Latest Fishing Reports: South West
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08/2013
Fishing Report by Ross Parham
on Spot On! (Brixham, Devon)
Aug 2013 by Ross Parham
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First trip of august 2013 saw Spot On steaming to the skerries from brixham (only a 40minute steam) to fish for plaice.
A lovely day was to be had weather wise and the fishing was good too with boat totals for plaice at 90 fish, most returned alive and few taken for tea.
Other species included Red gurnard, Tub gurnard, Grey gurnard, mackerel, sand eels and Dabs.
All in all for seven anglers, a couple who were novices did very well and thank you for choosing Spot On Charters and hope to see you again soon.
Pictured is Cath with one of her fine double header of plaice.
2014 diary and tides are here so now taking bookings, Channel island trips welcome.
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31/07/2013
Fishing Report by Nigel Lihou
on Optimist (Brixham, Devon)
31 Jul 2013 by Nigel Lihou
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Reasonable day fishing with a variety of species including Pollack, Scad, Pout and Mackerel even mackerel 4 ins long weighing less than 1/2 oz (returned to grow a bit) haven't seen them that small for a while so good bait fish must mean the bigger species are about. still waiting to see the first Bass of the season.
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31/07/2013
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
31 Jul 2013 by Colin Penny
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FLAMER IV FISHY NEWS July 2013 - Pictured is Jerry Knight age 60 something from Sussex, with the Blonde Ray weighing 23Ib 12oz he landed while fishing at anchor on a bank. Jerry was using 30Ib class tackle with a cocktail bait of Ammo squid and fillets of Mackerel.Jerry also caught a 14Ib Undulate Ray on the same mark. Both the rays were released alive. Jerry and friends were fishing on day one of their annual two day angling break aboard Flamer IV with Rays being their target species.On day two Jerry was on form again and caught three Blonde Rays with biggest tipping the scales at 20Ib.Jerrys catch helped the Flamer IV team win the Ray competition againsat Supanova II.The Flamer IV team had a points average of 30 against the Supanova II team points average of 25.5.
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07/2013
Fishing Report by Lyle Stantiford
on Supanova II (Weymouth, Dorset)
Jul 2013 by Lyle Stantiford
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Some cracking sport from Weymouth in June and July.
The wrecks threw up some cracking Cod and continued decent Pollack but the biggest surprise was 3 Coalfish in a week! These beautiful creatures used to be common some 20 years ago from Weymouth but in the last 12 years I have seen just one until this year, maybe they are on the comeback!
The wrecking in the last week has started to tail off, attention will now turn to the inshore stuff which has also been good. The smaller tides have produced some fantastic Plaice fishing with Supanova's first 7lber falling to Pete Green from Bristol. A cracking fish and one I have been waiting a long long time for.
Bream in the last week has really come to life both on the drift and at anchor. When drifting we have been picking up some cracking Red Gurnards and at anchor a nice few undulates and tope.
The Shambles has been a little bit Patchy but with Turbot and increasing numbers of Brill still there for those that wish to sit it out.
This last week's spring tides has seen some cracking bass fishing with live Mackerel best fell to Mark Coker with a fish of 10lb 7oz.
The weather until now has been superb which we are all very grateful of down in sunny Weymouth, we are also very very grateful of the continued support all you anglers give us. Keep it Up!!!!
Picture are me and my Dad with my first ever Blue Shark caught on a bus man's Holiday to MIlford Haven recently.
We fished with Nick O'Sullivan on Celtic Wildcat. Great boat, Great skipper if you want the sharks he is the man without a doubt. His details are on this site.
Tight LInes,
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27/07/2013
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
27 Jul 2013 by Colin Penny
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FLAMER IV FISHY NEWS July 2013 - Andy Wheal age 50 landed a Plaice weighing 5Ib 8oz.Andy was using 8Ib class tackle with a two hook flowing trace baited with ragworm,prawn and a strips of Ammo calamari squid.Andy is pictured with his specimen Plaice.
Dave Groom from London caught a 3Ib 1oz Black Bream and Personal Best which he caught on 8Ib class tackle with a two hook flowing trace baited with ragworm and strips of Ammo squid. Both anglers are members of the WSF - TWATS team ( The Weymouth Angling Team). View Boats Page
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27/07/2013
Fishing Report by Dave Pitman
on Atlanta (Weymouth, Dorset)
27 Jul 2013 by Dave Pitman
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20/07/2013
Fishing Report by Malcolm Collins
on Just Mary (Christchurch, Dorset)
20 Jul 2013 by Malcolm Collins
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A slightly challenging weekend 20th/21st July 2013 aboard 'Just Mary' from Poole due to the Easterly winds which saw many boats return to the Harbour for various reasons. However the Sun was shining on us so we persevered with 'Plan A', which, as always, is to find my Anglers some Quality Fish whatever the conditions or abilities of those onboard. You pay me for a Service and I will always do my best to give you the best possible Service that I can provide for you. Saturday 20th was to see us doing two booked trips, one five hour 0900/1400 and the other a six hour 1500/2100 hours. My first trip was a stag party booked by Cormac Meenehan and friends including the Groom-to-be from Portsmouth. Fishing an Inshore mark we landed Mackerel, Black Bream, Dogfish and two nice Undulate Rays. Caught by the Groom-to-be you ask (?) sadly not, but both fell to fresh mackerel baits to 6/0 hooks on long flowing traces for the Organiser Cormac Meenehan. First fish, a male, was weighed at 14lb 4oz, (SeaAngler Shimano Mission Accomplished Award Qualifier) photographed and gently returned, second fish, a female about the same size, was wing hooked so was gently unhooked and released. Second trip was six hire rod lads from Blandford who work together in a Supermarket plus my old mate Phil Butt and two of his mates. The wind was forecast to ease, by me, so we pushed off to a mark further South of our morning's mark. We found the Mackerel then anchored up for other Summer species. We landed Gurnard, Dogfish, Black Bream, Plaice and now three Rays. Two Small-Eyed and another Undulate, two for Phil, one of each species and one for his mate, a Small-Eyed of 10lb 4oz. All fell to fresh mackerel on a 6/0 hook to a long flowing trace. The Undulate was a decent size so was weighed, photographed and gently released and likewise the Small-Eyed. That ended a long Saturday with a total of five Rays and some happy Anglers. Sunday's trip was organised by Colin Moors from Poole Council. I brought a box of 144 tea bags plus extra milk but it's not always true what they say about Council blokes having tea in their veins ! After finding just enough Mackerel to make a start we headed off to a normally reliable mark, so did the rest of the Poole Fleet that were out ! We had some decent Bream, Gurnard, Dogfish and a Bass but not enough quality to keep us there so after a couple of hours we moved on to another mark on our own. Almost instantly my move to another mark paid off and we started landing quality fish ! A total of SEVEN Rays, Small-Eyed and Undulates to 14lb, Tope, more Mackerel and better size, a decent sized Smoothound, a small Conger Eel, and a total of ELEVAN Summer Species. Phew ! That was busy at times and nice to see, so much so that we did a bit of extra time because the Fishing was so enjoyable for everyone. So a decent weekends fishing ended with calm seas, having started with Force 5 Easterly's, and some more happy Anglers aboard 'Just Mary' from Poole. Not a bad weekend for my 'Wooden Warrior' ............see you soon !
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21/07/2013
Fishing Report by Roger Phillips
on Che Sara Sara (Newquay, Cornwall)
21 Jul 2013 by Roger Phillips
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Well a day of some that did and some that didn't.We were put amongst the fish either by fishing on the drift or at anchor. Drifting a wreck did produce some nice pollock at first and when anchored on later the pollock went off and then the ling started coming aboard. Soon as the tide started to make, it was back on the pollock again as i said before it was a day of anglers and danglers.The wind picked up abit in the afternoon as we moved off to a inshore reef which made fishing on the drift difficult but still produced a few pollock. Dolphins put in a couple of visits as well as some sun fish. Pollock,ling,dogfish,gurnard and one or two pouting normal mixed bag of fish.
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21/07/2013
Fishing Report by Dave Pitman
on Atlanta (Weymouth, Dorset)
21 Jul 2013 by Dave Pitman
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16/07/2013
Fishing Report by Sam Cumming
on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
16 Jul 2013 by Sam Cumming
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I had almost forgotten how much easier a bit of nice weather makes this job, over the past six months I can’t remember having settled weather for more than a few days at a time so when the winds dropped out and the temperature came up we have been making the most of it.
One thing I didn’t get to do much last year was free lining, due to the bad weather the fish don’t tend to push into the shallow water so much. So with the right conditions recently we have been heading round the Jurassic coast and connecting with some hard hitting bass, on the light tackle this really is a superb way to fish for them. Elsewhere the bass have continued to feed as well with the first of the large female fish starting to show up on both sides of the channel. Ian Napier nailed his personal best with a fine 11lber, again on 6-12lb class gear it gave a phenomenal scrap all the way to the boat with several 10-20 yard runs. On the other side of the channel in Alderney we have been spending our time evenly between flatties and tope. The larger turbot lately seem to have been picking out the sand eel flappers over the mackerel baits, Lee Shepherd spent his birthday over in Alderney and gave himself a nice present of a new PB turbot just into the double figures. On the anchoring side of things the tope have giving us the run around, usually coming on the feed at slack water it can be quite interesting keeping up with half a dozen or so hook ups at a time. Darren Carwardine wrestled with his 46lber for over 10 minutes, luckily enough is came into the net very smoothly and curled itself up otherwise I don’t think we would have got it aboard without the aid of the gunnel door.
Out on the wrecks it’s fast and furious, with nicer weather we have concentrated on the cod a bit more than last year and its nice to see it pay off with Colin Jones’ 31lber caught on a 20lb class Abu Suveran rod using a bright orange sidewinder lure. That fish was one of 3 we had over 20lb in as many drifts which I’m pretty sure is a first for the Silver Spray team. We have had so many good fish over the last 4 weeks there isn’t time to mention them all but long may the good weather and tight lines continue. View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilityWed 26/02/2025 2 Spaces 11 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for pollock with turbot fishing over the slack £160 7 anglers max. 2 spaces Pollock / Turbot / Blonde Ray.View details Sun 09/03/2025 4 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 4 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Mon 10/03/2025 3 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 3 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 21/03/2025 5 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 5 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Mon 24/03/2025 4 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Banks fishing spurs blondes hounds tope huss congers £120 4 spaces 7 anglers max. Bull Huss / Conger Eel / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Wed 26/03/2025 6 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 6 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 04/04/2025 2 Spaces £160.00pp wreck fishing pollock cod etc maybe a session at anchor - £160 7 anglers max. 2 spaces Cod / Pollock.View details Mon 07/04/2025 6 Spaces £120.00pp big fish day - tope blondes huss congers smoothound etc - £120 7 anglers max.6 spaces Bull Huss / Conger Eel / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Wed 09/04/2025 6 Spaces £160.00pp wreck fishing pollock cod etc maybe a session at anchor - £160 7 anglers max. 6 spaces Cod / Pollock.View details Sat 12/04/2025 7 Spaces £100.00pp Bream fishing maybe some other species as well - £100 7 anglers max. Black Sea Bream / Tope.View details
