Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom
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25/09/2011
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
25 Sep 2011 by Ray Martin
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Another lovely weekend with loads of fish and the weather was lovely. We had about 20 hounds to 8lb plus bass to 5lb and loads of whiting and the ever persistent dogs.
Tides this weekend are fairly large and with the nice settled weather it looks like it will be another corker..
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09/2011
Fishing Report by Lyle Stantiford
on Supanova II (Weymouth, Dorset)
Sep 2011 by Lyle Stantiford
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Last week Weymouth and it's fleet along with a couple of visiting boats played host to one of the most prestigious angling events in the world, the european championships run by EFSA ( European Federation Of Sea Anglers).
The five day competition was last in England in 2007 when Weymouth also played host to the event. 2011's event saw 160 competitors from countries all over Europe battling it out to be European Champion and European light line champion.
The competition had two separate events, the European championship which was fished over 4 days (Mon-Thurs) and was based on species based competition. All anglers had limited bait supplied with a points system meaning each competitor was allowed to catch ten of each different species but with only the first five fish counting as maximum points. Bonus points were also on offer for the more species each competitor managed to catch.
The first two days of this event saw pretty grotty conditions with all boats restricted to the east side of Portland, but the fishing didn't disappoint with a vast array of species landed by all boats. The following two days saw conditions vastly improve allowing boats to travel further afield.
The results after these 4 days saw Englishman Ray Barron Crowned European Champion with an astounding 4 boat wins for 400%. In fact only 4% separated 1st-3rd with Heiko Dreier of Ireland in 2nd place and Colin Searles of England in 3rd.
England were also victorious in the team event pipping the highly rated italians to the post.
The final day saw all competitors issued with a spool of 8kg mono for the light line event. The target species for this day would be primarily Congers, Huss, Rays and Tope. With a minimum size of 60cm as a target. This event saw all fish estimated by the skippers and returned alive.
Winner of this challenging event was Gareth Croft.
At the gala dinner on Saturday evening some additional awards were made.
One of which was for top boat for the European Championship and Light line Event.
It was a great honour when Supanova was announced a Top Boat for the championships, especially when the quality of boats and skippers in the event was so high. To have beaten some of the finest skippers in the country was a great feeling!!!!!!!
Congratulations must also go to Richard English of Lone Shark who was crowned top Boat for the light line event.
Many thanks to all the EFSA organising committe for making the whole week run smoothly but most of all to all the 160 anglers for attending and supporting the event! Hope to see you all again soon!
Pictured is Darren Lattimer battleing a conger on the light line event on board Supanova. View Boats Page
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25/09/2011
Fishing Report by stephen jackson
on Goldilocks (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
25 Sep 2011 by stephen jackson
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had a grate day out with gwynie on goldielocks three adults with theres young sons and myself caught fish all day long dabs whiteing bull huss and mackrel a grate day was had by all with a really easy going skipper i would recomend gwynie and goldielocks to anyone top day top skipper.steve
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24/09/2011
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
24 Sep 2011 by Colin De Block
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Dads & Lads day out 24/09/11
headed back to corton again on the back of the good catches of earlier this week and were not dissapointed ending up with 60+whiting, 25 spotties, 5 smoothounds to 6.5lb, 2 thornbacks to 4.5lb and one codling @ 1.5lb a good day had by all View Boats Page
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24/09/2011
Fishing Report by Peter Everett
on Amino (Shotley, Suffolk)
24 Sep 2011 by Peter Everett
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Cracking day out with Dave, Mick and Mitch. The weather was superb with little wind and bright sunshine. Having cruised out on a flat calm sea at 22 knots we dropped the hook and Dave was into the first Thornback of the day within seconds of the bait hitting the deck.
The rod tips rattled all day and the chaps ended up landing 14 Thornback to 8lb, losing 3 others, a dozen or more Whiting, ridiculous amounts of Dogfish and a new species for the boat and for Dave, a Blonde ray of 5lb. :-) View Boats Page
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09/2011
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
Sep 2011 by Steve Andrews
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Well what can I say about Septembers weather BLOODY AWFUL the few occasions that we have managed to get out the fishing has been good ,still plenty of mackeral ,gurnards,dabs ,whiting,thornback rays,huss,dogs ,early sept produced some tope and plenty of pollack and a few cod on the wrecks.
Due to unforseen circumstances the Supreme wont be fishing the river Mersey this winter .
I will be fishing from Rhyl so if you fancy keeping your hand in through the winter please give me a call
tight lines Steve View Boats Page
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23/09/2011
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
23 Sep 2011 by Colin De Block
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headed out with pedro and chris on board to a regular mark off corton with fish coming from the off and steadily throut the day finshed up with 60+ whiting, 20 spotties, 2 cod to 2.5lb, 6 smoothhounds to 6.5lb, 1 pout and 1 dab a good day had by all
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16/09/2011
Fishing Report by Causeway Boats
on Causeway Boats (Portrush, County Antrim)
16 Sep 2011 by Causeway Boats
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bull huss of 14lb caught on causeway lass
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17/09/2011
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
17 Sep 2011 by Ray Martin
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Been a mad month with loads of wind stopping our trips on several weekends. However when we got out the fishing has been good with plenty of fish. Winter species have begun their migration into the river with the summer species beginning their migration out.. this is the best time of the year with summer and winter species both in abundance.
Last Sunday we had a great day with Dogfish in abundance and Whiting, Skate and Bass and still quite a few smoothounds.. If you can get out you will do very well. View Boats Page
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21/09/2011
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
21 Sep 2011 by Colin De Block
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a great day out with Mak headed out to a mark off corton with fish coming from the off which continued throughout the day ended up with 40+ whiting, 20 spotties, 2 thornbacks 1@ 3.5lb & 1@ 5lb, 2 starry smoothounds, 1 @ 5.5lb & 1 @ 8.5lb and 1 cod @ 2lb between the 2 of us
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