Catch Reports

Bass and Blondes from the banks

A nice spring tide and it was time to try some of the offshore banks for bass. The live sandeels we had caught earlier in the week proved very effective and we had some nice fish to 10lbs. Fishing at anchor over slack gave us some nice blonde rays and tope.

10lb fish for Alan Langley

9lb fish for Simon Graesser

17lb blonde ray for Paul Allen

14lb blonde for Harry Venables

Freeline bassing

Freeline bassing is fishing with nothing on. That means just the line a hook and a live mackerel. Today was our first try at this exciting version of lightline fishing and we had some lovely fish the biggest pushed teh scales down to 11lbs for Steve Tory.

11lbs Steve Tory

8lbs For Chris Woods

Cod from the Brittlestars

The cod have returned to the brittle star grounds 25-30 miles from Poole. The average size is certainly up on last year and the numbers are similar. Here are some of the best from the last week...

Chippy Turner with a 13lber

A nice double for Andy Herman

2 more lunkers for Chippy

Mark "T-bar" Palmer with a stumpy one of 12lb

Andy with an 11lber (present for my teacher!)

Wayne Jaris with triton SAC record 13lb

A ncie one for Dave from Triton SAC

Alderney in June

Alderney with good weather - what joy. Wrecking on day one pollack, cod and congers. Then mackerel for bait. Day 2/3 turbot and brill on the banks including a personnal best for almost everyone! Back to the brittle stars for a nice haul of cod on the way home. Perfeck!

13lb PB turbot for Aled

And another nice one

Jonathan Cutts has this turbot under arrest

A nice turbot for Shaun Miller

John's fish turbot

One for the skipper

PB brill for Ellis

Best cod of the final day for Ellis 14lb

60lb conger extracted from the wreck by Godfrey Cutts

Local flats

Not all the best flatfish come from across the channel. Some of the best from our local days

Dave Lynes 12lb 4oz turbot

Dennis Leadbetter 6lb 12oz brill

Nice day reefing in Chapmans Pool

Well what makes a nice day's reef fishing when you don't want to steam over the horizon. How about brilliant sunshine, the beautiful Jurrasic coast and 12 species of fish. Mackerel, pollack, launce, undulate rays to 14lb, spotted rays, cuckoo wrasse, ballan wrasse, black bream to 3lb, bull huss, dogfish, squid and a whitebait well Dave caught one in the livebait net....

Mid channel magic

Cod, bass and pollack. Lovely weather. What more could you want???

Channel Island flats

Our first Alderney trip of 2009 and there were some nice flatfish from 2 days on the banks. Good cod on the way home.

Cod have arrived

The cod have just started to show on the brittle star ground. As forecast the size is better than last year with outstanding numbers. These cod will return so we are encouraging moderation with smaller fish under 10lb returned.