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  • 12/2024 Fishing Report by Luke Evans on Ocean Odyssey (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)

    Dec 2024 by Luke Evans

    Report on-board Ocean Odyssey

    2024
    ROUND UP
    It's been a busy year for Odyssey Sea Adventures. We’ve had some great captures, contributions to science swabbing and tagging programs, a new skipper, a new boat and a PB for me!

    The fishing in West Wales still never fails to amaze. The reefs offer an abundance of fish of many different species. Some superb pollack fishing was had from March-November, with excellent numbers of fish up to double figures including a bonus tope on SPJ gear! I got in on the action, finally catching my reef nemesis, a beautifully coloured cuckoo wrasse.

    With a keen interest in marine life, this year, it was a privilege to spend time with likeminded people in the shark science world. We took more than 30 DNA samples and tagged over 150 blues for Pat Smith and NOAA. The highlight for me had to be the multiple 200lb+ blues caught over the course of the season. We even had tuna deciding to join in on the sharking action so coercing them to the boat on light sharking gear was great fun.

    The later half of the year proved to us that the numbers of tuna in the waters of the Celtic Deep has increased so the chance of Tuna, Blues and Porbeagles on the same day is possible. The best of the year was circa 800lb and another 5 over the 500lb mark. To hook up these monsters both on dedicated tuna trips and on our mixed trips. It provides further evidence just how world class the fishing is off the west coast of Wales.

    On a personal level, the most exciting part was to see Emma complete the qualifications for her commercial endorsement. I'm super proud to see her on the helm, running trips on Odyssey single handed as well leading the charge on our new addition, Ocean Odyssey with me as crew for shark trips. It can be a male dominated profession but that hasn’t stopped her in the slightest! It also allows me more chances to get few trips on the SPJ gear too!

    As we look forward to 2025, we hope for more of the same with a few extras! We will continue to offer a wider range of trips with a greater number of available dates, including some dedicated wildlife trips to make the most of our amazing encounters with whales, dolphins, gannets, porpoises, puffins, the list is long! We will continue to support the scientific community with more tagging and swabbing of sharks where possible.

    Overall, we are looking forward to getting back out on the water and making memories with all our customers!




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    Sat 19/07/2025 2 Spaces
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    Mon 11/08/2025
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