Latest Fishing Reports: North West
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23/09/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
23 Sep 2012 by Gary Flint
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JCB Lads from Derby. Sunday 23rd September 12
We locked out of the marina at 6:15am, with the weather forecast giving 5/6 SE, we decided to give the river a go for a couple of hours. A few really good bits missed, and plenty of decent sized whiting. We finally managed to get the first winter codling of the year, which was around the 2lb mark. With this released, we decided to head to another inshore mark. We dropped the anchor again, an straight away the guys were into Thornbacks, Dogfish, Whiting, Dabs etc. We fished here most of the day and made the choice to try the flood in for some cod at another mark. Again plenty of insized whiting, no cod, but still is a bit early.
Gary
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22/09/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
22 Sep 2012 by Gary Flint
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Saturday 22nd September- Individuals
We locked out of the marina at 5:15am and headed out offshore. We went to the first mark of the day and got everyone fishing. It didn't take long for Jo to get the first fish of the day, a small poor cod. A short time after everybody on the boat started catching a wide variety of species. We decided to move and try another mark. Then with jack taking a fish off for Jo, his rod began bouncing. When he hooked into the fish it gave him a lovely fight which resulted in a nice 14lb Bullhuss. A few more whiting and poor cod, doggies,, tub gurnard, some tiny tope, a few more Huss, and pouting to go with a few other species gave the guys a good trip. All in all a good day.
Gary
Jack and Jo pictured with a nice 14lb Huss View Boats Page
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22/09/2012
Fishing Report by Lee Spotswood
on Ocean Star (Birkenhead, Merseyside)
22 Sep 2012 by Lee Spotswood
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9 Hour trip today, the last one out of Rhyl this season. 8 Anglers on board, all caught fish throughout the day. Main species being Mackerel, Whiting, Gurnard, Bull Huss, Dogfish, dabs. Weather was fantastic and the lads were great company. Hope to see them onboard again soon. We'll be back in the Mersey from 1st October for the Winter season.
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09/09/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
9 Sep 2012 by Gary Flint
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Sunday 9th September - The Voith lads
We locked out of the marina and headed up the river with the intentions to trying different marks to yesterdays trip. We got to the first mark and decided that it was too rough to fish, so headed inshore to fish another mark for a few hours and see how the weather settled as the day progressed. We got the guys fishing on the first mark and as with yesterday they were into mackeral straight away as well as a sprat. Graham who was fishing at the front was pulling in pouting and poor cod 3 at a time, with the other guys bringing in doggies and various other species. Tommy was the first of the day to land a Huss at around 6lb. With the pool being heaviest fish Tommy was giving the rest of the guys banter about him being the winner already, until one of the guys on the back had hooked into a lovely bullhuss, but before anyone could get the net fast enough it snapped the line as he was only on a scratching rig and swam off on the surface. I estimate it was around 14lb.
With the wind easing we decided to try and head back offshore, so lines were brought in and off we went. We got to the mark and the guys began fishing. Again plenty of Pouting, Whiting and Poor Cod. We moved to another 3 marks further offshore with the same results.
Gary View Boats Page
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08/09/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
8 Sep 2012 by Gary Flint
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Sat 8th Sept - Top of the Trent
We locked out of Liverpool Marina at 5:30am and headed out offshore. There was a bit of a chop to begin with, but we knew that it was dropping all day. We headed out to the first mark 28 miles out. The guys started fishing and were into mackeral straight away. Tom was the first of the day to bring a pollack aboard which was around the 4lb mark. We stayed here for about an hour and then decided that it had dropped enough to go even further out. We motored out to try 4 more marks around 10miles further out. Again the guys were into pollack all around the 4lb mark. Plenty of pouting and poor cod were also caught as well as doggies, weevers, gurnard, and a few nice huss with the best weighing in at 14lb falling to Brian. All in all plenty of banter from the lads, surprised there were no Cod caught. But thats Fishing for you. Looking forward to seeing the Lads again for a bash at the Mersey Cod.
Gary
From the picture, i dont know which is the more aggressive... Brian or the Bullhuss View Boats Page
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14/08/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
14 Aug 2012 by Gary Flint
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14.08.12 INDIVIDUALS TRIP.
We sailed from the marina at 10.15 am to be met with a calm sea we headed out to a mark that had produced well for us.When we arrived we imediately started to fish.with young Chris hooking into a nice 5lb Cod the mark did not produce like we expected so we moved on to another mark ,Aus and Chris now becoming the dog kings we moved to a mark on the way in only to catch a dab no smoothies today i blame it on the small tide we have to blame something thats fishing.Fish caught Dogfish, Cod, Gunard, Weevers,Pouting Poor Cod Bullhuss and Dabs. overall another day full of banter and good humour.
CREDIT TO YOUNG CHRIS WHO DID NOT STOP FISHING ALL DAY View Boats Page
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12/08/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
12 Aug 2012 by Gary Flint
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12,08,12 CJS TRIP, We tried to blow this trip of the night before due to a bad weather forecast but some had already travelled up the night before, so after some discusions we agreed to take the trip and stay inshore , so we left the marina with a group of lads that had been on the town all night and came straight to the boat 5 slept all day and the other lads slept for a while on and off in the 23 mph wind we did manage to catch some smooth hounds, mackeral, dabs,etc. With the Lads that stayed awake on and off, at one stage i managed to wind all of the lads rods in and leave them in without any one noticing The moral of the story is dont drink to much before a trip and dont stay up late or you will waste your day plenty of pics to follow.
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11/08/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
11 Aug 2012 by Gary Flint
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11,08,12 MARTIN WINDERS TRIP.
We left the Marina at 7.00am to head out on a species hunt, operating a points system, We tried to head offshore but unfortunately the weather was not kind to us,having got 5 miles from the mark we had selected we decided it would be better to return inshore due to the wind increasing instead of it easing, so we started our competition operating a strict points system,species caught 5 tope only small to 10lb ,8 common smooth hounds to 8lb , 6 starry smooth hounds to 9lb, guarnard, weevers,mackeral only 3 allowed to each competitor al though loads where landed overall winner Martin C 26 points, who landed a 10lb tope in the last 15 minutes, the top 3 where seperated by only 2 points PICTURES TO FOLLOW.
RESULTS MIKE 10 POINTS CAPTAIN MACKERAL
MICHELLE 12 POINTS
DAVE H 2 13 POINTS
ADRIAN 14 POINTS MACKERAL BASHING
IAN 15 POINTS BIGGEST WEAVER
DAVE H 17 POINTS
MARTIN 22 POINTS BIGGEST STARRY SMOOTH HOUND
BILL 24 POINTS
MARTIN C 26 POINTS BIGGEST TOPE
OVERALL A REALY GOOD DAY WITH LOADS OF NON STOP BANTER. View Boats Page
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10/08/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
10 Aug 2012 by Gary Flint
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10.08.12 Ritchies trip.
We left the marina at 6.10 am to head offshore, the banter was flying all day we arrived at the first mark to start catching Pouting five at a time, Then we had a nice Ballan wrasse,Tub gurnard, Mackeral , Pollack etc and some nice bull huss,we then moved for some smooth hound fishingwhere we managed to catch a tagged smooth hound which we had not had any tagged smooth hounds before, overall a good day out all though tide a bit small to create much run.
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09/08/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
9 Aug 2012 by Gary Flint
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09.08.12 individuals day.
We left the marina at 6 am to be met with a flat calm sea we headed out to a mark in the bay.Which when we arrived looked barren so we moved on we tried another mark which looked the same so we kept going until we decided to botrtom fish a area we had not done for a couple of years( very rough ground) straight away we had mackerel,gurnard pollack and pouting and some nice cod to 7lb on bait overall a very good day to top it all we spotted a basking shark 18 mile from the bar and then a pod of small porpoise by New Brigton Light house.Overall a realy good day. pictures will follow. View Boats Page
