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  • 10/11/2019 Fishing Report by dominic wilson on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)

    10 Nov 2019 by dominic wilson

    Report on-board Dawn Venture

    Reporting period 8-10 November....

    The wind eased and we managed to get to sea on the Friday and sunday.Having noted on the Wednesday that the water was gin clear and temperature was up at 13.5c,I thought it would be worth trying for the pollack later in the day and it was.Through Friday we drift fished for codling,haddock,gurnards and a couple of mackerel.The bottom fishing failed to produce and so we went lightline pollacking under the headlands and took over 50 fish in 2 hours with the best sport occurring in the last 30mins before dark and again the best fish(es) came from the harbour entrance with the biggest at 9.5lb and the best of the year.Saturday was blown off and sunday produced the same results except that we caught 2 huss (17lb and 9.5lb) and more good pollack from the headlands and harbour entrance,with the best at 8lb
    .Choice of lure for the pollack was rhubarb and custard 6" sidewinders.
    Species caught over the weekend were: cod,haddock,whiting,rock cod,pouting,poor cod,ling(tiny!),pollack,coalfish,grey gurnard,tub gurnard,mackerel,huss,LSD

    The attached photo is the 9.5lb pollack

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