Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom
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24/12/2016
Fishing Report by Roy Smith
on SWN Y MOR (Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey)
24 Dec 2016 by Roy Smith
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Hi merry Christmas to all anglers and others. Thanks for your custom through 2016 although it was one of those years with the weather. All the same large numbers of cod pollack and coalfish caught when able to get to them. Reef and ground fishing has been good with large numbers of Tope and spurdog being caught . Other lesser species in abundance. I will keep prices very competitive for 2017 get in touch early not to be disappointed. I,ll do my best for you cheers ROY
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12/2016
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
Dec 2016 by Mark Peters
Report on-board DAWN TIDE II
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all my customers much appreciate the many that return month after month through the hard and good times made some good friends ! I hope 2017 be very fishfull for you all
DAWN TIDE II has got some big plans ahead and many PBs to be smashed !! See you all
Very soon View Boats Page
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12/2016
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Dec 2016 by Aaron Smith
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We would like to wish all our anglers from past and present a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, Thank you for all your custom and good laughs throughout the year on board Bad Boyz II.
2017 will be my first year back running the boat full time after the successful later part of 2016, keep a look out for new fishing trips and new winter venue. View Boats Page
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12/2016
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
Dec 2016 by Gary Flint
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We would like to wish all of our Customers / Friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Bookings for next year are filling fast we even have 6 trips in for next December so if you fancy a trip book early to avoid disappointment.
This year produced some really good Tope fishing with our best being 52lbs and our smallest 38lbs
the Wrecks produced some nice Pollack,Ling and Cod. The smooth hound fishing produced plenty with our best at 14lbs. Some species trips produced 17 different types of fish which is very good considering the guys were using all of our rods and tackle.
The Winter Cod fishing is half way through now and what a year its been with many 10lbs plus fish coming out all over the river. The Whiting have been in in there masses with some excellent scores in some of our Whiting comps that we have held on the Bank have resulted in one angler winning with 54 fish.
Thanks for your support through out the year All The Best.
Gary and Lynne. View Boats Page
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24/12/2016
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
24 Dec 2016 by Paul Kilpatrick
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The cod fishing here at whitby is throwing out some really nice fish Out had a day a couple of days ago with the lads uptiding and a few hours wrecking we had cod upto 7lb uptiding and cod upto 10 lb wrecking the uptiding with the tides now on the way up should go on fire and the weather looks quite good from mid next week so if you fancy a day on the cod give me a bell on 07748705695.
I would like to wish all my customers old and new a very happy christmas and very fishy new year.
paul.
A nice cod caught on squid for andy . View Boats Page
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23/12/2016
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
23 Dec 2016 by Colin Penny
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*** DON'T MISS OUT ***
My First Wrecking Trip of 2017 for Big Pollack with place/s available is on January 7th also a Reef/Bank Trip on January 8th which will be my last trips before Flamer IV is lifted out of the water for a clean and polish and maintenance, she will be back in ready and raring to go in mid February..
The Reef/Bank fishing has been good and producing lots of Rays,Conger, Smooth Hounds etc The Whiting are here now in numbers along with some Cod. News: Peter Collings landed his Personal Best Cod weighing 16Ib 9oz (Pictured) on December 11th and on the same trip Stephan Attwood landed a 19Ib Starry Smooth Hound beating his previous PB and setting a new Flamer IV boat record which had previously stood at 18Ib 4oz.
REEF/BANK TRIPS - There are trips available during the Winter months and also trips during the Christmas and New Year holiday period also a Winter Species Competition on December 30th,** Don't Miss Out **
NOTE: LOOK - *** NOW TAKING BOOKINGS FOR 2017 *** I have put up an Itinerary of trips for 2017 on all my web sites, take a LOOK, the itinerary is not set in stone so I may be able to change it to suit your needs subject to the tides.
5 DAY WEST COUNTRY TRIP 2017 - May 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, ( limited to a max of 8 anglers) - Only 2 Places Left. See my Angling Breaks Page on my Website. INTERESTED Then Contact me a.s.a.p. View Boats Page
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12/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Dec 2016 by Kevin McKie
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People say there is a story behind every photograph and this was know exception.
Here is Brian Houghton from Preston with a 15lb 8oz Cod he caught onboard Size Matters fishing in the river Mersey.
He caught the cod in the first hour of the trip during darkness, it was his personal best Cod. The photographs where not the best because of the poor light, so I filled the fish bin with sea water to keep it alive until we had enough daylight to get some better photographs. After we got the photographs we wanted, Brian bleed the fish ready for the table. A short while later I spoke to one of the other skipper's and I said when we go into the marina later can I weigh the Cod on your scales just to verify it, he said yes not problem so we kept the Cod in water to hold its weight. When we got back to the marina 8 hours later and after the Cod was bleed it tipped the other boats scales at 14lb 9oz. I was gutted and even more so was Brian who caught it, I couldn't believe it had lost 15oz and I was sure my scales where not out by that much. Later on when I was cleaning the boat down i emptied the fish bin full of water and at the bottom of the fish bin was a half digested whiting about 8oz, crab's and shrimp's. I got on the phone to Brian and said when you gutted the Cod was there anything in it's stomach, he said no and he thought it was very strange for a Cod like that to have nothing in it's stomach. I then told him it's belly contents was all in the bottom of the fish bin!
Moral of the story, always check the fish bin when weighing a fish or you could ruin someone's Christmas ha ha.
On that note Merry Christmas and all the best for 2017.
Thank you to everyone who has fished with us this year roll on 2017!!
Availability in January.
Tuesday 3rd, 6 places available,
Wednesday 4th, 12 places available,
Thursday 5th, 12 places available,
Wednesday 18th, 12 places available,
Thursday 19th, 9 places available,
Friday 20th, 7 places available,
Monday 23rd, 5 places available,
Wednesday 25th, 11 places available,
Cheers
Kev
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19/12/2016
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
19 Dec 2016 by TERRY BATT
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It would seem I have made been given the wrong info of the Big Bass landed over the weekend.at Eastbourne..
It was not the Charter vessel called Deep Blue out of Eastbourne ... it was a commercial vessel with apparently the same name..??
But after a colourful chat with the skipper of the commercial vessel that was responsible for the catch it seems it was me that got the wrong end if the stick... so to that end I do publically apologise you him and if because of what I wrote has caused him any unjustified criticism I am sorry.
But I just wondered why anyone would post this on social media..??? View Boats Page
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19/12/2016
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
19 Dec 2016 by TERRY BATT
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Well with not a lot to report over the last couple weeks even the Thornback Rays seem to have done a disappearing act...!!
But I know these are not our beloved Cod, but the Dab has made a welcome return to the river Backwater in large numbers.
It is only 6 or 7 minutes away from our marina, and as the tide backs off the Whiting subside from biblical numbers to sensible amounts and give way for the Dabs to come on and give some excellent sport , and to be fair, love em or not, they are a nice size of fish and on light tackle are good sport, and without them in the absence of Cod, they are a most welcome sight.....!
I took a gamble yesterday and went to a place I have never had the courage to take a charter party too, as it was unknown to me as a fishing mark, but taking into consideration the water temperature, the type of sea bed I was targeting, and the fact they have disappeared for all of the known marks, it was a huge step into the unknown.
But..... after an hour of fishing for Thornback Rays once again, we had landed 5 lovely Thornback Rays, putting a real bend back into the rods, something we have not seen for several weeks, and two were tipping the scales at nearly 10 lbs so I think I may have un-locked the secret of where these fish go when they just seem to disappear off of the radar, but I will only go there as and when necessary when fishing is pants everywhere else, I will not rip the ass out of this mark just because I can, and a lot of our fish are returned to spawn, and give great sport another day...!!!
I must say I saw a report on fb the other day from Eastbourne about a boat that had caught and landed a fantastic catch of big, big Bass.... several at 16 lbs, 15 lbs. 14 lbs, and many doubles and while I congratulate the skipper of the charter boat (I think it was called Deep Blue) but cant be sure, I am appalled that this skipper not only allowed the party to kill these superb mature breeding fish, but wants to gloat about it.....!!!! has the world gone completely bloody mad, not only was it quite possibly illegal, but reasonable skippers should be promoting catch and release like they do in America, not only do the have a minimum size fish limit, they also have an upper size limit so anglers do NOT destroy their prime breeding stock, so you cant wonder why they have fish coming out of their ears...!! it's called responsible fish management... something this counties fishing guardians, ie: Skippers of fishing boats, commercial and pleasure, our fisheries ministers, licencing authorities seem to have forgotten ...
Sorry to get on my soap box, but I know after 30 years of being a very successful professional charter boat skipper, and have seen the good times as well as the bad, we need to look after our fish, and if you put reports up of wholesale slaughter of a days fishing all you are going to do is feed even more information to various regulation authorities that want to shut us down wherever possible , and all you do is give these people who never go out and do some real research just have scientist to come up with wild uneducated guesses, a cricket bat to beat us with...
Well lets hope the Cod arrive soon in good numbers, they are not to far away so I am told by the commercial boys there are some in our local waters but high in the water feeding ferociously on Herring, which they can see in daylight hours, with bright daylight above them, and they see a big dark mass moving and get on them so the chances of catching Cod in the daylight hours are much reduced, so tonight we have a party that want to try a night trip, from 1700 hrs until 0200 hrs and see if we can get one or two when the Cod cant see the Herring shoals under the cover of darkness, and start feeding by sent trail again.....!!!
Tight lines and merry Christmas, and a big thank you to all our loyal customers who not only fish with us, but Clay pigeon shoot from the Vanishing Point-2 and have won many TROPHIES AND MEDALS ..!!!!
Here is to a great 2017....!!!!! View Boats Page
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18/12/2016
Fishing Report by Allan Skinner
on JFK TWO (Tyne, Tyne and Wear)
18 Dec 2016 by Allan Skinner
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sunday 18th dec
out today and uptiding came on with a bang only 4 anglers taking over 80 cod
baited muppets, with prawns squid and ragworm all taking fish
with a fair few cod up to 8lbs
majority 3-4lbs
but a lovely day out, especially for time of year ,and signs of another good winters
uptiding, when weather allows View Boats Page
