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20/09/2009
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
20 Sep 2009 by Gethyn Owen
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Last Saturday, 20th September saw us set sail with the first of our autumn/winter fun matches. Weather conditions were great for what we class as fun filled matches more than serious angling competition – sunny and warm is always a good way to start a day afloat. With tides of 32’ upon us the fishing was to be kept fairly local to Holyhead bay, with the maximum distance offshore being a slack water over the mussel beds.
Despite the fun element, the day was planned to test the anglers slightly with varied fishing over different grounds. Our day started approximately a mile from Holyhead breakwater on a small bank of mud that has a tendency to throw up all manner of species from dogs and whiting, to huss, rays and tope on occasions.
Fishing started well for most on board, whilst not hectic a constant stream of dogs, whiting and poor cod came over the gunwales, broken only when a cry of haddock came from Gareth P on the port side. Having already reached 50 species for 2009, Gareth was soon camera and species card in hand to record his 53rd specie of fish from British waters in 2009; a great achievement.
Pete Minns added 2 haddock to his tally, and quite possibly the smallest codling I have ever seen; speedy our old Goldfish was bigger!!
With the tide book showing slack water at 1230 we moved to the mussel beds for 1130 to catch the last of the flood and hopefully a few huss. Sadly though, my timings or the tide book was slightly out! More to do I think with the large tide of the day, with slack water upon us, we had a brief 45mins on this mark before the tide ran through like an express train. After a fruitless mud anchor, Simon finally got into the action here with dogs and whiting. A few dogs and whiting later, with a solitary dab for Jon, we upped anchor to go onto the drift for wrasse and a few pollack.
Drifting over the shallow reefs around Holyhead is a firm favourite of mine, and a style of fishing we’ll always partake in during a day afloat. With the big tides and slight E wind we opted for a west facing patch of rocks where we spent an hour in search of wrasse. Ian was the first to land a small pollack, not in size for the pan, but as we were fishing Catch & Return all size of fish count – 6 points for Ian. Gareth P recording the only goldsinny of the drift
The trio of Gareth P, Pete Minns and Jon Law catching consistently throughout the drifts, with Jon catching the rocks as many times as he caught a fish. Good fun as it is, drifting can sometimes become a little disheartening when snag after snag tackle is lost, slightly more disheartening for Garth P this time, who decided to snap his 6lb rod in the process!!
After our drift, we sheltered from the large tide in Church Bay. Here the fishing was consistent, with dogs, whiting and a few huss coming to the baits. Jon was slowly sneaking away with the odd dogfish adding 4 points apiece to his tally when Gareth P appeared to be struggling with a good bend in his fishing rod. Assuming a decent huss, it went slightly better for Gareth when his rig broke the surface with a brace of dogfish and a small huss attached.
Standing with his back to his rod, Pete Minns relayed yet another interesting joke to us all as Jon and I watched his rod tip bounce into action. As the rod started to bend over and the ‘fish’ appear to take line, we thought it best to let Pete know he had an enquiry!
After 10 minutes of action on Pete’s SuperSensor2 fishing rod, a small smoothhound of around 8lb broke the surface, attached to his size 6 hook, baited with a small slither of squid.
For a couple years now, Pete has tried to break his smoothhound virginity with a double figure smoothie aboard My Way. Despite being aboard as many smoothies have been landed and also despite helping others with rigs, bait and bait presentation – Pete’s mission for a smoothhound of his own has failed. Well maybe sometimes we just try too hard and when you’re least expecting ….
Simon, having suffered a fairly poor day with us so far, managed to catch the second smoothie of the day. Made more satisfying once again as it was another first ever.
With half hour to go, Pete had dropped back slightly, possibly due to the excitement of catching his smoothhound, however it was honours equal between Jon Law and Gareth P, not a fish scale separating them both. Once again it was touch and go for each angler as they matched each other for fish. Finally Jon got the break with a double shot of dogs, followed by a bull huss to edge him 7 points clear as the final whistle blew.
Unlike a Home Game for Man Utd, we play to the correctly allocated times!
1 Jon Law 165 £25 + 1 individual voucher
2 Gareth P 158 £20
3 Pete Minns 138 £10
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09/2009
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
Sep 2009 by David Hancock
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17th Sept.
North Easterly winds easing at last ! Nice big tides this weekend should see the start of the proper inshore cod along with a better stamp of whiting.
Probably the best months of the year, Sept/October for a proper lunker Bass.
Dave. View Boats Page
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16/09/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
16 Sep 2009 by Colin Penny
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SPECIES FISHING - On Flamer III through out each year I keep a tally of how many different species are caught.The best total was acheived in 2007 with 61 different species.Just last week four more were added to this years total making 55 different species caught on Flamer III in 2009.The four were Gilthead Bream,Ballions Wrasse,Red Mullet and Trigger Fish.I had not seen a Trigger Fish all Summer/Autumn then five come along in two days and all from the same mark to the east of Weymouth were I had never caught them before.Small pieces of ragworm being the successful bait. Pictured is Aidy Cox with his Trigger Fish.
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15/09/2009
Fishing Report by stuart belbin
on Razorbill 3 (West Mersea, Essex)
15 Sep 2009 by stuart belbin
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Well with the strong winds that we have had it has not been easy to get to the marks that we would fish at this time of the year but it has made us work harder to find the fish for our customers, We are still getting some good Smothounds and Skate but the Codling are starting to show with more each trip and with Bass, dogs ,whiting and some good Dabs we have been getting some good mixed bags If you haven,t booked for the winter Cod season yet Start thinking now!After last years fantastic season this year looks like it will be as good with bigger fish, I have had reports that the fish are much bigger so don,t be dissapointed!!!
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12/09/2009
Fishing Report by Alex kweller
on Predator (Poole, Dorset)
12 Sep 2009 by Alex kweller
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A big thank you to the lads at Breaksea Boats who delivered Predator to me on Saturday. Their journey from Brixham was not for the faint hearted as they had to contend with strong easterly winds.
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12/09/2009
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
12 Sep 2009 by Scott Belbin
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well it seems like the autumn fish are here now, apart from the wind making the conditions a little uncomfortable we found some at the weekend. we started the day in the deeper water trying to aviod the swell but when the tide changed we were able to get where we wanted and were soon into much better fishing. we finished the day with 32 thornbacks aswell as a load of bits and bobs. a few codling have started to show inshore now although we didnt have any some of the other boats that stayed closer in saw some to 5-6lbs and i reckon we will see a few more of these on this next set of big tides this weekend.
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09/09/2009
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
9 Sep 2009 by Colin Penny
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THE CREAM OF DEVONSHIRE WITH A BIT OF CORNISH - Mark Collins and friends from Dartmouth and Gordon from Cornwall travelled to Weymouth for a day aboard Flamer III to sample the black bream and flatty fishing and they were not dissapointed.Breezy conditions did not make things easy for them.First we stopped and caught plenty of mackerel for bait.Then several drifts on the mussel beds on the edge of the Portland race produced some reasonable black bream on squid strips and scollop frill baits.Then a move for a session on the famous Shambles Bank saw four Brill,two turbot and plaice come aboard along with some gurnards and more mackerel.The suceessful bait being mackerel strip.The lads were well happy and vowed to come back for another trip.Pictured is Mark Collins with his first ever Brill which weighed 5Ib 8oz.
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08/09/2009
Fishing Report by Ray Burn
on Grey Viking (Brighton, East Sussex)
8 Sep 2009 by Ray Burn
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Fantastic weather and a great day out ground fishing. It seemed the fish fancied a bit of sunbathing too as they were eager to take the hook and spend a while onboard. Plenty of fish were caught today. Bream were in abundance and one lucky lady landed a tope. Smiles all round.
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09/2009
Fishing Report by Bob Marshall
on Duke IV (Ramsgate, Kent)
Sep 2009 by Bob Marshall
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After a long and interesting summer with excellent Cod fishing on the wrecks with good numbers of doubles, we are finding them inshore now early September, this is early and may, we hope, be a prelude to an excellent winter. Plenty of Whiting around, the Bass seem to be chasing these more since the decline in sandeels. Seeing 12oz Whiting being chased to the surface and the herring gulls trying to eat what’s really too big can be amusing as they fight over the unfortunate fish. The Bass fishing has been sporadic, shoaling some days and others can’t find them anywhere with just the odd fish showing. Quality Skate still around just last week Jed fishing with Nic Farmers group returned a pregnant female of 13lb. Mackerel still thin on the ground, perhaps due to the winds constantly stirring up the water, fresh mackerel the best summer bait for Skate, frustrating when you struggle to get enough. The Bass should stay around until October so on a good day it’s possible to get a Ramsgate grand slam of Bass, Cod, Smoothound and Skate all in the one day ! View Boats Page
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09/2009
Fishing Report by gary humm
on Swin Ranger (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Sep 2009 by gary humm
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saterday the 5th and sunday the 6th of sept not exactly smoking rod tips but the winter cod are starting to appear weights of between 2 to 4 lb also with the odd stray bass and thornback things are looking up at last the weather was pretty grim on saterday but no sickness so it has to be a good day as the month progresses im sure it will only get better as for sunday the weather was slightly better but the fishing was more spread out when they came it was brief and then a long patient wait for the next lot roll on the cold weather for some cracking cod fishing
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