Latest Fishing Reports: Mistress Linda / San Gina3
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26/09/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
26 Sep 2018 by Philip Higgins
Plaice fishing today was phenomenal with over 150 being landed by 5 anglers. The average size was just about legal landing size but only 14 fish over 33 cm were kept many lucky Plaice exceeding that size were released as the lads enjoyed the fishing but did not want to take anymore home
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25/08/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
25 Aug 2018 by Philip Higgins
The last few days have seen the Mistress Linda fishing in the Swash Channel and along the beaches, the results have been excellent with plenty of Bream up to 1lb 12ozs and small to medium Plaice. On a short evening trip the Sunseeker team were treated to a couple of hours full on Bream fishing with over 50 being landed along with a few Mackeral. Excess weed has restricted fishing the Swash for most of the tide but if you time it to miss the weed the results are worth it. Local club Albion SAC decided to try for a Trigger Fish to no avail but fishing along the beaches landed lots of Plaice, Bream, Gurnard and a few Red Mullet the best weighing in at 1lb 6ozs caught by Keith Trim.
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16/08/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
16 Aug 2018 by Philip Higgins
Hi
what a change to the weather today, earlier in the week it was all sunshine today it was full waterproofs and boots but the fishing continued to be steady. Over the past few days because of the big tides we choose to stay inshore and enjoy the good Plaice fishing with the best touching 3lb 4ozs, in amongst the Plaice some good size Bream have been landed including a few Giltheads. There seems to be an abundance of small Tub Gurnards along the beaches and the usual pesky baby bream.
On the banks some good ray action has kept people busy with Kim B again out fishing hubby Jamie and landing an Undulate of over 15lb and after a few trips dogfish free they have returned, for us Mackeral have been very patchy and on a couple of days we did not see any so if you do find them make sure you get some for the coming winter months.
For the next few weeks my main focus turns to Trigger Fish as I love catching these incredible fighting fish and many of my anglers have also become hooked (pardon the pun) and enjoy chasing them.
all the best
Philip -
24/07/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
24 Jul 2018 by Philip Higgins
Apologies for the long gap in reports, all of my attention lately has been focused on the proposed MCZs that could affect fishing in my area. Just a quick catch up with more to follow soon
What a spell of weather we are having with blue skies and calm seas, off to sea there are plenty of Tope and good size Bull Huss to play with, we seemed to be pestered with small strap eels as well which bodes well for the future. Closer to home some excellent Plaice have been landed along with plenty of Gurnards and pesky little bait robbing Bream.
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01/07/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
1 Jul 2018 by Philip Higgins
To all Anglers and Skippers
if you want to protect the right to fish for Bream within the Southbourne Rough, Poole Rocks and from Old Harry to Ringstead Bay areas (poss up to 6k from the shore) you need to respond to the DEFRA MCZ consultation paper, trying to fill the online version does not allow you enough space to voice your thoughts please send in letters before 20th July 2018 re socio economic looses to the areas and what it would mean to you to not fish these areas.
It all helps as the data presented is not accurate and no stock level assessments have been carried out so they have no point from which to start the Bream recovery or any idea to where it end, other areas are set to follow.
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17/06/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
17 Jun 2018 by Philip Higgins
The last few days have been frustrating with the strong winds and big tides we have endured but we have still manged to find fish for the anglers mainly Bream, Tope, Rays and Dogs. it has been good to see Mackeral starting to be caught on a regular basis. Inside the harbour as evening sets in some good smoothhound fishing has been had not big fish but plenty of fun in shallow water.
More next week
Phil -
11/06/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
11 Jun 2018 by Philip Higgins
Fishing has been excellent with so many fish coming onboard it is hard to keep up with the scores, Bream and Tope have been the main targets inshore, we have been using spinning rods Tope fishing and it has been challenging for some anglers to control the fish but all have successfully mastered it and are enjoying the style. Over the last few days we have had 2 new species to the list a Worm Pipefish and a Shore Clingfish, this little guy was so cute with his extraordinary spotted eyes and colours.
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20/05/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
20 May 2018 by Philip Higgins
Another busy week with plenty of good size Bream and Smoothhounds giving the rods a good bend, fishing all across the Poole Bay and Dancing Ledge marks we have covered the distance to find the fish, to the west plenty of signs and catches but the fish are very finnicky with more missed than landed and apart from a cracking 4lb Bream the rest have tended to be on the smaller side. The hounds have been fun with the biggest just touching 10lb not a big fish by some areas standards but good for our area. As a bonus a few Pollack to 5lb have graced our rods and provided much fun on light gear. This week our attention turns to what proved to be very illusive last winter COD, we are targeting them on some new areas to us thanks to some info from the commercial sector.
Tight Lines
Philip Higgins -
12/05/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
12 May 2018 by Philip Higgins
Last weekend we had the pleasure of Lymington SAC on saturday fishing their species league, mostly it went to plan but the Garfish remained illusive on Sunday we headed out to target Bream with the Gannet AC team who found plenty of small to medium sized Bream all day. The bites were very tentative and many were missed but a good day was had by all. Today we did the same and again the fish were very finnicky but we managed to boat plenty and again feed the fish on many occasions. I averaged a fish per drop so was well happy.
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06/05/2018
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
6 May 2018 by Philip Higgins
At least the Bream are coming in thick n fast with good fish being landed, todays Wessex Angling Bream comp was no different fishing 3 marks and all produced good numbers of Bream but those illusive big ones were not playing, eventually a few came aboard but as is so often the case the person not entering the comp was cleaning up and Keith landed more than the rest of the boat but welsh team angler Brian Moss did find a few and came 2nd in the comp giving us Top charter boat status
