Latest Fishing Reports: South of Scotland
-
20/04/2014
Fishing Report by steve stringer
on Lucky Dip II (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
20 Apr 2014 by steve stringer
Report on-board Lucky Dip II
We had a couple of short charters out today and racked up 7 species including Huss, codling, haddock, whiting and LSDs too. Nothing of any real size but put smiles on everyones faces as two youngsters were new to fishing. The mackerel are not far away now and the wrecks seem to be filling up well. we have also had some success from close in using light weight tackle and various jellies! Happy days.
View Boats Page
-
19/04/2014
Fishing Report by Jack Ellis
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
19 Apr 2014 by Jack Ellis
Report on-board Dawn Venture
Hi.
Thanks for the great couple of days I had.
I caught a load of pollack and dogfish with the odd codlin. We tried about 3 different types of fishing with all being successful.
Defiantly worth the money.
Thanks Dominic.
Jack View Boats Page
-
10/04/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
10 Apr 2014 by dominic wilson
Report on-board Dawn Venture
First trip off today with a mixed bunch of lads and only small stuff to report,lots of small whiting and about 20 coalfish around the 1lb mark and this strange brown fish about the 8oz mark!
View Boats Page
-
09/03/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
9 Mar 2014 by dominic wilson
Report on-board Dawn Venture
Small tides,shining sun and 50ft of water were not the best of conditions for uptiding trip but perseverance paid off....we landed 23 codling all in the 1.5-3lb bracket except the one in the photo.....21lb in weight!! what a cracking inshore fish. Squid and worm were the order of the day but adding crab cart made the difference. we also caught 6 pouting upto 2lb and a strap ling
Nice cod Igors at 21lb !!! View Boats Page
-
03/03/2014
Fishing Report by steve stringer
on Lucky Dip II (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
3 Mar 2014 by steve stringer
Report on-board Lucky Dip II
Have been making good use of this more settled weather to get out and check some of our marks. Very happy to see they are holding good stocks of fish on them with good size Pollack, Coalies and a few Codling coming up on the rods. Looking forward to checking out some more over this next few weeks and enjoying some fresh fish suppers!!
getting lots of interest for the light weight fishing too on both lure and fly! View Boats Page
-
11/01/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
11 Jan 2014 by dominic wilson
Report on-board Dawn Venture
uptiding again this Saturday with 8 lads from Selby.only a small tide at 4.4m and we needed to find some tide which we did down at Robin Hoods Bay.
a day of finicky bites,fish on til half way up and then "disappearing" but we managed to land 16 cod (biggest 10lb),a solo whiting and a solo "doggie".
no one bait excelled but squid was the backbone of all combinations View Boats Page
-
04/01/2014
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
4 Jan 2014 by dominic wilson
Report on-board Dawn Venture
went uptiding again at the weekend(4/1/13)....didn't go afloat on my vessel but on "Tina Dawn" for a bit of a "busmans away-day"!
the water was coloured and a massive tide running(6.0m).I and the skipper managed 6 cod a piece with another 4 being landed on the boat plus half a dozen jumbo whiting(+2.5lb),
squid and lug plus crab cart was the order of the day with most fish being hooked on the top of the pennel.
fish size was smaller than the marks at Robin Hoods Bay but all went away happy.
average fish size was 2-3lb with the largest pushing 6lb and a couple of undersize "chuck-backs
twas a day of finicky bites View Boats Page
-
29/12/2013
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
29 Dec 2013 by dominic wilson
Report on-board Dawn Venture
had my experienced(and very keen!) Latvian fishers out this sunday(29/12) on a beautiful December day when wind and tide aligned plus colour in the water to give cracking uptiding conditions.
took a gamble and went to fish Robin Hoods bay area and it paid off!
squid,worm and crab cart combinations took all the fish...all bar 2 being hooked on the top pennel (3/0 circle)
final tally was:
1x13.5lb
1x12.5lb
1x10lb
2x9lb
5x8lb
9x1.5lb
10x 4-6lb
best bag was 6 cod for 36.5lb(inc 13.5lb fish)
give a pound or two it is nearly 10st of cod across 29 fish...not a bad stamp View Boats Page
-
28/12/2013
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
28 Dec 2013 by dominic wilson
Report on-board Dawn Venture
took the Scunthorpe boys out on Saturday(at the 3rd time of asking due to poor weather) for a 5hr uptiding/downtiding trip under hawsker lighthouse in about 45ft of water.
it was a slow start and a poor end .but the bit in the middle produced 12 codling......1 at 9.5lb,4 at 1.5lb and the rest were in the 4-6lb bracket.
all fish were hooked on the top of the pennel on a 3/0 circle and the bait of choice was squid and black lug wrap. View Boats Page
-
22/12/2013
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
22 Dec 2013 by dominic wilson
Report on-board Dawn Venture
managed another uptiding trip,again the predicted forecast was wrong and the wind gusted more than anticipated along with hail and sleet but we managed to lay wind with tide for the majority of the 8hr trip.
in the poor conditions we still managed worthy catch........1 cod @ 11.5lb / 3 cod @ 8lb / 6 cod @ 7lb and another 18 at 2-4lb.
I fished myself and had 9 cod for 19kg and lost a further 6 on the way up. only 2 of the cod were "gut hooked" and all others were hooked on the top hook of the pennel rig.....again the preffered top hook being 3/0 circle.
All baits fished but quality crab cart was definitely required as my catch rate was double anyone else and had I landed the other 6 I would have had a 4:1 ratio in favour against the next highest catching customer View Boats Page
