Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom
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07/03/2011
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
7 Mar 2011 by brian poppy
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07/03/2011 Had a good day today with Brad and James catching some nice cod/yting 5 cod to 4lb and 14 yting one coming in at just under 2lb fishing on a rough bit of ground off corton church with a s/e 4--5 and a flood tide things were a bit lumpy on the flood this tide fishes the best on this mark at the moment hope you enjoyed your fish and chips at The Sailors Home Kessingland,see you all soon BP.
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05/03/2011
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
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03/2011
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
Mar 2011 by Ray Martin
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Picture of the lads with a few of the skate....
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03/2011
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Mar 2011 by Gethyn Owen
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Our first weekend afloat in 2011 following our routine winter maintenance downtime was scheduled for the last weekend of February. With the boat full and small tides upon us it was an offshore foray into the deeps on the cards. Sadly the wind gods had other ideas and with W & NW blasts of air not dropping below 20mph for a few days, I decided to leave My Way dormant for another few days. Wouldn’t really be that fair to force the lads into the shallows were the possibility of fish this time of year was all but slim!
The following week the winds took some time off and the sun also came out to play. With plans to finish sanding and painting My Ways inside gunwales and then hopefully go find some fish following weekend. So it was on nice calm seas, though unfortunately 31ft tides that we finally got going once again for our 2011 campaign.
Spring tides restrict the fishing at Holyhead to inshore; the tidal pulls of such prolific areas such as the Deeps are far too strong for recreational angling in anything really larger than 28ft. so for the Saturday we opted for a slightly later sail at 10am and allow the ebbing tide to help us around to our destination of Trearddur Bay, stopping to drift a few of the reefs along the way.
The drifts however proved fruitless, with only a few nibbles from obliging pout and poor cod, our intended targets of coalie and pollack where no where to be seen, though based on the size of tide and the drift speeds we were having fun with; we’d give it another go later in the day when the LW slack was near us.
Anchoring just out of Trearddur Bay we were soon into an array of late winter and early spring fishing from Holyhead. Dogfish, whiting and codling making up the vast majority of catches with many rigs reeling in double and triple shots, mixed in with these we also had pout, poor cod and numerous small huss.
One angler even managing to land a triple shot of 3 small huss that had the 2 match anglers ‘cooing and awwing’ like kids in a sweet shop. Huss are usually worth far more points of the common dogfish and to catch them 3 a time, certainly good going.
This trend of fishing continued into our second mark, nothing to set the world alight but a steady stream of fish to keep everyone happy on a day where dusting down the fishing tackle was more the priority. Lunch today was the famous My Way chillie.
With Geoff having his 21st birthday (yeah right) another angler, Tony had brought a selection of cakes along to have after lunch with a cuppa.
To end the day we once again decided to try our luck on the drift, this time we were rewarded with pollack, coalfish and also some early herring. We don’t tend to see too many herring around Holyhead when on the drift and those we do see tend to be a little later – so it was certainly nice to see some coming to the boat.
We ended the day with 9 species, we had hoped to break the double figures for an early spring outing by giving Arthur the chance to land our 10th specie … sadly he never proved to be the dab hand at it!
Sunday we decided to stay within the confines of Holyhead bay and concentrate mainly on anchor work with the lads aboard My Way relatively new to sea angling. Many of them, albeit experienced coarse anglers had never been sea fishing before, let alone on a boat.
They were rewarded though in more fish than a carping year (not my words!) with dogs, whiting, huss a few dabs and some good sized codling falling to a variety of baits. One lad also managed to hook into a 3 bearded, specie 11 to get 2011 well under way.
Then there is good old chicken cam, well currently known as hand cam! Poor fella, thought it was a monster!
Let's hope the weather gods play fair this year and treat us all to some fantastic days afloat.
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06/03/2011
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
6 Mar 2011 by Paul Kilpatrick
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THOSE COD JUST KEEP COMING
With a lovelly day once again blue skies sunday trip looked promising it was big tide today but the fishing of late has been excellent agin today the lads werent disapointed but it was bait which the cod were hammering rather than lures it was paul smith who managed the biggist cod on board today a fish just over 13lb the lads all had some lovelly cod between them all went home happy but paul was smiling the most. View Boats Page
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05/03/2011
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
5 Mar 2011 by Ray Martin
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The fish are back- Had only a short single tide trip on Saturday and got on the skate more or less straight away.
Best one 10lb but lost one that looked bigger.
Got next Sat and Sun (weather permitting) so should be good !! View Boats Page
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06/03/2011
Fishing Report by Chris Lowe
on Atlantic Diver / Atlantic Explorer (Newquay, Cornwall)
6 Mar 2011 by Chris Lowe
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Bumper Cod Fishing in March
Fantasitic cod fishing in march aboard Atlantic Diver.
A beautiful and calm March day saw a group of enthusiastic Anglers steam out aboard Atlantic Diver to venture into the Cod grounds that Chris had been hearing were teaming with fish all week . Delighted fishermen...and women.....caught up to 70 cod on baited feathers . a large ten pounder was the day's biggest catch and all returned home exhausted from the chase with sack fulls of line caught fish ready for the oven.Brilliant day out..beautiful scenery ..Razorbills , Gannets and Cormorants all added to the day's enjoyment.
For the recipe we used tonight to cook our sustainable line caught cod ..please click on following link http://www.msc.org/cook-eat-enjoy/recipes/panfried-cod-with-parmesan-mash-sundried-tomato-1
For video of a delighted Cornish Angler who will also be enjoying his fish please click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVnjzyNIVfI
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20/02/2011
Fishing Report by John Barbeary
on Bluefin (Ilfracombe, Devon)
20 Feb 2011 by John Barbeary
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Caught plenty of Spurdogs to 13lb, a dozen Huss to 11lb, Conger to 30lb, Codling, Whiting, Pouting.
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05/03/2011
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
5 Mar 2011 by Colin De Block
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headed out with graham and nigel on board to the same mark we had success on last time not expecting too much as reports had not been that good, we started early to catch the last of the flood and within 30 minutes of starting the cod started coming nigel with the first and then steadily until slack water went it went quiet until the tide turned and they started coming in again until time to head in a good day had by all
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04/03/2011
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
4 Mar 2011 by brian poppy
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04/03/2011 with a 3/4 n/e we left the moorings at 8.00 headed north to a spot off corton that has produced a nice bit of fish the last few trips and today was no exception we were into yting straight away with the odd cod coming in for good measure,the guys were fishing a match on a points basis with catch and release they caught over 50 yting between them and 3 small tommys and 1 decent cod of3lb what great day,look forward to seeing you all again,b/p.
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