaice weighing 6Ib 2oz closely followed by Denise Young with a 5Ib 12oz plaice.Top of the impressive Turbot catches was Trevor Lockyer with 24Ib 8oz monster then Russell Salmon with his 23 pounder.Cod started to feature inshore and on the offshore wrecks.Peter Gordon landed a 20 pounder on the mussell beds and David Bruce caught a 23Ib Cod while drifting a wreck with mackerel fillet bait.Pollack and Ling were caught on the wrecks.The inshore reef/bank fishing at anchor produced some good action with good size spurdogs,smooth hounds and rays.27 different species have been caught on Flamer IV so far in 2011.
With so many good fish caught it was a hard job choosing the Fish of the Month award.However Flamer IV Fish of the Month was awarded to Russell Salmon for his 23Ib Turbot(pictured).You may ask why Trevor Lockyer did not win it with his 24Ib 8oz Turbot,well Trevor won January Fish of the Month and had already qualified for the 2011 winners competition. View Boats Page
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04/2011
Fishing Report by Steve Eastman
on Kittiwake 111 (Gosport, Hampshire)
Apr 2011 by Steve Eastman
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April has brought good catches offshore and inshore.A bumper catch of Cod and Pollock was caught offshore on Easter sunday.The two biggest Cod being 28lbs and 26lbs with pollock caught up to 18lbs.
The inshore fishing has also been very good and early catches of Bream and Tope. View Boats Page
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23/04/2011
Fishing Report by allan bunyan
on Chinook 3 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
23 Apr 2011 by allan bunyan
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went out with phil white last friday
what a days fishing
thron backs smoothound whiting and bass
on evey mark phil went bang fish all the time
phils a great skipper with a very good knowleadge of good fishing marks
allways there to help with advice, traces and a good cuppa.
cant wait to get out again
if you want a good days fishing, a great laugh and a hot cuppa phils your man
allan bunyan hertford View Boats Page
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23/04/2011
Fishing Report by Robert Hewitt
on Anglo Dawn III (Teignmouth, Devon)
23 Apr 2011 by Robert Hewitt
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With the Spring run of Plaice well under way on the Skerries Bank in Dartmouth, caught Eight 2 weeks ago with a boat total of 79, but relitively small fish.
so took advantage of the Bank holiday and booked myself on a Boat out of Salcombe (a couple of miles from Dartmouth )
this was a good move after leaving Swansea at 3.30am I arrived in Salcombe at 6.30am
I was First on the Boat, Chris the Skipper saying that only 4 more to come brilliant bags of room, less risk of tangling as todays method was drift fishing for Plaice. everybody on , we head for the Skerries
20 minutes and we are on the mark. tactics were to fish as light as possible, so used my new purchase from Mainwarings, Diawa Kenzaki 6/12 Braid special with Abu 6500 loaded with 14lbs Braid. Rig is 8ft of 10lbs Amnesia running ledger, with an 1/0 Aberdeen fine Wire on the end with 6-10 beads and a flyer hook 2/3rd of the way up again same hook and beads, 3oz watch lead. Bait Rag & Squid with Peeler and Prawn to mix it up.
5 minutes into the First drift I connect to the first fish of the day nice Plaice around 1lbs 1/2. Next drift again a similar size fish. Chris has put us right on the fish, with fish coming in its a great start to the day and the skipper gets a brew on
It went quiet at high water with everybody having caught Plaice except for Gary, who was now getting frustrated watching us having fun. finally he connected and the pressure was off! and I commented "you going for Quality not Quantity" Gary! 10 minutes later and he only brings in a beauty! we reckon between 3 1/2 to 4 lbs a proper fish. A great day was had by all with my final tally being 11 Plaice (kept 4 returned the rest) and a boat total of 52 fish
A top skipper Chris Roberts of Anglo Dawn III , Back down there again next Sunday 30th for another bash at View Boats Page
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22/04/2011
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
22 Apr 2011 by Colin Penny
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APRIL 2011 - Mark Butland and his three friends travelled from Portsmouth for their annual flatty trip aboard Flamer IV.They certainly seem to have the nack of catching flatty's and this years trip was no exception.In the first two drifts Mark landed a personal best turbot weighing 14Ib 4oz followed by a seven pounder.Brian Martin chipped in with a nine pounder.Marks crew accounted for five of the days turbot catch.During the day more turbot were caught by the other anglers on the trip along with some plaice.Mark is pictured with his personal best turbot.
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20/04/2011
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
20 Apr 2011 by Colin Penny
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FLAMER IV ANGLING BREAK - APRIL 2011 - Chris Akroyd and crew joined Flamer IV for a three day angling break with flatfish in mind and they were not dissapointed.During the three days they caught several plaice,turbot and one brill.Mark Potts caught the only brill on the trip a nice fish of 4Ib.Mark Cookney landed the biggest turbot which weighed 16Ib and is a personal best for Eric.Eric is pictured with his big turbot.Eric's brother David made it a brother turbot double when he caught an 8Ib 8oz turbot.Organiser Chris Akroyd also joined in the turbot fun catching an 8 pounder on day two.A surprise catch while plaice fishing was a 20Ib cad caught by Peter Gordon.Peter had an almighty struggle trying to land the big cod on just 12Ib class tackle.The crew also enjoyed sessions fishing for mackerel,sandeels,herrings and pollack along with a few hours anchored on a reef catching conger and the usual dogfish.The lads enjoyed their Angling Break and have vowed to rteturn.
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23/04/2011
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
23 Apr 2011 by Ray Martin
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Easter Saturday started nice and fine, so I opted for a lower estuary mark to try for hounds and skate. Found a nice lot of very small hounds and pesky dog fish. Caught a couple of skate but after a couple of moves decided to try another area.. result 13 good skate.. best 11lb.
Easter Sunday, went straight to the spot the 13 skate came and as usual another day another tide and everything changes.. only had 1 skate and at low water although we were getting a fish a cast decided to go to another spot that fished well last year.. result 15 skate.
Easter Monday, although the wind had picked up a bit from the North went back to the same area and caught skate throughout the whole tide steadily, resulting in around 15-20 skate and numerous dogs and good whiting.
Great weekend, great angling, great company... roll on next weekend. All anglers everyday of the weekend had PB's ... View Boats Page
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24/04/2011
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
24 Apr 2011 by Allan Skinner
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easter weekend
fishing over the easter weekend has again been very, good with the weather being really kind to us. apart from good friday when the fog never lifted at all and it stayed really cold [lesson always bring a decent coat etc]
fishing a mixture of wrecks and hard ground seen most anglers catching about 10 -15 fish each. fish from 2.5lbs to 8lbs.
blue shads probaly worked best overall but, baited daylites and hookais coming close with all baits working squid mackrel worm even prawns. View Boats Page
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04/2011
Fishing Report by Paul Fitch
on She Likes It Rough 2 (Shotley, Suffolk)
Apr 2011 by Paul Fitch
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The fine settled weather we have been having lately saw Easter weekend being a busy time for us. Fishing was excellent with good numbers of Roker showing up landing well over 40 fish on two trips. Most fish are in the 4-7lb range the biggest this weekend went 11lb with another 2 or 3 just over the 10lb mark, With Fresh frozen Herring and Squid being the top bait for these.
We also saw our first proper Bass of the season with a lovely 8lb 4oz specimen caught by Roger Finbo from Sproughton.
Another sign summer is on its way is the first signs of the Smoothounds turning up. We had 8 over the weekend nothing big the biggest being 6lb once these turn up in nunbers these are great fighting sportfish on the right light tackle set up. View Boats Page
