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1st July No update for a while. My apologies for that. Due to fish reports being much the same and having been away for a few days. From the shore mackerel and garfish have been increasing all the time, especially from the Breakwater and headlands on the south side of the island. Good numbers of Bass to plugs and spinners generally at low water from the rock marks, but have shown amongst Breakwater catches when Pollack have been the target. Expect fish in mainly the 2 to 4lb bracket but up to 7lb have been reported and at any time that lunker could turn up. Other species to target are Conger, Ray and Bull Huss, all at night time and mainly on the south side of the island. Plattes Saline has seen its variety of fish. Black and Couches Bream, Sole to 3lb, Bass to 5lb on bottom baits and spinners, Dogfish, Pout and the norm. Dog Rock nearby has turned fish up too on float and spin tactics. Lights have seen a couple of plaice and some Couches showing. From the boats, well this is where everything is the same other than an increase in numbers and quality of Bass. Fish to 13lb have come out on live Launce, lots between 4 and 6lb from the Race. There are Tope, Conger and Huss on the rough ground, Pollack, Ling and Cod on the wrecks and if you persevere on the sandbanks you will get Turbot, Brill and Bass. Watch out for next week because our local boat Alderney Felix is having a crack at the shark fishing around here.....let's see how it goes. 7th July Shore fishing still producing good numbers of surface feeding fish with the Breakwater showing good catches of mackerel, garfish and pollack with the odd bass thrown in too provide eager anticipation. Float fishing and spinning with sting silvers being the best methods. Same can be said of the fishing on the Slides and at The Raz. Slides producing at last two hours and the bottom of the tide whilst The Raz doing the business on the early flood. Boat action has been curtailed this week by the poor weather but good fishing was had by most boats on Monday for Bass and the flatfish and for those that gave to a go some good numbers of Tope were caught. Tuesdays action was a lot slower, maybe to do with the low pressure arriving causing the easterly winds, but the same species were still caught but not in any numbers. On my boat we managed 3 bass to just over 5lb, plenty pollack to 5lb 8oz and the usual baitfish. For half a days fishing we were quite happy with that. 12th July Fishing still pretty good although boat action continues to be curtailed. However one private party aboard Tamar Lady managed some reasonable fishing yesterday anchoring on one of the many sandbanks. Quite a lot of bites were missed due to too many 'experimental' rods being fished!! Besides that they managed 7 species which included Blonde Ray too 19lb, Bass, Red Gurnard, Black Bream just short of 3lb and some other bits. On the shore there is plenty of fun to be had with Pollack on most marks with the Breakwater at the end being the easiest to fish and one of the most productive. In with these you will find Garfish, Mackerel and Bass if you vary your depth of fishing. A popular mark on the South East side of the island produced 9 species for Chris Dowden on a lure called the 'silver stinger'!! And from Cachlierre Pier there have been mullet, Bass and Pollack landed. A warning for those of you coming over to fish the Impot, please note the footpath has been changed to fall in to line with health and safety which now takes you around the back of the tip, down the eastern side to meet up with the original path. PLEASE ADHERE TO THIS otherwise the consequences could be that it is closed all together! 23rd July Time for updating the website is becoming a premium so my apologies if you've logged on a number of times and not seen new information. Shore fishing is very good for Pollack with good numbers coming from most rocky headlands and the Breakwater. Mackerel aren't so plentiful but the Garfish make up for that on the sport side of things. Any of these headlands throw up a bonus Bass, as does the Breakwater, but the better Bass fishing is done on plugs and normally early in the morning. The better marks are the Lighthouse and Braye at low water. Other shore fishing just doesn't seem to happen this time of year because the concentration is lure fishing for the aforementioned species, however Conger, Ray and Bull Huss will always be on the cards. No reports from Plattes Saline but again that will always provide mixed fishing for Bass, Sole, Mullet (Grey and Red), Gurnard, Dogs and small shoal fish. Out in the boats some good packs of Tope have been located but never stay on one mark for long. Valkyrie from Langstone hooked in to two Porbeagles which took 8lb Pollack but both were lost. There must be someone who would want to exploit the shark fishing potential here. Blues, Threshers and Porbeagles are all possibilities. There are still a few flatfish for those wishing to catch a Turbot or Brill. Having said that two anglers on Tiger Lily IV managed the Alderney grand slam this week, this is where an angler catches a Turbot, Brill and Bass in one trip. Bream are showing in good numbers, this will only improve. Bass in the boats, mostly appear to be on the small side but there were a few around 7 or 8lb this week. The only fishing I have managed with exception to guided shore trips was a late afternoon/ evening trip last Friday. With the company of one of the local juniors, Steve Laughton, on my boat we stayed fairly close to the back of the island where on lightish gear we caught two Blonde Rays in the mid teens and 6 congers to 35lb. We missed a few fish, the best somehow dropped my bait with no marks left on the mackerel flapper. My suveran 20/30 was well tested over the five minutes I had the fish on and I can only assume I hooked it in the outside of the mouth when the hook hold gave out. I am convinced it wasn't a Tope or Conger, and with the way it fought I would say possibly a large Ray or even a very mighty Bass. It certainly added to the excitement of a fine evenings sport anchored just 200 yards offshore. I wonder where I'll be tonight?? 7th August Well, I did get back there. Fieona pulled out a Turbot on a pirk and I pulled a blank!! I did take another boat round with me which was occupied by two guys from Holland on a three week sortie and they hooked up with four conger. Nothing big though but in the full bore of the tide the fish still fed. Anyway that finishes off that story for now. On a personal note I have done no more fishing other than guided trips on the shore due to how busy the shop has been which in turn is why the website has not been updated as regularly as I would have liked. For this I apologise but needs must at this time of year and hopefully I will return to normality very soon. If you require information don't hesitate to email or phone, details on the Home page. Shore fishing has been pretty good. Lots of Pollack, fish to 7lb have been caught, potentially bigger fish have been lost, one was on one of my trips whereby the angler had no control as the fish dictated the state of play and finished kamikazing himself in to the rocks and weed beneath our feet. Bass are all round the island with very few blank sessions to report. Fish in the main 2lb with the better fish again around the 7lb mark. Best times....well you know don't you....first thing in the morning before you really want to get up. Breakwater has seen plaice landed this week, sole at night, black and couches bream which have also come from the Lights. Also on the Breakwater plenty of Pollack and Gars but conspicuous by their absence is the mackerel. If you can get live sand eel or launce on to this venue then that should get you amongst the bass that keep shoaling on the end. Mullet are being easily caught, well easily for the anglers using light tackle and targeting them. Bags of 3 to 6 fish reported with top fish just short of 6lb. Doyle and Slides are where they are showing. Out in the boats, turbot and Brill are steady in numbers with the occasional catch of 10 or 12 but more like 3 to 7 fish boated. If you work hard then you should be ok for a few fish. Good quantities of gurnard showing too. Bass are increasing in numbers with fish in to double figures being reported more regularly. The usual mix of fish from the rough ground marks including increasing catches of bream and off the wrecks it is business as usual. Tope still around and now the exciting bit!! Valkyrie has landed, well not quite, got to the back of the boat two Porbeagles. One of 185lb and one of around 90lb. There were other hook ups too. Well done to Glen and his crew. Colin Johnson's Shogun managed one too. Later on this particular week Glens crew dropped another two. Now I believe as I have said before there is real potential here for some good and serious shark fishing, surely there is a group of lads out there prepared to spend a week to giving it a serious crack? That's it for now in a nutshell, plenty more is going on, if you need further detail just call or email, bear with the site though as the next few weeks will be pretty busy in the shop I hope, so getting info out quickly is not so easy. Happy hooking where ever you are. 18th August My apologies on website being out of action, have changed servers in order to acquire more memory to move forward. Fishing wise...plenty about if you are coming over. 13lb Bass landed from commercial quay last week. Boat catch of the week was from Bessie Vee of Langstone, over 30 turbot and brill....by far the best of the recent flatfish catches. Plenty of Bass showing this week in the Race. On the shore, Bream increasing in numbers as are Sole. 19th August Its been a weird morning already, only 9.30am Two reports of note, one is from Alan Cosby who trolling feathers and a large Rapala around the east end of the island got smashed up by something quick and large. Not sure what it was he put on more feathers with a Yozuri Hydro Squid and when in the Swinge got another hit which again broke free. What was it is your guess. Stuart Trought the local skipper believes it was Tope. I just feel that with 30lb mainline and on a moving boat Tope would have been landed, and do they chase lures? I'm thinking on the lines of Steve Jenkins' recent sighting of Tuna. Anyway, Alan has loaded up with more lures, will dismiss the feathers and go and have another go! The second report was from Richard Turcisz who was catching Wrasse, Gars and Pollack from the Breakwater when on two occasions he had what he described as dogfish following him in. He said they were about 8 to 9lb and grey looking with a rounded nose........small Tope I would say. Back to what we are used too. The weather isn't as bad as forecasted and those boats that run for home have missed out on some good Bass fishing in the Race. Chris Tett on Peace and Plenty has had a good couple of days with Bass to 9lb and more than normal in the way of Turbot and Brill. Catch of the week from the shore is a 13lb Bass caught on the Helen Claire while it was berthed on the inside of Commercial Quay.
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