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31/05/2019
Fishing Report by Shaun Pedley
on Our Joe (Paignton, Devon)
31 May 2019 by Shaun Pedley
Report on-board Our Joe
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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