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13/04/2011
Fishing Report by stuart belbin
on Razorbill 3 (West Mersea, Essex)
13 Apr 2011 by stuart belbin
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Over the last week the fishing has improved with catches of 25 to 30 THORNBACK RAYS and up to 10 to 15 CODLING along with some good size WHITING, The SMOOTHOUNDS are starting to make a showing so things can only get better,
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10/04/2011
Fishing Report by Andy Truelove
on Atlantic Blue (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
10 Apr 2011 by Andy Truelove
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First trip of the season for Volsung saw an vast improvement on last years initial catch of flatties. In all there were 3 plaice, 6 turbot and 29 dabs as well as the usual gurnard and dogs. Hopefully this bodes well for the season ahead. Things didn't go quite so well drifting over the reefs for a couple of hours. Only saw about a dozen pollack, biggest 3lb. This time last year we were seeing 8lb pollack and cod. This should improve as things warm up.
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04/2011
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Apr 2011 by Gethyn Owen
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As expected the fishing has been picking up with nearly every day afloat. Not too many more species to add to the list, but more the quantity of fish being found at our more favoured marks. From the beginning of the year I had suspected a good start to 2011 and also a better run through the year, owing mainly to the more settled start to the year.
In recent years, we have been hit with snow, ice and prolonged periods of minus temperatures in February, March and on occasions into April, this time around we got rid of the bitterly cold weather at the start of Winter 2010, with it all but gone by the time the end of the year came around.
This really does bode well now for the year ahead, sunshine, waters are warming, crabs are peeling and the fish really are on the move! When My Way was launched earlier this year the sea temperature was around 7.5degrees; during our last run out we recorded an average temperature of 9.1 degrees.
The species list now stands at 19 so far for 2011: - 3 bearded rockling, ballan wrasse bull huss, coalfish, codling, dab, dog, dragonet, herring, ling, plaice, pollack, poor cod, pouting, ss sea scorpion, spurdog, thornback ray, tope and whiting.
Inshore we have started to spend a little more time drifting a variety of rocky grounds and have been rewarded with some excellent catches of pollack & coalies in abundance and also a nice early run of herring. We don’t tend to see the herring in such great numbers early season; they have though been with us for a number of weeks now and are always a major plus this time of year.
The pollack are small at around 1 to 2 lb, as are the coalies and codling, with the odd few reaching 4lb at times. Ballan wrasse are starting to show, nothing too big once again with the biggest only touching the scales at around 2lb.
The last few trips has once again seen lady luck allowing neap tides and settled weather to coincide, thus deep water adventures ruled the plans when deciding on our days afloat.
Thankfully the species of the deeps have been obliging with far too many huss to count, along with some excellent double figure spurdog and the first few tope for 2011. These tope tend to be pack sharks that swim with the spurdogs, our biggest so far being 19lb 3oz; a first tope and heaviest fish for captor Wayne.
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11/04/2011
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
11 Apr 2011 by Colin De Block
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A good mixed catch
headed out on a bright sunny morning with Ian & Dave onboard to a local mark near the barnard bouy,fish started coming in within minutes of dropping the anchor and continued steadily through the day, lots of spotties and whiting 6 nice dabs 3 cod to 4.5lb and 1 thornback @ 7.5lb nice to see the first ray of the season View Boats Page
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11/04/2011
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
11 Apr 2011 by Ray Martin
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Briliant weekend.
6 Good skate on Saturday, plus loads of dogs and a small hound. All anglers aboard had personal bests.
12 Good skate on Sunday, not so many dogs and heard of a 12lb hound on a boat nearby (they had devon crab)
Plenty of fish taken in a small area, my mates on the IN-T-Net and SEEKER got the fish as well, didn't hear of much else being caught elsewhere.
Got a supply of fresh hermits starting this week, plus a couple of trawlermen who are promising lots of crinklies and peelers -so look out hounds..
Last year we averaged 30 hounds a trip.. lets hope this year is even better!!
In the picture - one of the anglers on a nice skate.. lovely blue sky, sun shining, it cannot get any better.. View Boats Page
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11/04/2011
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
11 Apr 2011 by Ray Martin
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Briliant weekend.
6 Good skate on Saturday, plus loads of dogs and a small hound. All anglers aboard had personal bests.
12 Good skate on Sunday, not so many dogs and heard of a 12lb hound on a boat nearby (they had devon crab)
Plenty of fish taken in a small area, my mates on the IN-T-Net and SEEKER got the fish as well, didn't hear of much else being caught elsewhere.
Got a supply of fresh hermits starting this week, plus a couple of trawlermen who are promising lots of crinklies and peelers -so look out hounds..
Last year we averaged 30 hounds a trip.. lets hope this year is even better!!
In the picture - one of the anglers on a nice skate.. lovely blue sky, sun shining, it cannot get any better.. View Boats Page
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09/04/2011
Fishing Report by Gareth williams
on Spindrift New Dawn (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
9 Apr 2011 by Gareth williams
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April has started off with good fishing had a full boat on saturday sailed from the fish dock at 5.30am to go 19 miles from Holyhead my deckhand made the tea and i set the G.P.S Headed the boat on a W/SW course for 1.5 hrs and spindrift soon made 12-13 knots on a flat calm sea .when we arrived on the G.P.S mark not a boat in site for miles then the fishing was on with a Huss 12lbs first and one-two dogs but one rod on the stern bent over it was the first Tope off the year 20lbs then two spurs 10+12 lbs we had 19 Tope / spurs ?? lost count with Huss we had 4hrs fishing on this mark the tide was runing fast in the last hr but with v good anglers old hands it was no problem at all .we moved in to T Bay fished 1 hr with dogs-huss-small codling- pout went on the drift for 1 hr polack-coalfish-codling up to 3 lbs .
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11/04/2011
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
11 Apr 2011 by Colin Penny
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APRIL 2011 - Annual Plaice Competition between Flamer IV and Top Cat took place on a sunny but cold April day and was competitive as always but also good natured.The Flamer IV team captained by Steve Clements won the match with 30 plaice over the Top Cat team who caught 22 plaice.The top individual angler with 7 plaice was Richard Christian of the Flamer IV team and he is pictured with one of his plaice which weighed in at 3Ib 14oz.Steve Clements caught the biggest plaice on Flamer IV and it weighed 4Ib 2oz and shared the biggest plaice prize with one of the Top Cat team who also caught a plaice of 4Ib 2oz.Flamer IV team member Neil Cottingham was not far behind in the biggest plaice stakes with one weighing 4Ib 1oz.Next Years annual plaice competition Flamer IV v Top Cat date will be announced soon.
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10/04/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
10 Apr 2011 by Aaron Smith
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Weekend of the 9/10th of April.
Sun, Sea and lots of fish, The Saturday we had a full boat of lads wanting to catch as much fish as possible and to be able to relax in the sun at the same time.
Started with a few drifts around South stacks with plenty of Pollack, Wrasse, Coalies and Codling up to around 4lb coming aboard on feathers and a few Warsse rigs, After a couple of hours drifting we steamed round to Trearddur Bay to anchor up for the slack with the decision made to try maen piscar, within lines going down they were already coming up with Pollack, Coiles and codling before hitting the bottom so we dicided to hang around for the rest of the day to try a few big baits later on in the day to try out luck with a few Huss which was the right idea with well into double figure amounts of Bull Huss coming up and a few ling around 4-5lb.
We ended the day with 19 Huss, 32 Codling to 4lb 10oz, Ling, Pollack, Pouting, Coalie, Warsse, Dogfish, Whitting and a few Dabs which totalled just over 200 fish.
Sunday 10th,
One thing in mind for the day HOLYHEAD DEEPS, which saw us leaving at 7 ready to head straight off for the 10am low water, Upon arriving Dogies were hitting the big baits instanly but soon as the tide slackend the fishing started to become mental with every drop producing either Huss, Spurdog or Tope the action was none stop for 3 hours (so busy took an hour to make a brew !) after the tide had picked up we had a couple of hours fishing left but with the guys a bit tired after all the hard battles the thought was a few leisurely drifts on the inshore reefs would be the best way to carm the day down but yet again once arriving at the reefs only produced strings of fish instead of the calm fishing we hoped, after over a hundread fish coiming up we had a 10 minute break which was kindly interupted by a hug pod of Dolphins jumping across my bow as i was heading to another reef so a few great picture opportunities for the lads, after a few more pollack off the last reef we called the day to an end with the sun still shinning and pictures to look back at one of the best days for early April we have ever had !
No Mackerel as yet but have heard of reports about them only 10 miles away :D
Fishing is brilliant at the moment with still pleanty to look forward to.
Plenty of dates availble for 4/6/8hour trips for the smothound run starting in the middle of May running through till June/July, Prices availble to include crab for bait.
So get booking and Tight Lines Once Again! View Boats Page
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10/04/2011
Fishing Report by dave savage
on in-t-net (Canvey Island, Essex)
10 Apr 2011 by dave savage
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took a party out from canvey island sea angling club, what a great day, plenty of fish with roker to just under 12lb and a terrific banter all day ,100%the best type of party to get all went home very happy and cant wait for the smooth hounds to start
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