Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom
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11/04/2019
Fishing Report by Jon Whitton
on Alexia (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
11 Apr 2019 by Jon Whitton
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It's been a while since our last update and with the easterlies preventing us from getting out over the past week it's gave us chance to catch up on a few things. Our last couple of trips out we had Greg Westgate and his dad charter the whole boat for the self's for a crack at the cod and they weren't disappointed and between them had around 30 codlings taking half for the table. We also returned lots of tiddlers which is great to see. We also had brian
Naughtons group of 10 aboard and they had around 40 keepers on the day. The fishing has been steady away but with the water not been as coloured as I'd like on the uptiding grounds we had a venture out to the wrecks and picked away steady. The average stamp of codlings have been around 2lb to 4lb, with the bait of choice been unwashed squid and blacks. The spring festival is now upon us although we have yet to fish it due to the easterlies but we hope to be back at it towards the end of the week with the winds looking like there dropping off. We also have the kids off school for the Easter holidays so we also have spaces on 3 hr taster trips weather permitting. PLEASE SEE OUR AVAILABILITY CALENDER FOR SPRING FESTIVAL SPACES AND FUTRE TRIP SPACES OR CONTACT
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12/04/2019
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
12 Apr 2019 by Ray Martin
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Loads of Thornback Rays now in river and first hounds now starting to show.
Weather is improving :) View Boats Page
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12/04/2019
Fishing Report by Shaun Pedley
on Our Joe (Paignton, Devon)
12 Apr 2019 by Shaun Pedley
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That’s the first Devon Sea Fishing Holiday for 2019 hosted here in Paignton for us now finished. We had 4 anglers plus a few extras individuals that came wrecking during the 5 days fishing aboard Our Joe-L .
MONDAY - We headed down the Ray Pits trying new marks out and on the famous Skerries Bank. With nice weather but cloudy water, we struggled for fresh bait on feathers so decided to head out with what we had out of the freezer only. Using smaller hooks down to a 1/0 due to the lack of bait and a decent tide, we produced Blonde Rays up to 19 1/2lb and a couple of decent Plaice on a slack water drift.
TUESDAY - Mid Channel Wreck Fishing
We fished two small wrecks and one large wreck on a big but dropping flood tide throughout the morning and the start of the ebb in the afternoon. We produced some double figure Pollock along with plenty of smaller ones, a couple of Whiting on baits and a Tub Gurnard fell to Roy who had just taken a likening to the flavour of these fish only weeks ago, so he was well chuffed!
WEDNESDAY - Rough Ground/ Reef Fishing
We fished a couple of patches on the Rough Ground which was brilliant sport but nothing of notable size. Malcolm Wright of Colchester Sea Anglers did manage a club record Cuckoo Wrasse of 13oz. These marks produced Conger, Cuckoo Wrasse, Pollock, Dogfish, Red Gurnard and Dogfish.
THURSDAY - Inshore Wreck Fishing
We started off within 10NM off the South Coast on one of my favourite inshore wrecks from 2018. We had a 10-15knt East wind over a dropping flood tide - my top condition for this wreck in 2018. Seven lads produced a decent stamp of Pollock up to 12 1/2lb, filling the boxes up. When the tide allowed, Dan was practising the art of Slow Pitch Jigging with Master craft jigs. It certainly had the attention of the lads who hadn’t seen this style before! We also had the first Cod of the year falling to Peter from New Zealand who had never fished in UK waters before. Fishing on our Shakespeare Rod and Penn warfare 20 Reel. The Cod weighed 6lb.
Friday - Mid Channel Wreck Fishing
With the Weekend’s conger comp looking to be postponed to later on in the year, I decided to run a longer day to make up for it. Again we had seven lads aboard and six of them had planned to fish my weekend eel comp. We started off heading out into a flat calm Torbay thinking if we can get out, this forecasted Easterly won’t affect us at all! After 10 mins I could see the wind over the surface and knew it would change my plan of heading East. A slight change of heading is all you need in OUR JOE-L like many fast charter boats. We were soon out over 35 miles fishing in a forecast Easterly wind (for the 3rd time this week) over a small flood tide. We caught a steady amount of Pollock up to 6 or 7 lb on the first 3 wrecks it took us until the forth to find the bigger fish for the day, with half a dozen or so going into double figures again, but nothing over 11lb. We had boxes of bigger fish than inshore wrecking the previous day, but not as many fish over all.
It was great to see that such a range of lures catching on the wrecks but the top lure once again is the Sidewinder Sandeels 4 and 6 inch and the super real Skerries Eels Sidewinder
Species count for the Week -13
Pollock
Cod
Whiting
Tub Gurnerd
Red Gernerd
Cuckoo Wrasse
Blond Ray
Plaice
Dogfish
Pouting
Spur Dog
Launce (Caught as Bait)
Mackerel
With the forecast looking ‘marginal at best’ all week, we managed to beat it and headed to sea every day and it was much better than expected. That really is the beauty of these Fishing Holidays - staying at @Parkholm Hotel, 5 mins away from the harbour, you might as well try it in the morning and often you’ll be surprised to get a full day if fishing in! This compared to what we have all experienced in the past - you guys booking a day of fishing then its cancelled the night before thinking it will save you a long early morning journey to the harbour for nothing, only for it to turn out lovely the next day!
The next Devon Sea Fishing Holiday still has limited spaces, arriving on Sunday 26th May for an option of 4 or 5 days fishing. This is Whitsun Week fishing for ‘The Whitsun Annual Trophy’ for best fish and a shield for the most species caught in the week. Last year both won respectively by a pollock of 16lb and 11 species.
Shaun Pedley
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11/04/2019
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
11 Apr 2019 by Paul Kilpatrick
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The weather here at Whitby with the east winds isn’t good at the moment our last day at sea was Thursday another day uptiding the lads managed around 40 cod for day nothing massive best fish around the 6 lb mark very big tides this next week ideal for the uptiding on the cod and with £1000 up for grabs in the WCSA spring festival it’s all to play for tel 07748705695.
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10/04/2019
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
10 Apr 2019 by Gethyn Owen
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Weds 10th for our first trip of 2019 from Holyhead. Despite a bitterly cold east wind we had a good mixed bag inshore and spurdogs making an appearance in Holyhead Deep.
Today we were also joined by Laura from Wobby Shark Savers with a plan to tag and release all the spurs caught to assist in various scientific studies. Fortunately the first spurdog fell to Marine Biology student Portia Harris, who was keen to take part in this tagging exercise.
The exercise involves measuring and weighing of the spurdogs in the hope of recapture and then new information on their travels and growth. Advice is given out on the correct handling of sharks if landed, with the supporting of the tail and stomach for weighing and photographs etc. View Boats Page
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04/2019
Fishing Report by Sam Cumming
on Silver Spray II (Poole, Dorset)
Apr 2019 by Sam Cumming
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Our patience in March was rewarded with a week’s worth of good weather to round the month off, and on a nice neap tide no less! It seems like the weather makes a mess of those smaller tides so often these days so it’s nice to get one in. We were treated to 5 straight days of flat calm seas and good fishing. Most days were spent on the wrecks making targetting the big spring pollack with an hour or two spent at anchor on the way in to do some filleting and target the spurdogs and blonde rays. We have been doing well on the regular wrecks for this time of year averaging 30 fish or so a day, still plenty of double figure fish to help boost that personal best. Yesterday we managed the first cod of the year, hopefully the first of many. We used one of the smallest tides of the year to explore some new wrecks with positive results and look forward to getting out there again soon. On the banks the fishing is still nonstop with all different types of rays showing up along with spurs, congers, huss and some early tope. As an angler I love these types of trips at anchor due to the variety of species but it seems this year they have proved harder trips to fill than the long distance wreck stuff. Inshore the spell of warm weather has started to heat the waters back up and we have seen the arrival of the first bream slightly earlier than usual. We are used to seeing the smaller fish arrive first but were pleasantly surprised with half a dozen fish over 2lb in our first session. Elsewhere we have been getting tucked into some decent plaice up to 4lb, hard fighting on the lighter tackle. The turbot are plentiful but nothing monstrous yet so fingers crossed for later in the month. Plenty of spaces for bream fishing over the coming weeks as well as the first of the cod trips.
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04/2019
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Apr 2019 by Gethyn Owen
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Many great days afloat this week, good mixed bag of fish at anchor and drifting. We also continued with our tagging exercise with Wobby Shark Savers, penty of spurdogs weighed, tagged and released and another 30 plus released without tagging so not to keep them on the deck for too long waiting.
Belle of the ball was Keith Heaton plenty of spurs to his credit and best a new personal best at whopping 20lb 13oz. View Boats Page
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13/04/2019
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
13 Apr 2019 by Rich Cope
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We managed to sneak a day in yesterday here at whitby, certainly not an easy day, with easterly motion and neap tides combined with mucky water inshore.
Earlier reports in the week from other boats that travelled offshore to wrecks were not encouraging so we stayed inshore uptiding again.
The Lads fished steadily all day catching a few fish each time we stopped, we managed around 30 codlings for the day all on worm and squid. Most fish were 2lb-4lb.
The weather looks unsettled for the next few days but we have plenty of availability coming up.
If you're interested in a trip with me give a call or text on 07977 436903
Tight lines Rich View Boats Page
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08/04/2019
Fishing Report by Jason Parrott
on Lady Ann (Ramsgate, Kent)
8 Apr 2019 by Jason Parrott
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The usual suspects aboard Lady Ann of Ramsgate. Skate, skate and more skate but 1 small Spurdog which we kept as gut hooked and wouldnt of survived. Weather played ball in the end. Now taking bookings for April/May message Dawn on 07854772314 or me on 07966273650.
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12/04/2019
Fishing Report by DEREK ANDERSON
on Oceanic & Sagittarius (Eyemouth, Scottish Borders)
12 Apr 2019 by DEREK ANDERSON
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Well no fishing this weekend 13th/14th as Easterly winds are here again we have spaces Easter19th to 21st cheers
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