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12/05/2012
Fishing Report by carl porter
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
12 May 2012 by carl porter
Report on-board Hard Labour
This weekend the bass came out to play. With an improving forecast right through until Sunday, Saturday saw us on one of the offshore banks with the intention of finding a few bass and they did not disappoint. Although the majority of fish were schoolies there were some bigger fish mixed in. Bait of the day was lug worm for the bass and from here on into the summer when we are looking for bass we will be using a lot of lug. Final tally was about 20 bass with 5 fish retained for the pot. Amongst the rest of the catch were hounds upto 5lb, roker, whiting, doggies and a bucket full of dabs.
Sunday again saw us on the offshore banks but with a different quarry in mind, as our party of anglers wanted to catch roker. Bait today was mainly herring. After a slow start and a move to find a bit more tide, the fish started to come on. slowly at first, but as the tide started to die double and triple hook ups were fairly common. Again we had a few bass on this bank on the worm baits, going a shade over 4lb, Also the ever abundent dogfish and plenty of dabs again putting in a show, with a few more hounds to boot. All said and done the guys took home about 18 roker, biggest was 9lb10oz, with at least 10 more released, a dozen dabs and 4 bass.
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05/2012
Fishing Report by Ross Parham
on Spot On! (Brixham, Devon)
May 2012 by Ross Parham
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A break in the weather and a nice neap tide aloud 'Lily Lola' to get out wrecking for Conger.
The morning was difficult with the wind still fresh and running against the tide made anchoring tricky but after the wind dropped and we setteled down we got some action with the eels.
All fish were over 28lb with the biggest at 49lb caught by Steve as he was desperate to get a qualifyng eel to join the British Conger Club and get his 'tie'!
2 more eels over the 40lb mark also came into the boat.
There were four anglers and at one time four eels on at the same time.
All fish returned alive after being wieghed and photographed.
Thanks to Chris, Steve, Giles and Tom for being a great crowd and i hope to see you again soon for some more battles with the eels.
Maybe we will get the ones that got away!! View Boats Page
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13/05/2012
Fishing Report by Peter Davis
on Warrior II (Looe, Cornwall)
13 May 2012 by Peter Davis
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Hi all,
Well here we are in May and it seems everything is getting going !
Had a Reef trip today (Sun May 13th) and it was quite lively with plenty of V/good sized Whiting, Ling, Pollock and a smattering of Congers. Bait (mackerel) was plentyful and the lads from Okehampton seemed happy with their day. Bookings are very good for June onwards but I have got the odd day left here and there.
Will keep you informed as to the Sharks starting, Pete View Boats Page
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13/05/2012
Fishing Report by robert penfold
on Kingfisher II (Brixham, Devon)
13 May 2012 by robert penfold
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finally got out wrecking this weekend with plenty of action loads of pollack and some good numbers of cod with a few ling thrown in as well,the skerries has fished well this weekend with upto 65 plaice coming per boat ,hopefully the weather will continue to be kind and the fishing stays good tightlines!
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13/05/2012
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
13 May 2012 by Mark Peters
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started of a cracking day sun was shining with plenty of skate and dog fish but the tide was weak and small the tide turned and fishing slowed moved to a new spot got a few more skate and 1 angler nearly lost a rod to a skate LUCKY then towards the end of the trip just dog fish biting total fish count was 16 skate and about 20 doggys each angler took 1 home for dinner the rest wher relased along with the femails grate day
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13/05/2012
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
13 May 2012 by Colin Penny
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MAY 2012 - THE COD ARE ON THE WRECKS - Pictured is Big Russell Salmon with the 13Ib Cod he caught while drift fishing on an offshore wreck which is typical of the Cod now being caught on the wrecks.By far the best lure for them is the rhubarb and custard sidewinder.
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05/2012
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
May 2012 by Gethyn Owen
Report on-board My Way 2
Our last report ended with our thoughts turning to the influx of the quality smoothhound, normally associated with My Way during May the best part of June.
We didn’t have to wait too long, My Way was booked on Wednesday 09th May by Graham Hinchliffe from Chester, for some early season action and hoping to whet the appetites for more of his colleagues, eager to get afloat for their first boat fishing session ever.
With a typically poor forecast the lads enjoyed a good morning with plenty of variety coming to the baits dogs, whiting, plenty of dabs, with a few coalies, and pollack. On both marks, the fish kept biting for all the crew with some of the whiting making very good sizes for the time of year. On the mussel beds we also had a few spotted rays break the continuous bags of dogfish, whiting and codling.
To end the day, we had decided to spend the last couple hours trying for a few smoothhound. Gareth on Spindrift had landed the first of the season for Holyhead the previous Sunday, 06th May.
After an hour of inactivity, Graham was sat near the cabin enjoying a cup of tea and biscuit, on the stern his rod arched over and line started screaming from his Abu 7500 reel. Quickly on the rod, Graham lifted into the smoothie and for the next 25minutes battled against what looked to be a very good shark! When the smoothie broke surface, it certainly did look a good one, having taken nearly half an hour to land and with the fish swimming around other lines, we had quite a tangle to contend with.
The mass of line was quite fortunate to be honest, as when I reached over with the net; I slipped and dropped it in the water! Thankfully a couple lines snagged onto the neck of the net and I managed to retrieve it, albeit a little sheepishly.
Smoothhound safely in the net, and now aboard My Way, it looked big, we grabbed the weigh sling and our new calibrated scales, so far unused on anything double figures! Graham’s smoothhound topped the scales at 20lb 6oz, a beast of a fish and what a superb weight to start our 2012 adventures.
We landed another hound of 11 and dropped a couple others; hopefully this is the start to another excellent smoothhound season aboard My Way. View Boats Page
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13/05/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
13 May 2012 by Aaron Smith
Report on-board Bad Boyz VI
Well what can i say, the weather has been awfull and still is awfull only giving us a few days at sea.
April saw plnety of Pollack and Coailes on the inshore reefs with the usual suspects at anchor.
The start of may has been mostly tied up in the marina with the weather only breaking for 6 days at sea to date but being rewarded with a fair amount of fish from Pollack, Coalies, Codling, Wrasse and Mackeral on the drift and plenty of Huss, Dogs, Whiting, Coalies, Pouts, Poorcod and Ocotpus at anchor.
We got out this weekend and with the weather up and down the plan was Holyhead Bay to try for Pollack, Wrasse and the possiblility of a Hound or 2 , and we were rewarded with plenty of Pollack around 3-4lb with a couple 5-6lbers, more wrasse then we could hook and ofcourse the first Smouth-hound from Holyhead Bay in 2012.
Weather has gone bad again for the next few days so fingers crossed for this following weekend.
Tight lines Aaron View Boats Page
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12/05/2012
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
12 May 2012 by brian poppy
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A last minute booking proved to be a great success for Martin and Steve allthough Steve did not see much of the action,bit squally today with a forcast that was not up to the mark the conditions were far from good with a strong north westerly wind it was a bit rock and roll but after anchoring up on wpt 30, 10 mins later the first rooker of the day came aboard a nice 8 lb male Martin then produced a spotty followed by 2 nice 2/3lb bass i got into another rooker of 5lb then a 2lb whiting followed by a few moor spottys then a typicle uptide bite produced a cod of 4lb the boys decided that they had caught enough fish and we called it a day what a great trip see you all again soon,Brian
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12/05/2012
Fishing Report by peter stubbs
on Sapphire 2 charters (Sunderland, Tyne and Wear)
12 May 2012 by peter stubbs
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Today 12 may we set off 7 oclock 10 anglers rough ground today big swell we fished off seaham, the white stones, hendon, from 3 miles to 6 miles only one fish a MACKEREL
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