Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom
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30/05/2021
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
30 May 2021 by Rich Ward
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After the rubbish day we had on Friday we decided a run to the wall was in order yesterday.
The fishing wasn’t startling but the lads managed to gather around 30 fish for their efforts.
Codling to 5lb and a ling to around 6lb.
Squid baited rigs fishing the best.
This young lad showed the elders how to go on and also landed himself a nice double up!
Cheers
Rich
07733 233352
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Shy-Torque III
View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 17/11/2024 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 19/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 21/11/2024 8 Spaces 8 Hours Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 25/11/2024 7 Spaces 9 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Room for 7 anglers. Excellent wrecking tide. 4.4m. Will sail with just 4 anglers. James 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 26/11/2024 5 Spaces 8 Hours Need 1 more for trip go-ahead. Room for 5 anglers. Excellent wrecking tide. 4.6m. Will sail with just 4 anglers. James 1. Dave Bradshaw 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 30/11/2024 5 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 4 anglers. John Price 1. Rich Wallen 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 01/12/2024 7 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Si England 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 15/12/2024 1 Space 8 Hours Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition starts. Cash prizes! Room for 1. Si England 1. Rich Reynolds 2. Andy Howard 4. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 16/12/2024 1 Space 8 Hours Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition. Cash prizes! Room for 1 angler. Al Sutcliffe 1. Cliff A 4. Lawrence Byrne 1. Chris Williamson 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 17/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition. Cash prizes! Room for 6 anglers. Olly 1. Lawrence Byrne 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details -
29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Nick Gough
on Skylark (Scarborough, North Yorkshire)
29 May 2021 by Nick Gough
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Another good trip out today
Best fish today was a 7lb 3oz pollock but there was also a good few pollock around 4 to 5lb
Not as many bigger cod today most around 2 to 3lb and loads of smaller just size returned. Best cod was 5lb
Loads of pouting, ballen wrasse, dogfish caught also and returned to fight another day.
Overal everyone has a good few fish to catch and take home for tea
Our first 3 hour trip of the year
A very impressed result for me some really good fish in just a short time fishing.
Young Charlie age 7 showed everybody up and bagged the biggest and most fish catching 3 cod, 2 dogfish and a pouting
Hopefully this is fishing now picking up View Boats Page
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29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Rob Lee
on Luna-Sea (Merlin) (Liverpool, Merseyside)
29 May 2021 by Rob Lee
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***Fishing Report May 2021***
Merlin has been a busy boat of late and the fishing is really starting to pick up with lots of species back in our waters.
The general fishing is good and every trip has produced lovely fish of a vast variety.
Some of the Species caught in the past week are as follows:
Tope
Smooth-Hound
Bull Huss
Thornback Rays
Mackerel
Whiting
Bass
Dab's
Flounder
Gurnard
Dogfish
Herring
Launce
Our Bookings are filling up very quickly now and we have very limited availability in the coming weeks so if you would like to book a trip, please visit our website www.merlincharters.co.uk to check our dates and call Sarah on 07863774909 to secure your trip. View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Luna-Sea (Merlin)
View Full Charter AvailabilityWed 20/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 03:15 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Thu 21/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 03:55 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Fri 22/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 04:35 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Mon 25/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 07:45 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Wed 27/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 09:50 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Thu 28/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 10:40 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Fri 29/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 11:20 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Sat 30/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 12:00 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Fri 06/12/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 03:20 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details Sat 07/12/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours £70.00pp Need 5 more for trip go-ahead. Liverpool Sailing @ 04:00 Cod / Conger Eel / Dab / Thornback Ray / Whiting.View details -
29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
29 May 2021 by Allan Skinner
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sat 29th may
another cracking days fishing fog never lifted all day. but that didnt stop the fish playing .with well over 60 fish boated. from both wrecks and ground marks,
some nice ling upto 10lbs and cod to 8.5lbs
pic darren with some of his fish nice one darren View Boats Page
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28/05/2021
Fishing Report by Andy Savage
on Sea Urchin IIl (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
28 May 2021 by Andy Savage
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It ain't all Champagne and Skittles......
I'm not one for pulling a bluff; and it's fair to say that the last two days fishing have been very hard. After the strong winds, the water has been stirred up again and is holding a lot of colour. Combined with big tides and a bit of swell; we've certainly had our work cut out.
Fishing has been best an hour either side of slack water and we've picked off a few fish; with an 8lb 8oz Ling being pick of the fish for Don "Wang" from Kings Lynn. There are signs of the Mackerel making an appearance, but these fish were taken from above a wreck at 18 miles.
Whether you're catching or not, I will do everything I can to tip the balance in your favour. All I want, is happy anglers who get a few fish to take home. Lets hope the water clears out in the next day or so.
Tight Lines
Andy
07855 439380 View Boats Page
UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Sea Urchin IIl
View Full Charter AvailabilityTue 19/11/2024 1 Space Available Uptiding Trip - 5.50 David Craine - x 2 Joe Clough - x 1 Ian Hepworth - x 2 John Ditchfield - x 1 Damian Walker - x 1View details Tue 26/11/2024 1 Space Available Good Wrecking Tide - 4.67m Paul Stone - x 2 Steve Ralphson - x 2 Chris Chatham - x 1 Rob Stevens - x 1 Bod - x 2View details Tue 03/12/2024 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.22m Dave & Del - x 2 Neil Kennedy - x 2View details Fri 06/12/2024 4 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.97m Ian Purdom - x 1 Joe Clough - x 1 Craig Henshaw - x 2View details Sat 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 Mon 09/12/2024 7 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 4.88m Will sail with 4 anglers. Joe Clough - x 1View details Sat 14/12/2024 3 Spaces Available Uptiding Trip - 5.46m Jeff Mosey - x 4 Oliver Venus - x 1View 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 -
29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
29 May 2021 by Lee Brown
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Lovely day cod all day long cod to 12 lb call lee for spaces ������������
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28/05/2021
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
28 May 2021 by Lee Brown
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Lovely day out plenty cod cod to 4 lb call lee 4 spaces
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29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
29 May 2021 by Rich Ward
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Talk about “after the Lord Mayor’s show!)
After the great fishing 2 and 3 weeks ago we returned back yesterday after a week off.
Completely crap is the way I’d describe it !!!
6 fish boated all day and 3 of those were chuck backs!
The last weeks Northerly swell on the big tides has scuppered us temporarily with the water clouding up again. Still, at least the sun shone and the sea was calm!
That’s why we call it fishing and not catching I guess and I’m a big believer in saying it as it is.
The current settled conditions will help clear it out quickly.
Cheers for now and hopefully today’s rods will bend more than they did yesterday LOL!!
Cheers
Rich
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UPCOMING INDIVIDUAL SPACES ONBOARD Shy-Torque III
View Full Charter AvailabilitySun 17/11/2024 8 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 19/11/2024 8 Spaces 9 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3 anglers. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Thu 21/11/2024 8 Spaces 8 Hours Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 3. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 25/11/2024 7 Spaces 9 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Room for 7 anglers. Excellent wrecking tide. 4.4m. Will sail with just 4 anglers. James 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 26/11/2024 5 Spaces 8 Hours Need 1 more for trip go-ahead. Room for 5 anglers. Excellent wrecking tide. 4.6m. Will sail with just 4 anglers. James 1. Dave Bradshaw 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sat 30/11/2024 5 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 4 anglers. John Price 1. Rich Wallen 2. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 01/12/2024 7 Spaces 8 Hours Need 3 more for trip go-ahead. Uptiding trip. Will sail with just 4 anglers. Si England 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Sun 15/12/2024 1 Space 8 Hours Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition starts. Cash prizes! Room for 1. Si England 1. Rich Reynolds 2. Andy Howard 4. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Mon 16/12/2024 1 Space 8 Hours Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition. Cash prizes! Room for 1 angler. Al Sutcliffe 1. Cliff A 4. Lawrence Byrne 1. Chris Williamson 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details Tue 17/12/2024 6 Spaces 8 Hours Need 2 more for trip go-ahead. Shy-Torque Uptiding Competition. Cash prizes! Room for 6 anglers. Olly 1. Lawrence Byrne 1. Cod / Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) / Ling (Common) / Pollock.View details -
05/2021
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
May 2021 by Scott Belbin
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Although I never rule anything out with sea fishing, it is safe to say our spring season on the spurdogs is now over. Due to the lockdown from Christmas onwards we lost a large chunk of our season this year. However the northerly winds throughout April bought the water temperature down and helped keep them here long enough for us to find a few.
To be honest Stacey and I couldn’t resist heading out on our own during the lockdown. We had a lot of work done to the Galloper while we couldn’t operate. Once she was back in the water we wanted to give her a good run to check everything was ok which was a great excuse to head offshore. As well as finding vast amounts of dogfish and a few roker we located the spurs too. Of course Stacey had the biggest at 17.8lbs shortly before we headed home.
Our next trip was with a group of lads from Norfolk, the lads have all fished with me before various times. Some have been off for spurs with me before and others like Tom were one their first trip. Tom told me he would be happy to catch a 2lb spur as that would be his first and therefore a new personnel best. After a good steam out we arrived at our first mark and the lads sent their first baits out. First cast and Tom had a bite, it was fighting better than a dogfish but wasn’t of any size. As luck would have it he had a spurdog on his first cast! It wasn’t much bigger than that 2lb but it was a start. this wasn’t the only spur around either as one or two others started to come out too. Billy was fishing next to Tom and soon pulled in the first double of the day. this was a lovely fish of 16.8lbs in weight. A couple of other double figure spurs followed for Tom, Dean and Steve but Billy must have trodden in something as he was finding the big girls. We had a move in between but billy had a great run of double figure fish starting with one at 16.8lb followed by a 17.6lb, 18.4lb three at 14lb and a 15 before I stopped counting! A couple of packs of big females passed through after which everybody had double figure fish including Joe and Ian. After Toms modest target of just catching his first spur of any size he went on to crown the day off with a cracking fish of 22.6lbs! this was obviously a PB for him but also a new boat record for me on the Galloper beating Stacey’s long standing fish of 21.3lb from back in 2007/2008 some time.
We finished the day off with 37 spurdog, several roker, hounds a few whiting and plenty of dogfish. our next few spur trips didn’t disappoint either. We had to work harder to find them on some day than we did on others but we still found some good fish. one of our regulars Leon Saville has tried a few trips for spurs over the last couple of years without much luck. However his persistence paid off with a lovely double figure fish on his first trip this year. The same day produced some big for all on board including Neon with a mid-double and Dave with a beast that just broke the 20lb mark. The next trip saw Russells crew boat even more Spurs with several more mid doubles up to 18.8lbs.
Our best trip of the year was when all the ducks seemed to line up. The weather was typically snotty on the way out although it settled a bit during the day. our first mark produced very little appart from a few roker but a short more made all the difference and the fish came steadily throughout the rest of the day. As is often the case when there are numbers we had a lot more smaller ‘pack’ spurs but there were no shortage of big girls out there too. At times I was nothing short of carnage as a pack passed through and several fish went banging away down the tide. once again there were lots of mid doubles mixed in and a couple of upper doubles too including two over 19lb for Steve Hill and Stephen Clarke.
After seeing all these big female spurs It was hardly surprising that our next trip produced a lot of tiny pup spurs. I would wager some of these were not long born. despite struggling between adverse weather and tides we did still find some spurdogs and the biggest fell to Ian Hewett at 15lb. we were now getting very late in the season for spurs and we failed to find any one trip. It wasn’t the last we saw of them though as they had one last hurrah and a few found their way closer inshore before migrating for the summer.
Its not only spurs we see on our offshore trips and we have been lucky enough to catch a few hounds and roker each time. We caught one or two of each into double figures too mixed in with the spurs. There have been lots of dogfish and a few whiting as well as a few other species here and there as we try different marks depending on tides and weather. We had a few bass, a codling and a coalfish, a nice brace of pollock and even a spotted ray. This fishing is not for beginners and to be honest I wont take bookings from just anybody for these trips. The fishing can be challenging, the conditions can be tough (we were offshore on days other boats cancelled) and it can be hit and miss. As long as we are allowed to operate as normal this winter I will be running my first spurdog trips from January next year. For now my offshore trips will concentrate on tope and then from July right through to mid-november my offshore trips will be targeting bass. These are better suited to anglers of most abilities although the sea conditions can be a little testing for those without sea legs.
I don’t really have much availability for tope but I can offer plenty of spaces for offshore bass trips over the coming months. Please remember we encourage catch and release but you are allowed 2 bass per angler in line with the current rules.
NEXT SPACES
I have plenty of midweek availability please contact me to discuss midweek dates.
Weekend spaces as follows
05/06/21- offshore trip 1 spaces @ £90pp max 6 anglers
19/06/21-offshore trip 1 space @ £90pp max 6 anglers
04/07/21-3 spaces offshore trip £90pp max 6 anglers
18/07/21-6 spaces offshore trip £90pp max 6 anglers
25/07/21-6 spaces @ £70pp or boat £400 max 6 anglers
Please call me for more information on 07956411528
Stacey is still operating the ‘lady grace’ on a bookings only basis both mid-week and weekends at the
Moment but and is likely to fall under the same restrictions as me. so please call her on 07791859624
Dad (Stuart) has availability on the ‘Razorbill 3’ please call him on 07850234077
COVID-19 UPDATE
We have now had confirmation that the large deck area on Galloper we have some good news. we are able to accommodate up to 8 anglers plus the skipper as of 17/05/21.
This is great news for anybody planning a full boat booking as they can try and keep the cost per person down a bit.
However we are keeping any existing bookings as 6 anglers plus the skipper for now and I will only take bookings for later in the summer on this basis. I would rather leave the date open for now until we are out of the woods with covid. It wasn’t much fun re-arranging things last year and I hope to avoid it this year if I can help it.
If you wish to book a trip with more than 6 people at short notice and the guidelines are still the same then I will gladly take you. View Boats Page
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View Full Charter AvailabilitySat 23/11/2024 12 Hours £115.00pp Bass.View details Sat 07/12/2024 12 Hours £100.00pp Bass.View details Sat 14/12/2024 View details Sat 21/12/2024 View details -
28/05/2021
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
28 May 2021 by Allan Skinner
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JFK TWO FRIDAY 28TH MAY
at last a weather kind day with a almost flat seas and warm .a bit like summers supposed to be after all its june in a few days
mostly cod in the morning a few here and there. nothing really big most about 3lbs mark still no mackrel yet
a better afternoon once tide turned and started to produce a fair few ling averaging 5-6lbs
and rays ling tipping the scales to 10.5lbs View Boats Page
