Latest Fishing Reports: South of Scotland
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24/05/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
24 May 2014 by dominic wilson
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had a mixed bunch of lads out today and had over 400 fish......but 350 were returned!!
bulk of catch was made up of undersize haddock and codling,with whiting,coalies and strap ling.cod and haddock "keepers" were around 2.5lb.pollack are in the weeds but 2.5lb was the largest we could find,coalies averaged 1.5lb.
3 mackerel caught!! the first of the scouts!
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24/05/2014
Fishing Report by steve stringer
on Lucky Dip II (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
24 May 2014 by steve stringer
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We have been having great success with plenty of whiting, codling, Pollack and haddock but only a few mackerel. Yesterdays charters saw some good codling coming up with the best being 5.2lb and others around the 3lb mark. we are getting a good few octopus coming up to on all baits! not to long to wait for the tope now!
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05/2014
Fishing Report by steve stringer
on Lucky Dip II (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
May 2014 by steve stringer
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Two nice trips out today onto two different wrecks. One is a new wreck that I have been checking out and is producing some nice sized Pouting, Codling and Haddock along with the usual doggie contingent. We have landed more codling and whiting along with a Huss weighing 6lb. The mackerel are still sparse but the inshore waters have cleared over the last few days and lots of bait fish showing up on sounders now. We hope to start seeing some Tope soon to.
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09/05/2014
Fishing Report by steve stringer
on Lucky Dip II (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
9 May 2014 by steve stringer
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A quick update. This weather is making heavy going of things out at Portpatrick but when we get out we are getting some quality Pollack, Haddock, and Codling along with the usual Dogs and Bull Huss. The mackerel are sparse although a few are showing up, there are some large shoals of bait fish around so everything should start kick off really well soon. Looking forward to getting onto some Tope later in the year.
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03/05/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
3 May 2014 by dominic wilson
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Had a 3hr trip out with a party from Lanarkshire on a day when the weather slowly but steadily deteriorated. nothing was showing to anchored baits but we did achieve 2 Pollack in the harbour entrance, biggest 6lb,the other 5lb with numerous takes but no connections whilst fishing "rhubarb and custard " sidewinders
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29/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
29 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
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Put to sea with fresh lugworm for some uptiding and downtiding to see if the codling were inshore....during first part of the ebb tide dogfish and huss were caught and then as the tide ripped thru' we picked 6 codling but the biggest was 3/4lb but at least they showed along with a few small whiting.
In the afternoon we were tight in against the cliffs and one string of feathers produced 4 Pollack,biggest being 1.5lb,the we got stuck into a shoal of coalfish that averaged about 1 1/4lb.
herring have been caught from the boats at the village,still sporadic and the mackerel have yet to show even tho' they are being caught at port logan and in loch ryan at stranraer View Boats Page
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25/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
25 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
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Had a full day on Friday,tried the offshore banks,under the cliffs and reef anchoring.We managed in the region of 20 dogfish ,but 6 of them were small huss.we also landed a lot of small whiting and a 10" codling.the Pollack fishing was fruitless.
the mackerel have still to show off portpatrick ,however they have been confirmed catches of joey mackerel at cairnryan and stranraer in the sea loch(loch ryan) View Boats Page
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21/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
21 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
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just another 3 hr trip today with conditions against us(wind wise!) but the sun shone and the dogfish fed,amassing about 25 and Ian from paisley caught 3 on one drop.
reports are filtering in that mackerel land herring are being landed at Port Logan,some 6 miles south of Portpatrick, so our summer species cant be far behind?? View Boats Page
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19/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
19 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
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back out again with steve and jack from Essex plus a couple of others,again the Pollack proved elusive again but doggies were willing to keep us entertained...took about 15 and a couple of times it was 2 at a time! also some small whiting
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18/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
18 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
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took a couple of the Essex boys out today and its apparent that we need the mackerel to arrive! we tried drifting and then freelining with sidewinders for Pollack which produced a couple in the 3lb bracket and finally anchoring with bait that produced a small codling and about 10 dogfish.
a couple of days previous we took about 30 coalies in the 1-1.5lb bracket and some small whiting View Boats Page
