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12/12/2010
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
12 Dec 2010 by David Hancock
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Harder fishing this week but we still found a few Lunkers amongst the Whiting and codling. Best fish this week was a cod of 16 lb 8 oz to Marc Coombes. Best bait by far was cuttle fish with good old trusty lug and squid combos second.
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13/12/2010
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
13 Dec 2010 by Rich Ward
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The dates have now been set for all the angling competitions here at Whitby for 2011. Below are the list of dates.
Spring comp - April 2nd - April 17th inc.
Summer comp - June 18th - July 10th inc.
Late Summer comp - Sept 10th - Sept 25th inc.
Prizes for the Spring comp range from 3 x daily prizes totalling £100.00 in cash every day to a 1st prize of £1000.00 in cash for the heaviest overall fish caught !!!!
Prizes for the Summer comp range from 3 x daily prizes totalling £100.00 in cash every day to various bigger prizes. The 1st prize being £5000.00 in cash for the heaviest overall fish caught !!!!
Prizes in the late Summer comp range from 3 x daily prizes totalling £100.00 in cash every day to a 1st prize of £1000.00 in cash for the heaviest overall fish caught !!!!
All competitions are sponsored.
It is highly recommended that bookings for the competitions are made sooner than later to avoid any disappointment. They are very popular indeed !!!
The Whitby Charter Skippers would like to wish all our anglers both old and new a very Happy Xmas and prosperous New Year !!
For any enquiries please email me at richardward384@yahoo.co.uk or visit the site at
www.shy-torque2000.com
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12/12/2010
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
12 Dec 2010 by Gethyn Owen
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Sunday 12th December saw the last of our autumn / winter fun competitions for 2010.
Thankfully we had a nice break in the recent weather with a light easterly breeze and sunshine the order of the day. Aboard My Way for the match were My Way regulars Pete Minns, Tojo, Tony Dooney and welsh International Chris Hamblin, who vowed to avenge his second place result from the previous match in November. Making up the Motley Crue we had 3 lads new to My Way, Graham, Steve and Andy who have hopefully asked Santa for a Sat Nav and Alarm clock each for that special day. Young Harry, My Ways reliable crew man joined the lads for a festive fish.
The plan was to stick inshore all day and scratch out as many bits and pieces from the murky and cold sea within Holyhead Bay. Our first stop was the mud banks around 1mile outside Holyhead Breakwater. With the flood tide just starting, our aim was to hook into a few dabs and whiting before the dogfish chomped on the baits. Sadly though I had forgotten to inform the fish of our visit that morning, with only the odd whiting being caught, Chris bucked the trend with a nice plaice falling to his black lug and squid cocktail. The fishing however remained very slow and everyone struggled to catch a number of fish, despite an excellent armoury of rigs and baits.
With the winter rigs not showing signs of success, Steve attempted to turn up the heat on his fishing by swotting up with the Boat Fishing Monthly ‘summer rigs’ booklet.
After a slow hour we made a move up to Church Bay. Again the fishing was slow, but a little more variety started to come aboard with the anglers adding more whiting along with dabs, dogfish, poor cod and a few dragonets to their tally.
At noon a move to the Mussel beds was on the cards to take in the slack water period. With only a 25ft tide, we hoped to have a good few hours on the mark with plenty of fish.
This moved proved to be the making of the competition as the lads started to pull in single, double and treble shots of fish, with whiting, dabs and dogfish making up the vast majority of the catches. Harry fishing the stern was happily pulling in the odd double shot to shouts of ‘watch it’ from Pete.
Not content with the Fun Match element of the day and naturally cash winnings at the end, there was also another side bet running between these 2!
From the first 2 marks, Pete, Chris and Harry were all within a couple points of each other, so now the ability to pull a few fish in a drop was going a long way to separate the group.
Struggling on the first couple marks, Tojo and Tony, pegged next to each other as well, started to find their fish. A few double and triple shots of whiting between them soon lifted them to within snatching distance of the lead. Sadly Graham was not having the best of days, with just the odd single fish falling to his rigs, much to the amusement of Andy who plodded on with a wheelhouse draw, focused only on beating his 2 travelling companions. By this time though, Steve had realised ‘summer rigs’ were not the way forward and concentrated on basic 3 down rigs that did then help him increase his catch rate.
A break for lunch was on the cards during our time at this mark, but with fish finally feeding well, everyone tucked into a bowl (or 2) of our warming chillie as they carried on catching.
Our final move was back to the mud for the last hour and hopefully a few more fish on the ebb than was caught during the early flood tide at the start for the day. As we checked the scores it was Pete and Chris who were vying for the top 2 slots, with commendable leads over the other anglers. 3rd place though was proving a little more interesting as Harry, Tojo and Tony where all within a fish of each other; dogs, whiting and some fat dabs again the order of the day.
As the sun set behind Holyhead it was soon time to lift anchor and head for home. After calculating the scores it was Pete that had taken top slot from Chris. 3rd place fell to local angler Tony from Holyhead, not bad considering he also found time for far too many bowls of chillie J View Boats Page
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11/12/2010
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
11 Dec 2010 by Colin De Block
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11/12/10 headed out with nigel & graham onboard on a lovely morning light northwesterley wind, tried a couple of marks only finding a few whiting a dab and lots of weed so steamed out further in an attempt to find some cod and avoid the weed,first cod arrived shortly after lovely fish wieghing 13lb the next at 3lb within a few minutes then on the last trickle of tide came the biggest of the day at 16lb
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05/12/2010
Fishing Report by John Barbeary
on Bluefin (Ilfracombe, Devon)
5 Dec 2010 by John Barbeary
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december 5th lots of spurdogs to 13lb conger to 35lb bull huss whiting and dogs
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03/12/2010
Fishing Report by Paul Smith
on Rapid Fisher (Poole, Dorset)
3 Dec 2010 by Paul Smith
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The recent snow didn't dampen spirits aboard Rapid Fisher's tenth trip to famous Isle of Wight cod grounds. After spending an hour clearing snow we were quickly under way at a steady 19 knots. As the boat settled at anchor we were into good size whiting which remained constant throughout the day. I am pleased to report that we found the COD AGAIN which makes our success rate 10/10. Seen here is Paul with a fine 16lber.
Don't delay contact Paul to book a cod trip, you won't be disappointed!
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05/12/2010
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
5 Dec 2010 by brian poppy
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05/12/2010 it was cold and horrible as we ran to one of our outer marks that we thought might produce a few cod but only whitings so after a couple of hours being rolled about in a brisk n/west half a gale we moved inside a bit to get out of the weather a few whitings and a dab so we had another move and sat off corton for the remainder of the trip i had one spragg and a king cole bag to round the trip off what a crap day they can only get better,brian/paul.
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05/12/2010
Fishing Report by Ray Burn
on Grey Viking (Brighton, East Sussex)
5 Dec 2010 by Ray Burn
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A truly memorable day aboard Grey Viking yesterday, with some decent Cod to over 20lb, a 2.5lb Whiting for 13 year old Callum Sturrock and the day topped off at last knockings with an absolute stonker of a Cod at 34lb exactly for 14 year old Tyler Hallett. Wow, way to go Tyler - your first ever Cod too!
Thanks also to Dave Grinham at The Tackle Box for verifying the weight once we got ashore! View Boats Page
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04/12/2010
Fishing Report by Mark Hutchings
on Jay Jay (Ilfracombe, Devon)
4 Dec 2010 by Mark Hutchings
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Saturday 4th December gave us a welcome break from the cold NE winds of late and allowed us to get out for the day. Fishing was slow inshore but as the tide slackened we moved off to a favourite spot which produced bull huss, spurdog and eels as well as the usual dogfish in between. Matt Jeferies bagged his first ever spurdog with local angling reporter Wayne Thomas taking the biggest catch of the day with a 35lb Conger eel. No cod showing on this trip but things look good for the coming weeks.
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27/11/2010
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
27 Nov 2010 by Glen Milligan
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This weekend saw Wight Huntress commodore boat for the efsa England Cod Champs 2010. Langstone selected to be the venue for this years event as it is well known for it's large Cod and sheltered waters, the competitors weren't dissappointed with the largest fish at 27lbs, one six big Cod caught by this years winner.. Kim Bowden. Congratulations to Kim and also to the other skippers, Ross on Dawn Venture and particularly Laurie on Predator who boated 16 double figure Cod on Day 2 to be top boat!
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