Latest Fishing Reports: Hampshire
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08/02/2017
Fishing Report by michael button
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
8 Feb 2017 by michael button
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Spent yesterday out wrecking with Ian Dale and Bex on Kellys Hero 3. First time out for me on Ian's new boat and its a peach. Beamy, well equipped would be an understatement. Comfortable on the cruise out, fast , she averaged 17 knots at 2000 rpm. We spent a few hours steaming for distant wrecks. First wreck had a lot of fish on it, with multiple fish coming on each drift for the party on board, which included Sean Heath skipper of Great White 2. Rattle back white eels were doing the trick , I had five fish on the first wreck with a sprinkling of good double figure fish to other anglers.
When the action slowed down a bit, Ian moved off a few miles to another wreck and we were straight back into a good stamp of fish, blue and white red gill evolution accounting for the better fish, the fish box was filling up and when action started to slow we set off for another wreck, with the tide starting to slow down the fishing dropped off but we were still taking the odd fish or two, so Ian moved to another close wreck and I managed to winkle one more Pollack out on a red gill pilchard fished very slowly.
All in all a great days fishing, had 10 Pollack with the biggest knocking the double figure mark. Went home with a lot of fish, very tired, and happy knowing Ian's trips give great value for money if you fish hard.
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22/01/2017
Fishing Report by Graeme Galloway
on Amatheia (Gosport, Hampshire)
22 Jan 2017 by Graeme Galloway
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Great day on the Blonde Rays, with over 30 coming to the net with the majority of the fish in double figures and the best fish a 22 pounder falling to Dave, plenty of other fish over 15 pounds and on occasionally fish coming up 2 at a time
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18/01/2017
Fishing Report by Graeme Galloway
on Amatheia (Gosport, Hampshire)
18 Jan 2017 by Graeme Galloway
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Hi
Sorry not been keeping up with the reports will do better so here we go, took a small party out on the 18th January 2017 for a sports fishing day on the Bass, the catch of 18 bass was taken over a 4 hour session all fished were released alive in excellent condition, the best fish a12 pounder fell to John on the first drift as the tide started to make, we had another couple of fish close to double figures with the remainder around the 5 to 7 pound mark all fished were photographed before being returned, but only John's fish was weighted before return as a marker View Boats Page
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20/01/2017
Fishing Report by Les Jones
on White Maiden II (Lymington, Hampshire)
20 Jan 2017 by Les Jones
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New boat and some good winter weather and fishing. It's been a very busy but great period for me. Apologies for a lack of reports but I have been very busy looking after my fishing crews! If you check out my own website http://sea-fishing.net you will find detailed weekly reports and pictures there and going back for the last eleven years. Happy catching and catching up and Happy New Year.
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15/01/2017
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
15 Jan 2017 by Ian Dale
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Hi Guys,
Happy New Year to you all, hope you all had a good Christmas, and have managed to eat the last of the cold Christmas meats and mince pies that were left over.
Well it certainly has been a funny few weeks since we wrote our last blog, we seem to have gone from a very mild winter to a freezing one in less than a couple of days, “Brrrrr”!!
It seems that for us the cod fishing has slowed up somewhat, we have gone from our best day this season of 4 cod boated in a day to scratching around to find one lucky one, in saying that thought, the lone cod we have been finding have been a better size and better quality of fish.
One of the good points of the inshore ground fishing, is that the congers seem to have declined, I know they keep the rods nodding, but they do get a pain when you aren’t fishing for them and some of the anglers were losing quite a bit of gear with them. Shouldn’t moan really as it keeps them catching!
We have landed some nice size whiting over the winter this year, some reaching near on 4lb. The whiting fishing this year has certainly blossomed compared to the last few years of many pin whiting. Whiting was on the menu 90% of the time over the last few weeks, YUM!
Now, the other funny thing this winter, it seems the water temperature hasn’t dropped as much as normal, meaning that our wrecking season has kicked off a little earlier than expected. We have managed to find some nice Pollack out there so far, and we do hope that this will continue well into the wrecking season.
Come the end of January our winter cod competition will be ending, the leader at the minute is Mark Lennox, with a cod of 18lb. The winner will receive one space on our inshore trips and £100 tackle voucher for Allans Marine.
We still have some spaces left to be in with a chance of beating this, they are:
Jan 19th: 4 spaces
Jan 27th: 4 Spaces
Jan 30th: 6 spaces
These trips are £50 each. Please get in touch for details and booking.
On the 1st of February, our new competition will be starting, this will run until 31st August. This will be for the biggest Pollack caught on board Kelley’s Hero. Likewise to the cod competition, the prize will be a space on one of our wrecking trips for the next season and a tackle voucher worth £150 for Allans Marine.
The spaces for wrecking over February are:
Feb 5th: 6 spaces
Feb 13th: 4 spaces
Feb 17th: 6 spaces
Feb 22nd: 7 spaces
Feb 25th: 5 Spaces
These trips are £75 each, and again please get in touch for details and booking.
Our Alderney trips are now filling up, available dates for these are:
May 4th-7th: 1 space
May 22nd-25th: 1 space
June 19th-22nd: 5 Spaces
July 3rd-6th: 6 spaces
July 14th-17th: 5 spaces
Aug 3rd-6th: 4 spaces
Prices for these trips are £375 per person, Plus your accommodation, you will also be required to pay £100 deposit
If you would like any more information on any of the trips we have here, please contact us on 07795 538933.
Tight Lines
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04/12/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
4 Dec 2016 by Ian Dale
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Sorry we haven't written a blog for a while guys, but there has been a lot going on at Kelley's Hero. Since we last blogged, as many of you know we have bought a new boat. We now have a 11m South Catamaran, and we can carry 12 passengers. She is now back home in Southsea Marina and has already been put to work.
On the first trip since the last blog, we had a small group book the boat, they hadn't been out fishing for a few years and they were really excited about getting out on the water. The only fault we could have picked with the day is that we nearly ran out of bait by 2pm. Thankfully we caught enough live bait to keep us going. We ended the day with nearly 300 whiting upto 3lb, and 3 cod up to 12lb. It was certainly a great day with some great weather to go with it.
The trip after that one wasn't as successful, and after staying out and trying for 10 hours, our patience wore a bit thin and we ended up going back in with no cod.
The new boat had to come down from Hartlepool, which is 375 nautical miles, this should have taken 24 hours non stop. As it was, it took 3 days over a week due to the weather, We arrived back into Southsea Marina at 0130 in the morning, and we had a trip going out at 8. So it was all hands to deck, getting the new liferafts on, and all the gear swapped over.
We did manage to get out at 0800, but the fishing wasn't the greatest, with only whiting, pout, dogfish and a conger to be seen, but at least our anglers got out and were able to test the new boat out.
We had a few evening trips booked in over the month, no cod caught, just a few colds, whiting congers, rays and the usual dogfish. These night trips are very popular and are becoming a regular thing.
Many of you may know that we have a competition running for the biggest cod of the season, which runs from October to January 31st. The winner receives a free inshore trip aboard Kelley's Hero, and £100 voucher for Allans Marine. The last weekend we managed out, we had a new leader, this was Gerry, with his first ever cod, weighing 16lb 7oz.
One that competition ends, we will then have one for our wrecking season, with the biggest Pollack winning a similiar prize.
Things have been very busy, with the new boat arriving, and christmas coming up etc etc. But we are now sorting our bookings out for next year. We are doing Alderney trips, Weymouth Trips, and 2 day trips to Brighton. As well as all our normal wrecking and inshore trips.
If anyone would like any information on any dates etc please feel free to text or email with what you are after
iandale@kelleys-hero.com
07795 538933
We look forward to seeing you soon,
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12/2016
Fishing Report by Rob Hickin
on Sea-Juicer (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Dec 2016 by Rob Hickin
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Fishing has picked up well during November with good size Whiting to 2.5lb turning up in the eastern solent along with some bigger Cod,
On Deep water marks Cod ,Bullhuss , Spurs , Congers to 35lb seem to have switched to their winter feed up .some days they are becoming a nuisance as other fish not getting a chance on the baits .but cant complain they still put a nice bend in the rod . best Cod to date a nice 24lb for Aidan which fell to a dirty squid bait.
Things should continue to improve for December lets hope the weather is kind & i can get offshore on the Small tides for Blondes Spurs & Bull Huss along with the bigger Cod & no doubt Congers
The .Solent should continue to produce good bags of whiting along with the cod
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04/11/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
4 Nov 2016 by Ian Dale
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The weather has definitely been a little bit kinder to us this month, we haven’t managed all of our trips but the ones we have, we have had to head up The Solent. As before this paid off on most of our trips.
Not only have we been busy with day trips, but the nights trips are also getting popular.
We have managed a few of these now, not all productive but still nice to get out there and try.
We produced a lot of whiting, pout and a few dogfish, with the smallest dogfish we have ever seen i think.
We had a run of nice weather last week, and we managed to find a few nice fish, with the biggest one around the 12lb mark. The whiting have been in in numbers, and we have also seen a bass or two and a few nice rays as well.
We are running a competition for this Cod season which runs until January 31st, that is, the biggest cod caught aboard Kelley’s Hero wins one free individuals spot on the boat and £100 voucher for Allens Marine.
If you would like to take part in the competition, please feel free to contact us and book on to one of our individuals days. They are filling up fast so be sure to get in and have a chance at our winter giveaway.
Call or text: 07795 538933
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14/10/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
14 Oct 2016 by Ian Dale
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So the plaicing season has just about come to an end for us now, and it's time to start looking some of those winter cod. The plaice weren't as prolific as previous years but the fish that we were getting were in better condition and a lot of them were better sizes. The biggest place we had on board was a 3lb 12oz fish. During our place trips, we had a nice number of brill come up, the biggest being 4lb. Normally we only see around one or two a year on these but this year we had near on 20.
On the 17th September we headed out on our first evening trip for sole. It was hard work but we managed to find a few. With the biggest weighing in at 2lb 4oz. The rest were smaller. We had red mullet, bass, bream, silver eels, dogfish, pout and whiting as well that night. The fish didn't stop biting all night.
The first weekend that we started for cod, we definitely found them, we landed 4, up to 13lb. There wasn't a quiet spell all day and we ended up with conger eel, silver eel, pout, whiting, dogfish, bullhuss, smoothound and of course, cod. It sure is nice to see them this time of year and makes a nice change to all the rushing around done in previous months. Lets hope this is the start to a good cod season.
Monday evening saw another one of our evening trips for sole. Unfortunately we didn't see a sole, but we had lots of activity including cod whiting and pout.
Lots has been happening at Kelleys Hero, for those of you that don;t know, the boat will be getting upgraded to an 11m South catamaran. This will be able to fish 12 comfortably. It will then allow us to do Alderney runs and Weymouth runs next year. If anybody would like any any information on these trips please feel free to contact me.
So lets hope we manage to get out and find some more cod, and some more pb's.
Don't forget if you want to get out fishing, call 07795 538933
Tight Lines
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10/2016
Fishing Report by Rob Hickin
on Sea-Juicer (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Oct 2016 by Rob Hickin
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Fishing starting to improve inshore with Cod around 10lb showing in the Solent along with the whiting which should improve in size in the coming weeks . Offshore still a bit hit & Miss but some nice fish turning up . on the next set of neap tides should see some improvement with Cod & conger putting in good appearance . Best baits normal for this time of year Black lug squid & cuttlefish
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