Latest Fishing Reports: Hampshire
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25/04/2010
Fishing Report by Les Jones
on White Maiden II (Lymington, Hampshire)
25 Apr 2010 by Les Jones
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Struggling with the good weather! Who would have known this last September when these trips were planned! Unfortunately this lovely sun is not warming the sea up as the nights have been so cold. A cold winter, low sea temps, Easterlies plus high pressure is putting the fish off their dinner, that's for sure. The 'White Maiden' crew, Church Crookham SAC, found a few Gars, nice to see mind, plus a dozen wrasse and half a dozen dogs, but no Bream. It wasn't for trying, as rigs and bait looked good and we tested 3 marks. They just didn't want to know or are not there in numbers yet. The pic right, is Paul, with one of the early inshore Gars. Nearby 'Wight Rebel' and 'Our Mary' found a couple of Bream but they are hard work still. The water is clearing all the time and the best fish could be there any time now.
We had lots of options open to us and boats went off in all directions but reports were very similar, lots of effort and little return. Andy Stevens on 'Make My Day' caught a nice 11lb Small Eyed Ray, Roy Davies on 'Agay' a 15lb Cod. One of Kev's crew aboard 'Voyager' caught a 12.5lb Pollock, these were all good but occasional fish with the conditions as they are. Everything could change, any day now, and those first Mackerel will be followed keenly by the rest of the sought after species.
By the way today (Sunday) was very cold with more breeze than yesterday and a horrible sea fog that would have made it more of a challenge for all, lets hope they found a few more fish than yesterday. As I walked Hurst Shingle Bank and then had a pint and a ploughmans lunch in 'The Gun' at Keyhaven, I thought I should call a few of the skippers to find out what was occuring, and then I realised, what I may have thought myself, receiving the same call, while sat out in thick fog! So I didn't dare make the calls.
Tightlines, Les Jones.
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View Full Charter AvailabilityFri 31/01/2025 4 Spaces 7 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1500 Inshore Max 8 4 spaces. £85pp Booked on: JamesRalph+1, MattNutt Bass / Cod / Conger Eel / Spurdog / Thornback Ray.View details Thu 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 -
21/04/2010
Fishing Report by Les Jones
on White Maiden II (Lymington, Hampshire)
21 Apr 2010 by Les Jones
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As our weather continues to be dominated by a high pressure system, cold at night and still/bright at day, the fishing is a bit ‘slow’ all round, unless you are looking for dogs! The first Black Bream are making a show now. These early Bream, potentially the biggest of the season, are difficult to catch in the murky waters, but they are there, as the Geoff Wheeler crew minus Geoff (laid up with a bad back) caught our first of the season. Tom on the left is showing the returned hen fish. However, the fishing was slow and a move only found more dogs. The water is still down at 10 degrees. On Sunday one boat landed more than nine Bream all good fish, so they are there.
On Saturday, unfortunately, White Maiden didn’t catch a Bream but found a couple of Edible crabs, a small Bull Huss, inevitable dogs and Pout plus a few Wrasse, for the Steve Forster crew. The day was very calm and quiet apart from a cold breeze for an hour on the change of tide.
Wight Rebel of Lymington, fishing near to White Maiden, caught two good Bream and lost two, one thought to be a very big Bream. The other boats in the vicinity that did connect, found one or two fish, around the 3lb mark.
The sea is gradually warming up but is cold still, too cold, maybe? Hounds are deep and falling to squid as they do this time of year. Some Rays are being caught on the banks with Blondes, Small Eyeds and Thornbacks showing. Pollock are being caught well out on the mid-channel wrecks. Kevin Duell, out from Lymington, on Voyager, found 48 for his crew last week to 15lb.
On Saturday, inshore, Steve Davies fishing solo on ‘Agay’, baited worm to a size 2 and struck into what he thought to be a decent Hound (Smoothie). After carefully coaxing the nodder to the surface, after more than 10 minutes, through the 50’ of water he was in, he netted a Cod of 13lb. Maybe we should be fishing for them still!
Good fish! Above is Richard Burgoyne with a cracking 21.5lb Spur caught two weeks ago now. White Maiden is the white mark near his thumb! View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilityFri 31/01/2025 4 Spaces 7 Hours £85.00pp 0800-1500 Inshore Max 8 4 spaces. £85pp Booked on: JamesRalph+1, MattNutt Bass / Cod / Conger Eel / Spurdog / Thornback Ray.View details Thu 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 -
14/12/2009
Fishing Report by Chris Bray
on Great Escape (Lymington, Hampshire)
14 Dec 2009 by Chris Bray
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Hi
The weather in recent weeks has seen us move off of the wrecks and inshore for the winter cod. Catches continue to be good and nice double figure size backed up by nice abundant channel whiting and the odd bass.
Looking forward to getting out to the wrecks when we get a calm spell to find the Pollack
See You Soon Chris
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10/2009
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Oct 2009 by Glen Milligan
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Over the last week or so we are still finding Cod, here we have the lads from St Mary's Youth Club, Southampton with a lovely Cod at 13lbs!
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15/10/2009
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
15 Oct 2009 by Glen Milligan
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Sept/Oct can also be great months for evening Sole fishing. Short midweek trips to take advantage of settled conditions are always a pleasure with quality Sole too! Here's Ady with his first and best Sole at 1lb 12oz!!!
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10/2009
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Oct 2009 by Glen Milligan
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October brings with it the arrival of BIG COD. With dreams of the rare but quite possible 30lb fish we really start to target these lunkers. Yesterday Sunday 11th Oct was my first proper Cod trip, in a difficult force 5 Westerly the guys still managed 3 fish with the biggest at 19lb!!! Well done to angler Raul Tanasan form London. We use Big Baits and Big Hooks so come prepared!!
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06/2009
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Jun 2009 by Glen Milligan
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Recent trips are showing lots of good sized hard fighting tope on grounds south of the nab, best catch so far is a pair of fish totalling 95lbs!!! On several trips anglers have simply been too-toped and we have moved away for a break!!
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06/2009
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Jun 2009 by Glen Milligan
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Hi all
For a long time I have been waiting for early June to arrive as I love BIG Tope and thats what this time of year is all about. A recent trip around the Isle of Wight produced a bumper session with BIG tope attacking all of the rods at the same time! Here's a pic of the first two fish of the session weighing 50lb and 45lb. Great fishing, it must be as close to big game fishing as we come as these fish take their searing runs tearing line from the reel! Great Stuff! If you fancy some of this action then look for a smallish tide and ring me for details.
On these trips we can also go for Pollack, Conger and Bass, does it get any better???? View Boats Page
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04/2009
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Apr 2009 by Glen Milligan
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As we near the end of April its all about BIG Bream at the moment, Here I am with a 3lb fish taken last week. We're catching loads of Bream at the moment and also we return lots too!!!!
Aswell as Bream we have plenty of Smoothounds moving inshore every day, fish to 15lbs with the large females arriving very soon, together with the Tope! This is a great time of year around here!
As a new boat I do have several really good tides free and available for booking. View Boats Page
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04/2009
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Apr 2009 by Glen Milligan
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Hi All, as a new skipper I am just coming to terms with the various websites available for anglers and skippers use. So here's my first report on the cbuk.
Thank Goodness for April arriving with some good trips so far and the arrival of Smoothounds in numbers and the first Bream just showing now.
Over the school holidays I had a few trips with special prices for youngsters, as normal the girls caught the most!
Last week most trips were about introducing new anglers to the delights of the hard fighting smoothounds, these early fish are averaging 6lbs and they really do go! BUT the bigger females will be in soon too, with fish up to 30lb it is superb sport, OFTEN on FREE BAIT!
The BIG BREAM are here now too so all we need is for the weather to hold.
As a new skipper I still have many days available and have updated my schedule, so please ring for info or just a chat.
I can also pick anglers up in Portsmouth camber.
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