Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom

  • 01/04/2009 Fishing Report by fred smith on Crimson Tide (Poole, Dorset)

    1 Apr 2009 by fred smith

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    Well to start our day off we had a 25 mile steam to get sand eels which were to be used for bait which certainly ended up paying high dividends. After arriving at the first wreck which was yet another 24 mile steam south of Portland we soon had 41 Pollock on board between the three of us, and in two and a half hours thats not bad fishing i must admit, but that left us with a 42 mile steam home with plenty of time to talk about the day i.e getting on the boat at 7-15am and getting back to port at 11pm,that is one long day.The two in the picture are Tommy Smith on the left and Ronny Lake on the right with some of the catch, with the best Pollock going 13lb 5oz.

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  • 28/03/2009 Fishing Report by fred smith on Crimson Tide (Poole, Dorset)

    28 Mar 2009 by fred smith

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    The day started with 6 of the most unlikely candidates led by David Fagan. The weather for the day was not favourable with a strong NNW wind and a big spring tide,so we talked tactics whilst they tucked into there bacon rolls and fresh piping hot coffee. We came up with the idea of fishing dancing ledge for early bream or the odd undulate ray ,Well that plan didn’t work all we had was two dogfish so I decided to go 7 miles south to catch the slackening tide and try to fish a wreck. On arriving the wind was howling from the north and bloody cold, after a quick drift to estimate the tide it showed it had eased down to 1.5 knots good enough to chuck the hook in.
    Within 10 minutes we had and lost our first conger then shorty who was 6ft7in tall caught an eel of 46lb which gave us a good bench mark to carry on for the next hour and a half in the tide window. In all we landed 5 eels between 31lb and 46lb and dropped 4 so worth the effort but of all things I forgot to bring the camera so no pictures. We then returned back to dancing ledge to try the ebb but to no avail just the odd dogfish, so while dodging the rain storms we returned to port and agreed that we had had a good day in tough conditions.

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  • 22/03/2009 Fishing Report by Dave Lumley on Famous (Hartlepool, Durham)

    22 Mar 2009 by Dave Lumley

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    Hi fishing has just started to pick up here at Hartlepool we were out on the wrecks on sun 22/3/09 six of us were fishing and we had 46 cod all 3-6lb .hopefully it will start to improve all the time now

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  • 21/03/2009 Fishing Report by fred smith on Crimson Tide (Poole, Dorset)

    21 Mar 2009 by fred smith

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    With a fine day weather wise in prospect we pushed off out to the Rip's to fish the small neap tide which would give us the chance to anchor the wrecks and banks which would normally be unfishable. James Smith's first eel of the day pushed the scales round to 72lb which was the new boat record, it was a lively beast which he could not hold up for the photo, shame does not do the eel justice.In total we had 15 eels and 3 rays up to 26lb 6oz plus the usual bits and pieces to keep them ocupied while Craig ate all the pie's.
    All fish were released with the exception of a 20lb conger which was kept for the table, strange i would sooner have had a sea food platter made up out of the bait we had left at the end of the day but thats angling.

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  • 22/03/2009 Fishing Report by Colin Penny on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)

    22 Mar 2009 by Colin Penny

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    Richard Christian from Dorset lands personal best Ling weiging 26Ib.Bait was squid,mackerel and pout cocktail.Richard also landed several double figure pollack using a flying collar rig a sidewinder lure.

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  • 21/03/2009 Fishing Report by Colin Penny on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)

    21 Mar 2009 by Colin Penny

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    David Coppin of the Three Tuns SAC landed the first plaice to be caught on Flamer III in 2009.

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  • 02/2009 Fishing Report by Colin Penny on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)

    Feb 2009 by Colin Penny

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    February 2009 - wrecking was a bit spazmodic but did come good towards the end of the month with some good size pollack being caught and a few ling. February Flamer Fish of The Month - Iain Genders Pollack 15Ib.10 different species caught on Flamer III so far in 2009.

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  • 15/03/2009 Fishing Report by Allan Skinner on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)

    15 Mar 2009 by Allan Skinner

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    out sunday gone 15th march a nice spring like day. tryed 6 or 7 wrecks with a few fish coming of all wrecks. one wreck mid afternoon fished steady producing a fish or 2 each drift. with a ling of 14.5lbs coming off this wreck this proved to be the best fish of the day.all in all. a reasonable day with cod upto 8.5lbs
    roll on the summer

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  • 01/2009 Fishing Report by gary humm on Swin Ranger (Brightlingsea, Essex)

    Jan 2009 by gary humm

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    fishing was slow from dec 08 till the end of jan 09 and now the sprats have moved of
    a good run of cod is back the largest cod being 7~8 pounds whiting are still very far and few between as are the thorn backs but with weather picking up im sure its only a matter of time before the first skate of the year comes aboard

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  • 03/2009 Fishing Report by allan mckernan on Racheal Jane (Lowestoft, Suffolk)

    Mar 2009 by allan mckernan

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    STILL CATHING PLENTY OF COD INSHORE POSSIBLY LAST TILL END OF MONTH

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