Alderney 1 2011

Our first Alderney trip of 2011 and our first time in April. Day 1 and we visited some wrecks on the way across channel. Sam had trawled up some live sandeels so we had some excellent sport with over 50 pollack coming to the net. The further south we went the bigger the fish got with the best coming just 10 miles from Alderney. Day 2 & 3 were spent exploring the banks for turbot and brill. We had excellent numbers of fish despite the chill NE winds which certainly affected the mornings on both days. The size of the fish was smaller than we had seen later on in previous years and a high percentage were returned to grow into monsters! Day 4 and an early start to fish the wrecks on teh way back to Poole. Our fish cod of the year with the best going 22lb, a pair of 17lb ling and some medium size congers at anchor. An enjoyable start to our Alderney 2011 campaign. There are still 2 spaces in August Saturday 20 - Tuesday 23 if you would like to experience a trip like this...

Adam's 2nd 17lb ling of the day
Shaun Miller 18lb cod

John Knight double figure cod

Collin Jones 22lb cod

Adam with ling no1 - on this trip Adam caught his first turbot, ling, dogfish, and cod

Rob with his first brill

Kevin Justice with an 8lb turbot

Kevin with a 5lb brill

Rob with a double figure pollack

Colin Jones with a 14lb pollack

Plenty of big bream

Plenty of big bream coming aboard (so many we lost count today) along with the bream we are getting alot of pollack, garfish, wrasse, mackerel and smoothounds.one more shambles trip tomorrow and we are off to alderney for the first time this year.tight lines!!

awesomer weather

A few of the lads from recent trips to the shambles showing off some flatfish. We have one space opened up on mondays trip down there and a couple left on easter sunday for bream. Join in whilst the weather is so awesome!!

The bream are in....and the mackerel

Andy and sam with 3 Dave Roberts came to do an article for Sea Angler and he managed a treble of bream, mackerel and wrasse

Paul with a treble of bream

Mike with a nice bream

Some nice turbot for the Anglian Anglers

Peter wright 15lber Peter with an 11 as well John Fairbrother with a 5lber

Banks and wreck trip end of March

Small eyed ray Spotty Ray Blonde ray

Another blonde

and another... no pics of the congers to 35lb

Sam returns a large conger eel