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11/09/2024
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
11 Sep 2024 by Scott Belbin
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The rest of the lads joined us for their first day in Falmouth today. The weather wasn't amazing so we planned an easy day inshore.
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We started off looking for mackerel and reef fish. After a few Pollock, poor cod, cuckoo wrasse, scad, mackerel and a john dory we could see birds and tuna working very close in and couldn't resist having a go for them. Luckily we put some basic gear aboard just in case.
So we had a quick tidy up of the deck and got things organised. I wasn't long before the first tuna was making the accurate scream. This was a powerful fish and a handful on stand up gear and a rocking boat. After leading us on a pretty good dance we had it alongside the galloper to be measured, photographed and released. It was a nice fish of 75 inches and pretty plump too. Not bad for Steve's first one.
The fish had gathered again and we had another run through hooking up straight away. This fish was determined to empty most of the reel as we got the other gear out of the way. Unfortunately this one didn't want to hang around and so Stephen had to bring several hundred yards of line back in with no fish attached. He did say this was probably easier than having a tuna attached though. The fish broke up a bit after this and we decided not to get distracted by tuna and concentrate on the other species. We anchored a wreck and had a nice long to start with, some congers, whiting and pouting before heading home. We are meant to be general fishing the next few days but the tuna fishing is pretty hot at the moment so we might try and sneak one or two more out before starting our proper tuna trips.
We have the following availability for tuna fishing from Plymouth currently
20/09- full boat available
24/09- 2 spaces
30/09- boat available
01/10- boat available
02/10- boat available
03/10- boat available
08/10- boat available
10/10- 2 spaces
11/10- 1 space
14/10- boat available
Boat bookings £1000 and individual spaces £250pp please call 07956411528UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Galloper
Sun 24/11/2024 3 Spaces 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore bass fishing Bass.View details Mon 25/11/2024 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore bass fishingView details Wed 27/11/2024 12 Hours £115.00pp Offshore bass fishingView details Sat 07/12/2024 1 Space 12 Hours £100.00pp 1 space @ £100pp Bass.View details Sun 08/12/2024 9 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp General tripView details Sat 14/12/2024 8 Spaces 10 Hours £60.00pp 8 spaces @ £60ppView details Sat 21/12/2024 12 Hours £100.00pp Offshore weather permitting £100ppView details