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27/12/2020
Fishing Report by Jon Whitton
on Alexia (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
27 Dec 2020 by Jon Whitton
Report on-board Alexia
Cracking day today for the lads on the alexia, with non stop action on the uptide grounds. Once the flood tide came through it was a fish a Chuck with some cracking cod coming aver the rails with plenty around the 5lb mark and the biggest around 8lb. We also had 7 year old Ben out for his first ever boat fishing trip and it wasn’t long before he was into his first ever cod of around 4lb and that was him instantly hooked on fishing, the look on the lads face when his rod kept nodding it really was great to see and fantastic to see the youngsters getting into fishing. We also ran a couple of trips in the run up to Christmas with a steady picking of codlings. With the recent north easterlies the water was like pea soup and the squid and blacks cocktails worked a treat.
Some better fish starting to show there heads now it’s looking promising for the month ahead.
For more info or for availability
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19/12/2020
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
19 Dec 2020 by Rich Ward
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Some nice uptiding when the tides are right at the moment.
A nice day at sea on Sunday with our group of 5 lads.
We fished inshore at anchor as the forecast wasn't good enough for an offshore trip.
The lads fished the baited rigs again using the black lug, squid, peeler etc and ended up with around 25 fish for their efforts.
Rich Askew from Harrogate took the best codling at 6lb .
Give me a ring after Xmas if you fancy a day.
Cheers Rich
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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 -
12/2020
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Dec 2020 by Kevin McKie
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2020 has definitely got to be the year most memorable for all the wrong reasons.
As the year draws to a close we thought it’s the right time to have a recap at how the year unfolded and how we have managed to survive as a small business to hopefully see many more years to come.
January to mid February fishing in the Mersey was in full swing, catch up to 56 cod per trip to 9lb but most where 2.5lb to 3lb, Rays to 10lb, Whiting, Flounder and Dabs.
We only done a few wrecking trips during this time due to the very bad weather, when we did get out we where catching 60+ Pollack to 12lb 8oz and a few Cod.
This was the first time we have ever caught Pollack in Liverpool Bay with roe in during the winter months, this bolds well for a future winter Pollack fishery like on the south coast.
End of February to March seen us move to Scotland for the Giant Skate, because we had commitments to do a hosted fishing holiday abroad later in March we could only do two weeks in Scotland.
So we took the opportunity to hire Buoy Alba a 30ft Evo owed by a good friend Davie, the boat is excellent and more than capable for what we needed.
Sadly we only managed to get less than half the charters on due to the constant SW gales, the trips we did manage to get in where excellent, John Frayne managed the biggest Skate of 225lb a cracking fish.
The Norwegian lads done the best they managed 41 Skate for a total weight of 7211lb over the few days they fished with us, there biggest Skate was 208lb and all four of them landed Skate over 200lb!!
We treated the Norwegian lads to big night out playing bingo at the local pub, we actually had a great time and they will be our friends forever.
Mid March seen us head to Rodrigues island for a hosted fishing holiday just as COVID-19 started to take its grip on the world.
The fishing was good plenty of fish to 50lb and the lads where happy until we got the call to leave the island before they went into full lockdown.
At the time of the call on the skippers satellite phone where where over 100 miles from shore on a live aboard charter.
So we had to head back and cut the holiday very short, when we arrived back at Rodrigues island we had to pack and go straight to the airport, we managed to get on the last flight out of Rodrigues to Mauritius.
As we got off the plane in Mauritius it was like something from a film, there was police and army everywhere, Mauritius was in full lockdown you could not leave the airport.
There was people in the airport who had been sleeping there for days and there was only a few flights available to Europe before the airport closed in a few days time.
After lots of phone calls and panicking because our bank cards would not work in Mauritius for some reason, our good friend Davie in Glasgow managed to get two of us on the last flight to Glasgow and the other three lads on the last flight to Newcastle.
What a fiasco and something that would definitely put you off going abroad every again.
As we got home we where all glad to see our family and friends, but then things went from bad to worst case scenario, the UK went into full lockdown.
For us as a small business this was extremely bad because we where fully booked in Plymouth from April to October and the boat was still in Liverpool.
As the Lockdown went on things where looking very bad especially with no help at the time from the government because we did not pay business council tax rates.
As we got to the end of April we decided to cancel all charters in Plymouth for 2020 and move who we could to 2021, this was a very bitter pill to swallow and we where thinking how the hell are we going to get through this.
As we moved into May there was some good news on the horizon, Plymouth City Council helped out the charter boats and the government started the furlough scheme and back dated it.
As the government relaxed the lockdown in mid May, we where allowed to operate with only one other person on the boat, now not everyone can afford a whole boat charter so this ment it was time to get our scouse thinking cap on and we came up with the Size Matters commemorative swivel free prize draw.
This was an instant hit with our anglers and after a few weeks we managed to finally get our prop turning so we started earning thank god.
Throughout June and July when we could get out due to the constant NW, W, SW winds we managed to show case just what the fishing can be like from Liverpool during the summer.
Our best day on a 12 hour wrecking trip was the lads from Layland and District S.A.C who managed to catch 155 Pollack, Cod, Coalfish and Ling between 8 of them.
On out best day on a 23 hour wrecking trip the lads known as Team Poland managed to catch 230 Pollack, Cod, Coalfish and Ling between 8 of them.
The Tope fishing was excellent especially on the first and only Isle of Man trip we managed to get on this year due to the weather, the four boat pikey’s we had onboard managed to catch 64 Tope to 30lb in the first five hours of fishing!!
Our best day from Liverpool for Tope was 14 boated to 42lb and 8 losted, on other days there was Huss to 14lb and rays to 12lb they where so think on the ground your bait was not lasting 5 minutes, on one trip I remember counting over 70 Huss being caught on the one trip!
Sadly our biggest Tope of the year was only 47lb, In years gone by Tope to well over 60lb are caught each year in Liverpool Bay.
August seen us getting some refunds for family holidays and fishing holidays that never happened due to Covid-19, so this give us the opportunity to do something that has always been on our list of things to do with Size Matters.
It was time to hit the continental shelf off the west coast of Ireland some 400 miles from Liverpool, to do a trip like this you need to be one of two things, have an unhealthy interest in fishing or you are mentally insane, but we are way past both of them.
Myself and the crew had a trip of a lifetime not just for fishing but for the adventure as well, fishing in over 3500ft of water in the Atlantic ocean flat calm with the sun beating down on us drinking a beer and eating fresh Albacore tuna, believe me this is what life it’s self is all about.
We learnt so much on this trip, we caught our first Albacore Tuna, first Stone Bass but it was tickled into the boat not on rod and line, we had our first encounter with a Mako shark in UK waters, we thought know one would believe us after it rolled in the line but only a few weeks later a very big Mako was caught by a boat from Wales only a few miles from where we where fishing.
We had our first Blue Fin Tuna over 500lb according to the measurement charts 92inch to 94inch estimated in the water, it was caught on a wire trace while sharking with a 4lb Cod as bait.
We also caught lots of Blue Sharks now know as Blue Dogfish because they where a pest, we had a few Porgies over 100lb, just the one small Six Gill Shark about 80lb, Cod, Pollack, Ling, Coalfish, Squid and Blue Whiting.
The real star of the trip was a shark called a Leafscaled Gulper Shark, we all caught them from 20lb to 30lb, at the time we just thought they where a deep water Spurdog species that smelt of urine and thought nothing of it.
After we returned and done some research we found out they have never been caught on rod and line before in Ireland or the UK and the ones we caught could of potentially been not only Irish records but world records because there is so little known about the species.
From the end of August to end of September the Bass fish took off and we managed to fine tune our approach when targeting them, on our best day the lads caught and released bang on 100 Bass, all on very light spinning gear, on an average day we where catching 40 to 60 Bass with the biggest going 7lb 12oz thats pretty good going for Liverpool.
We also had an Isle of Man trip cancelled so I offered the lads the chance to head south where the weather forecast was ment to be much better, they all jumped at the chance.
We caught Blue Fine Tuna to 470lb 88inch estimated in the water while shark fishing, Porgies to 140lb and lost one over 200lb after it bit through the wire trace and Blue Dogfish to 104lb.
Then the weather turned for the worst and it was time to head home on a very long steam back to scouse land.
October November and December the UK went into the dreaded tire system and regional lockdowns, there was no way we where tying up the boat if we could legally operate, after lots of calls to different authorities emails and legal advice giving us all the same answers we decided to carry on as normal using the lockdown legislation as our guide to make sure we stayed on the right side of the law.
Thankfully we did with no issues what so ever, this just goes to show there are Associations and Trusts out there giving advice to stay in port when some charter businesses are fully legally entitled to operate depending how there business is set up.
The fishing during these months was and still is very good the wrecks are producing 60 to 80 Pollack per trip to 10lb and again we are seeing roe in them.
The Mersey has been full of Rays to 10lb that can be a pain at times, upto 19 Cod per trip to 11lb with the average being 6lb to 7lb, (we have never seen Cod in the Mersey average this size in the lads 25 years), odd Conger to 14lb, Whiting, Dabs and Flounder.
The plan for 2021 is to stay in Liverpool until the end of January then head to Scotland to fish for Giant Skate until mid May, we are in contact with the Scottish transport minister’s office and the local authorities in the area.
So far it looks good but due to different laws and legislation in Scotland this could change at any time so we are keeping a very close eye on it.
Sadly we will not be going to Plymouth in 2021 due to the tire system in place 95% of our anglers need accommodation in Plymouth because they travel from all over the UK and Ireland to fish with us for 1 to 5 days at a time.
If Plymouth was to go into tire 3 and all accommodation was closed we would lose all charters and that’s not a risk we want to take, hopefully in the future we will be back in Plymouth for the summer months.
This now means we will be in Liverpool from May 2021 for the forcible future, good news is we are fully booked till October 2021.
There is four groups of anglers booked on for some amazing trips from Liverpool in 2021 please keep these trips close to your chest and all being well we push the boundaries of UK charter fishing even further than ever before!!
We would like to thank our sponsors Shimano UK for there support and amazing quality fishing tackle that’s helped us land all our fish mentioned over the last three years and long may it continue.
The biggest thank you of all is to everyone who has fish with us this year from Liverpool in these testing times to say the least with out your continued support we would not be able to do the job we love.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Thanks
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters (Liverpool)
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12/2020
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
Dec 2020 by Mark Peters
Report on-board DAWN TIDE II
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to every one !!!
After todays news it looks like my 2020 season has come to an end so my remaining 2020 bookings will have to be cancelled unfortunately due new covid 19 restrictions again!
I promise i will be back in action in 2021 as soon as restrictions get lifted.
I Just want to say a big thank you to all of you who come aboard over the last 10 years and supported me especially in these uncertain times thank you.
We had a fantastic 2020 season as always lots of laughs and lots of fish including many PBs lets hope 2021 is just as good or even better.
My 2021 diary is open and its filling nicely hope to see all new and returning customers next season until then stay safe everyone have a great Christmas regardless.
ps get ready for spring onwards when @dawn_tide_charters will be hitting the fishing hard !!!!! View Boats Page
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19/12/2020
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
19 Dec 2020 by Lee Brown
Report on-board Kelsey Leigh charter
Good day cod around 4 lb and a nice 10 half lb cod for rob
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19/12/2020
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
19 Dec 2020 by Lee Brown
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Well good laff asalways cod around 4 lb a biggest 10 half lb
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18/12/2020
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
18 Dec 2020 by Paul Kilpatrick
Report on-board Sea Otter 2
Another cracking days fishing for the lads on Sea-Otter 2 , the weather has been up and down but when the weather lets we are taking advantage of some very nice fishing fish to 7-8 lb but plenty 3-6 lb .Loads more to come ��
A few spots next week ��
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15/12/2020
Fishing Report by Rich Ward
on Shy-Torque III (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
15 Dec 2020 by Rich Ward
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A great day uptiding just half a mile from the harbour on Tuesday .
Cod averaging the 4 to 5lb mark. A mixture of baits used including squid, black lug, mussel etc...
Perry Franklin taking the best catch with around 12 fish himself.
Room for a couple on Tuesday next week then that will be it until after Xmas.
Cheers
Rich
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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 -
12/2020
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
Dec 2020 by brian poppy
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The fishing has been very good just lately with a run of small Cod to keep us all very happy with fish all between 2lb--4lb iam sure there will be some bigger fish show up very soon iam hoping to get out to the shoal as at this time of year we normally get those fish that we used to get 40 years ago off the beach,have a great xmas all and look forward to seeing you in 2021 to book a trip call 07771926590.
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12/2020
Fishing Report by Andy Bridson
on Patricia Rose (Plymouth, Devon)
Dec 2020 by Andy Bridson
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DEC REPORT - LOCKDOWN TWO AND PLYMOUTH WINTER FISHING
Following the first lock down and the subsequent travel restrictions, the great British 'Staycation' did us proud and here at Patricia Rose Charters we were able to welcome many new customers from a wide range of backgrounds. We have introduced lots of families to the joys of fishing both inshore and offshore and our lady anglers have also produced some very memorable fish including 20lb plus Blonde Rays. As is common when the Blonde Rays come onto the banks, you find yourself , as with most of the year, in competition with those commercial boys who will happily take everything for profit leaving nothing for sport. Our anglers respect the fish and frequently return most big females. As a skipper, I am constantly trying to find the exact mark to drop the anchor to avoid commercial nets and deliver results for the anglers. This often means dropping, setting and resetting several times to find the fish. Just before LD2 we managed to find a patch of good fish producing lovely double figure cod. I took the boat out towards the end of LD2 to give the engines a good run and checked the same mark fishing it with a slow pitch 60 gram jig. Despite the depth and the tide I managed to land a 9lb and 11lb Cod as well as a nice Red Couches Bream. The next time I returned post LD2 with a party of paying anglers it was no surprise that the mark was netted probably taking every last decent fish off it. The start of Dec seen me pick up a SWAF SAC booking and despite the time of year we hit every mark with our target fish and more. On one drift we hit 6 different species. What a day hitting Cod, Black Bream, Ling, Coalfish, big chubb Mackerel, Pollock, Whiting, Scad, Cuckoo and Ballan Wrasse, Squid, Poor Cod, Pout, Pilchard. The weather has forced us into the Sound recently but we continue to get out and are looking forward to getting offshore again to see what the commercial boys have left us. Thanks for your support in 2020, tight lines, merry Christmas, stay safe and here's to a better 2021. View Boats Page
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