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10/2009
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Oct 2009 by Gethyn Owen
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October has been a very hard month afloat. High gale force winds have only served to cancel most of our days afloat. That said when we have sailed, the fishing and the banter has been second to none, with some exceptional catches for the time of year.
A day afloat was just what was ordered for regular My Way lads from the Rafa Club on the Wirral. We had already cancelled this trip last August due to high winds, so fingers and legs were crossed that the weather wouldn’t disappoint and the fish played ball. Fortunately the weather all week was looking good and with a set of neap tides beckoning, a trip out to Holyhead Deep was on the cards.
Well the fish were informed, and all aboard were treated to a fair number of tope and huss in the deepwater; excellent fishing for the middle of October. Inshore we set about drifting and had wrasse after wrasse – a great end to a good days fishing. Wondering if it was just a good day afloat, I returned a few days a later with a crowd of Paramedics from Conwy area.
With such a stressful job, these guys really wanted a day of rest and plenty of fish. Once again the sun shone down and the winds stayed away. We started our fishing for the day were we left off with the Rafa guys - on the wrasse.
Plenty of obliging wrasse came to the gunwales - ballans up to 3lb and a few cuckoos and corkwings to add variety. With our venture to the deeps nearing, the lads soon stowed away the small scratch rigs and broke out the big guns. 150lb mono and 6/0 to 8/0 hooks. It looked like they meant business, bigger fish is what they wanted now.
It wasn't long before Bryn Thomas called for the net after heaving what looked to be a dead weight from the 200ft murky depths of Holyhead Deep. Fortunately for Bryn, it turned out to be a double figured thornback ray - pictured right. As the day went on Bryn also managed to add huss & tope to his double figure haul. Despite other tope being landed around the boat and spurdog to 14lb, it looked as though the day was to be Bryn's, with the heaviest tope.
After 3hrs in the deeps, the tide increased in power and we were starting to struggle to hold bottom. As I called for lines up a cry of "I've got a bite" came from Jason on the port side. Ok, 5 more mins I relented.
Seconds later the line screamed from Jasons reel as he hooked into what appeared to be the best tope of the day. Thus the 5 mins turned into 30mins as Jason took time to play his 40lb shark to the side of My Way.
On October 17th we held our Fish for Courtney sponsored fishing event. The whole day was an overwhelming success and helped towards a total now nearing £7000 for 3 very good causes http://www.goangling.co.uk/2009/Gallery51/gallery51.htm
Happy fishing
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10/11/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
10 Nov 2009 by Colin Penny
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NOVEMBER 2009 - well the weather has been awful,wet and windy.I managed to get out for two days in a weather window before the next lot of gales moved in. The water was quite coloured which made the fishing on the drift hard going on the Shambles Bank but one Brill was caught.Anchoring the Adamant Bank proved a lot more fruitful with plenty of good size whiting being caught on hoki's baited with squid and mackerel strips.Also dogs,gurnards,pout,poor cod and the occassional jumbo mackerel were caught.Some congers were also taking the baits intended for the whiting but the lads rigs were not strong enoough to get the congers to the boat.Pictured are the sort of size whiting that were caught.
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10/11/2009
Fishing Report by stuart belbin
on Razorbill 3 (West Mersea, Essex)
10 Nov 2009 by stuart belbin
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Well over the past week the fishing has improved with more and better size fish landed on the boat,CODLING from 2 1/2lb up to 11lb, We are still getting numbers of THORNBACK RAY with the largest i have landed on the boat a fine fish of 15lb, WHITINGS are more numerous with good size fish up to 2lb, DABS are starting show up in more numbers and we are still getting DOGFISH. I would expect the COD fishing to get better with more and better fish but i think the THORNBACK RAYS will start to thin out as we get into DECEMBER, We still have one or two dates free before Christmas for indeviduals/groups so give me a ring. You can see more at my web site.
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09/11/2009
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
9 Nov 2009 by Steve Andrews
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this set of tides proving to be very good for the fish monday produced 31 thornback rays ,plenty of good size dabs and whiting .
tuesday started of well with 12 thornback rays and 6 keepable cod to 3lb again plenty of dabs and whiting.Looking good for the next few days will post some pics when i get chance . View Boats Page
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08/11/2009
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
8 Nov 2009 by Scott Belbin
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the fishing has been good but patchy. yesterday we had a nice run of cod but were pestered by a seal. today we headed back to the same mark in the hope he had gone away. thankfully he had and once the tide was under way we saw some cod coming aboard. we totalled 11 cod and 7 roker. not a missive haul but they were quality fish. the biggest cod went 8.8lbs and a a couple of the roker were around the double figure mark. not bad fishing concidering the drop in the tides. when the sprats turn up the cod will pilke on the pounds so dont missout on decembers fishing. see our website for a weekly fishing update aswell as available dates.
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31/10/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
31 Oct 2009 by Colin Penny
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OCTOBER 2009 - THE ROYAL HOTEL TOTTINGTON SAC - The club were due to do two days fishing with bream,bass,cod the target species.But the trip was cut short to one day beacause of the bad weather due on the Sunday.On the Saturday it was a bit choppy in the morning but the weather did improve as the day went on,the lull before the storm I guess.Well we targeted black bream and flatties and did very well.Plenty of black bream were caught with Geoff Hall catching a personal best weighing 4Ib.Two sessions on the Shambles Bank produced five turbot and two brill all on Ammo mackerel baits. Also two plaice were caught on the mussel beds with Garry Spencer catching the biggest one a fine plaice of 4Ib 8oz which was his personal best.Garry is pictured with his PB plaice.
The lads also caught other species including red and tub gurnards,dogfish,garfish,mackerel,pout,lesser weaver etc.The club were pleased with their days fishing on Flamer III and have booked up for three weekends in 2010. View Boats Page
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31/10/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
31 Oct 2009 by Colin Penny
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OCTOBER 2009 - FLAMER III REPORT - The weather was reasonable with just the odd gale thrown in.The fishing was excellent for bream,cod,bull huss,rays,gurnards,ballan wrasse etc on the reefs.The mussel beds produced some nice plaice and the Shambles Bank was very good for Turbot and Brill.The species fishing was very good and the 2009 species count on Flamer III now stands at 58.My annual two day species competition was won by Paul The Power Milkins.Nick Payne won Flamer Fish of the Month for October with a Flamer First which was a Common Stingray weighing 57Ib.Nick is pictured with his ray catch.
The winter whiting fishing should start soon as a few have already been caught.
DON'T FORGET TO BOOK YOUR TRIPS FOR 2010. View Boats Page
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11/2009
Fishing Report by Rich Morgan
on Chloe Paige (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
Nov 2009 by Rich Morgan
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THE COD SEASON IS NOW IN FULL SWING AND WE HAVE BEEN GETTING COD NO SMALLER THAN 9LB'S THIS WEEK WITH THE LARGEST AT 32LB'S.
ALSO PLENTY OF SPECIMEN SIZED WHITING AND SKATE ABOUT. View Boats Page
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01/11/2009
Fishing Report by stuart belbin
on Razorbill 3 (West Mersea, Essex)
1 Nov 2009 by stuart belbin
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Over the past week or so we have been out most day,s, The fishing has been very mixed with some days fishing very well and the next day the fish have been harder to find, But then "that,s fishing". The catches of COD have been better in size with fish from 3lb up to double figure, SKATE are still making an apperance catching 6 some days along with the COD and WHITING, The fish have moved inshore now so we will not lose many day,s to bad weather, The river BLACKWATER is fishing well some day,s with as many as 20 CODLING up to 10lb and lot,s of WHITING and DABS.
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10/2009
Fishing Report by Glen Milligan
on Wight Huntress III (Portsmouth, Hampshire)
Oct 2009 by Glen Milligan
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Over the last week or so we are still finding Cod, here we have the lads from St Mary's Youth Club, Southampton with a lovely Cod at 13lbs!
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