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25/05/2011
Fishing Report by Rich Morgan
on Chloe Paige (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
25 May 2011 by Rich Morgan
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We had a cracking day out.A few Skate, some nice Smoothounds and a few sizable Bass. Nice calm day out and blue skies until mid afternoon. Weather turned a bit on the way in but a very good days fishing for a quick trip out that turned out to be a full day as we just couldnt bare to leave the fish. Roll on more trips like this!
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28/05/2011
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
28 May 2011 by brian poppy
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28/05/2011 with a strong s/westly wind it was try and get in the lee of the land today we started off inside the newcome sands the fishing was very poor with a few smooth hounds and yting it was decided to move and try and get in the lee off corton it was a lot better for all with plenty of yting to keep us interested as the tide eased the first bass was landed then richard got into a nice fish a bass coming in at 7lb a lovely fish then one came in to matt about 2lb it was not a bad days fishing after all see you all soon,bp.
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28/05/2011
Fishing Report by Lyle Stantiford
on Supanova II (Weymouth, Dorset)
28 May 2011 by Lyle Stantiford
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A while since the last report ladies and gents! My apologies!
April and May have proved fantastic for the flatty's as i'm sure you will see on my Gallery!!
Plaice catches were consistently in the 20's although not the number of larger fish as previous years but still great fun on the light gear. The Shambles has fished fantastically for Turbot with catches regularly into double figures on both numbers and Size. Best this month was a cracking 20lb'er captured by Nigel Daw from Bristol (pictured).
The wrecks have provided some fantastic sport for all anglers venturing out. There are plenty of Cod around now. MOstly in the 4-8lb range but most days are seeing a fist full of doubles come to the net with the odd cracker topping 20lb's.
Once again thank you all for spending that hard earned money in Weymouth and supporting the Weymouth fleet!
Tight lines,
Lyle View Boats Page
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27/05/2011
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
27 May 2011 by Scott Belbin
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The fishing from Mersea has been great over the past few weeks. At first we had a good run of bass which we are still catching. These fish were schoolie sized fish and most falling to worm baits. The first trip we saw them we had 16 bass with a lot of keepers and the biggest falling to lee Johnson with a fish of 7.2lbs. the next week saw a fair bit of wind and we only got out on the Friday and could venture too far. However we still found a few thornbacks. We totalled 13 for the day with a couple of doubles and plenty of dogs to keep us busy. The next three days were too windy so we weren’t out. The next week the tides were just right for the bass so we tried again with 54 bass to 5lbs on the first day and 53 on the second. We have also seen a few soles mixed in where we are using worm baits. However this is only occasionally but they must be pretty hungry to take a 4/0 hook!
The next week saw another low pressure and more wind, however this time it was in the west so we had loads of shelter. We had hire rods out each day and managed 15 thornbacks on the Saturday and 11 on the Sunday with a few other odds and sods mixed in too. The next week we had some fine weather again, we were in search of a mixed bag with the hopes of the first double figure hound of the season. We didn’t find the big hound and had just 7 up to 5-6lbs. We did find a few bass in the morning which kept us busy for a couple of hours. We had around 50-60 schoolies up to about 2.8lbs with most of them under sized. It was great fun though with the feathers taking 3 at a time and red gills pulling them out too.
the next few weeks we will turn our attension to the tope on some trips and on others we should find good numbers of thornbacks and smoothounds aswell as bass mixed in here and there.
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25/05/2011
Fishing Report by dave savage
on in-t-net (Canvey Island, Essex)
25 May 2011 by dave savage
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a nice mixed days fishing in the thames 9 bass 8 thornbacks a few hounds and 3 happy customers you cant ask for much more
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25/05/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
25 May 2011 by David Hancock
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A great run of Big Tope inshore at kentcharterfishing Ramsgate at the moment and they`ll hang around for a while.
Big Mike and the South London boys had a great day on them on wednesday. In 2 hours of fishing they had 6 runs and 4 fish bought to the boat, spectacular for inshore fishing, even better as it was one of our weekday individuals days so the 3 of them got to experience a fab days fishing from Excel angling for £40 a head.
Awesome fun, fishing Ramsgate with light tackle and getting 40lb+ beasties !
For the afternoon we went to anchor to get a few Skate so the boys also had some fish to take home as well as a great day sportfishing.
Bass, smoothounds and skate showing in good numbers , remember 3 or more on a weekday and i`ll go !
Keep it tight,
Dave. View Boats Page
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21/05/2011
Fishing Report by Alex kweller
on Predator (Poole, Dorset)
21 May 2011 by Alex kweller
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On a recent bream trip a lucky angler smashed the boat record for a spotted ray!! Fed up of catching bream Oz, from High Wycombe, decided to try a mackerel fillet tipped with a squid head. After seeing his friend Mark land a nice small eyed ray he watched his rod tip with renewed viggor! Sure enough 10 minutes before lines up his rod bent into a good fish. After lots of jeering from his colleages I safely slipped the net under what I new was a cracking spotted ray. After a quick photo the fish was weighed at 5lbs 6oz. The fish was returned and swam confidentally back down to where she came.
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05/2011
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
May 2011 by Gethyn Owen
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Our last report detailed the high winds that have battered much of the UK over recent weeks. North Wales has been subjected to some of the strongest and most prolonged periods of rough weather in May for a long time.
May is around the time when the annual smoothhound run gets into full swing in the waters off Holyhead; where we may lack the numbers of hounds that some places can boast, a good average day for us maybe seeing around 15 hounds to the boat, Holyhead and more especially My Way benefits from exceptionally large smoothies, possibly some of the best that can be found in UK waters, having an average size well into doubles figures.
Picking the mark and tide can be crucial when setting out on our trips to locate the first runs. Like most species the smoothies feeding patterns are influenced by certain states and sizes of tide.
Our first run out for 2011 was with a crew of My Way regulars from Merseyside; this bunch of hardened anglers are smoothhound mad and boast many fish landed aboard My Way in the high teens and also a 20lb 2oz monster a couple years ago.
Our first hound was on the hook within an hour of fishing and fell to Ian ‘Golden Peeler’ Tomo who went on to land a further 2 hounds and smash his PB once again.
However the sweep fell to smoothhound novice Graham, who, as everyone watched Ian play the first hound, quietly went about his business of fighting a reasonably good hound. As Graham’s smoothhound broke the surface, it was a little more than reasonable and deserved a weigh! At 20lb 3oz, it was another monster, a whopper for a first hound and one hell of a Smoothie for early season!
This could only bode well for future trips.
It was a few days before we could venture out once again, excitement for the quality of the fishing was uncontainable, sadly though the strong winds battering around our coastline simply put an end to any thoughts of us carrying on our smoothhound fun.
We set sail a lot later in the day for our second outing, thus ensuring we fished the state of tide we needed to maximise the chance of hooking into more hounds. Only a small group of 4 anglers, booking the boat to themselves! Once again the smoothhound were obliging with John hooking the first, followed closely by Dic who landed a couple and a new PB for himself.
Gavin a relative newcomer to fishing was sat eagerly awaiting a bite on his rod whilst fighting off the dreaded feeling of sea sickness. Naturally we were all full of sympathy for Gavin offering greasy sausage sandwiches, making vomiting noises etc … as you do!
Gavin though, was to have the last laugh, despite feeling extremely poorly in the lumpy sea of Holyhead Bay, he continued to fish and this determination was rewarded late that afternoon when a smoothhound finally took his offered bait. Gavin played the hound for what seemed like an eternity, it came close to the boat on a number of occasions before making agonising late dives back down to the sea bed. Another half hour passed before Gavin’s shark broke the surface of the murky stirred up waters in Holyhead and it was a good one. The weigh sling and scales were required again to accurately record the latest shark aboard My Way. His first smoothhound had topped the scales at 24lb 11oz … Gavin no longer felt sick!
I must also give a small mention to Ari, who also took much stick from all of us for not landing a smoothhound all day, well not until the very end when an obliging 7lb hound took pity on him. With a few more trips planned for the smoothies, I’m sure this though can be beaten.
2 trips, plenty of big hounds including 2 over 20lb, this was an exceptional start to our 2011 smoothhound escapades. Sadly though, more wind blew into Holyhead and cancelled the next week of trips. It is very frustrating cancelling so many trips when you are so aware of the quality of fishing around! Equally upsetting is to know that they are only here for a certain number of weeks and on specific tides, please wind go away!
Our next trip out after smoothhound was to be a 2 day jolly with a group of 4 friends looking at landing some of our big inshore sharks. This has become an annual pilgrimage now to land double figure hounds on light gear. Sadly the winds were making every attempt to ruin our day. Deciding on a 7am sail in the hope of making the most of our time, we set sail with a fresh increasing wind. On reaching our destination, I made the decision to turn around and head back in – the forecast was a constant 10mpoh more than forecast with gusts over 30 – not safe and certainly not pleasant, back to Marina it was to wait out the wind as the new forecast was to drop around lunchtime. What did we do instead …. had a full brekkie on the boat whilst setting the world to rights and gossiping!
We motored back to our intended fishing grounds early afternoon and started hound fishing straight away. It was a little later in the tide than I had hoped, but was confident we would catch well. Our first hound was on the boat within an hour of fishing and fell to Davy Holt, a new PB for him at 16lb 10oz.
Davy's partner Linda was on her first smoothhound outing and was determined to catch one, regardless of what the weather had in store for us. This perseverance paid off when a short time after Davy broke his PB Linda hooked into what looked to me a very good hound. Playing the Smoothie on a light Fladen sensor tip rod, Linda could only watch and wait as the hound made darting runs for freedom. After a long fight that saw the hound remain very deep under the boat Linda’s hound came to the net weighing a staggering 20lb 10oz!!! Another 20lber!! Superb fish and well played.
Determined to beat Linda, Davy tried harder to land that 21lb Smoothie – the one that did look on course though turned out to be a low double, foul hooked! He did though manage to break his PB once again with another hound of 17lb 2oz. Smoothhound also came to everyone else on the boat, including myself, sadly though, none of us coming anywhere near to breaking Linda’s 20lber.
With 40mph southerly winds on the forecast we cancelled our second day afloat. We also cancelled the following few days – let’s hope the winds ease off pretty soon, we will be landing these hounds for a few weeks to come right into the middle of June weather permitting!
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04/05/2011
Fishing Report by Dave Builth
on Upholder (Amble, Northumberland)
4 May 2011 by Dave Builth
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May Catch Report
May 4th/ 5th
Fishing was patchy due to the unsettled weather and a South East swell and it took a few days
To settle down at best there were only 3 or 4 Codlings kept per Angler which has Knocked the average per rod down.
May 6th
The NEDL Sea Angling Club fished a points competition catch and release one point per fish catch and release, of course there were a few fish taken for the freezer about 50 between 10 anglers to be precise.
In total there were 133 codlings caught all on prawns and squid fished on traces.
Top Angler John Mathews 25 Codlings
2nd Danny Gilhome 19 Codlings
3rd Kev Garside 17 Codlings
4th Dave Rudick 15 Codlings two of which were over 6lb
Biggest Fish was 8.5lb caught by Michael Clinton (See Photo)
May 7th/8th Cancelled Due to southeast winds force 4 to 5 occasionally force 6
May 13th
Alcan SAC had a trip organised by Alan Haddaway , 10 anglers had a total of 150 codlings to
Keep with Jim Bamburgh catching a total of 27 codlings. The average weight of the codlings was
2.5lb to 4lb, with loads of fish being returned around the 2lb mark.
May 14th
The Southend SAC from Carlisle had 93 codlings to take home with the biggest codling was caught by Stew Chardler and weighed in at 6lb.
May 15th
A party of 10 anglers mainly from the Dalston SAC had 83 codlings to keep the biggest was caught by Winston Collings and weighed 7.5lb, Les McVity had the second biggest codling at 7lb.
All in all Codlings have been plentiful and the average to keep per angler is around 10 per head with no need to travel any distance, all the fish were caught in shallow water, mainly on Prawns and squid fished on Daylights and Hokkis.
The odd Mackerel has been caught with 12 being caught last Wednesday the 18th of May.
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23/05/2011
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
23 May 2011 by Colin Penny
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MAY 2011 - The flatty fishing has just been brill.Excellent catches of Turbot have been made with plenty of double figure fish being caught on mackerel and launce fillet baits.Robin Amor deserves a mention as he was getting frustrated at not catching a Turbot and seeing the other anglers on board Flamer IV catching a few that he got an Ammo mackerel cut off the fillets and baited up with the head and frame, with in two minutes had hooked his personal best turbot weighing 17Ib.Funny old game this fishing.Robin is pictured with his PB Turbot.The Brill have now started to put in an appearance.The plaice fishing has been good with plenty being caught with the most recent best one weighing in at 5Ib 12oz caught by Richard Paul.
The flatty fishing will continue right in to the late Autumn and early winter months,So Don't Miss Out. View Boats Page
