2024 HALL of FAME
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2024 HALL of FAME
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2024 Fish of the Quarter
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2024 HALL of FAME
* Nothing Reported *
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Boat Species 2024Simon Mann - 17Dickie Davis - 14 Steve Lewington - 13 Ricky Nethersole - 13 Jason Weller - 13 Phil Evans - 11 Jim Grant - 11 Gavin Thomson - 11 Peter Cousins - 10 Gary Ochoa - 10 Farooq Shah - 10 Nigel Cross - 9 Alan Lane - 9 Russel Lewington - 9 Jamie Privett - 9 Haroun Shah - 9 John Hamilton - 8 Nick Bown - 7 Ian Tooley - 7 Simon Bedwell - 6 Colin Dale - 6 Stacey Farmer - 6 Chris Anderson - 4 Paul Harcus - 3 John Hutchinson - 2 Chris Jarrett - 1 |
| To see the base data chart of the boat species hunts click HERE |
Shore Species 2024Simon Mann - 24Jamie Privett - 8 Stacel Farmer - 9 Paul Harcus - 5 Steve Lewington - 4 Russ Lewington - 3 Chris Anderson - 2 Peter Badger - 2 Peter Cousins - 1 Dan Mallia - 1 | To see the base data chart of the shore species hunts click HERE | ->
Competitions2024 Boat Competition * Nothing Reported * 2024 Boat Competition Speciers * Nothing Reported * 2024 Beach Competition * Nothing Reported * |
Boat Angler of the Year 2024Dickie Davis - 80Steve Lewington - 66 Jim Grant - 39.5 Haroun Shah - 33.25 Phil Evans - 28 Simon Mann - 25 Paul Harcus - 24 Jamie Privett - 24 Alan Lane - 21 Jason Weller - 18.5 Russel Lewington - 16 Farooq Shah - 10.5 John Hamilton - 8 Chris Anderson - 7 Gavin Thomson - 7 Ricky Nethersole - 6 Ian Tooley - 5 Nick Bown - 2.25 Nigel Cross - 2 |
| To see the base data chart of the boat angler of the year click HERE |
| British Records
(via the Angling Trust) AND also Specimen Fish |
How trophies are awarded2 Boat Angler of the Year(BAOTY) points per club member present for catching the biggest fish- 1 BOATY point per club member present for the angler(s) catching the most species - BAOTY points for Club Competitions depend solely on competition positions (overall and in boat) one BAOTY point for each competitor beaten in each case. - Only the BEST FIVE trips/comps for each member count towards Boat Angler of the Year. - One (1) species competition point is awarded for each species caught during the year - If members take charter boat spaces on an "individuals basis" or enter competitions, as long as at least two club members are present and a report is promptly submitted to the Fish Recorder, the trip will count towards the "Annual Species Hunt" and the "Boat Angler of the Year" competitions. - To make it easy to record trips we often use a prepared Trip Record Sheet which anybody is welcome to download and print for their own use. All and any fish caught during the year by a currently PAID-UP member are eligible for most of the other annual trophies (Cod Cup, Tope Tankard etc.).Please report any such to the fish recorder promptly. If the report is delayed too long it may become impossible to verify and therefore not be allowable. For comservation reasons our Boat competitions are points based (see Competition Score Sheet with no minimum size limit. Boats and positions are drawn at a club meeting or on the morning of the competition before any boat(s) set off. |
2023 HALL of FAME
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2023 HALL of FAME
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2023 Fish of the Quarter
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2023 HALL of FAME
* Nothing Reported *
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Boat Species 2023Phil Evans - 26Simon Mann - 15 Gavin Thomson - 14 Jason Weller - 14 Chris Anderson - 13 Mick Doody - 13 Liam Evans - 12 Jim Grant - 11 Gavin Hunt - 11 Jamie Privett - 10 John Hutchinson - 9 Chris Jarrett - 9 Steve Lewington - 9 Bob Jenkins - 8 Farooq Shah - 8 Simon Bedwell - 7 Nigel Cross - 7 Cassius Espaniol - 6 Paul Harcus - 6 Rio Espaniol - 5 David Grant - 5 Dustin Pitman - 5 Dave Ball - 4 Tony Hargreaves - 4 Paul Milkins - 4 Ricky Nethersole - 4 David Lee - 3 Callum Pitman - 3 Paul Sweetman - 3 Russel Lewington - 2 |
| To see the base data chart of the boat species hunts click HERE |
Beach Species 2023Russel Lewington - 1 |
| To see the base data chart of the shore species hunts click HERE |
Competitions2023 Boat Competition First Leg Littlehampton May 23rd 1st Jason Weller on Holdfast pos 5 scored 211 / 211 making 100.00 % 2nd Mick Doody on Lynander pos 3 scored 200 / 200 making 100.00 % 3rd Jim Grant on Holdfast pos 4 scored 157 / 211 making 74.41 % 4th Gavin Thomson on Holdfast pos 2 scored 153 / 211 making 72.51 % 5th Chris Jarret on Holdfast pos 6 scored 148 / 211 making 70.14 % 6th Gavin Hunt on Lynander pos 1 scored 130 / 200 making 65.00 % 7th Paul Harcus on Lynander pos 2 scored 119 / 200 making 59.50 % 8th Phil Evans on Holdfast pos 1 scored 122 / 211 making 57.82 % 9th Chris Anderson on Lynander pos 4 scored 107 / 200 making 53.50 % 10th Ricky Nethersole on Holdfast pos 3 scored 106 / 211 making 50.24 % 11th Bob Jenkins on Lynander pos 5 scored 58 / 200 making 29.00 % Second Leg Littlehampton September 2nd 1st Phil Evans on Lynander pos scored 273 / 273 making 100.00 % 2nd Mick Doody on Lynander Pride pos scored 237 / 273 making 86.81 % 3rd Gavin Thomson on Lynander pos scored 227 / 273 making 83.15 % 4th Jason Weller on Lynander pos scored 210 / 273 making 76.92 % 5th Gavin Hunt on Lynander pos scored 152 / 273 making 55.68 % 6th Jamie Privett on Lynander pos scored 145 / 273 making 53.11 % Consolidated Leader Board 1st Mick Doody 186.81 % ( 437 ) 2nd Jason Weller 176.92 % ( 421 ) 3rd Phil Evans 157.82 % ( 395 ) 4th Gavin Thomson 155.66 % ( 380 ) 5th Gavin Hunt 120.68 % ( 282 ) 6th Jim Grant 74.41 % ( 157 ) 7th Chris Jarret 70.14 % ( 148 ) 8th Paul Harcus 59.50 % ( 119 ) 9th Chris Anderson 53.50 % ( 107 ) 10th Jamie Privett 53.11 % ( 145 ) 11th Ricky Nethersole 50.24 % ( 106 ) 12th Bob Jenkins 29.00 % ( 58 ) 2023 Boat Competition Speciers Phil Evans - 10 Mick Doody - 9 Jason Weller - 9 Gavin Hunt - 7 Chris Jarrett - 7 Gavin Thomson - 7 Jim Grant - 6 Paul Harcus - 6 Jamie Privett - 6 Chris Anderson - 4 Bob Jenkins - 4 Ricky Nethersole - 4 2023 Beach Competition * Nothing Reported * |
Boat Angler of the Year 2023Jason Weller - 47Phil Evans - 38 Steve Lewington - 30 Jim Grant - 28 Gavin Thomson - 28 Mick Doody - 25 Simon Bedwell - 16 Farooq Shah - 16 Chris Anderson - 15 Gavin Hunt - 10 Cassius Espaniol - 8 Chris Jarret - 8 Simon Mann - 8 Dustin Pitman - 8 Paul Harcus - 6 Miles Mann - 6 David Lee - 5 Liam Evans - 1.5 |
| To see the base data chart of the boat angler of the year click HERE |
All members - Please send in a report of your fishing trip (Boat or Shore)
preferably by email. |
This Year (2024) Reports |
Sunday 3rd November 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)! Let's all catch a conger ! |
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Unbelievable weather greet the five members leaving on a Sunday remberance day certainly not a day for sail boats .
It was if the sea had been tamed to being a giant lake . We soon anchored at a deep water mark where member nick bown took an early lead with dogfish and pouting and a lovely bullhuss into double figures that certainly had an additude problem on board ....very aggressive... New member lan tooley was also into species including Mr tope still around they are . As was boat angler of the year Jason weller. It was supposed to be a blonde ray hot-spot but they weren't playing ball and the fishing became slow so a move was called for . Newish mark more inshore became what I called the Woodie wood pecker show....pouting to be precise...must be some shoul down there. But made for some nice bait in which the reasonable size conger decided to join the party notably a mid thirty conger that was the first and biggest of the trip by our Jason. Think we all caught good size conger to be fair . End of the day saw lan tooley just grab the most species with help of a wrasse to make seven species just pipping Jason on six . Biggest fish Jason weller with his conger and most species by lan tooley. Big shout out to our skipper Gary Edwards who never likes to disappoint us and keeps us in refreshments with teas , coffees and now the much loved soup with biscuits and our afternoon kit kats. [Boat Organiser Steve Lewington.] |
Sunday 3rd November 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Remembrance day . |
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Just the three of us turned up for this club trip / individual trip in which another two were added by Gary Edwards our skipper.
It was apparent that once outside the calm of the marina the open sea was rather lumpy to say the least. Bit of drifting and casting of lures for bass resulted in nothing so we soon anchored at a known blonde ray hot-spot. It wasn't long before boat angler of the year 2023 Jason weller was into our chosen quarry a nice blonde ray of six or seven pound . Wasn't long after that my rod slammed over and I was also into a blonde ray that took some pumping up in movement of boat and wind but once on board a nice double figured ray of 12lb caught on a cocktail bait of a wrap and a single sandeel. It was suggested by our skipper Gary Edwards to up anchor and move more inshore with less chop in which we did but not much happened apart from a few dogfish that was added by the three of us . It was soon called lines up lads let's head for home as myself and Jason had two species each and I had the biggest fish. Thanks go as usual to our skipper Gary Edwards who supplied us with teas and coffees and various soup flavours as well as selection of biscuits and the customery kit kat. [Boat Organiser Steve Lewington.] |
Sunday 27th October 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Pump it up ! |
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General bottom fishing with just the five board holdfast at Littlehampton.
With three dropouts the weather was good to say the least sunny, blue skies, and no wind . All we wanted now was the fish to play ball . Some drifting at first around by the wind farm see a few fish notably a treble shot of bream and pouting for member Gary ochoa. We soon settled at a deep water mark and it become apparent that a large shoal of pouting were down there . Gary the skippers mate Chris was on board and he was soon into double shots of pouting. It wasn't long before yours truly and dickie davis would be using these for bait . Fishing was slow but the conger did put in an appearance dickie with two one a particular nice fish of around 36lb . It was soon after a move was on the cards but the anchor on the boat was playing up so there wasn't to be any fishing regards anchoring . About a mile away Gary our skipper with xray vision eyes see birds and what he calls big mackerel (blue fin tuna)working . We fancied a peek at these beautiful creatures and we slowly pulled aside watching a vast number go about catching there food source . We all stood quietly watching a spectacular sight ...a david Attenborough moment indeed. We did do some more drifting but nothing really so we headed back to the marina where by now the sun had truly made way for darkness. Most species was dickie with three and biggest fish was dickies conger. Thanks as always to our skipper Gary Edwards for always keeping us all topped up with teas , coffees , soups and assortment of biscuits and our usual kit kats . [Boat Organiser Steve Lewington.] |
Sunday 13th October 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Pump it up ! |
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A full crew of nine left the marina at Littlehampton for a day's general bottom fishing . No signs of mackerel on way out so our first stop and mark was rather successful in which a number of species was caught notably tope in which a fish of around 18lb to dickie davis would go on to be biggest fish of the day . It was then Decided shall we shan't we go to another mark ..The hole ...50metres to be precise in which father and son the shah's went head to head . Pump it up they did with farooq (father) leading the way with most species on day with eight including a sizeable bass of 5lb . Maybe next time haroun great result with six species thou . It was a good trip all round everyone caught at least 3 species each the weather was also kind to us (mild) not much wind . Talking of kind ..thank you to our skipper of holdfast Mr Gary Edwards who really is the best around . We are spoilt with coffee's, teas , biscuits and kit kats , and the in thing soup of the day . Also got to mention thanks to Chris Gary's right hand man for his help and advice . [B O boat organiser Steve lewington.] |
Sunday 1st Sebtember 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)No plaice for us |
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Eight doughty souls set off early (7:30) in the morning to do battle with mackerel, plaice, bass, gurnards and dogfish
We tried shallow bits and deeper bits but the mackerel were not exactly suiciidal(did have a few) We tried for bass with lures with limited success. We had three smoothounds on hardback crabs. We dragged worms across a load of gravelly sand (and kelp) but that only produced three small gurnarsan and a littlet thornback skilfully hooked in the edge of the wing by yours truly. Finally we tried again or mackerel with (very) limited success despite investigating several marks inshore. Eight species were recorded (bass, bream, dogfish, red and tub gurnards, mackerel, pollock, smooothhound, and thornback ray) Simon and Jason, with a couple of sizeable fish each, were the bass experts. Russ had the biggest fish (smoothhound) and I was the only one to get five species. Fishing was hard, the company was great, The weather was OK (dry). the tea and coffe were plentiful. The biscuits and kitkats were appreciated Thanks to Gary (who is now starting to believe that "When the wind is in the east, the fish bite least" (we have told him!). [Jim] |
Sunday 18th August 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Bass no Blonde |
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I thought this was a bass was the only target but the night before we found out that blondes were also in the sights so quickly added a bit of bait, a heavier rod and some heavy traces to the kit.
As it turned out the mackerel were not co-operating Then the blondes did not turn up. Finally, heading inshore we saw the birds working over the shallows. Artificial lures of many types and colours were thrown at the bass but it was our guest Simon who had the secret killer so most of us changed to something similar. Most of us got bass, only one for me, but it was the biggest fish of the day. John Hamilton had every one of the five species caught whih were bass(acouple of dozen), bream (a few mostly small), conger (VERY small), one garfish and two mackerel. It was the Shahs who were by far the best at bream but not bass. Hard day Thanks to Gary and Chris. [Jim] |
Sunday 11th August 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)MINES THE BLONDE |
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Yes indeed the clubs first trip this year for the blonde ray see the crew of seven leave the marina for the open sea.
A stop for mackerel see more than usual with scad , bass , etc before we anchored in a spot for the blondes. A variety of baits on board the favourite being the sandeel, mackerel, squid and also wraps of squid and sandeel. Most of the crew were into rays a pb for nick bown of 13lb , a pb for Stacey farmer of 15lb and it was when I was taking a few pics of Stacey's that I was bringing up one and also pb of 17lb . It then after that went quiet and so we moved to a new mark but very quiet there as well so Gary Edwards the skipper decided to return to the scene of the crime in which it was slow but delighted to say everyone caught a blonde ray. We decided on way back to drop for mackerel and maybe bass on the drift in which there was plenty to be had . Dickie davis and yours truly both had five species each and share of the points and I had the heaviest fish a pb blonde ray. Big thank you as always to skipper Gary Edwards for his refreshments of tea and coffee and odd cup of soup for me and his box of biscuits that always are welcome for a dunk or two and not forgetting take a break kit kat what a touch . Must also thank him for his advice throughout. [Steve lewington - boat organiser] |
Monday 5th August 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)RNLI 200 charity trip Dickie and Jason |
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Gary held a trip for the rnli which raised £1000
When we got on the boat it was decided it would be a species competition First we went over to Bognor to get our smaller species Then went and anchored down It was an excellent day I won the smallest fish prize and the most species points I caught pollock pout scad black bream conger ballan wrasse 6 species Dickie also had 6 species And I had biggest fish an eel in its teens [Jason] |
Sunday 4th August 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Just two old ones |
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Nigel rod-mender Cross and myself Jim forgetful Grant represented the club and seven other individuals were aboard.
We worked hard hunting mackerel but but only found TEN (and one bass) so we decided to conserve them as as best as we could (ten big mackerel = 50 ray baits) so it was off to the banks looking for blondes First ray up was a thornback though. I persisted with big baits while Nigel banged out a few bream, Then there was a bit of a wait until a couple of smooth houunds and finally a 16lb blonde came over the stern, Late on I got fed up of dogfish gnawing the ends of my big mackerel head bait and tried a squid/prawn cocktail. Straight in to a good fish, definitely a blonde and then the braid parted Just time to get a new leader attached, rebait and lift it over the rail when Gary said time to go beacause we were already cutting it very fine. So it was anchor up double quick, hold on tight, throttle wide open. We got over the bar with about 2 inches/ 2 minutes to spare with everybody right up front to lift the stern off the gravel, All good fun. Thanks to Gary - looking forward to the nexr one [Jim] |
Wednesday 31 July 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Is Dickie going for gold |
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Just six of us (Dickie, John H, Chris J, Steve, Gary O, and myself) set of again to hunt the tope.
Again very few mackerel found despite us zipping about looking for them so we had to rely on the fresh ones skipper Gary had in the coolbox (we also had in reserve of a coolbox of frozen which is now back in my freezer) The mark we anchored had produced lots of tope and rays over the last few days but it didn't produce for us this time. We had a long discussion about the shy and infrequent bites which could be summarised by the saying "When thewend is inn the East, the fish bite least" There were three tope (2 for Dickie) and one small-eyed ray for John. There were a number of (tope?) takes. Dickie had several line breaks. Other species caught were - a couple of small pollock (caught while trying for mackerel), a conger (biggest fish of the day), a few bream and as far as I was concerned the best of the day was Steve's delicious (I ate it) 15oz red gurnard. I myself have had better days, caught very little, lost fish that were "hooked", tangled up, breaking off in snags and finally breaking a tip ring Dickie had the biggest(conger) and the most species and thereby increased his lead in BAOTY as well as moving him up to third position in the boat species hunt. Thanks Gary for all your hard work, tea, coffee, biscuits kitkats, leader replacing and vigilance in spotting bites. [Jim] |
Sunday 21st July 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Dickie an Haroun share the honours |
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There were nine anglers aboard including the four clUb members (Dickie Davis, Farooq and Haroun Shah and yours truly)
One of those really nice days to be out at sea even though there was a bit of breeze but we had to work hard for fish. We whizzed around looking for a shoal of mackerel (two does not a shoal make). Seven scad did turn up but thats not much bait between nine. We anchored on a rough area known for hounds, but if any were there they did not want the hardback crabs although one did deign to take a squid bait. The bream seem to have decided that its the end of the season so only a few small ones were caught. Of course there were a number of congers. A couple of dogfish and just one thornback topped. At the end of the day we tried a couple or six drifts for mackerel again with exactly nil success. Dickie had the biggest (25lb) conger and Haroun managed six species. A trying day. I don't know what could have been done differently butb imts called "Fishing" not "catching" Thanks Gary for all your hard work, tea, coffee and biscuits. [Jim] |
Friday 19 July 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Dickie shines |
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Five members and one guest leave Littlehampton marina for an evening / night trip in anticipation of something big in the dark .
Dickie was soon in to dogfish and followed this up with 10lb underlute ray, couple of hounds , and a silver eel . Giving him most species and biggest fish . Admiral Jamie Privett had dogfish and silver eel . Stacey farmer and yours truly had dogfish and guest angler Simon brown had a couple of hounds and doggie. Wasn't great fishing but a first time experience at evening /night. Thanks again to Gary Edwards for taking us and for cups of tea and coffee and biscuits and for the chicken soup that went down a treat for all . [Steve lewington Boat organiser] |
Wednesday 17 July 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)In search of the very elusive tope |
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We staerted off with assuming that mackerel for bait would not be a problem. We sought them here, we sought them there but all we found were a few lonely strays. We watched the birds feeding but it was little bass chasing baitfish underneath them. We stared at the monitor as we zoomed about stopping whenwe saw likey signs with little success. Finally after over an hour and a half a dense shoal. Half a dozen drifts over them filled the icebox. Now for the tope. Off to where the big tope live. Unfortunately the tope were all out. Not one tope There were a few congers (not very big), A couple of thorbacks, an undulate, a few little bass and of course mackerel and some scad. On the way back we stopped for some fresh mackerel and filled our coolboxes Biggest fish was Dickie's conger and Rickie had the most(6) species. [Jim] |
Sunday 14 July 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Tope disaster |
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Me and dickie ventured out on another tope trip, the weather was good and the day looked promising. We spent the normal hour obtaining the essential bait. Dickie was the mackerel king as he was bring up full strings, the rest of us was playing catch up but wasn’t to far behind. We soon had over 200 mackerel.
We then ventured out to the land of the giants. When we anchored up, the tide was slack. I was using a 3 ounce weight with a jumbo mackerel flapper, the boat was swinging around so I swapped places with John to my left. As the bait hit the floor, the rod just doubled over and the reel losing line. I put the reel on full drag and there was no signs of it slowing down towards the anchor line, the unthinkable happens. I was trying to untangle my line from the anchor rope, without the saving grace of the skipper Gary Edward’s I would have lost the fish. When she was on the boat, I was absolutely gazed at the size of her as I knew it was a new PB for me, weighed and pics taken (thanks Dickie) She was on her way, with seeing the potential of fish that could be caught, everyone was enthusiastic with getting there baits down. Unfortunately we didn’t see another tope that day, I finished the day off with a 49 lb tope,11 lb undulate ray and a 15 lb conger and mackerel. Dickie had mackerel and the dreaded doggie. [Jamie Privett] |
Sat/Sun 12/13 July 2024 - Weymouth - BCC Members ChampionshipThat’ll do - Jason Weller does us proud |
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Had a good weekend in Weymouth for bcc
I was the joint winner with this eel Weighed in at 48 lb We also came second in the four man team (Jason weller mick doody David Lee Kim Mcgreevy) We were beaten by the England team [Jason Weller] |
Sunday 3 March 2024 - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)A pair of pollocks… |
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What a day…out with Gary today and we had a red letter day on pollock, every pollock on board was over 10lbs, both chests full and were still being plucked out. The new reel ( okuma cavella two speed ) performed above expectations, the two speed function came in to its own and I was lucky to take home a 11lb and a 13lb pollock for dinner. [Jamie Privett] |
Sunday 30th June - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Individual day cum club trip for three |
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Admiral James Privett, Steve and Russ Lewington on board holdfast for tope .
First stop was for fresh bait and mackerel but they were hard to find to say the least. We did catch some and after a couple of anchorings we finally settled on a mark for our intended quarry the tope. Admiral Jamie Privett led from the front and started to catch tope and other species of which were mackerel, scad ,bream and thornback ray (he was well pleased with that) Russ had mackerel, wrasse cuckoo) conger , and tope . Myself had mackerel, scad ,pouting, conger and best for me a 11lb underlute ray. Biggest fish went to the Admiral a tope around 16lb / 17lb . It was one of them days because yours truly catching a tope try as I might it wasn't to be . Thanks again to our skipper Gary Edwards and best mate Chris for advice , teas and coffees , biscuits and take a break kit kat nice touch greatly appreciated as always by the three GCSAC AKA the salty crew. Regards [Steve lewington] B O .. boat organiser. |
Sunday 23rd June - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Steve Maxxes out |
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Good day by all lovely weather and everyone caught. Had a battle with haroun shah on the species front today ...he is learning fast that lad and has adapted so well considering its not even a year since he took up the sport . I did just enough to beat him with six species of which were Bream , mackerel, skad, pouting, tope , and conger . Biggest fish of the day was my conger of 12lb that took honours over my tope of 11lb . Although my scad was apparently quite big over a pound. Haroun had five species and rest of crew had at least four each . Thanks to Gary Edwards our skipper and best mate Chris for always being on hand at all times great team . So lucky to have a boat like holdfast. [Steve but retitled by Jim] |
Sunday 9 June - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)What a day |
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Club trip with seven actually making it (no names, no pack drill) so it was Chris, Nigel, Dickie, Gary, Farooq, Haroun and myself who set off to do battle with the bream. Beautiful day start with but it blew up to a force 5 in the mid afternoon, for about an hour. Straight to fish Most of us concentrated on the bream, Dickie successfully targetted the bigger stuff and bagged 5 congers (to 22lb) and a tope, Chris produced a tompot blenny and a cuckoo wrasse to go with his pout abd bream to give him the four species. Harouns 2lb 12oz bream was the biggest so far this year (GCSAC and Holdfast) but his pout and ballan only gave him three species. Brilliant day. Fantastic fishing and tea, biscuits, kitkats, ice. Thanks to Gary and Chris. [Jim] |
Friday 7 June - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)What a day |
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Indviduals day but Farooq and Haroun were aboard again as was Barry Handley. I took up a station on the Starboard side where I could keep a beady eye on those three, Beautiful dayo start with but it cut up a bit rough at lunchtime As we are coming to expct, Gary took us straight to the fish (well one small adjusment because we hadn't really started hitting them in the first ten minutes} It never stopped, loads of good sixed bream for everyone. One of the best days bream fishing I have ever had (in 62 years), At one point the lead was not getting to the bottom ad I even managed to catch more than one good fish at a time (5 double shos and a treble) There were of course 9 "BAOTY" points up for grabs and Haroun snaffled them all with smoothie, bream, dog, pout catches. Haroun and Farooq, I believe, are now considering a larger coolbox to transfer the fish to their recently purchased freezer. Fantastic fishing and tea, biscuits, kitkats, ice. Thanks to Gary and Chris (who was riding shotgun) [Jim] |
Tuesday 4th June to Thursday 6th June 2024 - Penzance - Bite Adventure( Robin 'Chippy' Chapman )What a load of Pollacks |
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Not perfect conditions today with stiff westerly winds confining us to Porthcurno Bay. Then to top it all, pink plankton affecting the fish feeding & annoyingly clogging up our lines. Notably commercial boats calling it a day & coming in early. Bait fishing was hard work but we managed to catch 11 species between us. Alan lake was top dog today with most species (7 no.), heaviest fish being a bull huss of 7lb & a specimen greater weaver of 1lb 3oz (contender for fish of the quarter?) Wednesday Wind dropped to offshore North Westerly’s meaning we could venture further South Again, bait fishing was hard work and with no mackerel but again we managed to catch 11 species between us. We spent an hour on a wreck pollack fishing catching 40 plus between us All good sizes, the biggest being 8lb by Simon Mann Phil had most species @ 7 no. and a bull huss of 8lb Thursday Lovely day & regrettably our last day. Armed with lots of ragworm today so off we went Again, bait fishing was hard work and with no mackerel yet again but we again managed to catch 11 species again between us. We did some wrasse fishing where Ricky Never Regions caught a 4lb 1 oz ballan (contender for CGSAC wrasse trophy ?) We spent an hour on a wreck pollack fishing catching 40 plus between us All good sizes, the biggest being 9lb by Phil Gavin had most species today @ 8 no. Summary A great 3 days considering the conditions. Special thanks to the CGSAC team (including personal carers Gavin & Ricky ) & Chippy I had been very unstable on my feet during the trip only for the MRI to reveal while we were away that I had 2 no. fractured vertebrae! ![[]](images 2024/2024 06 04 3.jpeg)
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Dates for next year now booked for June 10 to 13 2025 (4 days Species fishing) [Phil] |
Sunday 2nd June - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)P b - Personal bests !!!! |
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Sunday 2nd June saw seven anglers leave Littlehampton marina in search of our quarry the tope .
Fresh mackerel was the key to hooking up to one of these big females. Gary Edwards our skipper told us drop lines and up lines for must be an hour and half looking for the elusive mackerel. Gary's best mate Chris who was on board with us managed a few as did our chairman sir jim . With six or seven fresh mackerel and plenty of frozen with bream from previous trip we anchored not a million miles from shore . First blood went to capt James Privett with his okuma multiplier going into melt down as braid and sound of the ratchet was an all to familiar sound for the first tope of around 30lb and pb for Jamie. It wasn't long before yours truly had that same sound of a pick up and dropped and picked up again which in turn then decided to take me on a Sunday stroll aboard holdfast. The power of this fish was incredible to say the least and what seemed an age around ten to fifteen minutes a big tope and personal best of 43lb was on board what a feeling of joy and arm aching to have. There wasn't time to reflect when the rod was off again and another fight and tope of around 25lb was had . Not to be out done was russ lewington whose rod and reel went into over drive and his tope hit the surface to say hello something that Gary's mate Chris hadn't seen before as it arched the rod over and the fight begun and ended with another pb tope of 35lb . Most species on club trip was by Jamie who included underlute ray and dogfish. Russ had dogfish, John and dickie had dogfish, jim our chairman had mackerel .biggest fish went to Steve lewington a tope of 43lb . Big thanks to our skipper Gary Edwards and his best mate Chris for advice throughout the day and the teas and coffees given to the thirsty crew that is greatly appreciated by all Thank you Regards [Steve Lewington (Boat Organiser] |
Saturday 25th May. - Sandy point hayling island Hampshire.Beach report |
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Very small window of opportunity at this venue . A must for low water see 7 anglers take to the beach . Fishing was hard to say the least but 2 anglers did catch. 1st place was Paul harcus with overall length of 74cm 2 species a conger eel of 53cm and a bream of 21cm . 2nd place was Peter cousins with overall length of 56cm 1 species dogfish. [Steve Lewington] |
Sunday 19th May - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Seven go in hope for tope . |
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What a lovely day with the early morning sunshine it looked promising to say the least on our anticipation of a big tope .
We were away at 8.00am to try for mackerel as bait . We tried several spots and had a few but they were thin on the ground to say the least . We had frozen though including bream that had been caught on a previous trip. Twenty odd tope were caught between us all with the best going to that man Simon Mann with a 22lb fish that when on board seemed to end up with its head caught in straps on my cooler bag. Most species was boat angler of the year 2023 Jason weller with four species including mackerel, dogfish, bass,and tope . Think it probably was still to early to nab a big female but a really enjoyable day on board holdfast and it's skipper Gary Edwards who supplied tea , coffee and biscuits and kit kat to all . His general knowledge is also so helpful and greatly appreciated. Thanks Gary. [Steve L] |
Thursday 17th May - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Out for the bream again |
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What a great day to be out on the water, warm, calm and great company. All nice guys and amongst them were Farooq and Haroun as well Barry (who used to own/skipper Malaki) and his son Jason. The fish were co-operating too, Gary stuck us on them right from the start. We never moved. There were bream under the boat and as we swung round we found more. Gary never had to do anything with the anchor < As each angler decided that they had enough bream for the table, bigger baits were tried. Tope runs resulted and after much good humoured banter, a couple were boated. Farooq had a little one, mine was aboout 20lb but the biggest oft the day would have gone 30-35 on the scales. All thanks to Gary for his expert skippering, ice, tea, coffee and kitkats. Two of the party were "rod hires" and I am afraid they may have been spoilt because its not always as good as this (even on Holdfast). Another great day! [Jim] |
Sunday 12th May - Brighton - Yellowfin (Kurt Lander)Change of scenery |
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I was invited by Bex (remember Kelley Heroes) to join her on a bream trip out from Brighton.
Bex herself could not make it but I met up with Brooke, Chis, Emily Jessica, Kev and the others in the multi-storey and on to the boat for 7:00 Very nice at sea (not too hot) We did a bit of drifting along the edges of rocks then dropped anchor when the tide started running. When the tide died again it was back to drifting to end the day There were a few bream caught, I had half a dozen or so, as well as pout, a plaice that was too small (really thin too) and a ballan wrasse. . A couple of tiny dover soles put in an appearance but I do not repember who got them Another enjoyable day with old friends. [Jim] |
Thursday 9th May - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Jim after the elusive big bream |
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Very civilised start time - meet 8:20 sail 8:40
Weather was dry and sunny enough to give me a red nose, We went to the Kingmere and tried several marks. Bream present but not the really big ones (best was one that weighrd in at exactly a kilo (2lb 3.5oz?) We came in later and tried another couple of marks looking for ray etc. twhere we did finda few smallish congers, and a couple of smoothhounds. Iended up with a nice trio of bream to take home and caught my first tope of the year as well as my share of congers and a dogfish. It was an excellent day out in the sunshine. [Jim] |
Thursday 9th May - Selsey Bill East BeachLewingtons on the beach |
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New venue see the Lewingtons rock up at Selsey bill east beach. Short walk from the car was ideal considering what we had just tucked into at the local chippy. We settled into a set of groins and cast into the sunset with wraps of sandeel and squid on two rods and crab on a third looking for an early hound . It wasn't long before russ had that familiar knocking on the tip and a doggie soon come a shore . Not to be out done my rod tip was doing the same and a small conger eel was soon on the beach . Dogfish and a slightly bigger conger of a couple of pounds was had in a session that ended in the early hours. They weren't our intended quarry of a undulate ray but it was good just to be out doing a bit in a very calm sea that almost resembled fishing a big lake . We intend to get back out some time soon. We spoke about hillhead on the spit at low water for another ray the thornback. We feel you have to have some sort of plan of attack watch this space . Lewingtons wrapping up Steve and Russ . [Steve Lewington] |
Sunday 5th May - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Bream Bream Bream |
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This was an EARLY start - meet 5:15 sail 5:45
Weather was dry, a little overcast but pleasant, Gary did not mess about. Thought about trying the bass but no birds working so it was off with the lures and on with bream gear. We never moved very far all day, but Gary re-anchored several times to keep on the bream. The fish were biting tentatively at times and then swallowing 3/0 hooks ten minutes later. Paul and Chris both had a go for smoothounds but the only thing Paul's crab attracted was a smallish conger. Anyway everybody got plenty of nice sized bream for the table. Paul took the honours with a conger for the biggest fish and was the only one with all three species (bream, conger, dog). [Jim] |
Saturday 27 April - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)I was in Selsey Friday evening for some beach fishing. When I saw there was a space so booked myself on. Jamie also managed to get aboard.Weather was dry until late afternoon but a stiff north easterly was blowing most of the day. First mark there were plenty of bites. We noticed they were a bit finicky but as we were catching put it down to the easterly wind. Gary set up the rod hire guy with hard back crab and had a smoothound almost straight away. We moved to a few marks but no more smoothound after myself and jamie riged up with crab. The bream were about from start to finish and lots for everyone for the table. we both had doggie and bream. [Simon Mann] |
Wednesday 24 April - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)The bream are IN |
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I booked a place witH Gary on an individuals btream trip. Who should I end up parked next to but Haroun and Farooq and waiting on the boat was Dickie Davis making four club members. 7:45 for 8:15 start with a clear but cold day. Staight to the inshore mark where we found bream. Gary did have to do a bit of clever jiggery pokery with the anchor but only actually moved a very small distances or adjusted the anchor warp to keep us on the fish all day. Everybody had lots of bream and if there was anything else down there it probably couldn't get much of a look at the baits Dickie had the biggest fish (his one conger) and I had the most (3) species, lots bream, one tiny conger, and one dogfish. Great day - great company, thanks for the tea, coffee biscuits and the KitKat Gary and not forgetting marking and icing down all the fish during the day (makes a differenc). Be seeing you again soon. [Jim] |
Saturday 20 April - Hove West SussexStacey hits te beach |
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New member Stacey farmer from Worthing decided on a trip to local beach and was rewarded with dogfish, plaice, pouting, and a couple of underlute rays.
Stacey joins our hunt for most species on the beach 2024 in which our Simon Mann leads the way with 19 species to date . We also look forward to seeing him on the boats welcome aboard Stacey. [Russell lewington] |
Thursday 18 April - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary Edwards)Dickie and Jim at Littlehanpton again |
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Just the two of us from the club on this individuals trip. A more sensible (7:30 for 8) start with a clear day and a light but chilly breeze. I started out fully insulated ("Guy Cottens", thick fleece, Big fishing jacket) A neap tide so the boat was at the mercy of what little wind there was. First mark was close in and sstraight away one of the other guys had a bream double shot.Early promise was not upheld however, so after a couple more smallish bream and a few dogfish we headed out to the "Kingmere", Things improved and it there were a few more (and better) bream.The sun was quite warm so gradually shed big jacket followed by fleece and then the "Cottens". At time went on the bites got scarcer, we moved back inshore, temperatures fell it got windier, fleece and jacket back on. Although a little tope and a spurdog was caught Dickie and I just had conger, dogfish, and bream and I didn't even get a dogfish. So most species and biggest fish (a conger) for Dickie Another good day - many thanks Gary - looking forward to my next trip. [Jim] |
Sunday 14 April - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary)First club trip to actually make it to sea |
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Nine men booked for fishing. Alarms were ringing from ten-to-stupid (Four-something a.m.). Dickie, Farooq, Haroun, Gary, Jason, Jim, John, Nick, Nigel all parked up ar the Mainaa and then assembled on the boat for roll call for 6:45 and off we jolly well went. Nice day and, despite a bit of banter from the skipper (Gary Edwards) I was quite happy that I was n my shorts (Jason wimped out!). A neap tide so Gary had a few problems getting the boat to settle in the desired location but wewere spot on the money because we soon started finding fish and other boats were buzzing around the area and re-anchoring several times, Bream came in steadily throughout the morning but bites dried up duriing the afternoon even though we did try a couple of other marks. The only other species were: The ubiquitous dogfish for everyone except John, a tiny smoothhound for Dickie, a lonely mackerel for Haroun, and pouts for Nick and myself. The Shahs were the breaming stars with Farooq reeling them in two at a time and Haroun taking the largest of the day (not actually weighed). Most species was a 4-way tie with the points shared between Dickie, Nick, Haroun and myself Great day with constant coffee and tea - many thanks Gary [Jim] |
Shore Fishing News to date (April 7th)Think it deserves mentioning that Simon has amassed these species for 2024.plaice , flounder, turbot, bass , *mullet, small eyed ray , Gurnard, dogfish, whiting, conger , pouting, mackerel, garfish, wrasse, codling, and gilt head bream . With Herring, sardine and anchovy it could be 19 species (Still waiting for confirmation on them ). *His mullet was thick lipped It's a long way to go yet But most species off the beach so far for 2024 is . 1st place - Simon Mann 2nd place - Jamie Privett 3rd place - Paul Harcus [Steve Lewington] |
30th March - Shoreham - Beach matchResults Ist place - Paul harcus - 4 species - Total pts - 290 2nd place - Peter badger - 2 species - Total pts - 167 3rd place - Jamie Privett - 2 species 1 under 20cm - Total pts - 33pts 4th place - Dan mallia - 1 species - Total pts - 20 Biggest fish - paul harcus - conger - 75cm [Russel lewington - Beach Secretary] |
Some day in January - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary)Dickie,Jason and Gary Edwards |
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Dickie and myself wet fishing on a hold fast indivuals day We had the boat to ourselves Dickie had the starboard side and I had the port side We anchored a couple of wrecks looking for some good eels and the went to some rock work I managed to loose a couple but then got my act together and managed to catch a couple and Dickie had eels too We also had pout and dogfish I had most spices with 3 and biggest fish 15lb eel (not the big ones we were looking for) Dickie had eels and dogfish Fishing was hard but we had a lot more fish than Jennifer’s pride2 the day before with a crew of 6 I also had the smallest fish a translucent baby eel Many thanks to Gary we had a great day [Jason] |
Reports from Last Year (2023) |
Friday 15th December - Plymouth - Sea Angler IIBass on lures |
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6 members of the Plymouth Seafarers club set of at 7:15 for drift fishing trip for bass.
Weather was mild for the year 11c, light westerly wind so great conditions. We started our first wreck drift around 9;30, initially we all caught pout, a couple of small pollack (around 5lb) and I also caught a red gurnard. We then moved to another wreck, east of Plymouth about 15 miles out, we then started catching bass, between 4lb to 6lb in weight. In all we fished about 4 different wrecks, between us we caught 15 bass, I had 4, white lures working best. We called it a day around 3pm. All in all a great day, nice to catch bass, we were also visited a few times by a small pod of dolphins (around 6-8) plus seeing bluefin tuna nearby. [David] |
Saturday 2nd December - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary)A cold day in littlehampton |
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I went fishing on an individual’s day on holdfast The 5 of us braved the cold I had a fantastic day and caught pout congers to 10 lb small bream loads of bass to about 2 lbs using feathers at first then switching to a patchinco surface lure and had great fun at one point I had 2 bass on 1 lure I also caught my first ever herring Great day many thanks Gary [Jason] |
Wednesday 22nd November - Gosport - Kelley Hero IV (Ian)) Another great trip. |
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Having been blown out on the over 60s trip the day before I rescheduled to the Wed inshore.
I had been at the Unit about 10 minutes when Farooq and his son Haroon (spelling?) hove into view. Although there were only four (Chris Hawkins was the fourth) anglers instead of the normal eight) on the day Ian still took us out. To the Nab area for the whiting to begin with and we did get some (Up to 2lb) and a bullhuss comfortably into double figures. Then with the afternoon forecasted to bring more wind we headed inshore and up the Solent to try for the mythical cod. o cod but we did get some more nice sized whiting. During the day were also little congers, dogfish and some quite big pout too. The tea and coffee service was also exemplery. [Jim] |
Friday, September 29th - Penzance - Bite Adventure( Robin 'Chippy' Chapman )The aftermath of Storm Agnus. |
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Sorm Agnus hit on the Wednesday with vengeance following a progressive build up from Sunday onwards . The Scillian ferry didn’t go out and Chippy & co. had to move their boats for it to moor in its places. I’ve not seen that before We managed to fish on the 5th day of the 5 day booked trip in Porthcurno Bay just out of a considerable swell. Beggars could not be choosers so we fished for what we could with just 3 of us on board . A 4th person helped us load until he realised, he was on the wrong boat & had to get back off. ![[]](images 2023/2023 09 29 3.jpg)
A very entertaining day as fishing out of Penance always is with us catching 16 species in such a restricted area. Mackerel,scad,pout,poor cod, tub & grey gurnards ,blonde & small eyed ray,bull huss,bass,brill ,turbot,cod,greater weaver,cuckoo wrasse & doggies Notable fish were ; Simon Manns small eyed ray of 9lb 13 oz & Liam Evans with a 1 ½ lb greater weaver Simon’s ray was the biggest fish & a contender for fish of the quarter ? Liam with caddy Chippy) & I shared most species with 12 no. each. I booked a 3 day trip JUNE next year so watch this space if anyone is interested [Phil] |
Sunday 1 October - Plymouth - Sea Angler IIReport from our Plymouth Correapondent (member) |
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Seafarers Club Species Competition
11 competitors took part in the annual species competitions. 9 were on Sea Angler 2 and two on a private boat. It was agreed the fishing area had to be around the eddystone reef. So at 7pm both boats left port on an overcast mild day with a southwesterly wind of around 12 - 14 kn. We (on sea angler 2) stopped just outside Plymouth breakwater for mackerel and all of us were quickly catching 2-3 at a time. So after about 20 mins we headed for the eddystone lighthouse area and started drift fishing for about an hour, a number of small pollack were caught around 3-6lb pound and I caught on a pink sidewinder lure a 3lb 8oz Couches bream. Early afternoon we anchored up. We were all quickly catching cuckoo wrasse, pout, poor cod, scad, mackerel, Ballan wrasse and one small bass. I also caught a 3lb 4oz Black Sea bream and another about 1.5lb. After about a further hour, we finished the day with drift fishing. The results. I came 1st with 99pts, 2nd Stan on 94pts, and 3rd john with 82pts. It was an excellent day out with everyone catching fish. My 2 biggest bream are in the attached photo, a 3lb 4oz black bream and a 3lb 8oz couches bream. [David Lee] |
Sunday 28th September - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary)Jasion reporting on an individuals day |
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Drift and anchor wrecking
Early start 6 for 6.30 First we went drifting we had some nice pollock and some pout Then we anchored the Moldavia we had eels pout and bream Finally we went drifting again and had some nice bass up to 5lb I had pollock biggest 9 1/2 lb Pout and a bass 3lb A 10 hr trip became 13 hrs and we all had a fantastic day Many thanks to Gary [Jason] |
Saturday/Sunday September 9/10th - Weymouth Meercat (Ryan Casy)A very successful & enjoyable weekend |
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Nice sunny day, even the tuna was leaping for joy off The Bill . 14 species in total consisting of blondes, small eyed, smoothounds, bream, mackerel, bass ,pout, poor cod ,whiting, conger, pollack ,turbot, brill & doggies. Lots of blondes, bream & congers in particular Notable fish both going to Simon Mann being a 1lb 11 oz mackerel & 7lb 1oz bass Simon had most species of 9 no. I had the biggest fish being a 13lb blonde ray Sunday 10 species today where Mr Tope & his mates put in appearances throughput the day . Simon Mann left his breaming rod unattended . It was almost yanked over the side but I managed to catch the butt in midair . Trace bitten off but rod & reel saved. Chris Jarrett’s trace was then bitten off. I was then leaning on the gunnels, minding my own business, watching Gavin Hunt reeling in what we thought was a strap. Dialogue consisting of “its gone ,no its back” kind of thing took place when a great big bloody Porbeagle surfaced to say hello. 200lbs ? I bloody s*** myself & mentally took a while to recover . Then Chris Jarrett hooked into it again, Ryan had a go on Chris’s for a bit but the line eventually snapped & he ended up on his back side. Notable fish both going to Simon Mann being a 2lb 14 oz bream Mick Doody & I had most species of 6 no. each Simon Bedwell the biggest fish being a 25lb tope. Great couple of days Thanks Ryan with your drone taking the aerial footage. [Phil] |
Sunday September 3rd - Littlehampton - Lynander (Dickie Legget)Club Competition (Second Leg) |
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Lovely day with lots of different fish caught.
Approx 250 scoring fish between 6 of us & a total of 14 species . Places as follows. 1st Phil 100% 2nd Mick 86.80% 3rd Gavin 86.45% With 5 mins to go I flicked out for scad with rag worm & caught a club record 3lb sting ray instead I had most species (10) Jason heaviest fish being a conger @ 12lb Thanks Dickie ,good fun & I believe you enjoyed it also. [Phil] |
A Pic and a brief note from one of our Weymouth members |
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Blonde ray = 23lb 6oz Caught on Offshore Rebel We had 25 blondes 1 brill 3 turbot spotted Ray undulate ray Bream dogfish , red band fish and pollack Great day [Mick] |
Sunday 27th August - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary)Wrecking with Gary |
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This was a 10-hour wrecking trip that was more like 12 hours by the time we got back in.
Very reasonable cost I thought including bait, thanks to Gary. We left at 7 am & came back in about 7pm Breezyish North Westerly developed when we got out there with a little bit of honking from 1 or 2 & someone lost their cap. Lots of mackerel, scad & pout about No pollack drifting the wrecks although a few were caught on a previous trip we understand. Picked up some bream, a gurnard & a steady flow of eels while at anchor throughout the day. Dustin Pitman had 5 species. Farooq had the heaviest fish, an 18 lb conger. [Phil] |
Sunday 27th August - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary)Wrecking with Gary |
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This was a 10-hour wrecking trip that was more like 12 hours by the time we got back in.
Very reasonable cost I thought including bait, thanks to Gary. We left at 7 am & came back in about 7pm Breezyish North Westerly developed when we got out there with a little bit of honking from 1 or 2 & someone lost their cap. Lots of mackerel, scad & pout about No pollack drifting the wrecks although a few were caught on a previous trip we understand. Picked up some bream, a gurnard & a steady flow of eels while at anchor throughout the day. Dustin Pitman had 5 species. Farooq had the heaviest fish, an 18 lb conger. [Phil] |
Sunday 19 August - Littlehampton - Jenifers Pride II(Clive Mills)There s a plaice for us |
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Late start Two dropouts so there were just four of us. Great hopes for mackerel, bream, rays, bass and plaice (we took worms) etc. Unfortunately the mackerel were a bit scarce (or a bass)but Clive perservered with them on and off all day (Thanks Clive) The bream were there but on the small side though we all got some No sign af a ray (or a bass) Jason and I also had little congers and I was the only one NOT tocatch a pout. Biggest fish was a conger for Jason who also got 4 species. a couple of scad and pout were caught as well as three small conger.. we finished up with plaice catching about ten sizeable ones between us Man ofthe day was Mr Anderson who had the seven species including a red gurnard and alsoo the biggest fish (10lb conger). Good Weather, good company, and a good trip - thanks again Clive [Jim] |
Wednesday 9th - Friday 11th August - Hillhead) Smoothhound carnage |
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Hillhead is a famous Wall in Hampshire Not the easiest of places to fish due to its slopping wall although odd steps are located in several groins along the length of wall . Day one - 9th of August We were soon hauling hounds average size about 8ish although we did catch a few doubles mine ....Steve at 11lb . Day two - 10th of August.. Again lots of hounds and I repeated the day before weight with a 11lb one . Day three - 11th of August lots of hounds but Russell came up with a beauty of 15lb It was something we planned and it all came together on the 3rd trip .. We will return because I do believe the venue will produce a 20lb fish .. watch this space tight lines [Steve lewington = boat organiser.] |
Sunday 10 August - Gosport - DoinTheDo)Catching a few rays |
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Me and Phil fished on DoinTheDo out of Gosport on 10th August We caught a few Mackerel and a couple of Scad for bait then headed to the “Fingers” where we fished all day We caught steadily throughout the day with Small-eyed, Spotted, Undulate and Thornbacks rays plus small Tope and Smoothound being the main species caught Phil caught the biggest fish, a 9lb Small eyed ray and also had the most species 8 [Gavin] |
Tuesday $ July - Club MeetingJust the Highlights |
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Steve Lewington officialy confirmedthat he would take over as Boat Organiser. He has a few ideas he would like to try - so watch this space. Welcome Steve! Then Paul Harcus officially relinquised the Boat Secretary position after many years in the post A little bit of arm twisting and Russel Lewington stepped up! Paul has asked me to publish the following note: As you all may know by now. I am finally standing down from my roll as Beach secretary. I would like to thank everyone who have turned up for the comps, and the fun days out over the past 15-20 years. We have a new Beach Secretary Russel Lewington . He is very keen to take on the roll, and I'm sure there will be more comps and different venues .I hope you all will continue to support the beach section. So thanks Russel, and thanks again to all for your support. tight lines Paul I,in turn, as chairman, would also like to welcome Steve and Russel onto the committee and look forward to a bright future for the club. [Jim as Chairman/Webmaster] |
Thursday 6 July - Hillhead -The Lewingtons Shore fishing |
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Russ had another smoothhound at 10lb on the nose quite literally.
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This second picture is of "one he caught earlier" (10lb 12oz) back in May, just before he joined the club. ![[10lb `2oz smoothhound]](images 2023/2023 05 28 RL.jpg)
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Wednesday 28 June - Plymouth - Sea Angler IIDavid the Seafarer |
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3 club members from seafarers club left port at 7am for a Ray trip.
We stopped off first by the Mew Stone for mackerel. We were lucky and caught about 60 fairly quickly plus some launce. We then headed for some sand banks near Hope Cove. Initially we were catching some dogfish plus cuckoo wrasse. I then caught a 3lb 8oz black bream. As the tide started to turn we moved to another bank about five miles further east. As soon as we started fishing again we were catching spurdogs, my first was at 17lb. Between three of us we caught over 45. I caught the biggest at 21lb with several others at 19lb. Other fish caught were Tope, grey and red gurnard and to top the day off a 8lb 4oz turbot. A brilliant day with fish being caught all day. [David] |
Sunday 18th June - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary)Bream and more |
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7:30 srart Nine on board.. There was a fresh North East breeze and with wind over tide it was a bit bumpy to start with but once the tide turned conditions were great (you were right Gary) As for the fishing - that was great too. Twelve species - bass, toppot blenny, bream, conger, dogfish, mackerel, pout,smoothhound, tope, undulare ra and ballan wrasse. When the bream stopped feeding some of uswe geared up for the tope and smoothhounds. Then I swapped back to bream when that slowed (I consistently guessed wrongly) Jason had the most species(7) and Steve's 20lb conger was the biggest fish An Excellent day out Gary and thanks for the tea, coffee and biscuits. [Jim] |
Sunday 11th Junel - Gosport - Kelley Hero IV (Ian)) Jim's Birthday Bash |
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Just the four of us fishing, Dave, Rio, Cassius and myself. Nice day with the early start being a bit of a shock for Rio an Cassius (six 0'clock pickup) Jess wsas in charge ably assisted by Chris and young Emily kept an eye on Colin the Caterpillar. We had dogfish, pout, and mackerel of course as well as bream, tope and smoothhound. In the afternoon the tide turned, the breeze increased, the sun hid behind the clouds, the boat rocked a bit and the three younger ones lost interest and got a bit pale so we headed in (only about half an hour early). It was now actually raining by the time we tied up and then we ate most of Colin the Caterpillar (saved a bit for Brooke) Great day! Thanks Jess and Chris [Jim] |
Sunday 4th June - Littlehampton - Holdfast (Gary)Bream and more |
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7:00 srart Nine on board.. There was a fresh northeast breeze and with wind over tide it was a bit bumpy to start with but once the tide turned conditions were great (you were right Gary) As for the fishing - that was great too. Twelve species - bass, toppot blenny, bream, conger, dogfish, mackerel, pout,smoothhound, tope, undulare ra and ballan wrasse. When the bream stopped feeding some of uswe geared up for the tope and smoothhounds. Then I swapped back to bream when that slowed (I consistently guessed wrongly) Jason had the most species(7) and Steve's 20lb conger was the biggest fish An Excellent day out Gary and thanks for the tea, coffee and biscuits. [Jim] |
Sunday 21st May - Littlehampton - Holdfast and Lynander (Gary and Dickie)Compeetition time |
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7:30 srart Eleven competitors. The fresh East wind may have had something with it but the fishing was patchy We were finnding a few fish but not in great quantities of any particular species. Both boats found bream and wrasses Holdfast bagged the low-scoring mackerel and pout There was a scattering of other species but no rays at all. Biggest bream was 3lb (Jason) Bigget fishes were 2 x 15lb congers (Jason and Mick} RESULTS 1st Jason Weller on Holdfast pos 5 scored 211 / 211 making 100.00 % 2nd Mick Doody on Lynander pos 3 scored 200 / 200 making 100.00 % 3rd Jim Grant on Holdfast pos 4 scored 157 / 211 making 74.41 % Good Comp [Jim] |
Tuessday 20th April - Gosport - Kelley Hero IV (Ian)The bream have arrived |
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Over 60s trip (imshore) Nice day but a bit chilly and the East wind was no friend to the fishing. Fairly slow but there were a few bream caught and they were mostly sizeable. Farooq was aboard with his son and managed to find the biggest bresm (comfortably over 2lb) as well as a small-eyed ray and a conger. Dogfish were also about Of the two of us Farooq took the honours with the biggest fish and four species. Great day! Thanks ian. [Jim] |
Sunday 9 April - Littlhampton - Hold Fast (Gary Edwards)Hard work |
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First time out with Gary. A very smart and fast NEW boat
Our target was the the early bream We tried several marks without a lot of suceess but Gary and Chris could not have tried harder. There were not a lot of fish Caught though we enjoyed the day. Coffee and tea flowed generously. We had bream, dogs and congers but noot big numbers or sizes. I had most species and Gavin's conger was the biggest fish. Good weather, good company, good boat, good skipper. Thanks Gary [David] |
Sunday 5 March - Plymouth - CrusaderLingo Stars!! |
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This was a short 5hr trip as there had been computer issues the day before on the boat. However, with 6 anglers on board, 2 from Guildford City Angling Club. Simon Mann was holidaying in Cornwall and following a call a few days earlier joined me for the trip.
We left Plymouth at 11am, with a very light wind and completely flat sea, we headed to the reefs just south of the Eddystone Lighthouse to drift for pollack and the elusive cod, the latter had been caught recently albeit in very low numbers. We started our first drift around 12noon and my first drop I caught a pollock around 5lb. Fishing proved relatively slow but gradually most of us caught some pollock plus a small ling, all on lures. Simon also caught a whiting. I also caught my first ever Coal fish, albeit only about 2lb Later in the day, at close to low tide we drifted with baited hooks. I landed a 19.5lb ling closely followed by Simon catching a 8lb ling. Several more ling were caught by others. My Ling was the biggest fish of the day. We headed back to port around 4pm, a beautiful day with amazingly flat sea and were joined on the way by a pod of dolphins. [David] |
hursday 2 March - Plymouth - Sea Angler IIRays Galore |
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Six anglers boarded Sea Angler 2 for Ray trip fishing the banks near Hope Cove, we left Plymouth at 7:30 with a light NE wind.
We anchored around 9am and I tried out my brilliant repaired Tubertini nautek pro 3m rod with a very fine tip. Within two mins I caught my first blond ray of 10.5lbs, the rod worked brilliantly. Then a few mins later I caught my first dogfish of the day and as it surfaced, being an …!!!iot I lifted the rod which quickly snapped 6 inches above the repair – my fault. Anyway, all of us caught dogfish, blond rays, the biggest at 18.5lbs and some spurdogs. I caught the most blond rays, 6, biggest at 16.5lb plus a spurdog. [David] |
4th Feb 2023 Sea Angler 2 out of PlymouthCatching rays and getting bullied |
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Seven anglers boarded Sea Angler 2 for hopeful Ray fishing trip. We left port at 7:30am, weather was good, slightly overcast, but mild for time of the year, and westerly wind of about 5knts. We headed out to some banks a few miles out from Hope Cove, South Devon. We quickly started catching Blonde Rays, biggest was 24lb. I caught two, biggest was 20lb and then I caught a 11lb bull huss and a small ling. Late morning as the fishing went quiet we up anchored and went to some sandy banks just outside Salcombe. Here we were hoping for more rays, but none were caught. However, Bull huss to 16lb were caught, plus pout, dogfish and I caught 7 strap congers. It was a good day overall with everyone catching fish. [David] |
Saturday 28th January Plymouth with Seafarers Club on Sea Angler 2A new specioes for David (and the club) |
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I went fishing with the Seafarers Club annual club comp with 9 on board. It was a beautiful bright January day, with a NE wind blowing a gentle 5knts. We headed out to reefs 7-8 miles east of the Mew Stone. Soon after our first anchor we started catching pout, then I had a spurdog weighing in at 16lb. This was quickly followed by somebody catching an 18lb spurdog. About 10 spurdogs (I caught 3) were caught at this reef. We then moved onto another reef early afternoon, fishing got a bit quieter, Ballan wrasse and more pout were caught, however. I then caught a small a fish I haven’t seen before, a comber, see attached photos. * a club record if only it had been weighed! It was a good day overall with a steady amount of fish being caught, I came 4th overall. See you all at the AGM on 7th Feb. [David] |
Sunday 22 January - Littlehampton - Jenifers Pride II(Clive Mills)Just four up |
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7:30 srart Two dropouts so there were just four of us. We dabbled about around a feature a bit until the tide dropped enough to tempt us into deeper water. Anchoring in the deeper water did not produce the expected numbers, or size, of whiting or the hoped for spurs. Then we came much further inshore which did allow us to gatch a few more whiting. All of us caught dogs and whiting Jason and I also had little congers and I was the only one NOT tocatch a pout. Biggest fish was a conger for Jason who also got 4 species. Paul did get VERY cold but I think a break in the cabin and a hot drink improved things for him. Well done Clive [Jim] |