Latest Fishing Reports: Argyll & Bute
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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
07999628511.
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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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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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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
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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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Check out our new website www.mckiesfishingcharters.co.uk
It has all the up to date report's, photograph's and calendar's for both Plymouth and Liverpool.
I would like to thank Tom Burke at White Wabbit web design for all his hard work on getting the site up and running, what a great job they have done.
Here are a list of available weekend date's from Liverpool this winter.
Sunday October 23rd 4 places.
Saturday November 5th 12 places.
Sunday November 20th 4 places.
Saturday December 24th 12 places.
Cheers
Kev (Size Matters) 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]
During the last week we have had some big catches of conger and ling, on the best day we totalled 55 conger to 84lb and 15 Ling to 33lb. On other day's the ling where so thick on the ground they out numbered the conger! The cod and pollack fishing has slowed with just odd pollack to 18lb and cod to 10lb. One of our regular anglers Dave Gicquel had a cracking day, first drop he landed a conger of 84lb, on the next drop he landed a 22lb Ling and on his third drop caught a 61lb conger! On the same day another angler called Peter Kay who had not been fishing for 30 year's landed his first conger then next drop landed a 33lb ling! The following day I had a group of anglers onboard from Nottingham, the day started off very slow but when the tide finally started to run they landed 26 Ling to 20lb and 22 conger to 83lb, all in the last two hours of the day. Alan Booth caught the 83lb conger and wanted to get an accurate weight on the conger, as it was close to a club record and on the boat it's quite hard to weigh a big conger in a sack with a bit of sea running. So we decided to empty the fish bin and put the deck hose in it and keep the conger alive to weigh at the fish quay. When we got back the conger was very lively we managed to weigh it then let it go in Sutton Harbour, so if you fancy catching the British shore record conger you know where to fish!
I best mention I have had my girlfriend onboard a few times over the last week, apart from talking everyone to death she caught conger to 25lb and ling to 13lb not a bad effort in 280ft of water.
If you fancy getting in on the action then give me a call or text on 07999628511.
Cheers
Kev
Size Matters Plymouth 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]
Here is a list of available dates for individual's or small groups this month.
6th 5 places available wrecking.
11th 1 place available wrecking.
12th 1 place available wrecking.
29th 4 places available wrecking.
30th 7 places available wrecking.
We have been catching plenty of conger to 50lb, ling to 23lb and pollack to 10lb.
Give me a call if are interested in any of these date's.
Cheers
Kev
Size Matters Plymouth
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07/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Jul 2016 by Kevin McKie
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[This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]
Just finished a 5 day charter to Guernsey, a group of novice anglers booked the boat for a social holiday rather than a fishing holiday.
The wreck's on the way over where pretty quite with just small pollack to 6lb and the odd good fish lost. The first two days in Guernsey we fished the bank's catching turbot to 7lb and brill to 3lb 8oz. The best day we totalled 21 Turbot and 6 brill, no too bad for novice anglers. The forth day we decided to go for black bream on the wrecks and rough ground. There was plenty of small bream to 2lb, pollack to 6lb and gurnard. On the last day we hit the wreck's on the way home catching pollack to 12lb and ling to 18lb. All the lad's enjoyed the trip and have booked for next year, if you would like any info on booking a 3, 4 or 5 day charter to Guernsey next year please give me a call.
Cheers
Kev
Size Matters Plymouth
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07/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Jul 2016 by Kevin McKie
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[This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]
A group of four lads booked the boat today to go sharking, this was our first sharking trip of the year. We boated 9 blues to just over 80lb, all the lad's caught there personal best blue shark.
We will be doing a lot more sharking in August, September and October.
If you fancy a day sharking give me a call on 07999628511.
Cheers
Kev
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