Latest Fishing Reports: United Kingdom
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06/09/2016
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
6 Sep 2016 by Gethyn Owen
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Porbeagle Shark
06th September 2016
For years we've encountered the odd shark during our fishing exploits off Holyhead, bitten fish, snapped lines etc. This year we decided to bite the bullet and invest in new gear, fact finding trips, so much reading and then finally set out to target sharks.
This week has been planned for a long time & foul weather was all set to scupper our chances, but a break in the winds saw us set sail early doors today, 50lb class gear, custom made wire shark traces and enough rubby dubby to sink a smaller boat!
Baits in the water and floats set, we had a couple dropped hooks and false calls with small tope before one rod twitched around 4hrs into our day. Quickly line started to scream from the reel and after a few mins it was clear this was something, it was no tope. After so long in the planning, a 90 minute epic battle was soon underway. So many darting runs, remaining under the boat, around the boat and up the bow on 4 separate occasions. Make no mistake, this shark was in charge. When it first broke the surface the screams and gasps were loud, we had managed to hook a porbeagle shark, and a bloody big one too.
Then it ran again, 4 times we had it to the side of the boat, rubbing trace held twice, but it wasn't ready to meet us. On the fourth occasion, we were preparing to land, and the most devastating noise was heard … snap … oops, the rod snapped (stop laughing ), the line broke and the shark swam free. A deathly silence fell upon My Way!
Question, was the mission a success?
Of course it was! So much planning and preparation and then on our first attempt we hooked and technically released, a porbeagle shark that was well in excess of 100lb.
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10/09/2016
Fishing Report by Richie Brownson
on Four Reasons (Conwy, Conwy)
10 Sep 2016 by Richie Brownson
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Well some nice fishing over the last couple of weeks, some nice fishish on the wrecks and in shore, yesterday saw the finer class of angler, FairPlay to Bob in the attached pictures he new how to have a good days angling with a fine glass of wine and prawn sandwiches, well the old skipper treated the rest of the crew to the freshly caught mackerel although Bob preferred sushi great crew look forward to catching up for some beers.
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10/09/2016
Fishing Report by peter stubbs
on Sapphire 2 charters (Sunderland, Tyne and Wear)
10 Sep 2016 by peter stubbs
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Saturday 10th September 2016, 10 lads out today all friends from Gateshead and most all got good fish a couple drew a blank but that's fishing, One older chap showed the young ones how to catch good size fish, With an 8 half lb cod a 6lb cod nice Pollock to 5 half lb, and a good ling to 10 half lb, Well done to that chap,
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10/09/2016
Fishing Report by Lee Fox
on Lady Helen (Liverpool, Merseyside)
10 Sep 2016 by Lee Fox
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Had regulars mat and friends on from Stoke today for a 7am start as the fishing has slowed down out in the rock channel last couple of wks we stayed in the river looking for Ray's and had some good results again from 4lb to 8lb over 20 landed weather was perfect all in all a great day again all pics uploaded !!!
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07/09/2016
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
7 Sep 2016 by Colin Penny
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FLAMER IV OLD GIT'S COMPETITION 2016
The annual Old Git's competition (age 60 and over) was held with the average age being 66. One drifting session and two sessions at anchor produced 17 different species. Robin Amor the youngest angler in the competition age 60 was crowned champion with 224 points, Runner Up was David Gibson (age 66) 202 points, and the 2015 champion Andy Collings (age 61) was third with 200 points.The Weakest Link trophy went to Colin Gardiner (age 71). The Best lady Trophy was won by Denise Youngs (age 65) with 102 points.
Pictured is 2016 Old Git's champion Robin Amor. John Ward was the oldest on the boat at a tender age of 72 and he was fourth with 122 points. View Boats Page
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09/09/2016
Fishing Report by Ian Dale
on Kelley's Hero Charters (Gosport, Hampshire)
9 Sep 2016 by Ian Dale
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We haven’t had much to report on over the last few weeks. A lot of our trips had to be cancelled due to the heavy weather that was coming in. We had to cancel a few of our plaice trips, our last wrecking trip of the season and an evening sole fishing.
Thankfully we have managed to get them all to book again. Lets hope the weather agrees.
Our first trip we headed on was a Plaice trip, we had a boat full of eager fisherman waiting to see a few spots. Once we got there it was slack water so it took a while for the bites to start. As the tide picked up so did the amount of fish that was caught. We saw plenty place up to the 3lb mark, a brill of 2lb 5oz, and a few mackerel. Everybody caught and had plenty, and we returned a load to fight another day.
On the 26th Kelley’s Hero had an appearance from Total Sea Fishing Magazine, we took them out on another trip looking for Plaice mainly, with the aim to go hunting for a bass as the tide picked up. Yet again as we got there the tide was just about slack and we had to wait for it to pick up to get some bites. The plaice were hard work and after a flurry, it went dead again. So after a lot of thought, we decided to head out and see if we could catch some bass whilst the tide was right. In an hours fishing we had around 20 bass, all bar two were sizable. This made the day. On the way in from this trip we had the rescue helicopter come along and practice putting a man on the deck. That was the perfect way to end a days fishing.
We had a couple more trips over the next few weeks. Again the plaice were slow on the ebb and whilst the tide was slack, but we had to hit it hard whilst the tide was flooding to get the most out of our day. The biggest plaice was 3lb and we also saw a nice red mullet of 11oz.
Things are looking up and we have the winter cod fishing to look forward to. Bookings are coming in and the diary is filling up nicely. If you would like to book a last minute plaice trip or a winter cod trip please get in contact via email: iandale@kelleys-hero.com or call: 07795538933 View Boats Page
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09/2016
Fishing Report by Kevin McKie
on Size Matters (Craobh Haven, Argyll & Bute)
Sep 2016 by Kevin McKie
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[This report was written when Size Matters was operating from Plymouth]
The shark fishing from Plymouth is the best they have had in year's, some boats are reporting over 30 sharks a day!!
Most are in the 20lb to 60lb range but there are a few over 100lb being caught. Catching lot's of small shark's is a very good sign for the future and show's the UK shark population is doing well.
The highlight of the last week was seeing three baby Porbeagle sharks caught, one of them was tiny and must of only been a month old. We just need to find it's mother now and hope we are lucky enough to land it. Also one of my angler's was using a water wolf camera above his baited feathers when we where fishing a inshore wreck for Whiting, the footage he has got of a Porbeagle shark is un real, it's probably the best footage of a shark I have seen in UK water's. He is going to edit the footage and let me have a copy, I will post it when I receive the copy. On the offshore wreck's we have been catching Pollack to 10lb and Ling to 22lb 8oz. On the inshore wreck's there is odd pollack and plenty of conger to 37lb, we had 50 in just 4 hours one day.
Over the next week I will be chasing shark's and Conger so if we get some good weather, we mite just get lucky and catch a few monster's.
Cheers
Kev
Size Matters Plymouth
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08/2016
Fishing Report by TONY READ
on Morgan M Charters (Burnham-On-Crouch, Essex)
Aug 2016 by TONY READ
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well what a year this has been so far the skate fishing was unbelievable with most days averaging 80 skate a day with many trips producing well over 100. the smoothound fishing was pretty good as well with many days 8 people hooking up all at once very hectic with many fish over the 20lbs mark. the tope fishing wasn't bad with some of the crouch boats getting them to over 70lbs and the bass fishing has been good as well with most of the crouch and southend charter boats have had bass to well over double figures and. we have even had a go at the plaice and turbot this year with some crouch and southend boats having 35 a trip to well over 4lbs.no frills no spills no gimmicks just proper fishing. most crouch boats are taking bookings for 2017 . making the crouch and southend charter boats one of the premier destination for 2017.
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07/09/2016
Fishing Report by Roy Smith
on SWN Y MOR (Amlwch, Isle of Anglesey)
7 Sep 2016 by Roy Smith
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Hi still plenty of Tope about not too far out the lads this day lost a lot due to bite outs . Plenty of large huss and 9 lbs skate ( released) along with gurnards pollack on reefs whiting and mackerel. A good enough day. Note 7 or 8 hours fishing according to tides all gear and bait included midweek for whole boat £200
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04/09/2016
Fishing Report by dominic wilson
on Dawn Venture (Portpatrick, Dumfries & Galloway)
4 Sep 2016 by dominic wilson
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the wind has been a problem for most of august and now into september , but on saturday with a better forecast ,we put to sea with adrians' boys from preston.scratching around inshore,we caught the usual suspects of codling,haddock,whiting,doggies,small huss,small coalies & pollack along with all 3 gurnard species,mackerel,herring and sandeel.A break in the wind let us nip offshore and it paid dividends...we got 4 huss,2x 10lb 1x 18.5lb and a monster 21lb 4oz!!
That huss as I was informed 2 days later would have beaten the scottish boat record by about 1lb.....so I suppose,we caught an unofficial boat record.....well done graham View Boats Page
