Bristol Channel Boat Report by Tom Wright March has seen the exciting return at the tail end of the month of the charter boats to the water after an exceptionally long lockdown period. Straight away it was wonderful to see reports from Minehead and Watchet of a variety of fish being caught. Just before focusing…
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Poole report by Philip Higgins Thanks to some fine weather coinciding with neap tides we managed to push offshore, this proved very lucrative for Ian Napier who landed plenty of Spurdogs to 19lb, Rays, Congers and dogs which kept him busy all day and me running around unhooking fish. Closer to shore the Plaice have…
Back to Basics – Hook sizes by Martin Wood So this month and next I figured in the back to basics articles I would cover the topic of items that can turn around your fishing on trips and will be covering types of hooks line, beads, luminous/ glow in the dark beads and silicons. This…
Roving Rods – Spotty and Thorny by Martin Wood With the weather now changing and spring starting to creep in seeing green shoots on trees in the garden and plants coming out, I figured it was time for a fresh approach to my fishing. Fishing now for a while with not much effort put in…
East Sussex Diary by Kevin Morgan ANDERIDA FISHING CLUB Competitions are now allowed to resume as from 29th March and it so happened that Anderida had a match scheduled for that evening. A good turnout of 29 anglers fished in calm conditions over low water in Pevensey Bay. Fishing approved to be hard, but despite…
Langstone report by Neville Merritt I’m not sure where March went but that’s probably just as well. Those oof us living a distance from our boats couldn’t travel to the coast so we had to be content reading reports on social media about what local anglers were up to. Not a lot, it would seem….
North Devon report by Wayne Thomas Whilst reports have been suppressed by lockdown some stunning specimens have been landed from the North Devon shoreline. Several specimen ray have been tempted from North Devon beach and rock marks including a stunning thornback of 15lb 2oz caught by Dan Spearman that sets a new club record for…
Chesil beach report by Gareth Mayers Finally lockdown restrictions have lifted allowing anglers to get back on the mighty shingle bank and pursue the rewards Chesil can provide. Unfortunately the beach has recently seen some strong S/W winds leaving the water coloured and with big tides this doesn’t help matters. Especially when people are planning…
Lymington report by John Skeggs, Last Laugh Charters Good to be back ! What seems to be an eternity, we are gradually coming out of lockdown, a relief for both skippers and customers, as a skipper that now means we can now take up to 6 passengers fishing again. Spring has arrived with the first…
Weymouth report by Paul Whittall There was an air of definite jubilation when the first charter trips took place out of Weymouth and Portland at the end of March. Prior to that there had been the occasional ‘jolly’ when skippers couldn’t resist having a quick trip to sea and sampling the fishing with inshore marks…
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