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3rd October

The last few days action has deteriorated with the weather Very strong winds from the west which have now swung to NNW and a wee bit cooler too! The link below takes us back to last weekend and the perfect conditions we had, also puts Robson Green to shame. The photo was taken in 5 knots of tide on a rock well away from the island, extreme Bass fishing! www.cwgsy.net/private/toerag/extreme.jpg

Back to this week though, since I last reported there has been a fair bit of Bass around the island on its shore marks, think I reported before that baits catching the better fish, guests staying with us managing one of the best fish caught at 9lb 11oz, another of similar size returned! Still all the species around mentioned previously just not so many. Bull Huss to 11lb, Conger to 28lb, Black Bream to 3lb, Mullet to 5lb and Bass all feature strongly with Red Gurnards, Sole, Couches Sea Bream still caught. Some lads trying to get out of the weather succeeded with some Golden Greys. Need weather a bit kinder to exploit some of the fishing potential that last weekend showed, cross fingers!

30th September

Where to start..............where to start.......................

It's excellent fishing all round at the mo. From the shore there is plenty to choose from. Lots of Black Bream to 3lb 8oz whether you opt to leger or be more of a purist and use light float gear which I have to say match the fight of any mullet you are likely to get. Talking of Mullet, not huge numbers of fish but enough to fish for with best of it around 6lb. Bass have fallen to shads and plugs with up to 5 fish to a rod with fish to 5lb, on the bottom the bigger specimens take fish/squid/live baits with fish approaching double figures. Red Mullet seem a little scarcer at the minute but judging by commercial catches a very real possibility of good numbers, maybe too many big baits on the bottom for other species which is why they're not being caught. Several Small Eyeds to 6lb landed. Bull Huss to 12lb landed too plus a few Conger Eels with the best of those at 40lb. Possibility of a White Bream landed. I made a posting on this site a couple of years ago and it turned out to be false so don't hold your breath, my source though is a little more reliable. No Tope landed but one or two connections have been made. Golden Greys caught both on float and on worm baits on the bottom.

Boat sport is pretty hectic too. Rough ground is the place to be for good numbers of Bream, Huss and Eels. Bass sport can be hit and miss but there is some good fish about and with numbers improving all the time the next couple of months should see some reasonable sport. Still a few fish on the wrecks, mainly Pollack but there was a 29lb Cod landed. Reports of a Pollack chomped in two on the retrieve! Still a few flatfish around, one boat yesterday landed Brill to 9lb 8oz, a few Turbot caught too. Gurnards and Red Mullet create a bit of interest on the drift as well. One boat reported a surprise Plaice of 4lb 8oz, very welcome.

Our day out Sunday was shorter than normal...........but sweeter! Plugging for the day resulted in around 13 Bass, maybe a couple more, with a good average which included two definite doubles and another which was likely to have been, all landed by Steve Ace. We also had a go for a few Pollack on the pirks which we had reasonable success with but two odd things happened. One was a lovely little Codling of around 4lb and we also had a Bream which took the whole treble!

Steve with one of his doubles!!

18th September

Latest catches include more Ray, Conger and Bass from the Breakwater........................... in daylight! Plenty of Bream around too and a few Bass reported. Dark nights next weekend, thoroughly looking forward to it. Out in the boats still plenty being caught in the way of Conger, Huss, Bream, Bass and the odd Blonde. Dick Smith pictured here with the best of his Bass, this one went 9lb 4oz, the double has eluded him this year so far with three fish over 9lb in four trips!

I've updated below with some pictures too. Thanks to Dickie for those.

15th September

Lots about for both the shore and boat angler over the weekend. The Breakwater has produced plenty of fish for the novice anglers with Pollack, Mackerel and Gars still showing. Triggerfish to 2lb reported as well plus Couches Sea Bream. Lots of Black Bream to 3lb. Two Small Eyeds turned up too which were kind off targeted for!! Other marks are fishing well too with Bass and Mullet featuring high on the successes. 

I know I am repeating myself but plenty of fish on the rough ground for the boat angler and of course we are in to that time of year when you're not really sure what is going to turn up. Find patches of sand in the beds of rock and they're fishing well too. Plenty of Black Bream to 5lb, Couches Bream to 3lb as well! Blondes are being caught more frequently.............why they're not fished for more often I do not know why. They're big , they're powerful and.............................well, they're Blonde! Bass not quite in the numbers we're used too but they are there and judging by our own fishing the weekend a few flats about too.

We had two days out over the weekend. I mixed it up a bit basically because I was never going to handle two days wrecking, I was exhausted after Saturday flippin pirking away. Woke up Sunday and felt as if I'd been steam rollered. Fishing in and around Hurd Deeps we managed a bit of Pollack with fish still in double figures, best of it around 15lb but the real bonus were 8 Cod and 2 Ling. I managed to connect with something that simply duffed me up. Loads of heavy weight, then nothing as it came up 20 odd feet, loads of head shaking and possibly rolling around going on down below 300 odd feet, then a run to the right which is hard to notice in that depth, a change of direction when I thought I'd lost it again but then I engaged in battle again. As line was peeling off I was chuffed that after these few eventful minutes I was still in there and tackle was holding out when what ever it was wrapped me around some wreckage. A real shame not to discover what it was, having caught Tope on this same wreck to 35/40lb it wasn't one of those!   

  Dick with the smaller of his two Ling.

In thought Dickie was photographing the bend in my rod which turned out to be the 'fish' I lost. However it wasn't, it was more to show the 'flakey' gear I use when I am out and I own a tackle shop!! I'm glad it wasn't a video neither, you'd have seen all the flab wobbling as it beat me half to death!!

The following day was more sedate. Staying close to the island the focus was on the Bass. First of all was to try a flood mark I found the other week, fruitless there so I think I need the massive tides for that to work. Bait was the next problem but that proved effortless in the end so we got to the banks early. We managed a mix of fish which included a bonus 2 Turbot for Gary and a fine Tope come aboard. When the tide got underway so did the Bass. A quick 6 or 7 reasonable ones and then inexplicably it died, as it does! We scratched out another couple before deciding to get in a back eddie of tide and then struck lucky with a Brill and a Turbot, and one or two more spiky things! 

12th September

I just knew it would happen...................................out again last night to follow up the previous nights success. A change of venue was forced by the swell which had built up in the previous 24 hours and to start with it looked good. Fieona found fish straight away while we both lost fish in the rocks. Unfortunately the cloud disappeared and exposed the moon which put the fish off the feed. Needless to say Fieona stole the glory which I have been constantly reminded off, pictured below was her best Red Mullet of 1lb 8oz.

11th September

HOORAH.............took Fieona fishing last night and BEAT her!! I know how to show a girl a good time! Cracking little session on one of the beaches and given the weather we have been having I managed to stay in a T-shirt all evening! Final result between us we had 4 Red Mullet, 2 Bass, 2 Sole, 2 Bream and a solitary Pout. Fie had bites every cast which we think were little Red Mullet. Elsewhere Bass on the plugs, there seems to be plenty Bass close inshore. Mullet to 5lb have been caught as well and another Tope has been landed, this one went 38lb fro the Breakwater. Only one boat here at the moment, they're getting a fair bit of Tope, bream and the a few Bull Huss and a solitary Eel.  Local boat Smuggler of Braye is out over the next few days so we'll see how that goes. 

3rd September

Lack of updates again, mainly due to be being busy but not just business, I have been pretty busy fishing again which is fantastic. Last weekend we had a blitz in the boat. Friday we had half a days wrecking which resulted in some good fishing with Pollack to 15lb and a few Cod as well. The downside was that the Tope turned up in numbers which in turn made it difficult to get fish back to the boat without being bitten off. They also caused loads of damage to our braid and with no spare braid on the boat other than on spare reels we soon run out of line and patience! On Saturday I decided to go Bassing on my own to try a mixture of experiments with venues and techniques. An early start proved not early enough as I flapped around getting going which cost me my first mark to try, also a lack of Mackerel didn't help. Rest of the day went well though with around 15 Bass, (there was a downside as I lost as many through my experiments!) no big fish with the best at 6lb. I did however fluke a cracking Brill, never weighed it but I am sure it would have nudged 9lb. On one of the marks I had a local boat close to me, he landed a cracking Blonde Ray of 23lb on his 12/20 Bass gear in 3 knots of tide! Sunday I took one of the lads who was with me on Friday, a windy day saw us stick closer to the island with just 12 Bass for our efforts although Tim had a personal best fish of over 8lb. Tuesday we managed half a dozen Bass in a few hours just outside of the Breakwater which proves you don't have to go far. It was windy though with winds of 28/30mph recorded!

Elsewhere obviously the Bassing has been reasonable, plenty of Black Bream and as I think I have mentioned before plenty of Tope, Conger and Huss on the rough ground. Our local boat Smuggler of Braye has been out plenty despite the weather and finding all of the above. Skipper Colin Dukes has started taking novice anglers as well as the experienced ones and they are having a great time of it.

This time of year it is the shore sport that starts to really hot up. There is plenty of Bream around to 4lb, great eating and great sport especially on the right tackle. Last week there bags of up to 20 fish reported. Bass to 7lb have been falling to various tactics, the bigger fish falling to the bigger dead baits but the best sport has to be on the fly where there has been an increased activity amongst anglers. Mullet have been frequently caught too with fish to 6lb easily caught. Red Mullet, Red Gurnard, Sole all have been reported as well as Eels to just short of 40lb and Huss to 8lb. Its looking good!! I've got loads of worms to use up as no-one is going out in this blustery weather so over the next few nights I will hit the beaches to use it.

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