Latest Fishing Reports: South West
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06/08/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
6 Aug 2019 by Colin Penny
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The Bank and Reef fishing trips keep producing some good fishing with Rays,Bream,Bull Huss and Congers mainly being caught along with other species Red Gurnards, Mackerel, Scad etc. Pictured is Kevin Clark from Weymiouth who landed two Undulate Rays the best one weighing 10Ib the rays being returned alive to grow bigger.
My next Reef/Bank Trip with places available is on August 27th, Don't Miss Out - Book your place/s.
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01/08/2019
Fishing Report by Shaun Pedley
on Our Joe (Paignton, Devon)
1 Aug 2019 by Shaun Pedley
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July’s Fishing Report aboard OUR JOE-L
Well it’s curtailing been a challenging month for me as charter skipper, we have had some good days of the wrecks catching Cod, Pollock and Ling into double figures but a good days drifting is still hit and miss. Anchoring has been good for congers up to 60lb and we’ve started fishing for them on lighter rods too with some brilliant catches up to 50lb, bream are starting to arrive her now too but not big just yet.
On one memorable occasion (Memorable for the wrong and right reason at the same time) we headed out to one of my favourite wrecks on a flat calm day. After 3 drifts we had nothing, not even a bite or a sign on the sounder. The only reason I stayed on that one after the first drift was because I knew she ‘normally’ holds some fish on a quiet day. At the end of the 3rd drift we had more than one reason to move. When the anglers were winding up one line started to shoot under the boat! Once he realised it was fish someone asked if this was where we had the Tope biting pollock in half a couple of weeks ago? I told them we was miles away so it could be something completely different. On saying that I heard something Jump out the water behind me, on turning around expecting a dolphin I saw an amazing sight of a Thresher Shark out the water and land in his back about 20-30 meters from the boat. He was about 8 foot long plus the tail at an educated guess and soon broke the 20lb line after landing and swimming away. (If only we had some bait aboard we would have had some fun for sure!) couple of the lads had started fishing on feathers and had nothing so I knew there was nothing in the area due to this Thresher and it was time to move on. Such a shame but the lads weren’t keen on sharking so we moved on.
(So you could say we’ve had a Thresher Shark Hoked but I won’t claim that one!)
The Skerries Bank has produced some brilliant fish recently compared to past years with more Plaice over 2-2.5lb than before. (Dave Saunders on Kelly’s Hero Brixham had one over 4lb I believe too! ) seeing some small Turbot caught several times this year too!
I have to say, even though the fishing in the south coast of Devon isn’t producing the Cod and Pollock were used to, having the experienced anglers we get aboard Our Joe-L we have just had to change the days plan slightly to enjoy the day from species hunting to big conger days, Always a great laugh aboard with some top banter being chucked around and plenty of tea and coffee. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Our Joe
View Full Charter AvailabilityMon 12/05/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Tue 13/05/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Wed 14/05/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Thu 15/05/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Fri 16/05/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Mon 23/06/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Tue 24/06/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Wed 25/06/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Thu 26/06/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details Fri 27/06/2025 4 Spaces 50 Hours £495.00pp Guernsey Fishing Holiday. Brill / Turbot.View details -
05/08/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
5 Aug 2019 by Colin Penny
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The Bank and Reef fishing trips keep producing some good fishing with Rays,Bream,Bull Huss and Congers mainly being caught along with other species Red Gurnards, Mackerel, Scad etc. Pictured is Paul Barlow from Blackpool who landed two Undulate Rays the best one weighing 11Ib the rays being returned alive to grow bigger.
My next Reef/Bank Trips with places available are on August 26th, Don't Miss Out - Book your place/s. View Boats Page
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03/08/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
3 Aug 2019 by Colin Penny
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A nice days fishing on the Banks and Reefs produced some excellent Ray fishing with Undulate, Thornback, Small Eyed and Spotted Rays being caught, also there were Tope and plenty of Congers along with other species which were Red Gurnard,Scad,Mackerel,Pouting and Dogfish.
Pictured is Kevin Clark with his 10Ib 8oz Thornback Ray.
My next Reef/Bank Trip with places available is on August 26th - Don't Miss Out View Boats Page
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03/08/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
3 Aug 2019 by Colin Penny
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A nice days fishing on the Banks and Reefs produced some excellent Ray fishing with Undulate, Thornback, Small Eyed and Spotted Rays being caught, also there were Tope and plenty of Congers along with other species which were Red Gurnard,Scad,Mackerel,Pouting and Dogfish.
Pictured is Colin Driscoll with his 10Ib 8oz Undulate Ray.
My next Reef/Bank Trip with places available is on August 26th - Don't Miss Out View Boats Page
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03/08/2019
Fishing Report by Simon Oakland
on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
3 Aug 2019 by Simon Oakland
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Fished with Sam on Silver Spray on Saturday 3rd August. Every now and again you have one of those red-letter days, and this was certainly one of them. The day was meant to be a mix of bass fishing, with tope over the slack.
We had a few bass to live baits in the morning, and then the lures started to produce results. At slack water we tried for a bonus turbot or ray, but then the tide turned, and the bass really came on the feed. Every type of lure and every colour seemed to work! By the end of the day we all had our one "keeper" each, but the afternoon session never stopped. I would say we must have been close to 100 bass in total for the day. Great skipper, great boat, good company, and the best days fishing I've had in years. Cheers Sam. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Silver Spray II
View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 23/02/2025 4 Spaces £120.00pp Banks fishing spurs huss tope rays congers whiting hounds £120 4 spaces 7 anglers onboard Bull Huss / Smooth-hound (Common) / Spurdog / Tope / Blonde Ray.View details Tue 25/02/2025 1 Space 11 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for pollock with turbot fishing over the slack £160 7 anglers max. 1 space Pollock / Turbot / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 07/03/2025 2 Spaces 10 Hours £160.00pp Wreck fishing for big pollock maybe a session at anchor to fillet the fish - £160 2 spaces 7 anglers max. Pollock / Spurdog / Blonde Ray.View details Sun 09/03/2025 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 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 Sun 23/03/2025 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 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 4 Spaces £160.00pp wreck fishing pollock cod etc maybe a session at anchor - £160 7 anglers max. 4 spaces Cod / Pollock.View details -
03/08/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
3 Aug 2019 by Colin Penny
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A nice days fishing on the Banks and Reefs produced some excellent Ray fishing with Undulate, Thornback, Small Eyed and Spotted Rays being caught, also there were Tope and plenty of Congers along with other species which were Red Gurnard,Scad,Mackerel,Pouting and Dogfish.
Pictured is Kevin Clark with his 12Ib Undulate Ray.
My next Reef/Bank Trip with places available is on August 6th - Don't Miss Out View Boats Page
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31/07/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
31 Jul 2019 by Colin Penny
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The Banks have been producing some good fishing for Turbot, Brill and Rays - with Blonde, Small Eyed, Undulate, Thornback and Spotted Rays all being caught.
The Reefs have also been producing some good fishing for Black Bream, Tope, Rays, Congers and Bull Huss. We also had our first "Shark Attack" of the year were we had a Porebeagle Shark on for 15 minutes which made some searing runs before the end tackle gave up, great fun to watch though.
My next Reef/Bank Trip with places available is on August 5th - Don't Miss Out ***
Pictured is 70+ year old Trevor Lockyer with a 4Ib Brill. View Boats Page
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30/07/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
30 Jul 2019 by Colin Penny
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The Banks have been producing some good fishing for Turbot, Brill and Rays - with Blonde, Small Eyed, Undulate, Thornback and Spotted Rays all being caught.
The Reefs have also been producing some good fishing for Black Bream, Tope, Rays, Congers and Bull Huss. We also had our first "Shark Attack" of the year were we had a Porebeagle Shark on for 15 minutes which made some searing runs before the end tackle gave up, great fun to watch though.
My next Reef/Bank Trip with places available is on August 5th - Don't Miss Out ***
Pictured is Nick Williams with his new Personal Baest Small Eyed Ray weighing 10Ib. View Boats Page
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07/2019
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Plymouth, Devon)
Jul 2019 by Kevin McKie
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I honestly don’t even know where to start, we are over the moon with the results of our latest adventure.
Phil had booked Size Matters for four days to get a chance to fish a place well off the charts, sadly the weather to do this was not in our favour.
So it was time for Plan B Thresher Sharks and Flip Flops.
On the first day we stayed close to Plymouth and fished a mark only a few miles from shore that had produced a few porgies on previous trips.
Sadly we blanked but did top up our bait supply, we then steamed well over 100 miles through the night to our chosen area to fish for Threshers.
We knew this was going to be a challenge because none of us had ever seen a Thresher before let alone caught one.
Five hours into the first day we got a screaming run Phil was up and once the drag went up the shark went air borne, it was a Thresher around 200lb.
After about a 20 minute fight we had it about 20 meters from the back of the boat, it then turned and spat the hook, we where all gutted.
The rest of the day we where trying to figure out how it spat the circle hook out, normally once a circle hook is in it stays in.
I was changing hooks all the time, keeping them sharp and changing baits regularly.
We never got anymore interest from Threshers just lots of small Tope 10lb to 20lb stealing baits and trying to bite our chum bags at the side of the boat.
When it went dark the lads went to sleep and I carried on fishing though the night trying all sorts of Sword fish lights to see if they would attract the Threshers during the night.
They sure did look good but the Tope loved them especially the green ones.
As soon as daylight started to brake I steamed the boat back to the area where we got the first run the day before.
I had just put all the rods out, John had just woke up and was on deck with me, with in 5 mins one of the rods had a short run I said to John it’s another Tope, as I picked the rod up and started reeling in it took off and jumped 4ft clear of the water it was a Thresher I was screaming at the other lads to wake up.
I had no butt pad on, flip flops on my feet and the fish was heading to the bow of the boat, I jumped up the side of the boat with the rod in my hand then fought it for 30 mins on the bow.
The problem was my mono leader had a nick in it so I needed to be extra careful, eventually we got it in, an incredible shark when you see them up close, this one was just over 100lb, I was well chuffed.
Then a few hours later we missed a good run then about 20 mins later Phil had a run and was back in the game with one that looked around 250lb smashing through the surface for about 25 mins.
The hook hold looked good and was coming to the boat perfect, then the same happened again it turned and spat the hook.
Again we where trying to work out what we done wrong, then we started to do things a little different.
Next up was John and he tested out our new approach to hooking the Threshers and bang it worked after a 40 min fight he landed a cracking fish around 150lb.
Then it was Tony next and again the new system worked, he landed one around 60lb.
Phil was back on the rods but once we started to lose daylight the Tope moved in and the Threshers disappeared.
It was now home time and we steamed through the night back to Plymouth.
Please note all Sharks where handled with extreme care, we used our Scottish National Heritage Skate sling to lift the Sharks just 10 inches from water to the deck of the boat supporting there whole body, we then used buckets of water to keep the sharks wet and release them as quickly as possible.
If you love Shark fishing or just love Sharks then make sure you go out of your way to see these fantastic Sharks up close and personal, they truly are an amazing creature.
This now means the Thresher Shark is the 7th species of fish caught on Size Matters over 100lb in UK waters.
As always our Shimano rods and reels done us proud and never let us down, the
Speed Master Dendou Maru 1000 20/30 rod is one of the finest sharking rods I have ever used with bags of power in the blank and teamed up with a Tiagra 30 it’s one hell of a combo for sharking.
A massive thanks goes to Phil, John and Tony for there team work and taking the opportunity to try something new.
Thanks
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Plymouth)
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