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  • 13/06/2011 Fishing Report by Sam Cumming on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)

    13 Jun 2011 by Sam Cumming

    Report on-board Silver Spray II

    Since the middle of May we have been busy with reef fishing in Poole bay, Alderney trips and the start of the bassing.

    The reef fishing has produced good numbers of bream with 3lb fish not uncommon and fish averaging 2lbs. As well as the bream we have enjoyed a good selection of other fish with 10 species a day not uncommon. We have had 4 species of ray with blondes to 24lb, undulates to 14lb, smalled eyed rays to 12lb and a few spotted rays as well. There have been some nice plaice and we also caught our first dover sole on Silver Spray. This fish was caught as part of the Hudson Green Challenge which is a charity species hunt. On that day the tope boat San Gina 2 from Swanage skipper by Tom Greasty caught 16 species while Silver Spray was joint second with 11 species. Best specimen was a fine 18lb undulate caught on Crimson tide. The challenge raised more than £1000 for charity.

    On our latest Alderney trip we were pleased to have Andy Ford from Sky TVs tightlines programme on board together with a camera crew. We were certainly hoping that the presence of the cameras weren’t going to put a curse on the fishing or the weather. Day 1 was a bumpy crossing with a fresh SW wind. Plenty of nice pollack on the wrecks around the hurd deep with live mackerel taking the better fish. Day 2 saw an increase in wind and tough fishing conditions. Fish of the day was a 17.5lb turbot caught by Gerry Reed. Day 3 and with improving conditions the quantity of flatfish increased. A nice 5lb brill for Mark Edwards who also caught 6 turbot as well! Friday and the wind has dropped away. We are off for some codding on the way home. The cod got bigger as the day went on. a 22lber for James Craft was topped with a 25lber for Mark Edwards who then followed this up with a 32lber which is a new boat record. The Alderney film will be made into 4 separate features and should be broadcast on Sky Sports Tight Lines from the beginning of July.

    The bass season has just started with our first trip on the offshore banks providing excellent sport on live mackerel baits. There were plenty of bass to 7lb and a dozen congers to50lb on a nearby wreck over slack.

    As I’m writing this the rain is pouring and the wind is howling. It’s more like February than June. I hope that we can get out to sea again soon as the fishing both inshore and further off is really good at present.

    For all the pictures please see http://silverspray.blogspot.com/

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