On Wednesday and Thursday of this week the Ilse of White British Cod championships were held out of Yarmouth. Boats from all over were  invited to take part.  I took San Gina II over on Tuesday night with my good friend Matt, who crewed for me over the two days. We had a very nice trip across nice and flat water and arrived at Yarmouth before last orders for a quick pint before we got into our bunks for the night. The weather Wednesday started off nice and all the boats headed off round the needles to the fishing grounds. I think the first cod was reported over the radio within seven minutes of the comp starting. There was a total of seventy-one cod caught on the first day but sadly we only had one of them and a fine fish it was (14lb 10oz on the scales so well done Aiden nice fish, but shame about the four you dropped!!!! only joking mate).

The second day, mother nature wasnt on our side. With gales forecasted, the boats had to stay in the Solent. A few cod were caught but we only had a couple of whiting and shall we say a very interesting trip back to Poole!

Yet again, the season has flown bye  and yesterday Doug took San Gina to Ridge to be lifted out of the water for the winter. Just like last year, the past five months have gone to fast but yet again it was quite unselted!  So a big thanks to Doug again for everything  though out the year, a big thanks to Rose (Dougs lovley wife) for putting up with him being away for five months and Davey for his help crewing and well done on your exam results mate.  It wont be long and it will be time to start all over again.

 

Heres a few pics from Dougs trips (sorry didd’nt put them on sooner but I broke his cammera sorry mate !!!)

Last Tuesday, I had an inshore Breaming trip which was very successful, although the best fish of the day, was a 9lb Bass caught by yours truly.  Sorry Matt out fished you again!

Doug, over the last few days has been having great fun catching some lovley squid (some up to three pounds!) They put up quite a fight, but make lots of mess as I found out when a certain crazy lady caught one on feathers and it got me and her son in the face!!!

The fishing has been great over the last week  both inshore and offshore marks. The inshore locations have been providing us with some good rays and bream, while some good pollack, tope, congers and very good bream have been caught offshore.

The nights are drawing in and the mornings have got a bit of a nip to them, autumn is here again!! It has come round so fast this year. I really enjoy this time of year as the fishing can be very good. We headed out a few miles today on some mussel beds for some autumn Bream and we wern’t dissapointed. We had a very successful day, catching somewhere in the region of hundred fish, up to four pounds a catch, a few congers and a lovely bass as a bonus. 

East wind is such a pain for us in Swanage, as it blows straight into the bay. This means we have to run and hide the boats in Poole harbour if it gets too bad (which it has been for the last week) and looks like it will remain so for this week. We were lucky at the weekend, as the wind dropped enough for us to get our trips in.  We had two nice days weather wise and fish wise. 

 

   

Once again, sorry for not updating sooner, but the weather has been rather good so we have been out none stop!  It actually felt a bit like summer over the last few weeks ( hope i have’nt spoken to soon!!!) Heres a few pics from a very busy few weeks.

What a July for all the wrong reasons! The weather has just been awful with strong wind warnings everyday, apart from a couple! so we haven’t been able to stray to far from home. When we have been able to get out of Swanage bay, the fishing has been good. Alot of nice bream offshore and some great rays and tope and the fishing inshore is ok too. Swanage has been providing us with some nice Undulated Rays alot of small Bream that can be a pain when you are trying to fish large baits for the rays, but they give you constant bites which is nice on a slow day.  We have also had some good bass on live mackerel in the bay.