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  • 09/2024 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    Sep 2024 by Luke Evans

    Over the past few weeks the tuna fishing has really switched on in West Wales. We have been targetting these fish when we are out sharking, often stopping for a go on the way home from a days sharking. This has allowed us to enjoy some of the excellent sharking as a warm up before getting arms aching with a BFT on the line to end the day!

    We have managed to locate the fish on multiple trips and its multiple fish per day. Best fish so far is a 105inch beast so in the 700-800lb classs.

    As the autumn approaches we will be move to target these fish on dedicated trips, especially as the blue sharks will start to move away in a few weeks time. We have a limited number of dates left for the season so if you want a chance to tussle with a welsh sea monster drop us a line.

    More photos and videos can be found on our facebook page and instagram.

  • 22/07/2024 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    22 Jul 2024 by Luke Evans

    Welsh Tuna 2024

    We are pleased to say that we will be once again be able to legally target bluefin tuna from welsh waters. We are awaiting full details but we will be looking to offer both dedicated tuna trips as well as a mix of shark and tuna comb trips in addition to our schedule of shark trips.

    Please drop us a line to discuss your needs and we will do our best to accommodate!

    Please note our tuna and shark trips are strictly catch and release. We are involved in tagging programs for both species and are actively contributing to the pat smith database to collect data on shark movements as well as tagging any tuna for ICAAT.

  • 07/2024 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    Jul 2024 by Luke Evans

    Blue sharks are now around in good numbers.

    Best blue is 200lb for the season so far, plenty of ton up fish around too.

    The reefs continue to offer excellent sport for pollack, wrasse, mackerel, coalfish and a few cod as well.

  • 07/2024 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    Jul 2024 by Luke Evans

    We are now running 2 boats.

    We have the existing Odyssey (a lovely Evolution 30) as well as a 10m Cougar Catamaran.

    Both boats are coded for same operating range. As a husband and wife team Emma or Luke will be your skipper for the day. If you see a date your interested in is booked on one boat, feel free to drop a line as the other boat maybe free.

    Both Emma and Luke are both fully commercially endorsed skippers, we are all fully insured and both boats comply with the MCA regulations and are coded by the YDSA coding agency.

  • 20/04/2024 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    20 Apr 2024 by Luke Evans

    So we finally found a weather window to get out to the local reefs. Plenty of action on the lures. Using a mix of soft plastics and SPJ the team captured in excess of 150 pollack to around 6lb. No monsters but great sport on light gear.

    In addition we had, launce, coalfish, pouting, cuckcoo wrasse, and a greater weever. Final species total was 7.

    Now awaiting the next weather window to get out again :)

  • 22/10/2023 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    22 Oct 2023 by Luke Evans

    There are still plenty of pollack on the reefs around west wales. On a recent trip we had pollack to approx 7lb, wrasse to 4lb along with scad, mackerel, pouting, poor cod, dogfish and coalfish.

    SPJ fishing taking the biggest and most fish in the day.

  • 10/2023 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    Oct 2023 by Luke Evans

    Plenty of blue sharks over the past few weeks. Check out our facebook page for some vides and pictures of the action. Now open for 2024 bookings.

    individuals or whole boat welcome for reefing, sharking or tuna :)

    https://www.facebook.com/people/Odyssey-Sea-Adventures/100087999231282/

  • 15/08/2023 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    15 Aug 2023 by Luke Evans

    On Tuesday 15th August the Odyssey team with 2 willing anglers on board took a recce trip out to the Celtic deeps in search of tuna. The signs were promising as previous shark trips showed that there were some around.

    1 hour into trolling spreader bars we had our first run of the day. After emptying over 300yards of line on its first run and a few others also Julian soon had it to the boat and the fish was tagged, revived and released to fight another day.

    An hour later we had another screaming run with a tuna but sadly we suffered a hook drop and it was the case of the “the one that got away”. We did a bit od drifting with dead baits but no tuna. We did manage a bonus 100lb blue shark so a nice consolation prize!

    A great day out and hopefully the numbers now increase as the tuna season is wales tends to kick off from September onwards.

    If you fancy a crack at a welsh tuna on a fully licensed CHaRT Cymru charter boat get in touch

  • 04/06/2023 Fishing Report by Luke Evans

    4 Jun 2023 by Luke Evans

    Odyssey took her first trip of 2023 out to the Celtic Deeps on 3/6/23. It’s still quite early in the season. Given the nasty Easterly wind it made for tricky conditions.

    After a quiet morning and a change a location to get our drift back into an area that delivered the goods lass year we had our first run of the day. A very healthy fish of approx 180lb was landed after a 15 min scrap. It was the anglers first time fishing for porgies so I was glad to find him a lovely fish to open his account with!

    Next run was a few clicks on the ratchet. This went on for 5 mins but the skipper managed to work his magic to get the fish to take the bait. After a 20 min battle and thinking that I had actually hooked a nuclear submarine we got first sight of her. She looked us in the eye and promptly took all the line back… However after giving me the runaround, doing her best to swim under her the boat she was soon alongside the boat. A right lunp at approx 300lb she was released and shot off like a rocket and skipper had to have a sit down to recover!

    Not long after we had another run and it was fish on again. Another prime porbeagle of about 160lb was soon boat side to be released.

    We had a group of 3 blue sharks swimming in the slick off the back of the boat but sadly no takes. Hopefully they will increase in numbers over the next few weeks. An excellent start to the season hopefully it continues along with some settled weather.

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