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25/05/2010
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
25 May 2010 by David Hancock
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A superb weekends weather allowed us to fish far offshore from Ramsgate.
Some of the wrecks we fished are 30 mile plus offshore, a long run but worthwhile.
Huge amounts of Cod , Bass and Pollock and shattered anglers !!
Back inshore today as the North Easterly winds have returned but never mind we're getting good hounds upto 15lb and skate to 12lb so far.
Dave.
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05/2010
Fishing Report by Gwyn Andrews
on Goldilocks (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
May 2010 by Gwyn Andrews
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Summer has finally arrived.Mackerel,herring,launce,huss,red and tub gurnard,plaice,scad and the odd ray amongst some of the species on the outer marks.There are also the usual dabs,whiting ,doggies,poor cod and pouting etc.
The inshore marks are producing smoothhound to double figures.and the odd bass.
Tope are expected any day View Boats Page
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05/2010
Fishing Report by Pete Rose
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
May 2010 by Pete Rose
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Here is a report from last week as I said in one earlier post the algal bloom had got worse on some days and only when a clear area was found did we do well, on Thursday last week we had a small group of different anglers Clint and Chris were regulars from Chesterfield another two nice blokes who were hire rods sorry i forgot your names lads and one memorable angler called Ian who was new to me and my boat who turned out to be a treat to watch as he caught fish after fish mainly bait fishing on the back corner he seemed to have a gift for knowing exactly when to strike, I watched him and thought he was very good after the first drift, by the end of the day I was convinced,
Friday was plagued with bloom and everyone struggled to find fish but everyone did take a fry home, Saturday I had a split group John Dixon came with some competent angler mates and I had another seven who had never been to sea before it's always difficult to try and please everyone with mixed abilities especially when the tides were good for working the wrecks and as the ground fishing had not really kicked in we had no other option John and his mates were real helpful with the novices and never lost there rag with the constant tangles and helping with wreck break outs thanks lads,
Sunday I had another group of mostly hire rods and newbies to sea fishing again from Chesterfield a great set of blokes who had a good day with plenty of fish to take back home
the real star of the day was a young lad called Lyndon who listened to every word I said and out fished everyone on the jelly worm, I get so much fun helping yong people catch fish the buzz is written all over there faces and no computer game in the world gives kids the joy of going on a boat to sea catching your first fish taking it home for mum to cook ahhh simple pleasures like this makes me smile inside, you can see Lyndon along with the other anglers on the video compilation at the end of this post
Monday I had Paul from Leeds who organised a corporate day for himself and his co workers apart from Paul all novices the weather was fab when I awoke around 5am by 7am it had turned north easterly with strong wind warnings I explained this and said we would have a look out in the bay and caught mackerel straight from the off then the weather totally changed and by 10am it was flat calm and sunny so off to some inshore wrecks and ground with nothing doing I came back hard in further up the coast and hit plenty of good marks in around 50 foot of water all fresh codling's around 4/5lb great stuff all on baited feathers so with plenty of cod and mackerel collies they were headed back to York and Leeds with a barbie on the cards View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 07/12/2024 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.83m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Steve & Ryan Martin - x 2 Waldek Myśliwy - x 3 Marc Smith - x 1View details Sun 08/12/2024 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.81m Keith Lockwood - x 2 Kevin Totterdell - x 3 Todd Whitley - x 2View details Mon 09/12/2024 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.88m Joe Clough - x 1 Alan Ellwood - x 3View details Tue 10/12/2024 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.74m Aaron & Steve - x 2 Ian Hepworth - x 2View details Tue 17/12/2024 5 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.48m Will sail with 4 anglers. Ian Purdom - x 1 Shaun Marchington - x 2View details Thu 19/12/2024 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.15m Stan Matthews - x 1 David Craine - x 2 Greg Ince - x 1View details Sat 21/12/2024 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.71m Pawel Rojek - x 4 Tim Albright - x 2 Jimmy Yeung - x 1View details Mon 23/12/2024 1 Space Available Wrecking Trip - 4.38m Tim Albright - x 2 Ian Kellock - x 1 Dave Sharp - x 1 Nick Gray - x 2 Martin Novo - x 1 Will Bird - x 1 Tony Firman - x 1View details Sat 28/12/2024 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 4.73m Jimmy Yeung - x 1 Steve & Ryan Martin - x 2 Ed Hardy - x 4View details Mon 30/12/2024 2 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.02m Dave Coote - x 4 Will Bird - x 1 Stephen Clark - x 1View details -
24/05/2010
Fishing Report by Carl Davies
on SeaGem2 (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
24 May 2010 by Carl Davies
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been out fri ,sat .sun,monday the fishing has got better and better non stop fish , tons gurnard 3 types , loads of big jumbo mackeral , some nice size bullhuss . smoothhound , herring ,dogs,dab,whiting . skate , turbot ,codlin. wont be long and the TOPE will be here CANT WAIT !!!!!
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24/05/2010
Fishing Report by Carl Davies
on SeaGem2 (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
24 May 2010 by Carl Davies
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been out fri ,sat .sun,monday the fishing has got better and better non stop fish , tons gurnard 3 types , loads of big jumbo mackeral , some nice size bullhuss . smoothhound , herring ,dogs,dab,whiting . skate , turbot ,codlin. wont be long and the TOPE will be here CANT WAIT !!!!!
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24/05/2010
Fishing Report by Bob Marshall
on Duke IV (Ramsgate, Kent)
24 May 2010 by Bob Marshall
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The water has warmed up, the crabs have peeled and the fish have arrived! At last summer is here! Been out on the wrecks and we landed plenty of Cod and Pollack on Duke IV. A good trip with the individuals Thursday then back out with Crew Lucas from St Albans on Friday. All caught plenty of fish, topped there freezers up till the next trip!
All fish taken on lures on the drift so great sport and as Duke IV is a sportfishing boat all small or unwanted fish were returned to fight another day. Well done chaps!
Inshore fishing has been good one day then quieter the next, with Thornback Ray, Smoothounds, Bass and some cracking Whiting! Martin's crew from Gravesend had a good day inshore with Smoothounds (all returned) and Thornbacks along with Whiting and Dabs, see pic. The Bass should start shoaling on the banks now, you can't be sure where or when, just be in the right place at the right time, keep your eyes open and have some hokkies in your box! Don't worry we've got plenty on board Duke IV!
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23/05/2010
Fishing Report by Causeway Boats
on Causeway Boats (Portrush, County Antrim)
23 May 2010 by Causeway Boats
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weekend report
saturday
had spurdogs on saturdays trip best was 12.5lb runner up was 10lb, whiteing and red/ tub gurnard, few mackerel
sunday
was on offshore reef, lots of large ling, pollock starting to show in better numbers and sizes. very few mackerel yet.
richard View Boats Page
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24/05/2010
Fishing Report by Matt Horne
on Optimist (Gosport, Hampshire)
24 May 2010 by Matt Horne
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GOOD NEWS: May /June
Things differently seem behind this year, but with the resent turn of warm weather it seems to have kicked the fishing off, down are end of the country. This last weekend showing a up turn in the fishing, plenty of bream and smooth hounds on the inshore rock marks. The mackerel are now showing up, but can be a bit hit and miss, and the Tope seem to have also made a bit of a later appearance but are now starting to show in good numbers.
I got out on the mid channel deep water reef marks for the first time this year on Sunday, with good results, plenty of Pollock a few Cod the best weighing 16lbs 10oz (nice on a shad!). So I don’t think it will be long before more Cod and less Pollock are caught. The fish are stuffed full of sprats, so it will be interesting to see if it happens on the brittle stars this year!
I am looking to get out on the deep water reefs a bit more this year, but with the price of diesel at the moment I have to make sure I run with a full boat, “or the cost of a full boat“! View Boats Page
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22/05/2010
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
22 May 2010 by Aaron Smith
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Had some amazing weather over this last weekend and for a group of 20 lads on Saturday down on both our boats for a stag doe it was fantastic, with the guys wanting fish for the bbq in the evening we dicided to stay fishing the reefs all day and being a competition between each boat we both had our game plans.
Fishing was fantastic with majority of the fish being Coalies, Pollack, Codling and Mackeral with a few Wrasse, Whittings and Dogies thrown in, by the end of the day the score boreds were totalled up and with over 400 fish on one boat and just 150 on the other it was oviouse which boat was on top and yet again it was Bad Ladz skippered by Aaron.
On sunday the plan was to try the reefs for a couple of hours then back to Holyhead Bay later on for the smoothound but on arrival of Bold Angling Club a few were asking about the tope fishing at the moment which has been not to bad so we dicided to play it by ear and see how the fishing went on the reefs, With a fair amount of the usual Pollack, Colies and Codling coming to the boat we thought we would try for some mackeral as the day before we bagged up but was today going to be as easy, NOPE!! we tryed 3 marks over a 5 mile strech and not a single one so there still hit and miss at the moment so we had a chat and the plan was to try for some tope off-shore after a 45minute steam we anchore in 50m of water with all big baits on the bottom, it was a little slow to start but after 20mins or sooo the bites started with the first fish on the boat being a nice Spurdog of 16lb and the fish keept coming with plenty of Bull Huss to 14lb and two Tope to the boat at 25lb and one a bit smaller, we finished a little early at anochor so we could have a few drifts on a couple of reefs on the way back with a plan to try get a few more species on the boat but it was not to be with just the usual Pollack, Colies, Codling and Wrasse coming up and then it was time to head back with the day of 13 species.
Sunday Nite i had a 5hour trip with general fishing on the menu but with 60 crab on the boat we had to try our luck for a smoothound but with little tide and a slight breeze spinning the boat at anchor it was hard work but we heard the ratchet on a reel at the back of the boat wizzing away so it was a mad dash to the back too strike into the fish and then hell broke loose with it going mad swimming all around the boat and taking 4 other lines with it but after a 15 minute fight a lovely starry smoothound of 15lb broke the surface and straight into the net, weighed, pictures and returned as soon as posible and with the next cuople of hours just producing Codling and Whtting it was time to head back in.
FIshing so far -------- Species count is to 31 for the year with every trip exceding the last and the smoothound in the bay on light tackle shows some fantastic sport. View Boats Page
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15/05/2010
Fishing Report by Sam Cumming
on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
15 May 2010 by Sam Cumming
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Well Spring arrived at last with some calmer, warmer weather. The bream arrived in numbers about two weeks later than last year. We have had good catches from rock marks in Poole Bay with the best fish between 2 and 3lb but plenty of medium size fish to keep rod tips rattling. Colin Jones from Gloucester had 23 fish to 2lb 8oz at the end of April. The first good catches of bream have been made off the Purbecks and our attentions will switch there during May and June when we will be looking for 4lb fish.
The turbot fishing on the banks has been excellent. On the banks off Alderney we had good numbers of turbot to 10lb. Many of the smaller fish were returned to fight another day. There we some nice brill with best a specimen of 6lb 8oz being caught by Neil Harrison form Wantage. The Shambles is also fishing well and our boat record was pushed up to 23lb by Robin Holloway with superb fish that nearly 4 inches thick. This was one of 7 that day.
Offshore we have had plenty of Pollack on the wrecks with live sandeels providing the best sport. The good news is that there are early signs of cod both on the wrecks and on the brittle star grounds. We expect the catch rate to increase over the next few weeks. Conger fishing has also been excellent with our best a fine fish of 70lb.
The mackerel have now arrived in the Bay so that’s a sure sign that summer is on the way. We are looking forward to our first bass trips both drift the offshore banks with lures and live baits and also freelining with live mackerel on the Purbeck reefs. Offshore the numbers of cod will increase on the brittle stars and the tope will start to feature in increasing numbers.
Our revised website is now up and running. There are videos, a new notice board and easy links to our blog, facebook and U-tube pages. Facebook is updated by Sam and he would be glad to have you as a friend of Silver Spray.
For all the pictures please see http://silverspray.blogspot.com/
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View Full Charter AvailabilityThu 28/11/2024 6 Spaces 9 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass etc at anchor £100 6 spaces 7 anglers max. Bass / Cod / Blonde Ray.View details Fri 29/11/2024 2 Spaces 9 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass etc at anchor £100 2 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Sat 30/11/2024 2 Spaces 9 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass etc at anchor £100 2 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Sun 01/12/2024 1 Space 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 1 space Bass.View details Mon 02/12/2024 6 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 6 space Bass.View details Tue 03/12/2024 4 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 4 spaces Bass.View details Fri 06/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass £100 6 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Sun 08/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours £100.00pp Whiting blonde rays congers bass £100 6 spaces 7 anglers max.View details Fri 13/12/2024 5 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 5 spaces Bass.View details Sun 15/12/2024 6 Spaces 9 Hours £120.00pp Bass fishing with floats maybe some whiting - £120 7 anglers max. 6 space Bass.View details
