Latest Fishing Reports: England
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05/06/2009
Fishing Report by Frank Shaw
on Falmouth Sea Fishing (Falmouth, Cornwall)
5 Jun 2009 by Frank Shaw
Report on-board Falmouth Sea Fishing
I have to admit, I couldn’t have hoped for a better start to the season aboard Carrick Lee. The kind weather and healthy work schedule have allowed us to take full advantage of the ongoing restrictions of commercial cod fishing.
The lack of nets in mid channel, have allowed the cod and Pollack shoals to regenerate and this has had a massive impact on our own catches.
From the early days of February this year, we have regularly caught more than 30 cod and Pollack in a days fishing.
Our biggest cod to date was a massive 32lb caught by Tony Ellis 18 April. We have also managed 3 other cod of over 28lb and a 16lb Pollack.
Most of the cod have been taken on artificial baits, such as white or blue 5” shads, jelly worms or side winders and the good old pirks and feathers. Our sponsors Tronix (UK) Ltd supply strung muppets in five different colours and they are great.
Slowly the season is changing and the summer weather will bring the bass, bream and conger on to feed.
Both Guy and my self look forward to the summer aboard Carrick Lee, and we now offer a varied range of trips for our customers. As well as our usual day trips, we do 4.30pm-10.30pm evening bass trips and special trips for stag parties.
Hope to see you this year.
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31/05/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
31 May 2009 by Colin Penny
Report on-board Flamer IV
MAY REPORT - The offshore wreck fishing was superb for cod in particular and was also good for pollack and ling.A few bass also showed up.The Shambles Bank was consistant for good size Turbot with many personal bests being caught.The inshore reefs and banks produced Tope,Conger,Rays,Black Bream,Bull Huss,Cod etc.The May West Country trip was a success with plenty of good fish being caught and a good assortment of species including a golden grey mullet.The Flamer species count for 2009 is now 35.Flamer Fish of the Month for May was awarded to Wayne Frapple for his 4Ib 8oz Black Bream.
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30/05/2009
Fishing Report by Bob Marshall
on Duke IV (Ramsgate, Kent)
30 May 2009 by Bob Marshall
Report on-board Duke IV
Plenty of species available inshore now with Smoothounds, Bass & Thornbacks along with quality Whiting. The offshore wreck fishing remains good with plenty of Cod to double figures along with Pollack and Bass.
The fishing in the Thames estuary remains top class with quality Thornbacks along with Smoothounds to 15lb.
The dreaded may weed has now gone, this should improve the Mackerel fishing that is often difficult here due to the coloured water.
The quality Whiting we are catching at the moment are unusual at this time of year, we usually see them late summer, we are also catching them offshore on the Mackerel feathers.
Large shoals of school Bass heading up the estuary, here one minute gone the next. View Boats Page
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05/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Baker
on Sally Ann Jo (Weymouth, Dorset)
May 2009 by Colin Baker
Report on-board Sally Ann Jo
Yesterday, 30th May, saw the best bream to the boat this year, a fish of 4lb 10oz to Lionel from Holland. It was his first bream, caught on his first drop of the day, before most others had tackled up! That’s the way to start, but difficult to repeat. The rest of the lads did their best to beat him and though they had fish all day and a number of double hits of bream up to 3lb couldn’t do so. The month has been good with a variety of species including tope, smoothounds, pollack, cod, some huge garfish, bass, even topknots and cuttlefish to mention a few. The weekend just gone saw mackerel around in reasonable numbers and a good showing of joeys amongst them so next month should see bass over the wrecks and reefs to livebaits. Looking forward to next month with more good bream, bass, tope and hounds inshore and for those wanting to travel cod, pollack and bass on the drift and conger etc at anchor on the wrecks.
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05/2009
Fishing Report by Alex kweller
on Predator (Poole, Dorset)
May 2009 by Alex kweller
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I was fortunate enough to be on board Andrew Allsop's new Evolution 30 (White Water) which was launched by Breaksea Boats, fitted with an Iveco NEF 420hp engine, the performance exceeded my expectations; with 650 litres of fuel and six onboard it achieved 30 knots!
Predator II will have the same Iveco NEF 420hp engine and will be lauched at the end of July. I still have limited weekend dates in August & September for either whole boat charters or individuals. View Boats Page
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28/05/2009
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
28 May 2009 by Allan Skinner
Report on-board JFK TWO
had a crackin day out today. flat calm seas warm and sunny.cleared the tyne peirs for 7.45am. headed to the first wreck in hope of mackrel, [normally in by now but slightly late this season]. imediaterly a couple of rods double over into fish. however it was obvious from the bend and pulling motion these were bigger than macrkel, sure enougth two plump cod at 3 and 4 pounds lay on the deck. perfect white bellied cod. [nice clesn run cod]
another pass and another couple of simalar cod.then one lone mackrel. the first this season. and as it happens the only mackrel of the day. set off to the next wreck. again a fish or two almost every drift with cod and ling to about 7lbs.
a steady stream of fish coming over the gunnel.this pattern of fishing continued as we worked our way steaderly offshore. with a cod of 14.5lbs coming aboard several ling into double figures. then over the slack water a lovely ling of 16.5lbs followed quickly by a pollack of 10lbs both to the same lucky angler. all in all a crackin day afloat just the 1.5 hours steam home and to do it all again tommorrow are well?? View Boats Page
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29/05/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
29 May 2009 by Colin Penny
Report on-board Flamer IV
MICK LINGS IN A TURBOT - Mick and his crew decided to go wrecking instead of doing the intended flatty trip.A steady stream of cod,pollack and a bass had been caught by the afternoon.So the next target was ling.Some ling had started to be caught up to 15Ib when Mick's rod bent into a fish which we assumed was a ling.What a surprise when a big turbot was landed.Bearing in mind Mick had not caught a fish all day up to that point and had been getting a bit of *iss taking from his mates.The turbot weighed 16Ib 12oz and the successful bait was whole calamari squid.
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19/05/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
19 May 2009 by Colin Penny
Report on-board Flamer IV
FLAMER FIRST - Peter Gillet from Ipswich caught a mullet,but not any old mullet in fact he landed a rare Golden Grey Mullet.This particular mullet was another species to add to the already impressive Flamer all time species list.Peter caught the fish on small shrimp hoki's baited with small ragworm.Peter is pictured with his prize catch.
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18/05/2009
Fishing Report by john reynders
on Lisa Jane (Canvey Island, Essex)
18 May 2009 by john reynders
Report on-board Lisa Jane
great day out jon dickens skippered the boat to great fishing spots we all caught fish within minutes of dropping anchor fish ranged from dog fish , skate , whitting , . it was a varied day weather wise jon delivered great fishing , great service and the best cup of tea in essex . for the novices on our boat he supplied knowledge assistance with bait and handling the fish . well don skip and first mate service fantastic .
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09/05/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
9 May 2009 by Colin Penny
Report on-board Flamer IV
NOTTINGHAM SEA SPECIMAN GROUP - had a weekends fishing on Flamer III.
Day 1/ was spent flatty fishing.First we drifted the mussel beds in search of plaice but the plaice were not hungry.We then moved to the Famous Shambles Bank which proved to be more fruitful with three turbot being caught in only four drifts.Steve Craven age 63 landed two weighing 4Ib and 14Ib and Brab Hallowes weighed in with an 11 pounder.Steve is pictured with his 14 pounder.
Day/2 we went offshore wrecking and caught cod and pollack up to 12Ib on a variety of lures.Also ling were caught on baits but most of them were caught on rhubarb and custard sidewinders. View Boats Page
