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09/2010
Fishing Report by paul sykes
on Trojan Warrior (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
Sep 2010 by paul sykes
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Last Saturday a 1oft porbeagle shark entertaining us for 5 minutes, close up and BIG!
Yesterday the Whales arrived, lots of minkies and familys in each group.
Photos to follow.
Cod ,common ling,whiting and mackeral for dinner. Not a bad day !
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09/2010
Fishing Report by paul sykes
on Trojan Warrior (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
Sep 2010 by paul sykes
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ITS THE MOST GLORIOUS MORNING HERE AT WHITBY, MY GROUP FROM YORK WILL HAVE A REAL NICE DAY AT SEA.
GET THESE AUTUMN DAYS IN GUYS-ITS A LONG WINTER. View Boats Page
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08/2010
Fishing Report by paul sykes
on Trojan Warrior (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
Aug 2010 by paul sykes
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Afer a weekend of massive seas, the conditions are rushing towards tranquility and calm.
The next few days are going to be a joy to be at sea .Go fishing! View Boats Page
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30/08/2010
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
30 Aug 2010 by David Hancock
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Small tides this week off to the wrecks for some Black Bream and some Big Blondes on the banks .
Next week it's monster tides so Bass will be the target species, probably the best time of year for a proper lunker.
Keep everything crossed !
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08/2010
Fishing Report by paul sykes
on Trojan Warrior (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
Aug 2010 by paul sykes
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SO HERE WE GO AGAIN! NORTHERL GALES FOR A FEW DAYS. IT REALY HAS BEEN POOR WEATHER AT SEA THIS SUMMER, BUT THE FISHING HAS BEEN GREAT, AND A FEW DAYS REST ON THE GROUNDS WILL LET THE FISH GATHER AGAIN. SO GET THOSE DAYS BOOKED COS SUMMERS ON ITS WAY OUT.
MIND YOU ,WINTER COD FISHING ON THE YORKSHIRE COAST IS A PRETTY GOOD THING TO LOOK FOREWARD TO. View Boats Page
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15/08/2010
Fishing Report by Sam Cumming
on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
15 Aug 2010 by Sam Cumming
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The neap tides have fished well on some of the inshore wrecks south of Poole. It has not been uncommon to see 20 – 30 congers in one session along with plenty of good sized tope on the slack water. One such day saw 18 snakes and 16 tope brought to the side of the boat in just a few hours along with a nice Pollack for one of our younger anglers Nicolas Barlow.
Mackerel are as plentiful as ever this year with scad and garfish falling to the feathers as well. Using the mackerel for bait the grounds at Dancing Ledge and in Poole Bay have provided excellent reef fishing. With most of the bream moving to the offshore wrecks for the autumn it gives the hard fighting rays a chance to get to the baits. We have seen all 5 main species of ray with blondes and undulates being the most abundant.
Bassing is well under way now with double figure fish not uncommon on a spring tide. One trip to the isle of white waited until the last two drifts to give up the goods with 3 fish weighing in at 7lb, 9.5lb and 10lb on live mackerel, proving that persistence does pay off. Freelining is also throwing up some very nice bass with the biggest 10lb 9oz falling to Taylor Anderson
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07/2010
Fishing Report by Pitman Pitman
on SEA Spray (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
Jul 2010 by Pitman Pitman
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Photo of the second Scad taking one of the prizes in the Species Section of the Whitby Summer Angling Festival
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07/2010
Fishing Report by Pitman Pitman
on SEA Spray (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
Jul 2010 by Pitman Pitman
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Photo of one of the 2 Scad caught during the Whitby Summer Angling Festival, taking first and second prizes in the Species Section.
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16/08/2010
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
16 Aug 2010 by Colin Penny
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AMMO BAITS COMPETITION - Ian and Michelle from Ammo frozen baits joned Flamer III for the day and brought a variety of baits for the anglers to use in a species competition with the challange being that only the Ammo bait provided could be used.Drift fishing was done first over a reef and produced many red,tub and grey gurnards along with scad,mackerel,pouts,garfish and poor cod.Then a session drifting for flatfish using Ammo black lug tipped with squid strips lured some plaice and dabs with Ian catching a plaice him self.Two sessions at anchor then followed seeing some good size black bream being caught the biggest of 4Ib landed by elder statesman Mick Nunn with the successful bait being small pieces of Ammo mackerel.Dog fish,pollack,pouts,Thornback rayand more gurnards were also caught during the anchor sessions.Ian and Michelle also sponsored some trophies and prizes for the day which I know the lads and me greatly appreciated.Andy Coillings won the competition with 234 points.Best fish award - Mick Nunn 4Ib Black Bream. The crew and Ian are pictured.
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08/2010
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Aug 2010 by Gethyn Owen
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Part way through August and with westerly winds of 25mph approaching, I thought I’d write a report on the fishing so far this month. The first day of August saw the conclusion of The WFSA Boat Team qualifiers, fished from Holyhead. Weather tried to scupper the matches during both weekends; however the anglers taking part slugged it out, often in difficult windy conditions to record an array of species and a fair number of fish. Congratulations go to Jon Law, who topped the table, along with the title of Wales’ number one boat angler, well done!
Early August and the weather once again became fairly unpredictable. One day we would have no wind, sunshine and some excellent fishing around the coast, then the following day we would be restricted to inshore marks, scratching for a variety of species and crossing fingers for a double figure something to put a bend in the rod.
August 02nd and 3rd were prime examples...an individual’s day on the 2nd was greeted by flat calm seas and the chance to run out to Holyhead Deep, for some possible tope and spur action. Here we managed to land a fair number of tope to 36lb and spurdogs to 16lb, along with numerous huss. However the NW 2 forecasted turned into a NW 4, which left a rather lumpy ride back in. On the morning of the 3rd, with slightly higher winds, I took the decision not to venture to the deeps, caught out in a NW for the previous day; we couldn’t take the risk of stronger winds that afternoon.
It was a good call, the wind certainly picked up, though we we’re able to fish in the relative safety and calmer waters around Holyhead Bay. Fishing wasn’t as prolific; certainly a variety of species but the guys struggled for anything of note. I say guys, as Gina, the only lady on the trip showed them all up, quite possibly in fish count but also with the addition of 2 firsts, a spotted ray and a thornback ray!
On 06th August, the weather was blowing a force 6 southerly and the rain was, well, very wet!!! We could’ve sheltered quite happily behind the breakwater in calm water for a variety of species, however getting soaked wet through. Chatting with the lads we decided to knock the day on the head, there will always be another time.
With strong winds still forecasted for the 07th, I had a chat with the crew from St Helens informing them that the deeps looked a no go, however if they we’re happy to come down early – we could get to the mussel beds and try for rays and huss.
Everyone was happy with this call and our day was planned. In the morning though, the winds had eased and the forecast looked promising (another I don’t know what’s happening forecast from the Met Office). So after a brief chat to see if anyone had a rush to get home, our day was lengthened from 8hrs to 11 and a half in the end to get the LW slack in the deeps. So after a variety of species inshore including, wrasse and pollock on the drift, dogs, gurnards, whiting etc at anchor we ventured out to the deeps – where tope, spurs and big huss saw a brilliant end to a good days fishing.
There’s an old saying regarding our sport being called ‘Fishing and not Catching’. More anglers need to realise this and not expect the world every time they set sail. I’ve had the good fortune to fish with the St Helens guys for a fair few years now, this year in particular they have had 2 pretty duff trips with me with the weather scuppering our planned days afloat, then bingo, things seem to go our way.
Oh for 12 months a year of flat calm sunny days!
The last tide of the early August neaps saw us set sail once again with only 2 things on our minds …. Wrasse and Deeps! Well actually 3 things, food as well. When the RAFA lads come out to play, we eat, eat, eat and also land a few decent fish as well. During this day, we we’re also joined by Phill Williams from Boat Fishing Monthly and Fishing Film and Facts fame.
Before we had even set sail, I threw the sausages and bacon one of the lads had brought into the oven, these would provide breakfast for us an hr later. We started the day drifting for wrasse and pollack. Eventually making our way over to another area of rough ground that we knew held quality wrasse, with the odd pollack and codling. No one was disappointed; with single and double shots of wrasse over 3lb coming over the gunwales.
After a few hrs of hectic drifting we had to move off the mark as the tide had changed and anchored up in Trearddur Bay for just over an hr, simply to while away some time before the tide had dropped sufficiently for us to anchor and fish the deeps with success.
At 250foot depth and a very strong tide, a minimum of 2lb is required even during the last hr of the tide (thought we do get an hr at 8oz as well).
I’d love to tell you about all the species we caught here, but we never really fished, most of the time was spent talking in the sunshine, football, jokes and anticipation of the deeps and the chilli and curry we had on the menu for later.
Well the deeps didn’t disappoint – plenty of tope and spurs, however the size had fallen. Whereas most of 2010 has seen spurs over the 10lb bracket, this time around we we’re plagued by spurdogs around the 5lb mark. That said, many on the trip caught their first ever, that’s always a big plus, with a couple lads also catching a tope for the first time, with Jay catching his first 10lb+ bull huss from a great depth of water! I won’t though go into detail of someone calling net for a ray that turned out to be a plastic bag!
The food, well, Martin’s chilli was awesome, Jon’s curry was fiery and Trish’s fairy cakes where out of this world. Fishing is good fun, but made all the more enjoyable with some great food as well.
Phill Williams hopped onboard to tie up some loose ends from earlier this year surrounding spurdogs - an article for the UK’s only Boat Fishing Magazine - Boat Fishing Monthly, a spurdog video and also a podcast for his website Fishing Film and Facts. The podcast has recently been upload and can be listened to by clicking http://fishingfilmsandfacts.co.uk/. The video s due for release soon
With bigger tides and some breezy conditions, the following week saw most of our fishing restricted to Holyhead Bay. That said, with species including, dogs, dabs, whiting, codling, pollack, wrasse, red, grey and tub gurnards, smoothhound, thornbacks, spotties, blondes amongst the catches, a good time afloat was had by all (well most, lol).
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