Latest Fishing Reports: Scotland
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01/10/2016
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
1 Oct 2016 by dominic wilson
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finally the wind eased and we got out fishing!!!Had 4 boys on for a full day and it was a great days fishing.Initially looking for mackerel(which were scarce and very small(4")),we put the anchor down to sit and wait and fish thru' til the tide started to ebb.....we got 10 huss over 10lb and lots more were lost on the way up,we got 1 tope(27lb) lots of whiting(which were used for bait) and 2 common skate(54lb and137lb).the tactics were then changed and we had a couple of long drifts which produced many more whiting(4 at a time),codling that were just undersize(2 at a time) some haddock for the table and 4 small ling along with doggies and pouting.The last hour was spent in the harbour entrance for pollack and we landed about 20-25 pollack (biggest 5.5lb) and a couple of coalfish
the biggest skate is shown and took 45mins to land.
bookings are now being taken for 2017
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09/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2016 by Kevin McKie
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[This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]
As the summer end's the weather is starting to get more un settled, this can be one of the best time's of the year for sea fishing from both boat and shore.
Over the last week we have managed good numbers of Conger to 58lb, Pollack to 14lb 8oz and Ling to 15lb on the deep water wreck's. The shark fishing still continue's to be on top form with bigger fish showing in number's, the best we have caught this week was 110lb blue shark.
Size Matters will move to Liverpool on October 17th so here is a list of the last few remaining dates available in Plymouth until April 2017.
Sunday 2nd 2 places available,
Friday 7th 4 places available,
Thursday 13th whole boat available,
Friday 14th whole boat available,
Sunday 16th 4 places available.
Over the last month we have been taking booking's for 2017 Plymouth season April 1st to October 16th, we are already 60% fully booked so if you would like to fish with us next year you need to book soon.
Cheers
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters Plymouth
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09/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2016 by Kevin McKie
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[This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]
We have been shark fishing for the last six day's, most of the lad's and lady's we have had onboard have never caught a blue or porbeagle shark before. We totalled 158 blue shark to 130lb and 1 porbeagle shark about 20lb over the six day's. The most we had in one day was 52 shark's a new boat record!
A lot of the shark's caught where 10lb to 65lb and at time's we where catching them on light spinning tackle which is great fun.
Next year's shark fishing date's are filling fast, give me a call if you fancy having ago with us.
Cheers
Kev,
Size Matters Plymouth,
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20/09/2016
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
20 Sep 2016 by dominic wilson
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this report covers period a windy 13-20 september....
the current main species we are catching on every trip are doggies,pollack,coalies,mackerel, herring,all 3 gurnards,codling,haddock and whiting(only small and in plague proportions!!)
13th.....codling to 4.5lb,haddock to 2.5lb,some small huss and a tope of 44.5lb
14th....huss made a return with several doubles and other smaller ones,pollack prolific in the weeds taking chrome jigheads and silver mackerel belly(biggest 7.5lb)
15th....a 4 hr trip that was spent wholly on the drift and fish were everywher with over 20 codling taken home upto 4.5lb,but whiting were coming up 6 at a time on the feathers,codling coming up 3 at a time,gurnards also 3 at a time and plenty of haddock doubles.mackerel were prolific everywhere
17th....all the usual suspects present plus a 7.5lb smoothound and 6 double figure huss(biggest 13.8lb),also another good session on the pollack,especially in the harbour entrance
20th....2 nice huss at 10 and 10.5lb,good sport with the pollack in the harbour mouth......common skate hooked but not landed
it is noticeable that the spurdogs have disappeared this month,there are lots of tiny mackerel around and the pollack fishing in the kelp is the best it has been all year....this is a repeat of 2015 View Boats Page
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09/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2016 by Kevin McKie
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[This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]
It's hard work being a charter skipper at time's, trying to keep all your angler's happy and helping them catch the species they are targeting. A few day's ago I had my work cut out for me, the plan was to anchor for conger. So I picked a wreck I know has big conger on, after a 3 hour steam out we got to the wreck and it was netted. In fact all the wreck's in that area where netted, so I said to the lad's. We can anchor this one but you mite lose lot's of tackle, or we can steam out further to another group of wreck's and fish them. The lad's all said let's go further out after another hour or so steam, we got to the wreck's with no net's on. The only problem now was we had lost most of the ebb tide, so we had to drift around with bait and lure's until the flood tide kicked so we could get the anchor down. When we got the anchor down for the last two and a half hour's of the day all hell broke lose, we totalled 33 conger to 60lb and 25 ling to 27lb, between 8 angler's. To say the wreck was a live is a understatement, if you have never anchored for conger mid channel before I would highly recommend it as it's fast a furious fishing at time's and give's you a good workout. This charter turned into a 14 hour charter just to get the angler's on fish at no extra cost.
Shark fishing has been very good best day we have had this week was 27 blue shark to 95lb and 1 small porbeagle about 25lb.
Inshore on the reef's is a bit slow with a few ling to 18lb, conger to 20lb and pollack to 6lb. There is only a few date's available now until we move to Liverpool on October 17th for the winter cod season, if you fancy a day out with us please get in touch.
Cheers
Kev
Size Matters Plymouth
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09/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2016 by Kevin McKie
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[This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]
The shark fishing from Plymouth is the best they have had in year's, some boats are reporting over 30 sharks a day!!
Most are in the 20lb to 60lb range but there are a few over 100lb being caught. Catching lot's of small shark's is a very good sign for the future and show's the UK shark population is doing well.
The highlight of the last week was seeing three baby Porbeagle sharks caught, one of them was tiny and must of only been a month old. We just need to find it's mother now and hope we are lucky enough to land it. Also one of my angler's was using a water wolf camera above his baited feathers when we where fishing a inshore wreck for Whiting, the footage he has got of a Porbeagle shark is un real, it's probably the best footage of a shark I have seen in UK water's. He is going to edit the footage and let me have a copy, I will post it when I receive the copy. On the offshore wreck's we have been catching Pollack to 10lb and Ling to 22lb 8oz. On the inshore wreck's there is odd pollack and plenty of conger to 37lb, we had 50 in just 4 hours one day.
Over the next week I will be chasing shark's and Conger so if we get some good weather, we mite just get lucky and catch a few monster's.
Cheers
Kev
Size Matters Plymouth
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04/09/2016
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
4 Sep 2016 by dominic wilson
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the wind has been a problem for most of august and now into september , but on saturday with a better forecast ,we put to sea with adrians' boys from preston.scratching around inshore,we caught the usual suspects of codling,haddock,whiting,doggies,small huss,small coalies & pollack along with all 3 gurnard species,mackerel,herring and sandeel.A break in the wind let us nip offshore and it paid dividends...we got 4 huss,2x 10lb 1x 18.5lb and a monster 21lb 4oz!!
That huss as I was informed 2 days later would have beaten the scottish boat record by about 1lb.....so I suppose,we caught an unofficial boat record.....well done graham View Boats Page
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28/08/2016
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
28 Aug 2016 by dominic wilson
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had Tam Mckracken and his boys out today and it was a repeat of the day previous(27th august) with plenty of species showing up and 17 spurdogs with the best going 19.5lb....again the small whiting that were caught off this bank accounted for the biggest fish.
we also landed 15 pollack from the harbour mouth averaging 3-4lb with ian getting the best at 8lb
this bank is only 25mins steaming from portpatrick so its giving the angler more fishing and less travelling! View Boats Page
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27/08/2016
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
27 Aug 2016 by dominic wilson
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had a mixed bunch of boys out today and it was quite a hectic 6hhrs! sailed off to a bank that regularly produces about 12-14 species along with good huss,spurdogs and tope and it didnt disappoint!we had 14 good spurdogs and only 2 were single figure fish....most were in the 10-14lb range with a couple into 15lb and ian getting a 19.5lb and jonathon a 20.5lb!!(pictured)
there were also huss(biggest +15lb),haddock,codling,whiting,mackerel,herring,launce,doggies to name but a few.
the bank is packed with6-8" whiting and when caught and used for bait accounted for the better fish View Boats Page
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08/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Aug 2016 by Kevin McKie
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[This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]
The last two day's wrecking have been very good with lot's of Ling to 25lb, Pollack to 10lb and some cracking John Dory's. One angler Craig from Darby broke three personal best as a result he is booking again for next year. There is also lot's of tuna about sometime 50 or 60 at a time, smashing into bait ball's, they look about 80lb to 100lb, just not sure what species they are (wink wink ha ha).
Every time I get the boat close enough to cast a 150g popper to them they just disappear, it's only a matter of time before we get a hook up. Over the years I have spent thousand's of pound's catching them to 800lb all over the world and now there is a very good chance of catching one on my own charter boat.
I only have a few date's available before I move the boat to Liverpool for the winter season, if you fancy a day out with us just give me a call on 07999628511.
Cheers
Kev
Size Matters Plymouth View Boats Page
