Sam Cumming, skipper of Silver Spray,
reports from Poole
The top trip for last month was certainly our final run over to Alderney for
the year. I've always liked going across the channel this late in the season,
providing you can get a bit of favourable weather, the fishing is never
disappointing.
Day onesaw a decent enough session, at anchor on a wreck for congers
and bream. Unfortunately, no ling showed this time around which wasdays than that this year. Then off
to anchor up a big rock mark
which was very productive with
huss, bream, congers and plenty
more big tope. To round the day
off we did an hour’s breaming
back by the island, a slow start
turned into a frantic half an hour
with the bream taking anything
you put down there. The average
size was way up on the previous
day at around 3lb. Bob Hall had
the last say of the day with
another Couch’s bream and black
bream double this time.
Day fourand the weather
unfortunately turned for the
worst and we were faced with a
small neap tide against 20 knots
of westerly. The prospect of
swinging round and round the anchor rope all day didn't appeal so we headed back across to Poole Bay to finish the trip up in
calmer waters. Out of only a handful of mackerel the lads managed six small eyed rays, an undulate, two smoothounds and would
you believe it a 15lb 4oz turbot! All the time we have spent steaming around looking for those flatfish far and wide and we catch
the biggest one of the year right on our doorstep. That’s going to be a tough trip to beat.
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They also had a decent catch with the best fish being a ling of
15lb taken by George Crammen from Horden, while Adrian
Dodds from Chester le Street landed a 10lb cod. The fish were
taken on fresh mackerel.
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on 0191-5184561 or email [email protected].disappointing as we had plenty the week before.
Day two started off with Bob Hall's Couch's bream double header(pictured), the most we have ever had on the whole boat for the day is 2 so (^) Ian Napier 50lb tope
this was something special. The catches continued throughout the day
however and we ended up with 19 couch's coming to the net, including ten for Ian Napier who was just hoping to catch his first
one on this trip.
Plenty of hard fighting black bream of varying sizes were caught by all throughout the day mostly returned for next year. A manic
session on the anchor saw tope up to 50lb, bull huss, more bream and even a bonus plaice (only the second one I've ever seen in
Alderney).
Day three started off with a few hours on the banks which produced half a dozen flats, tub gurnards and cuttlefish, nothing
massive but we have had worse
Bob Hall
double
couches
Ash Williams
2lb couches
bream
Pictured - ADRIAN DODDS with a 10lb cod
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