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This is the latest information from Southern IFCA and is on their Website along with maps to show the areas. Allan ⁠1. Recreational bass fishing Recreational fisheries, including from shore, in ICES divisions 4b, 4c, 6a, 7a to 7k are limited to catch-and-release using rod and handline only during 01 February to 31 March. The closed season for both commercial and recreational fishing is aligned to 1 February - 31 March for both sectors with two fish per day bag limits continuing to apply to recreational fishers outside February/March. In recreational fisheries in ICES divisions 8a and 8b, a maximum of two seabass may be retained per recreational fisher per day throughout the year. 09/01/2024, 12:03 - Holloway Chris: Bass nursery areas apply 30th April to 1st November

Well it's time to think about going to fish round Alderney again. Last year 2 trips were planned and cancelled before Tigerfish made it over in June but when we got there it turned out to be the best trip in recent years with lots of keeper turbot and plenty of pollock, a couple of cod and a surprise and club record coalfish from the wrecks. As ever we need to take the tides into consideration to decide when we want to go and the weather to decide if we can go. For those unfamiliar fishing the banks and tides round Alderney, we need neaps as otherwise the tide is too fast over the banks to fish them very well, also IMO the very very small tides don't result in a lot of fish but I'd probably still go. Fishing in June can be fine but arranging the accommodation is more expensive with less flexibility regarding cancelling. Before anyone asks basing yourself in Guernsey would be great except the accommodation is expensive and they don't generally accept cancellations, diesel fuel (Boatworks) is much cheaper though. FIRST SET of neaps tide are from the Tue 30th April to Sat 4th May, beyond those dates they are getting a bit strong, the Sat would be a wrecking day heading back SECOND SET are a longer set of neaps starting Tue 14th May till Mon 20th May a longer window THIRD SET are Wed 29th May till Sun 2 Jun Now in a classic bit of bad planning I can't make the 2nd set, but shed no tears... I'll be fishing in the Florida keys I'm planning to take Tigerfish over for 3 or 4 days in the date range Tue 30th April to Fri 3rd May, happily my crew are pretty flexible regarding midweek dates. My reserve dates would be the THIRD SET of dates For those wanting to include a weekend the SECOND or THIRD SET of dates look favourite. Ok so Tigerfish is planning to go, any others? please add your boat names