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  • 12/05/2016 Fishing Report by Ian Dale on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)

    12 May 2016 by Ian Dale

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    The last thing you want to hear at 5am in the morning is the alarm clock, unless of course you are going out fishing, and that is exactly what we were doing!
    We left the marina at 0630, and battled our way through the fog, and eventually ended up at our first wreck. All 7 anglers were ready to get stuck in as we arrived, so once we set up the first drift, we were away……

    When we arrived at the wreck the tide was still running and this worked in our favour as that meant that the fish were still interested in what we had to offer them. So it was all go go go for the first hour, with a mixed bag of fish coming aboard. Once the tide slackened off there was nothing more to worry about other than the kettle going on, and worry what was going to appear out of the fog next, whilst the guys tried to hook a few more out of the wreck.

    Once the tide got away we steamed to the next wreck. This wreck fished for a few hours with a very nice stamp of Cod upto 12lb and Pollock upto 13lb. We had a new personal best for Mark on this wreck with a Pollock. Just as the fishing was getting even better, an unwanted visitor appeared from out of the shadows, which happened to be a French trawler. Unfortunately this meant we would have to move on to our last wreck.

    We ended our day on this wreck after fishing for around an hour. We had a steady stream of Pollock being caught. There was a sprinkling of bass on this wreck aswell, which proved to me that grown men do cry……as they have to be and were returned.

    After 2 hours of Filleting from Derek, it was time to go and sit down with a nice pint and reflect on our very Foggy day out on the wrecks.


    Thursday wasn’t as early to start as Wednesday however we did leave the marina with 8 anglers aboard. We took around about 45 mins to get to where we were heading. As we were on a species hunt we thought we would try and head for some bream first. This proved to be very productive. We boated some nice bream upto 3lb.


    We had 3 anglers from the Southsea Disabled angling club on board who all managed to catch some lovely fish. Simon had his new personal best bream, and Mark nearly reached another personal best with a bream.


    So after moving around at slack water, we managed to hook into another few species. It was lovely to see some nice Cuckoo wrasse come aboard. Along with this we had garfish, whiting, dogfish, pout, bream. Brian obviously thought he had missed out on the wrecking yesterday so he thought he would go and catch himself a Pollock.

    The spot we finished up on as the tide got away, produced some more nice Bream, and a few more wrasse.

    The fog decided it wasn’t going to make too much of an appearance today, so we enjoyed a nice sunny day with flat calm seas, a lot of fish, and 8 very happy anglers. What more could a skipper want huh??!!


    Ian

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