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  • 20/05/2017 Fishing Report by dominic wilson on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)

    20 May 2017 by dominic wilson

    Report on-board Dawn Venture

    saturday 20th may.....

    finally the offshore bank decided to produce fish and what quality and amount did it produce!
    after consulting with the boys afloat , it was agreed that we had landed in excess of 60 spurdogs with all but a couple over 10lb....the majority were in the 12-14lb bracket with the best at 17lb.The same amount of bull huss were landed with the biggest weighing 14lb....notable catches were Ron who had a double huss hookup with fish of 12.5lb and 8lb on the same line and Mike who landed a 14lb spurdog and an 8lb huss on a short dropper muppet rig.
    preferred baits again were whiting or haddock flapper or mackerel head.
    10 mackerel were landed along with grey gurnards,haddock,codling and whiting plus huss and spurs.
    for the statistics,it is probable that we landed over 700lb of spurdog and around 500lb of bullhuss.....not bad for 6 anglers on a 7hr trip!!!
    mike butterworth(pictured with a pb of 17lb) had a red letter day landing over 20 spurs and 10 huss

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