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Fishing News
The weather continues to be kind this year with just a few days lost to the wind Summer 2009 is on course to providing one of the best years for a while. I was out yesterday with a mixed grope of anglers Pollack bashing in the morning and a species hunt inshore for the afternoon which produced a rather nice Turbot supper for my good friend Jumbo and me. Tuesday is the day marked first of my shark trips this year and I am determined to catch one this year ‘if only on film’ but preferably, by me and on my own gear. Meanwhile we have pictures of the first to be caught below. Our other reports come this week from the main charter ports of Weymouth Poole and Dartmouth with a selection of fish dominated as always by Cod and Pollack but also some other species including Wrasse, Smooth Hound, Tope, Gurnard Weaver and Turbot. We also welcome ‘Supanova’ a new boat from Weymouth skippered by Lyle Stantiford to our pages.
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Report from Skipper Dave Harrison |
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Thursday 11th June 2009
A species hunt was the task in hand for my old friend Jumbo who had traveled down from Hampshire to join Skipper Chippy and his side kick Sam along with yours truly and two guest anglers The previous week a couple of Welsh anglers had managed to get 20 species in four days, so we wanted to see how many were possible in just one The result, as can be seen in our movie, was 14 The thing is can it be bettered this year, I think it can but we will have to wait and see mean while enjoy the film which also includes….. |
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By Bob Shotter |
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….Part two of our film report takes us aboard my great friend Nigel Hodge’s boat ‘The Wave Chieftain’ and we were soon in the action with loads of Whiting You can see in the film just how good one drift was What a way to start the day, then it was off out to the wrecks which in these parts means Ling Pollack and Conger's. As you will have noted from my blog above I was to miss out on two more trips which saw more of the same and a 30lb Ling caught by local angler Andy Rue on the Saturday and a spectacular Dolphin display on the Monday.
Sorry It’s only the streaming version folks |
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Rob Holmes proudly holds his |
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MIKE CONCANNON REPORTS I was at sea again yesterday, Tuesday 23rd June, aboard Kevin Tate's Torquay charter boat, the bright golden yellow twin hulled Blyth 33 catamaran, "Anne Clare". Kevin has asked me out for a day several times over recent months, but what with prior commitments, operations and occasional poor weather wreaking its havoc, I only managed to get there on Tuesday. I temporarily parked my car and unloaded my gear, close to Kevin's boat, behind the Princess Theatre in Torquay, at 6.45 am. I was joined by my good pal Jim Laing, President of Torbay Sea Angling Festival. Together we put our tackle on-board then went off to park our cars a little way away in an area of Torquay where we did not need to pay the considerable public car park charge. We quickly made our way back to the boat. We chatted to fellow anglers from local areas and from Wales, while we waited for the last couple of guys to come aboard, then we were off. Kevin gunned the throttles of the twin 330 hp diesel engines as they throbbed to around 1,900 rpm and we set off at between 16 and 19 knots, for a 40 mile outbound voyage, over a beautiful calm sea, on a big 5 metre tide. The breeze just ruffled the surface of the ocean, but that was all. We enjoyed several large mugs of hot steaming sea en route, while we tackled up and talked tactics. The time slipped by and very soon, we were there, over our first wreck mark, rather further up-Channel than is usual for me. I fished a reddish orange colored plain 4 inch "Shad" soft lure on my own home crafted 20 lb class 6 foot carbon Kevlar boat rod, fitted with an "Accurate" twin speed B2-270 reel and 30 lb B.S, braid line. I used a plastic tube boom and a 10oz weight, with my lure on a trace which was just 5 feet 11 inches long, to catch the first fish of the day, a small Cod around 6 lbs. As I was still playing my fish, I heard excited cries from around the boat, from other anglers, of "I'm into a fish", or. "I'm on"; "Hit me on the bottom 3 turns up, Orange Shad". I saw that 7 Cod, up to around 14 lbs came to the rods on the boat on that first drift over the last of the flood tide. The next drift was much the same, with another 5 fish caught between the 10 anglers aboard. I found myself kept quite busy taking photos. On the next drift I found time to fish again and caught a better Cod, around 12 lbs, although only two were caught on that drift. It was good to see that Kevin was going around the anglers, helping out those that needed it; netting fish; and then gutting them, while they were still fresh, which is a great help to the captors, before putting them in a large "Ice-Tank" chiller box with a hinged lid, to preserve them for the angler's own table. As the tide died away, we hopped around a total of 5 different mid-Channel wreck marks in an effort to find that elusive big fish. We caught plenty more fish in the process, but none of the "Lunkers" Kevin's anglers have caught over recent weeks. My best fish was another Cod around 15 lbs, which fought well. I also caught a small Tub Gurnard, which I gratefully returned alive. Jim Laing, fishing next to me caught 5 Cod during his day afloat. Francis Payne from Dunford caught what was probably the best Cod of the day, a fish around 16 lbs, amongst his several good fish. Barry KIngwell bent his trusty Hardy boat rod into 9 good Cod to be the most prolific angler on the boat. Carl Erikson, a Teacher from Exeter, caught several good fish.
Carl's Dad, Sven Eriksen, (honestly, that's is his real name, but he's not the chap from the world of soccer), bent his rod into half a dozen Cod
All the while, Kevin busied himself helping anglers of lesser skill to catch fish. I saw Kevin help 3 others to hook a fish, by gently encouraging and advising them. This is a side of Kevin I was not used to. He's obviously mellowing as he matures. It was obvious to me that as the breeze strengthened from the East, it made "Anne Clare" drift with the 5 metre ebb tide too fast to present the lure for sufficient time to interest the bulk of the fish. The fish were there in good numbers, I could clearly see them on the screen of Kevin's fish finder. A good Skipper can organise most things perfectly and Kevin lived up to that role. However, time and tide waits for no man, and although I continued to catch fish, all too soon, it was time to head for home, with more tea to drink, and tales to regale our in-bound voyage. Back in Torquay Harbour, it was a delight to allocate the fish to their captors, thank you to Kevin and his continual gutting of them, it was a simple task. The fish were in pristine condition for our own table. Thank you Kevin and thank you all you chaps aboard "Anne Clare" today for your excellent company. I know that we will certainly do it again. You can find Kevin's contact details to book your own trip aboard "Anne Clare" on this web site at www.fishingdartmouth.co.uk/charter_boats.htm |
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Francis Payne from Dunford |
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Barry Kingwell (left) and Carl Eriksen |
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Sven Eriksen bends his rod |
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Local angler Barry Kingwell |
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Jim Laing President of Torbay Sea Angling Festival and Vice Chairman of Brixham SAC proudly holds his Cod, |
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Some of the better fish landed on Aries this past two week’s are above a Gurnard of 3lb 20z below are Ballam Wrase for Keith and a nice size Bass for Pete |
