With the weather not being fit enough to get out to sea (it’s August for Christs sake) I’ve had to resign myself to trying to catch my 5lb target Bass from the shore. Having read just about everything there is to know about tempting Bass from rocky/beach shorelines and with local knowledge from THE local Bass expert I was expecting good things.
July 2012 Sea Fishing Report
Once again the weather has done us no favours. Whilst I can’t complain too much because we have made it out to sea on a number of occasions during July, each one has been less than comfy. In fact other than the week towards the end of March we’ve not had a single settled day where you would be confident of heading out to sea and coming back in the same conditions as what you went. Obviously then this has limited our range and scope a bit but we’ve still had some nice fish coming over the side.
Big Tope From The Isle of Man
Sea Fishing Update June 2012
For the past 4 years I’ve been updating this website and the summer theme has always appeared to be the same “can anyone remember a worse summer for the weather than this one?” It’s true, they really do appear to be getting worse each year! You can guess what is coming then, come on now, the weather gods have got to be taking the piss with this? In the whole of June we got to sea 3 times, 2 of those trips were limited to within a couple of miles of harbour with fresh force 4 borderline 5 winds. We have had no summer. The real bugger is that on the few occasions we’ve got out the fishing has been good. The sea is alive with Mackeral at the moment, as bad as the weather is, the bait supply is good!
Charter Skippers Destroying Fish Stocks?
Fishing has been slow for us this year, slower than I can remember for a long time and perhaps even more unusual is that it has been extremely localised and by that I mean the fish have congregated in very tight areas. In other words, if you haven’t been on exactly the right spot then you could forget it. I don’t mind fishing when it’s like this because having fished the same waters for soo many years I know there are enough spots out there to try, it’s just a case of finding one holding fish that are in the mood. What isn’t so good when the fishing is like this is if one of the local charter skippers decides he’s going to kill everything in sight…and as much as some like to deny there are still plenty out there who set off out to sea with exactly that attitude. The only thing worse than having to watch somebody butcher everything that comes over the gunwhale is then to have to listen to the same idiot moaning about how the fishing isn’t what it used to be. “Maybe dickhead if you tried returning some fish you’d find it wasn’t getting worse?”
Sea Fishing May 2012 – From Famine To Feast
If you’ve been keeping track of these updates you’ll have known that 2012 has been a really slow start for our sea fishing. I can’t remember there ever being so few fish about all the way through April, no early spring Plaice, in fact nothing of any real note within the inshore waters at all. It looked as though May was going to carry on in the same vane, but then suddenly half way through the month things started to happen and the sea was alive with fish.
Sea Fishing – April 2012
Actually the title of this should really be called…”Not Sea Fishing – April 2012” because thanks to the fine weather that the UK has enjoyed 😉 I’ve barely got out to wet a line, and I know I’m not the only one. The one glorious week we had in March on light winds and hot sunshine seems like such a long distant memory! In April we’ve been treated to the coldest April in 20 years in some parts of the country, the wettest April on record and in others and just to top it off, above averge winds from a horrible northerly direction for just about most of the country. Not good.
Sea Fishing – March 2012
What a remarkably crap start to the fishing year it has been in 2012. Despite some decent spells of weather and to be honest an amazing 3-4 days towards the end of March there are still very few fish about. Here’s hoping that April sees things starting to really pick up.
Sea Fishing – February 2012 Update
Where Have All The Pollack Gone? The truth is I have no idea but that is 4 trips out now, including trips to over 100 feet of water and still not a single Pollack since Christmas. In over 25 years of fishing I’ve never had 4 blank trips until this winter! This is unusual, don’t get me wrong we wouldn’t normally be seeing huge numbers of fish but there would still be “something” there. The fishfinder is showing nothing, the various baits and lures we’ve tried have confirmed that. I wonder if water temperature has something to do with it?
Where Are All the Fish? – Winter 2012
We’ve managed to get a couple of trips out on the boat since Christmas, not as many as we’d hoped but the wind has been a little extreme to say the least! Both trips have ended in something I’ve not experienced before, BLANK DAYS, what’s that all about?