Latest Fishing Reports: South West
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18/06/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
18 Jun 2019 by Colin Penny
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The inshore fishing on the Reefs, Banks, Mussel beds have produced Turbot, Brill, Plaice, Rays, Tope, Smooth Hounds,Congers Bull Huss , Black Bream, Bass, Gurnards etc. It is nice to see the Black Bream turning up on the Reefs now.
Pictured is Johns Dransfield with his 15Ib Blonde Ray and new Personal Best.
Sakuma Stinger Hooks sizes 1/0, 2/0 and 4/0 have been the favoured hooks for the inshore species.
My Next Reef/Bank trip with places available is on June 25th.
Don't Miss Out - Check out my availability on my schedule page.
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18/06/2019
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
on Mistress Linda / San Gina3 (Poole, Dorset)
18 Jun 2019 by Philip Higgins
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The weather has hampered fishing with lots of wet and windy conditions a far cry from this time last year add that to the continued presence of a large pod of Dolphins patrolling Poole Bay eating anything that swims, they have been seen flicking Bass into the air then devouring them as they hit the water. The Ray fishing continues to be good with plenty of Undulates, Small Eyed and Thornbacks being landed and released along with more dogfish and very small conger eels. This years Bream fishing has fluctuated with the tides but remains good with a bumper crop of very small bait robbing bream around if you fish small enough hooks you can get 3 at a time. During the bigger tides Bass dominate everyone's thoughts and there are plenty around to have a good days fishing and as long as you keep to the 1 fish rule you will be safe from the authorities.
Enjoy the summer and some great catches
Phil View Boats Page
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18/06/2019
Fishing Report by Ryan Jones
on Ocean Runner (Poole, Dorset)
18 Jun 2019 by Ryan Jones
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Some great pollock out on the wrecks the last few trips with some good size and numbers landed along with the odd cod being caught.The bream fishing in the bay still seems to be in a steady flow with great numbers still being landed on our inshore trips.
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Ocean Runner
View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 02/03/2025 View details Sun 09/03/2025 2 Spaces 8 Hours £85.00pp Anchoring the banks for Blonde rays and spurs £85ppView details Mon 10/03/2025 8 Spaces 10 Hours £135.00pp Wrecking for Pollock and Cod £135ppView details Tue 11/03/2025 4 Spaces 10 Hours £135.00pp 4 spaces Wrecking for Pollock and Cod £135ppView details Thu 20/03/2025 6 Spaces £135.00pp 6 spaces Wrecking for Pollock and Cod £135ppView details Sat 22/03/2025 5 Spaces 10 Hours £110.00pp Fishing the shambles for Turbot and Brill £110pp 5 SpacesView details Fri 28/03/2025 5 Spaces 8.5 Hours £75.00pp 5 spaces Drifting for Plaice with chance of early Bream £75pp 10 spacesView details Sat 05/04/2025 1 Space 10 Hours £110.00pp 1 space Turbot fishing on the shambles for Turbot and Brill £110 per person Max 9View details Sun 06/04/2025 6 Spaces 8.5 Hours £75.00pp 6 spaces Fishing at anchor for Rays congers etcView details Thu 17/04/2025 9 Spaces 8.5 Hours £75.00pp Fishing on the drift for plaice with time at anchor for Bream 9 spacesView details -
12/06/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
12 Jun 2019 by Colin Penny
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The Wreck fishing latley has been challenging but some nice fish have still been landed ,mainly Bass, Cod, Pollack.
Pictured - Lee Page 4Ib Bass.
My Next Wreck Trip with places available is on June 30th. Don't Miss Out View Boats Page
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14/06/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
14 Jun 2019 by Colin Penny
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The inshore fishing on the Reefs, Banks, Mussel beds have produced Turbot, Brill, Plaice, Rays, Tope, Smooth Hounds,Congers Bull Huss , Black Bream, Bass, Gurnards etc. It is nice to see the Black Bream turning up on the Reefs now.
Pictured is Paul Musselwhite with his 13Ib Undulate Ray and new Personal Best.
Sakuma Stinger Hooks sizes 1/0, 2/0 and 4/0 have been the favoured hooks for the inshore species.
My Next Reef/Bank trip with places available is on June 25th.
Don't Miss Out - Check out my availability on my schedule page. View Boats Page
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05/2019
Fishing Report by Nigel Lihou
on Optimist (Brixham, Devon)
May 2019 by Nigel Lihou
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May proved to be a strange month with half day trips to the inshore wrecks out to 12miles producing very little except for the bountiful Pouting (aka Brixham Cod). There are Pollack but not very big, There are big Pollack out there but the distances travelled are in the region of 30 to 40 miles out. (more travelling time less fishing)
The Skerries are as usual producing a variety of fish and have good days and bad days and we have seen some really good Plaice aboard already this year.
Don't forget our competition throughout the months of June, July and August we will be recording the size, weight and dimensions of every Ray caught aboard Optimist, Tagging and Releasing the Rays and the Angler with the biggest will have a whole day trip of their choice during September for them and up to 5 friends and a tackle prize courtesy of Brixham Bait and Tackle. Don't miss out book up for your chance to be in the competition. View Boats Page
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11/06/2019
Fishing Report by Gareth Jones
on Spot On! (Brixham, Devon)
11 Jun 2019 by Gareth Jones
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The four of us travel from Poole each year for two or three wrecking trips on Spot On. The Monday wrecking trip was very successful with the four of us catching a total of 30 pollack, but no other species. The Tuesday trip was blown off, so we went fly fishing instead. The Wednesday trip was eagerly anticipated so the four of us confirmed our standard £5 bet of the first to get a Triple Crown. The triple crown is achieved by catching three species from cod, pollack, bass, coal fish, ling, John Dory and Angler fish. We usually have a £10 bet for a Grand Slam, which is four fish from the seven species, all caught on the same trip, but we all failed to confirm this bet.
Ross first tried the three closest wrecks and I got a ling on the first drift. We didn't stay long and soon moved to the second wreck where I caught a bass, again on the first drift. Nothing on the third drift so we moved to the mid channel wrecks where I caught a pollack on the third drift and happily took £5 each from my three colleagues. We moved to a second mid channel wreck where I caught a cod. For the first time in twelve years of fishing in Dorset and Devon I has competed our aptly named Grand Slam. I thank Ross for the opportunity to do this along with my three mates for their £15 contribution to my beer fund.
PS - on the Monday trip on of the anglers caught a coal fish, but alas no JDs or angler fish. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Spot On!
View Full Charter AvailabilityMon 09/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip. Brill / Turbot.View details Tue 10/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip. Brill / Turbot.View details Wed 11/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip. Brill / Turbot.View details Thu 12/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip. Brill / Turbot.View details Fri 13/06/2025 5 Spaces £550.00pp 5 day Alderney trip. Brill / Turbot.View details -
09/06/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
9 Jun 2019 by Colin Penny
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The Annual 3 boat competition between Flamer IV, Supanova II and MeerKat took place on a lovely June day with competition based on the biggest Cod.
All three boats went out to the wrecks in different areas and found the fishing tough going.
Results - Flamer IV was top boat with Kevin Clark's 9Ib Cod, 2nd place was Supanova 8Ib Cod, 3rd place was Meerkat who unfortunatley did not catch any Cod.
The winning skipper gets to pick what the competition will be fished for next year, this will be announced soon with the date etc.
Pictured is Kevin Clark with his 9Ib Cod.
Note: Flamer IV teams have done the treble this year winning all three annual competitions against Supanova II and Meerkat and now hold three trophies, So Manchester City are not the only ones to do a treble this year. View Boats Page
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03/06/2019
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
3 Jun 2019 by Colin Penny
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The inshore fishing on the Reefs, Banks, Mussel beds have produced Turbot, Brill, Plaice, Rays, Tope, Smooth Hounds,Congers Bull Huss , Black Bream, Bass, Gurnards etc. It is nice to see the Black Bream turning up on the Reefs now.
Pictured is Graham Broach with his 4Ib Brill and new Personal Best.
Sakuma Stinger Hooks sizes 1/0, 2/0 and 4/0 have been the favoured hooks for the inshore species.
My Next Reef/Bank trip with places available is on June 10th.
Don't Miss Out - Check out my availability on my schedule page. View Boats Page
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31/05/2019
Fishing Report by Shaun Pedley
on Our Joe (Paignton, Devon)
31 May 2019 by Shaun Pedley
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May 2019 aboard Our Joe-L ����������
We’ve had several Mid Channel Wrecking trips this month from charters and individual bookings. The earlier trips producing some nice fish as always and in big numbers but towards the end of May the Mid Channel Wrecks started to produce less fish than usual so rather than flog the dead horse, this gave me the perfect chance to head to some of our lesser known inshore marks that are often steamed over by angling boats. Believe it or not there is still one or two that the commercial boats don’t yet know about and we certainly had a couple of good days on them, producing Cod to 13lb 2oz and Pollock to 14lb 8oz.
We also had the chance to explore out into the Herd’s Deep in search of some new territory and to find some new marks. The 18hour day proved quite successful with every wreck holding plenty of fish and even the rough ground marks produced fish which I was doubtful about to start with. Conditions weren’t on our side but the Our Joe-L handled it fine in the deep stuff and although she was drifting a bit too fast for the deeper water due to the 20knts of wind, we was still catching sizeable fish. I set a time limit on each wreck of 45 mins weather we was catching or not. This was because we was there mainly to find as many wrecks as possible and also to leave plenty of fish for next time, not wanting to just catch everything on the first mark we found until it was gone and go home.
We’ve also hosted one of our Devon Sea Fishing Holidays. Over the years the May bank holiday trip has become a bit of a competition with two trophies up for grabs for best fish and most species of the week, our regular holiday fisher Bob Nunn cleared up winning both with 9 species and a Cod of 13lb.
We’ve also had Bass, Ray and Plaice trips throughout the month with very mixed results throughout mainly due to the may weed blooming very thick and fast but luckily things are now clear again.
One of the days that stood out purely as it was something different for us was a 3 boat competition charter that was booked up with Our Joe-L, Gemini and Outlaw. With all 3 of us fishing out of Dartmouth for a Start bay species comp. knowing both other vessels fish the area a lot more than we do I knew we’d have our work cut out and with it being a big tide it wasn’t going to help thing all.. still come the end of the day the angler in gunwale position 4 aboard non other than OUR JOE-L won the day with a total of 6 species and over 15 fish. A good day to be aboard Our Joe-L!
Overall species caught in May include;
Cod to 13lb 2oz
Pollock to 15lb
Ling to 12lb
Bull Huss to 12lb
Bass to 6lb 8oz
Coalfish
Ballan Wrasse
Cuckoo Wrasse
Tub Gernerd to 3lb 10oz
Red Gernard
Plaice
Turbot
Launce
Conger to 35lb
Poor Cod
Herring
Whiting
DogFish
Pouting
Mackerel
. . . and one cuttlefish
With more fishing holidays booking in for June and our first ever Alderney fishing holiday we are looking forward to seeing what the next month brings and the rest of 2019!!!
Tight lines and sea you in June !!!
Shaun Pedley
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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
