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  • 09/2018 Fishing Report by Kevin McKie on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)

    Sep 2018 by Kevin McKie

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    [This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]

    Well by now most of you will have seen this months Sea Angler Magazine.

    If you haven’t then I suggest you go out and buy it, there is an eight page feature on an exploratory trip we did to target Six Gill Sharks and Blue Skate in UK waters.

    Lots of people have been asking me how did we find out where to go, well without giving too much away I have a friend who is a commercial fisherman.

    He fishes with gill nets well off shore and showed me photos of Porbeagle Sharks and Blue Skate that had been caught in his nets accidentally.

    By the time he got his nets onboard the Porbeagles where being eaten by much bigger Sharks!!

    When he showed me the photos I said I am going to this place ASAP, this is my type of fishing!!

    I called Phil Riley to tell him the dates he had booked in a months time for Wrecking where perfect to have ago for Six Gill Sharks.

    At first he was like are you sure they are there, so I send him the photos of the Porbeagle Sharks been eaten in the nets.

    He said let’s do it 100%, i then got in touch with Dave Lewis, I told him what our plan was and he said get me on that boat.

    As they say the rest well that’s history!!
    6 Six Gill Sharks to 512lb (smashed the British record) and 2 Blue Skate to 35lb (no British record exists) a long with lots of other stuff.

    I have been told by lots of people that the 512lb Six Gill Shark, is the biggest Shark caught in UK waters that has been boated, measured and returned.

    It’s safe to say this is why I called this mark the UK Jurassic Park.

    The amazing thing about fishing this area is the potential, you literally do not know what you are going to catch next.

    Every time one of us was reeling a fish in weather it was a small fish or big fish all of us we looking over the side of the boat.

    It’s got the potential to produce 1000lb+ Sharks, along with Albacore Tuna and maybe one day a Bill fish.

    All we need to do is spend more time fishing Jurassic Park and we are the only charter boat in the UK who knows where it is.

    So as we speak Size Matters is being coded to do 48 hour charters.
    Part of the coding requirement is you need sleeping accommodation for all persons onboard.

    This limits us to 4 anglers and 2 Crew for the 48 hour charters.
    The cost is £3200 for the whole boat or £800 per person for individuals.

    We already have four 48 hour trips booked in for 2019 and three for 2020.

    If this type of charter is up your street then contact me, there are only a few limited days in 2020 when we can do these trips.

    Thanks
    Kevin Mckie
    Size Matters (Plymouth)
    07999628511
    mckiesfishingcharters@hotmail.com



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