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18/06/2011
Fishing Report by simon west
on SEA Spray (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
18 Jun 2011 by simon west
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another fine fishing trip on sea spray with mal the man was a cormorant in a former life he can find fish in an empty bath that bloke which is why he is my first choice out of the whitby boats and skippers
FISHING FANTASTIC
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18/06/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
18 Jun 2011 by Rich Ward
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The Summer 2011 angling competition started today at Whitby and what a start John Wilcock had aboard the Shy-Torque III. John is a past winner of this prestigeous event and knows how to set the standard!!! Last drop of the day today on slack water rewarded John with a lovely cod of 14lb and a very fine ling of 26lb 8 oz. The festival has another 22 days to run and John will now be praying his fish holds out till the end for the £5000.00!!! Keep everything crossed !! Well done mate.
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Shy-Torque III
View Full Charter AvailabilityWed 27/11/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 28/11/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 30/11/2024 3 Spaces 8 Hours Uptiding trip. John Price 1. Rich Wallen 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 01/12/2024 5 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Si England 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 03/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Wed 11/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 17/12/2024 4 Spaces 8 Hours Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition. Cash prizes! Room for 4 anglers. Olly 1. Lawrence Byrne 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Wed 18/12/2024 8 Hours Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition. Room for 1 angler. Cash prizes! Big Sam 2. Andy Davies 3. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 19/12/2024 4 Spaces 8 Hours Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition. Room for 4 anglers. Cash prizes! Brian Warrior 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Fri 03/01/2025 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 4 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. 5.35m. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details -
06/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Jun 2011 by Aaron Smith
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Just a quick one to congratulate Mr Mike Peely on his catch of a life time a Smooth-hound of 26+lb and off his kayak i bet it was a tremendous fight and landed on a 7/0 Tope trace with half a fresh Mackeral.
Unfortunately he was un-aware of the welsh record and looking at pictures it would have took it with ease.
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06/2011
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Jun 2011 by Gethyn Owen
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My last report told the story of our successful smoothhound challenge, where Gareth Hughes won Fladen Sensor Tip and Multiplier reel with a cracking hound of over 18lbs, sadly the next few days afloat were lost to the weather once again. It’s fair to say the weather in March & April was un-seasonably good, and with that we were always going to suffer at a later stage, so with May all but lost and the weather during the first couple days of June playing havoc with the fishing we wanted, things looked a little glum.
Fortunately by the end of the first week in June the weather perked up resulting in a nice settled spell for nearly a fortnight. On the Friday we sailed with a group of young lads from and a few dads, trying out angling for the first time. The plan was to anchor up in some relatively shallow water and get the lads catching whatever swam by.
Predictably dogfish made up the bulk of the haul, however with it being a first outing for the majority aboard even the dogs were greeted with roaring enthusiasm.
Mixed in with the dogfish, the youngsters were also rewarded with a few codling, whiting, dabs, small huss and also a rogue ling of a couple lb.
With a couple hours left in our half day afloat we turned our attentions to slightly bigger sharks, smoothhounds! With hotdogs bubbling away on the hob and soft drinks flowing, we lifted anchor and moved the short journey over to some mixed ground to try our luck. Needless to say I was a little nervous, fishing for the bigger stuff is a waiting game and I wasn’t too sure how we would fair with so many young rods eager to catch. Thankfully we didn’t have to wait too long and we managed to snare a few before the day ended. No monsters this time, but sharks, excitement levels maximized!
That evening we sailed once again for a few hours hound fishing. This time the biggies did come out to play, all on board landed a couple double figure hounds, with Welsh Boat Angling Team Manager Robbie Roberts taking top honours with brace of hounds that each annihilated his previous PB of 14lb. With starry hounds weighing in at 19lb 1oz and 21lb 5oz, Robbie was King of My Way that evening.
Into the weekend and it was once again onto the smoothhounds for regular clubs from St Helens and Milnrow. Both clubs have had fantastic days afloat …. and, sadly the odd poor one, but, that’s fishing I guess. Confidence was high with me for the weekend, conditions seemed good and the run of hounds appeared to be continuing. Smoothhound records had been set for both clubs on previous trips, with sharks in the 19lb bracket, so it was certainly an all-out assault to try and break these records that had now stood for a couple years. It wasn’t to be for the St Helens guys, but plenty of good hounds came aboard, with top honours going to Carl with a nice Smoothie of 16lb.
On the Sunday, we had a fair amount of wind to start the day, so with a quick chat to the crew, we decided to fish inshore for a couple hours before the tide turned and ran with the wind, thus making a less lumpy sea. Inshore we were rewarded with codling, huss, rays, dogfish and the odd dab before we moved out for the main attraction this time of year, smoothies! Again it was a good time with everyone one the boat catching smoothies. Best of the day though went to John Settle, who caught his very first smoothhound. The previous club record held by Ken Costello, also on the trip, was just under the 20lb mark, John’s when weighed pushed the scales over 26lb! It was a monster of a fish, both large in length and also gut size.
With the WFSA record standing at 25lb 6oz, we proceeded to weigh the big starry a couple more times for confirmation. With varying weights, the lowest reading offered was agreed by all, but it was still a whopping 24lb 12oz; a new club record and an amazing first for a PB, well done John.
The following week fished with mixed results, the weather was not as good as previously and the hounds were not as prolific as had been witnessed in previous days. General fishing though again saw plenty of fish coming to the boat along with a few smoothies. Fishing though can be so fickle and taxing at times, on the 8th we had a great group of local rods with the thoughts of some big hounds, but we never really caught anything to get too excited about, we struggled to hit anything of any real note.
Then 2 days later I couldn’t go wrong, same mark, similar rigs, peelers from same source! June 10th was to be a day to remember. I was joined aboard My Way by Dave Barham and Jim Midgley; editor and photographer for the UK’s Boat Fishing Monthly magazine. I was nervous to say the least and fearing the worst given what lack of smoothhounds had proceeded that week. Many skippers will tell you, the best laid plans and all that, weather is good, bait is good, marks are traditionally good, time of year is good …. but the darn fish fail to turn up.
Waving good bye to DB & JM that evening we set sail once again. With a good bunch of novices on board we set out in similar fashion to the trip for the young guys a week earlier – scratching around to start with, ending with smoothhounds later on. Another good evening, with our day’s smoothie tally for June 10th ending on 38, superb!
Here ends our latest report, hopefully the fishing will continue it's great form aboard My Way in the months to come and fingers crossed that this weather also sorts itself out so you can get afloat where ever your destination may be.
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06/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
Jun 2011 by David Hancock
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All systems Go !
It's Basstastic sport at the moment.
Large shoals showing close inshore,
get on down for a load up !
Dave. View Boats Page
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14/06/2011
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
14 Jun 2011 by Gary Flint
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TUESDAY 14th JUNE
Fished over Liverpool Bay yesterday, with 10 novices and 1 guy who had fished before. Went to a mark and dropped the anchor, the lads began catching mackeral for bait and filling the buckets up. The guy who had fished before decided to stick a ground bait down and go for Tope.
It didnt take long for his rod to have a few bites then all of a sudden his line was stripped from his reel. Once he had hooked into the fish, and began reclaiming some of his line, we lowered the diver recovery lift so that it was above the water, but still easy to bring the fish in. When the fish eventually surfaced it was a decent Tope. Once on board we weighed it at 35lb. The guys had some photos taken and then it was released for another day.
After we decided to have a move further out and anchor another mark we have for conger. The lines were all out, when one of the group was shouting "fish on" so myself and Dave went to investigate, we found that he had hooked into a large fish. The fish didnt want to come up and it took 25mins just to get it to the surface. Once on the surface the diver lift was lowered again and the fish was brought aboard by Dave this time. The Tope was weighed in at 62lb, photographed and returned.
Also caught on the day were Grey gurnard, Red Gurnard, Tub Gurnard, Pollack, Pouting, Whiting, Mackeral. Doggies, Weevers.
Cracking day and remember these guys had never fished before and were using our equipment.
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12/06/2011
Fishing Report by paul sykes
on Trojan Warrior (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
12 Jun 2011 by paul sykes
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FESTIVALS FAST APPROACHING AND THE FISHINGS GOOD AT WHITBY AND ABOARD WARRIOR
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10/06/2011
Fishing Report by Alex kweller
on Predator (Poole, Dorset)
10 Jun 2011 by Alex kweller
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With a brief break in the windy weather the lads from Thames Valley Police enjoyed a day on the bream. An early start saw us head off to a small reef at a steady 19 knots. With tea in hands the lads were full of anticipation at catching their first bream of the season.
A quick couple of drifts for mackerel and we had enough bait for the day. With anchor dropped the boat settled in the tide and tell tale rattle of the rod tips meant we were in the right place. With bream coming in steady it was nice to see the lads putting all females back with only a couple of male fish being taken for the table for each person. Pictured here is David with the biggest bream of the day, a fine 3lb male fish. View Boats Page
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13/06/2011
Fishing Report by Sam Cumming
on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
13 Jun 2011 by Sam Cumming
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Since the middle of May we have been busy with reef fishing in Poole bay, Alderney trips and the start of the bassing.
The reef fishing has produced good numbers of bream with 3lb fish not uncommon and fish averaging 2lbs. As well as the bream we have enjoyed a good selection of other fish with 10 species a day not uncommon. We have had 4 species of ray with blondes to 24lb, undulates to 14lb, smalled eyed rays to 12lb and a few spotted rays as well. There have been some nice plaice and we also caught our first dover sole on Silver Spray. This fish was caught as part of the Hudson Green Challenge which is a charity species hunt. On that day the tope boat San Gina 2 from Swanage skipper by Tom Greasty caught 16 species while Silver Spray was joint second with 11 species. Best specimen was a fine 18lb undulate caught on Crimson tide. The challenge raised more than £1000 for charity.
On our latest Alderney trip we were pleased to have Andy Ford from Sky TVs tightlines programme on board together with a camera crew. We were certainly hoping that the presence of the cameras weren’t going to put a curse on the fishing or the weather. Day 1 was a bumpy crossing with a fresh SW wind. Plenty of nice pollack on the wrecks around the hurd deep with live mackerel taking the better fish. Day 2 saw an increase in wind and tough fishing conditions. Fish of the day was a 17.5lb turbot caught by Gerry Reed. Day 3 and with improving conditions the quantity of flatfish increased. A nice 5lb brill for Mark Edwards who also caught 6 turbot as well! Friday and the wind has dropped away. We are off for some codding on the way home. The cod got bigger as the day went on. a 22lber for James Craft was topped with a 25lber for Mark Edwards who then followed this up with a 32lber which is a new boat record. The Alderney film will be made into 4 separate features and should be broadcast on Sky Sports Tight Lines from the beginning of July.
The bass season has just started with our first trip on the offshore banks providing excellent sport on live mackerel baits. There were plenty of bass to 7lb and a dozen congers to50lb on a nearby wreck over slack.
As I’m writing this the rain is pouring and the wind is howling. It’s more like February than June. I hope that we can get out to sea again soon as the fishing both inshore and further off is really good at present.
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Silver Spray II
View Full Charter AvailabilityThu 28/11/2024 6 Spaces 9 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass etc at anchor £100 6 spaces 7 anglers max. Bass / Cod / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 29/11/2024 3 Spaces 9 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass etc at anchor £100 3 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Sat 30/11/2024 1 Space 9 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass etc at anchor £100 1 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Mon 02/12/2024 3 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 3 space Bass.View details Tue 03/12/2024 3 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 3 spaces Bass.View details Fri 06/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass £100 6 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Sun 08/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass £100 6 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Thu 12/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass £100 6 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Fri 13/12/2024 5 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 5 spaces Bass.View details Sun 15/12/2024 6 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 6 space Bass.View details -
14/06/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
14 Jun 2011 by Aaron Smith
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Well the Mackeral are here in BIG numbers over 500 in 3 hours of fishing with plenty of Pollack, Coalies, Codling and Herring thrown in, Anchor produced plenty of Dogs, Colding and Huss also plenty of Mackeral !
Back to Smooth-hound fishing for the rest of the week.
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