Latest Fishing Reports: Dorset
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12/2021
Fishing Report by John Peck
on Lady Margaret (Poole, Dorset)
Dec 2021 by John Peck
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This month saw the arrival of the winter fishing. The whiting have been slow to arrive this year with just a few landed up to December.
However, some more settled weather in the middle of the month saw some great fishing. There were lots of whiting around of a good average size with plenty in the 2lb+ class.
Along with the whiting there were blonde, undulate and small eyed rays along with congers and dogfish. There were also a few squid around.
Unfortunately the unsettled weather came back again after Christmas preventing any more trips.
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28/01/2022
Fishing Report by Philip Higgins
on Mistress Linda / San Gina3 (Poole, Dorset)
28 Jan 2022 by Philip Higgins
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Today we choose to try for Plaice as the last few weeks have produced some excellent Whiting fishing with the best falling to Don P who during it being photographed slipped and accidentally returned it the expression on his face was awesome and the words completely in printable, today’s weather was the best this year flat calm and warm once the sun came up. We did not expect to catch many Plaice as this is very early for them so we decided to try 3 marks, the 1st produced plenty of Whiting and 2 Plaice the next mark produced more Plaice as did the final mark, not big fish but most rewarding finding them this early. Wonderful day afloat in perfect conditions.
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12/2021
Fishing Report by Steve West
on Aries 3 (Weymouth, Dorset)
Dec 2021 by Steve West
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Blink and you will miss it
another year done and duste4ed what started out as a dream quickly became reality when Aries came up for sale. she needed a lot of work to get the coding sorted which involved a lot of late nights , help and advice from friends. once we got going though it was quickly apparent it was all worth it as we enjoyed some excellent fishing with many species coming to the net. the shorter trips for the holiday makers were excellent as well. the boat claimed top prize in the WIBAC competition although i have to be honest i was away that week and had Richard English run the boat and he certainly hasn't forgotten what to do .
we ended the season with a great run of bream and bass as well as rays congers and Huss if you could get through the bream.
id like to thank everyone that help me get started and everyone that came fishing its been great seeing old faces and meeting new ones and cant wait for next year to get started.
diary is now open for next year so don't hesitate to get in touch to get booked up View Boats Page
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11/2021
Fishing Report by John Peck
on Lady Margaret (Poole, Dorset)
Nov 2021 by John Peck
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The fishing during November was restricted due to bad weather but when we did get out it was good with plenty of different species coming aboard.
The whiting haven't arrived in numbers yet with just a few caught so far. The water is still quite warm so maybe it needs to cool slightly. There are also congers, pouting, smoothhounds and dogfish when fishing at anchor and even the occasional bream still around.
The bass fishing continues to be very good. There are still good numbers of middleweight fish around along with a few heavyweights in the eight and nine pound class.
During the settled weather later in the month we also had some fine squid fishing. View Boats Page
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10/2021
Fishing Report by John Peck
on Lady Margaret (Poole, Dorset)
Oct 2021 by John Peck
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The fishing during October has been very good.
We have mainly been doing bass and plaice drifting trips and have been catching in good numbers.
In particular, there are lots of hard fighting middleweight bass around. We haven't had any more double figure fish on board this month but have had some nice thick set fish to just under 9lb.
There are lots of bait fish in the water both mackerel and scad and this has brought some large predators in. We saw a tuna jumping out in the bay.
The anchored fishing has been producing lots of congers mainly small and some nice rays. View Boats Page
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10/2021
Fishing Report by Steve West
on Aries 3 (Weymouth, Dorset)
Oct 2021 by Steve West
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This year has flown by.........
My first year back has exceeded my expectations which began with scrambling to get the boat together to enjoying a great holiday period with lots of holiday makers enjoying the short 4 hr. trips which produced some great fishing consistently well
The Full day trips inshore have been excellent with brilliant mixed fishing at anchor and on the drift some of the species included Turbot / brill / blonde rays / thornback rays / congers / tope / huss / bream / bass as well as all the mini species.
We were lucky enough to be included in this year's WIBAC competition which takes place over 5 days unfortunately I was unable to attend myself and drafted in retired charter skipper rich English ( loan shark ) who showed he still has the touch and finished the week top boat which was great to see the Aries name up there all in all the weather was great which allowed the boats to get out on the good marks and enjoy everything Weymouth has to offer with great fishing had each day. The whole week ran without a hitch all due to the huge amount of hard work Andy and his team at Weymouth angling Centre put in.
We now move into the autumn / winter fishing with bass on the bill and will soon see the winter whiting and hopefully some squid.
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09/2021
Fishing Report by John Peck
on Lady Margaret (Poole, Dorset)
Sep 2021 by John Peck
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The fishing during September has been very good with many species coming aboard and some nice individual fish.
The plaice fishing remains good. There are lots of small fish around but also some bigger ones although we didn't land any 1kg plus fish during the month. The plaice trips are also producing lots of tub gurnards as many as I can ever remember along with small black bream.
The bass fishing continues to improve. The number of fish is still increasing and we have had some good catches. We haven't seen any more double figure fish this month but have landed quite a few thick set fish to over 8lb. They are in prime condition at the moment.
We did another turbot trip during the month. The turbot fishing was very poor but we did land a couple of nice bass and had some great bream fishing to give a very pleasant days fishing.
The anchored fishing has been good. There are lots of congers around. We have also had some nice rays and the occasional bass. View Boats Page
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09/2021
Fishing Report by Steve West
on Aries 3 (Weymouth, Dorset)
Sep 2021 by Steve West
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Its the end of another great weekend. Friday seen us out with beginners so we targetted bream, conger eels, with the best bream coming in at 3lb 4oz and the congers coming in up to 40lb. Both proving great sport in the shallow waters around Portland. All in all a very busy day.
Saturday again a group of beginners. We chose to target rays and bream. With the morning providing a great session with thorn back rays up to 12lb and bullhuss up to 8lb. In the afternoon we targetted bream with plenty of action and fish up to 3.5lb before finally finishing off with some congers proving great sport.
Sunday we had a small group that wanted to target bass. We started by catching joey mackerel before heading to Portland race where we had good bass fishing with bass up to 5lb.
All in all a great weekend. Thank you to everybody that came. View Boats Page
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09/2021
Fishing Report by Steve West
on Aries 3 (Weymouth, Dorset)
Sep 2021 by Steve West
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Over the last few weeks we have been very lucky to have had great inshore fishing in at times challenging conditions.
we have mainly concentrated on the bream as well as the bass on the bigger tides but also some good catches of turbot and brill as well.
The general fishing has been good with congers , Huss , rays keeping us busy
Yesterday i had a group out that were interested in cod fishing and wanted to know when was best to target them i replied that it has been hard for cod over the last couple of seasons but we would normally target them in June/July time we then arrived at our first mark and first drop they managed 2 cod so the answer from now on is you never no don't listen to me i no nothing.
for the next few weeks we will be continuing with the bream and bass as well as taking part in the WIBAC competition before the winter season starts on the whiting View Boats Page
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08/2021
Fishing Report by John Peck
on Lady Margaret (Poole, Dorset)
Aug 2021 by John Peck
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The fishing has been good during August after a rather subdued July. August has a reputation as being a difficult month but the last couple of years have produced some great fishing.
The plaice fishing during the month has generally been very good. There have been lots of good sized keepers around and most trips have produced fish in the 1kg range. The end of the month saw a higher proportion of smaller fish and a reduction in numbers. The inshore drifting trips have also been producing lots of tub gurnards and black bream.
Further out the anchored sessions have been producing a nice mixture of fish. The mackerel have been very erratic but there are some big ones around when you find them. There are lots of congers around along with tope and rays in addition to the usual dogfish.
The bass continue to be in relatively short supply but there are some good sized fish around. Our last trip out produced some nice middle weight fish along with a ten pounder our second double figure bass of the year on "Lady Margaret". View Boats Page
