Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom
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22/12/2019
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
22 Dec 2019 by Allan Skinner
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Sunday 22nd Dec
another break in the weather gave us another nice day out with seas as nice as any day in the summer. was a little slow in the morning. but a much better afternoon with a good few
cod between 4lbs and 6lbs
picture of sunny and alan with a few of there fish
would just like to wish all our anglers a merry Christmas and happy new year
were hoping to get back out on the 28th and 29th if any body's interested give me a ring
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22/12/2019
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
22 Dec 2019 by Rich Cope
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We put a bit of a red eye special in yesterday, doing 2 trips before we break up for Christmas.
The lads had two blinding trips, the day trip produced what must have been 80-90 cod with the throw backs, the biggest tipping the scales just shy of 7lb.
The night trip saw us boat 40-50 cod to 5.5lb-6lb with throw backs.
I'd like the opportunity to wish all my customers old and new a very merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all again in 2020!
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22/12/2019
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
22 Dec 2019 by Kevin McKie
Report on-board Size Matters
2019 has once again been one hell of a year for Size Matters fishing from three ports around the UK.
Here is how the year unfolded onboard
Size Matters.
SCOTLAND
The Skate fishing from Scotland was truly outstanding at times, we totalled 641 Skate for a total weight of 80,617lb!!!
We averaged 9 Skate a day with the average weight of 125lb 8oz!!
At times we would have four Skate on at once, trying to get them all to the boat in over 600ft of water was challenging at times but we managed it.
442 Skate where female and 199 were male, we caught 44 over 200lb and 359 over 100lb!!
The biggest Skate was caught by Wirrel angler Mick Walsh a cracking fish of 232lb!!
Bert Willams from the Wirral caught the first ever Blue Skate in Scottish waters all 22lb of it, this is an exceptional catch in UK waters.
The most Skate we caught in one days was 37 for a total weight of 2790lb, by Garry Streeter and his lads from South Wales.
The Liverpool A Team consisting of Phil Riley, John Owan, John Mcbride and Paul Hendrick, had the most weight in one day with 20 Skate for a massive total weight of 3590lb!!
The best part about this is all the Skate are out there swimming around to be caught again in future.
We did manage to get two the wrecks a few times and some of the wrecks held massive shoals of Pollack to 9lb, we will be doing much more wrecking in Scotland in the future.
2020 is fully booked in Scotland but we do have dates available for 2021.
PLYMOUTH
When we arrived in Plymouth around mid June we done our first trip of the year to Jurassic Park, catching no less than 12 Six Gill Sharks to around 500lb, the biggest we boated measured and released was 410lb and the smallest was 145lb!!!
That was definitely a trip to tell the gran kids about in the future and a trip that we will try to beat in the next few years.
The wreck fishing on the drift was good from June to the start of August, once the algae bloom started to die and sink to the sea bed the fishing was very hard.
Wreck fishing at anchor for Conger and Ling was slow in June and July due to the lack of fresh bait available, but in August and September the fishing really picked up with up to 70+ Conger and Ling per trip.
Sadly we never caught any big Conger this year our best fish was 55lb, we did catch some monster Ling this year to 39lb 8oz a new boat record.
Shark fishing was very poor from June to July because of the massive algae bloom we had, I got told by a marine biologist it was the worst algae bloom in 10 years, just goes to show how polluted our oceans really are.
Once the algae bloom started to die and sink to the sea bed in August the shark fishing picked up a bit with our best day catching 19 Blue Sharks on a 23 hour trip and 11 Blue Sharks on a 12 hour trip, this is still very poor compared to previous years.
In July we had big plans to go well off the charts but sadly the weather put a stop to that so plan B was to try for Thresher Sharks.
We managed to pull it out the bag catching three Thresher Sharks to 150lb, pulled the hook on two more and missed one!!
This was the 7th species over 100lb caught onboard Size Matters in UK waters.
It was great to do a trip like this for the first time and learn so much in just a short space of time.
It was definitely a very strange season in Plymouth not like any we have had in the last four years, the algae bloom didn’t help things either.
We only seen a few Sunfish this year, in the pasted I have seen 17 in just one day.
There was no Atlantic Bonito this year and last year you could catch them daily in September and October.
We only caught one John Dory this year and last year we caught 11.
This was the first time the wrecking fishing on the drift was over in August normally you can still chip away catching Pollack, Cod and Ling right through the year.
From the start of August the weather got more unsettled as the season went on, we had so many good trips booked in but the weather put a stop to them.
Even sailing to Liverpool we normally do some fishing on the way but the weather window was too small so we had to do the 360 miles none stop.
2020 is fully booked from Plymouth and we only have a few individual places available in 2021.
LIVERPOOL
We arrived in Liverpool around mid October, we decided to target the off shore wrecks when the weather allowed and fish the Mersey as a back up.
The wrecking was fantastic catching plenty of Pollack to 11lb 8oz, most where 4lb to 7lb.
The Mersey in October to the end of November was full of Rays to 10lb, Whiting to 1lb 8oz and upto 20 Cod per trip to 9lb.
As we went into December most of the Rays and Whiting moved off shore, this increased the Cod catches up to 39 per trip.
We have available dates in 2020 for the Mersey and Wrecking.
Once again we have some very big plans for 2020, we just need the weather on our side and a bit of luck.
We would to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors Shimano UK, everyone who fished with us and helped us out during 2019, we appreciate the continued support.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters
07999628511.
mckiesfishingcharters@hotmail.com
#Scotland
#Plymouth
#Liverpool
#Shimano
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22/12/2019
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Plymouth, Devon)
22 Dec 2019 by Kevin McKie
Report on-board Size Matters
2019 has once again been one hell of a year for Size Matters fishing from three ports around the UK.
Here is how the year unfolded onboard
Size Matters.
SCOTLAND
The Skate fishing from Scotland was truly outstanding at times, we totalled 641 Skate for a total weight of 80,617lb!!!
We averaged 9 Skate a day with the average weight of 125lb 8oz!!
At times we would have four Skate on at once, trying to get them all to the boat in over 600ft of water was challenging at times but we managed it.
442 Skate where female and 199 were male, we caught 44 over 200lb and 359 over 100lb!!
The biggest Skate was caught by Wirrel angler Mick Walsh a cracking fish of 232lb!!
Bert Willams from the Wirral caught the first ever Blue Skate in Scottish waters all 22lb of it, this is an exceptional catch in UK waters.
The most Skate we caught in one days was 37 for a total weight of 2790lb, by Garry Streeter and his lads from South Wales.
The Liverpool A Team consisting of Phil Riley, John Owan, John Mcbride and Paul Hendrick, had the most weight in one day with 20 Skate for a massive total weight of 3590lb!!
The best part about this is all the Skate are out there swimming around to be caught again in future.
We did manage to get two the wrecks a few times and some of the wrecks held massive shoals of Pollack to 9lb, we will be doing much more wrecking in Scotland in the future.
2020 is fully booked in Scotland but we do have dates available for 2021.
PLYMOUTH
When we arrived in Plymouth around mid June we done our first trip of the year to Jurassic Park, catching no less than 12 Six Gill Sharks to around 500lb, the biggest we boated measured and released was 410lb and the smallest was 145lb!!!
That was definitely a trip to tell the gran kids about in the future and a trip that we will try to beat in the next few years.
The wreck fishing on the drift was good from June to the start of August, once the algae bloom started to die and sink to the sea bed the fishing was very hard.
Wreck fishing at anchor for Conger and Ling was slow in June and July due to the lack of fresh bait available, but in August and September the fishing really picked up with up to 70+ Conger and Ling per trip.
Sadly we never caught any big Conger this year our best fish was 55lb, we did catch some monster Ling this year to 39lb 8oz a new boat record.
Shark fishing was very poor from June to July because of the massive algae bloom we had, I got told by a marine biologist it was the worst algae bloom in 10 years, just goes to show how polluted our oceans really are.
Once the algae bloom started to die and sink to the sea bed in August the shark fishing picked up a bit with our best day catching 19 Blue Sharks on a 23 hour trip and 11 Blue Sharks on a 12 hour trip, this is still very poor compared to previous years.
In July we had big plans to go well off the charts but sadly the weather put a stop to that so plan B was to try for Thresher Sharks.
We managed to pull it out the bag catching three Thresher Sharks to 150lb, pulled the hook on two more and missed one!!
This was the 7th species over 100lb caught onboard Size Matters in UK waters.
It was great to do a trip like this for the first time and learn so much in just a short space of time.
It was definitely a very strange season in Plymouth not like any we have had in the last four years, the algae bloom didn’t help things either.
We only seen a few Sunfish this year, in the pasted I have seen 17 in just one day.
There was no Atlantic Bonito this year and last year you could catch them daily in September and October.
We only caught one John Dory this year and last year we caught 11.
This was the first time the wrecking fishing on the drift was over in August normally you can still chip away catching Pollack, Cod and Ling right through the year.
From the start of August the weather got more unsettled as the season went on, we had so many good trips booked in but the weather put a stop to them.
Even sailing to Liverpool we normally do some fishing on the way but the weather window was too small so we had to do the 360 miles none stop.
2020 is fully booked from Plymouth and we only have a few individual places available in 2021.
LIVERPOOL
We arrived in Liverpool around mid October, we decided to target the off shore wrecks when the weather allowed and fish the Mersey as a back up.
The wrecking was fantastic catching plenty of Pollack to 11lb 8oz, most where 4lb to 7lb.
The Mersey in October to the end of November was full of Rays to 10lb, Whiting to 1lb 8oz and upto 20 Cod per trip to 9lb.
As we went into December most of the Rays and Whiting moved off shore, this increased the Cod catches up to 39 per trip.
We have available dates in 2020 for the Mersey and Wrecking.
Once again we have some very big plans for 2020, we just need the weather on our side and a bit of luck.
We would to take this opportunity to thank our sponsors Shimano UK, everyone who fished with us and helped us out during 2019, we appreciate the continued support.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Kevin Mckie
Size Matters
07999628511.
mckiesfishingcharters@hotmail.com
#Scotland
#Plymouth
#Liverpool
#Shimano
#Mckiesfishingcharters View Boats Page
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22/12/2019
Fishing Report by Lee Brown
on Kelsey Leigh charter (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
22 Dec 2019 by Lee Brown
Report on-board Kelsey Leigh charter
Well cod to 4 lb and whiting colies to 2 lb good laff as allways merry Xmas every 1 just give me a call 4 spaces after Xmas as still fish till March downtiding thanks lee
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12/2019
Fishing Report by Stuart Denman
on Ebony May (Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire)
Dec 2019 by Stuart Denman
Report on-board Ebony May
2019 was another excellent season for the Ebony May Charter boat , the Tope arrived with the mackerel at the beginning of May resulting in good catches of Tope throughout May , June and first two weeks of July . Up to 30 plus tope being caught on an 8 hr trip average size 30lb to 45lb .We also had a number of trips to Lundy Island in May and June resulting in excellent catches of Pollack ,Coalfish .Wrasse , Spur dog and Tope . The first shark trips to the Celtic deeps started the first week in July with some good catches of Porbeagle and Blue sharks ,the largest Porbeagle weighing in at 130 lb .During June ,July ,August and September we had a number of mixed fishing trips producing good catches of Bream , Thornback ray ,Bass, Smooth hound, Pollack and Bull huss September was an excellent month for Blue Shark largest fish hitting 200lb ,September and October proved excellent months fishing for bass on reefs offshore using live Mackerel and Sandeel baits ,Dave Lewis came out with us in August and published an article in the November issue of Sea Angler on Bass fishing with live baits . Really looking forward to 2020 if you fancy a Tope ,Shark, Lundy , Bass or mixed fishing trip next year contact us , all skill levels and age groups can be catered for , bait and tackle can be supplied Tight lines Stuart
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22/12/2019
Fishing Report by DEREK ANDERSON
on Oceanic & Sagittarius (Eyemouth, Scottish Borders)
22 Dec 2019 by DEREK ANDERSON
Report on-board Oceanic & Sagittarius
Well yesterday was poor fishing , but today the fish are on Phil returned this nice cod as his bag was full what a difference a day makes
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22/12/2019
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
22 Dec 2019 by Paul Kilpatrick
Report on-board Sea Otter 2
Another excellent days fishing yesterday on Sea-Otter 2 stacks of cod hitting the deck .
Had a group of lads up from London what an opener they had most of lads had into teens of fish and plenty returned.
Not at sea this week back at next Sunday still a few spaces available if your quick .
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15/12/2019
Fishing Report by Sam Thornton
on Plan B (Brightlingsea, Essex)
15 Dec 2019 by Sam Thornton
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Plenty of whiting around with some sizable skate still on a few marks.
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18/12/2019
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
18 Dec 2019 by Rich Cope
Report on-board Mistress
Its been a good week for us here at Whitby, it fished well on the bigger tides, tailing off a bit as the tides eased.
Even on the slacker tides we managed around 50 codlings between the few anglers we had onboard.
Among the fish we've seem some cracking fish into double figures, with a good few 4-5lbers every day too.
We're going to be fishing upto and through the Christmas break. If we get enough interest and suitable weather I'll be running some night trips too. Trips are £5 per person per hour.
Upcoming dates for your diaries
Sunday 22nd - 1 place
Monday 23rd - 4 places
Saturday 28th - 6 places
Sunday 29th - 8 places
Monday 30th - 4 places
Thursday 2nd - 8 places
Give me a call or text on 07977 436903 if you fancy a trip out over the festive period.
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