Latest Fishing Reports: South East
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18/05/2014
Fishing Report by Bob Marshall
on Duke IV (Ramsgate, Kent)
18 May 2014 by Bob Marshall
Report on-board Duke IV
The Belgium fiching club have been back to Ramsgate fishing aboard Duke IV for the last few days, taking advantage of the super fishing we are enjoying lately with plenty of Skate, some fiesty Smoothounds and a good sprinkling of Bass and Whiting. Herring remains the bait for the Skate although they are starting to aquire a taste for Mackerel. The Hounds favour the crab and the Bass lugworm.
The water remains coloured with the last of the may water but as it clears the Mackerel should arrive.
I have space this Saturday 24th so if you fancy a dabble give me a call and make the most of the weather and the good fishing we are enjoying.
Pic shows the Belgiun crew with part of their catch.
Tight lines Bob
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04/05/2014
Fishing Report by Les Jones
on White Maiden II (Lymington, Hampshire)
4 May 2014 by Les Jones
Report on-board White Maiden II
The Bank Holiday weekends settled weather was fantastic for us all.
Saturday's crew were after the bigger fish with Rays our first target species. We had one decent 7lb Small Eyed Ray caught on a bank and lots of Dogs. We moved off to a wreck for Congers to 20lb before Billy nailed a cracking 10lb 3oz Bass on squid, at the end of the trip and the start of the ebb.
On Sunday the Dyer family had another great forecast which enabled us to head for the Bream grounds. It was all very competitive as Ballan Wrasse, Bream, Bull Huss, Whiting and Dogfish took the various small baits offered. The snaggy ground caused a few problems at the end of the flood so after a short move we avoided the snags and found more Bream. Left is Becka and Bee all very happy on LSD. That's Lesser Spotted Dogfish! It was a sociable but busy day for me but the lovely weather sealed it for all.
My original Monday crew of two were cancelled due to low individuals numbers. I then contacted Tuesdays 'windy forecast' half day crew to cancel when they asked to be moved forward to the Bank Holiday Monday and an early 0630 start. This time was fine by me so we snuck out in the morning for more Bream and Dogfish. Most Hen Bream are in spawn and are dropping eggs so they went back. Young Eddy on the right is holding a nice hen Bream.
Interestingly an Oceanography expert advised that it takes 3 to 4 male Bream to fertilise one female Breams eggs successfully. We release the females and some males too, if the crew agree. It would be good if some guidance could be introduced for all of us to follow! Come on Anglers Trust, what are you going to do?
Another conservation argument this week in the news was the release of 10,000 helium balloons to celebrate a special occasion. The argument against was the littering effect and although latex does bio-degrade, if a fish, bird or animal swallows them before they bio-degrade they will die a slow death. So there's another moral option for us.
With plenty of fish starting to show and lots of dates available give me a call if you fancy a full or half day or evening trip. Tightlines, Les. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD White Maiden II
View Full Charter AvailabilityThu 06/02/2025 7 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks max7 £85pp Conger Eel / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 07/02/2025 5 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks max7 £85pp 5 spaces left. Booked on: ChrisTosen, GrahamCarter, Conger Eel / Spurdog / Thornback Ray / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Thu 20/02/2025 7 Spaces £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks Max 7 £85pp Conger Eel / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Sat 22/02/2025 7 Spaces £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore banks max7 £85ppView details Mon 24/02/2025 7 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 offshore max7 £85pp Conger Eel / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 18/04/2025 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. 5 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest Bass / Black Sea Bream / Pollock.View details Wed 07/05/2025 2 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar, BobNunnView details Thu 05/06/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Bull Huss / Pollock.View details Thu 17/07/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Plaice / Pollock.View details Thu 14/08/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Bull Huss / Plaice / Pollock.View details -
21/04/2014
Fishing Report by Les Jones
on White Maiden II (Lymington, Hampshire)
21 Apr 2014 by Les Jones
Report on-board White Maiden II
Pics in gallery are the best fish caught Saturday for Mario and the Lymington Gill Precision Engineering crew. Showing are John with a 4lb 8oz specimen Spotted Ray, Connor with a near specimen 4lb 7oz Spotted Ray, Mario with an early Starry Smoothound. Otherwise, it was a load of Dogfish really plus a big Pout for dinner on Tuesday! Back to the Bream this weekend coming.
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD White Maiden II
View Full Charter AvailabilityThu 06/02/2025 7 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks max7 £85pp Conger Eel / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 07/02/2025 5 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks max7 £85pp 5 spaces left. Booked on: ChrisTosen, GrahamCarter, Conger Eel / Spurdog / Thornback Ray / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Thu 20/02/2025 7 Spaces £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks Max 7 £85pp Conger Eel / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Sat 22/02/2025 7 Spaces £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore banks max7 £85ppView details Mon 24/02/2025 7 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 offshore max7 £85pp Conger Eel / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 18/04/2025 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. 5 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest Bass / Black Sea Bream / Pollock.View details Wed 07/05/2025 2 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar, BobNunnView details Thu 05/06/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Bull Huss / Pollock.View details Thu 17/07/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Plaice / Pollock.View details Thu 14/08/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Bull Huss / Plaice / Pollock.View details -
04/2014
Fishing Report by Leo Kronenberg
on Kingfisher (Ramsgate, Kent)
Apr 2014 by Leo Kronenberg
Report on-board Kingfisher
3 days perfect fishing fun with great catches, 16 species and over 200 fish for 5 crazy Belgians. We could not have managed this without the help of our mad Welsh friend Jim and the professional skipper Shane. Thanks for the good fun ! See you again in May 2015 !!!!
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21/04/2014
Fishing Report by Warren Scott
on South Today (Chichester, West Sussex)
21 Apr 2014 by Warren Scott
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Finally got the season off to a good start with some cracking bream in Bracklesham Bay. Smoothound are in and in good numbers.
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04/2014
Fishing Report by Ian Goller
on Escape (Brighton, East Sussex)
Apr 2014 by Ian Goller
Report on-board Escape
Another great day today, we took the Boat fishing monthly editor an photographer out along with a couple of local anglers.
Plenty of Thornback again, along with the dreaded dogfish, whiting, codling and the first smoothound of the year.
We only need a bass now to complete all the summer species, and it is only early April.
It should only get better. View Boats Page
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13/04/2014
Fishing Report by Alan Milford
on Moonstone - now Why Worry! (Littlehampton, West Sussex)
13 Apr 2014 by Alan Milford
Report on-board Moonstone - now Why Worry!
Sunday 13th was out first charter since annual maintenance and tidy up.
Jim, Terry and the lads (regulars on Moonstone) had rolled over from the previous weekend due to poor weather.
This turned out to be a result as the fishing during the week seemed to have picked up nicely.
So it was a choice between looking for bass or bream....handily all in the same area.
When we arrived at the mark it was a little busy to say the least so instead of drifting for the bass I decided to head slightly east and drop the anchor.
Within half an hour we were into some nice bream.....and this is how the day went on.....good bream falling steadily all day.
The sun was out....the crew were catching....what more could we ask for? View Boats Page
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12/04/2014
Fishing Report by Les Jones
on White Maiden II (Lymington, Hampshire)
12 Apr 2014 by Les Jones
Report on-board White Maiden II
The Bream are in! All be it in low numbers at the moment. This is the time when 'pb' potential is at its highest so it's definitely worth a gamble for that 4lb'er! The first inshore Black Bream aboard this season was caught by Bryn Dye on Saturday. That beautifully marked Bream was caught along with the first inshore Pollock by Ian, along with a Bull Huss by Chris, all TOFFS members. There were a couple more Bream and Pollock plus other bits and pieces caught. While on Sunday we had a better day weather wise but we caught about the same with the best Bream so far just under 3lb falling to Alan. A sortie out deep found mainly dogs but also a nice fat female specimen 14lb 8oz Thornback Ray for Steve. Obviously she was released as this is the spawning time for them. Note all Rays and Congers have been released this week again, well done lads!
Thursdays individuals trip was a cracking day weather wise that allowed us to explore. We found Rays and Congers on deep banks but nothing on the wrecks. Wee Man Billy caught and released the best Blonde at 22lb; Roy a nice Blonde of 16lb and the biggest Conger at 36lb; Scott with another nice 16lb Blonde. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD White Maiden II
View Full Charter AvailabilityThu 06/02/2025 7 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks max7 £85pp Conger Eel / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 07/02/2025 5 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks max7 £85pp 5 spaces left. Booked on: ChrisTosen, GrahamCarter, Conger Eel / Spurdog / Thornback Ray / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Thu 20/02/2025 7 Spaces £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore Banks Max 7 £85pp Conger Eel / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Sat 22/02/2025 7 Spaces £85.00pp 0800-1600 Offshore banks max7 £85ppView details Mon 24/02/2025 7 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1600 offshore max7 £85pp Conger Eel / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 18/04/2025 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. 5 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest Bass / Black Sea Bream / Pollock.View details Wed 07/05/2025 2 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar, BobNunnView details Thu 05/06/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Bull Huss / Pollock.View details Thu 17/07/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Plaice / Pollock.View details Thu 14/08/2025 3 Spaces £95.00pp 0730-1530 Bream, Pollock and Bass. Max7 £95pp 3 spaces Booked on: PeteNightingale, BryanRickets, DaveWest, PeteHellyar Bass / Black Sea Bream / Bull Huss / Plaice / Pollock.View details -
12/04/2014
Fishing Report by Steve Eastman
on Kittiwake 111 (Gosport, Hampshire)
12 Apr 2014 by Steve Eastman
Report on-board Kittiwake 111
We have had a good catch of Rays 4 different types and a good start to our Smoothound fishing with more then a dozen up to 12lbs.
We caught our first black bream with the best topping 3lb 9oz caught by Jacek.
We have also had our first Mackerel of the season and a Conger eel , Bass, Pout and Whiting.
A good weekend's fishing and the weather to match. View Boats Page
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05/04/2014
Fishing Report by kurt lander
on Yellowfin (Brighton, East Sussex)
5 Apr 2014 by kurt lander
Report on-board Yellowfin
With two different weather reports for Saturday 5th April, we made the right choice and went of in to the distance
in search of Cod and Pollack, the Cod have been very elusive this season on the wrecks, only some small ones
caught on bait while ground fishing.
So it was down to the Pollack to give some sport and they did, Big bob from London, on his first fishing trip
caught a 14lb Pollack, said he enjoyed catching his fish but would be his last, he was feeling sick for the rest
of the day .
Another Bob on his Birthday trip caught five Pollack, a 14lb 6oz Pollack, the best of the day.
Thanks to Bob, Bob, Bob, Mark Paul, John and Peter. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Yellowfin
View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 02/02/2025 6 Spaces 9 Hours £80.00pp offshore wreck. Bass / Pollock.View details
