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Kodiak's report: I had deer stalking buddy Pete onboard, and as we were locked to Sat with the breezy forecast opted to stay inshore. We fished the Patch for the morning - a little mark I found a few weeks back - a real honey hole, of what I assume are black bream nests - the sounder was wild! A 1lb box of squid was gone in no time and we were only fishing 1 rod each. But whilst it was non-stop action, the stamp of fish was very average. Best fish to me (as only member counting) was 1Lb 12oz. After a few hours of manic fishing the powerboats started up, and we soon found that we were in the middle of the racetrack. Whilst it was pretty cool to see these monsters zooming past at what I assume must have been over 60 knots, it killed the fishing pretty quickly! Pete asked it Kodiak was quick enough to keep up.... I never run her at anything like WOT, but a quick blast proved that 36 knots was still someway short! Plan B was back in the harbour out of the wind after a Gilthead. The plan worked when wind, tide and weed aligned and it was pretty hectic fishing. We had about a dozen gilts, including a new PB for me.... and only 1oz under Charlie's club record.... MAN... do they fight. I think they might just be the hardest fighting fish lb for lb we have. For Charlie's overall catch and release record, black bream - 40 fish caught, 5 retained. Gilthead, 12 caught, 3 retained. My Fish: Black Bream - 1lb 12oz Gilthead Bream - 2lb 12oz

After 4 weather cancellations trying to book a trip out with DL, we decided to confirm today as he was in Christchurch for a Mullet trip tomorrow. As you will all know today was not ideal at all, but Chris and I were fully commitment to do the trip and do the best we could to promoting the club. After a hard day with waves breaking over the boat this morning we did manage plenty of species for the camera. Dave enjoyed his day and would like to come back and do a talk and another day fishing on a better day. Hopefully we will see a good report in the Sea Angler and a positive spin on the club.

A family day out but Blake fished the comp only one Gilthead at 14ozs. We did have an interesting time with some large smoothounds biggest 6/7lb. plenty of small bass, but we had a bonus species a silver eel, then ten minutes later I thought we had a strap conger but it was a huge silver eel. Weighed in at 2lb 4oz, well done Blake a cracker apart from the slime everywhere. 🫣 8 Bass, 4 Smoothounds, 2 Silver Eels, 1 Gilthead Bream. Comp Result. Blake - Gilthead Bream 14oz. Silver Eel new club record.

I took the two grandchildren back to the outer patch again and it proved a good move. I baited up grandson 1s rod and dropped it in, as soon as it hit the bottom it was taken with a good bite. First (and by far the best) black bream of the day. 37cm and 2lb. A steady stream followed but nothing could match this one. Wrasse, mackerel and small congers made it a very memorable trip for two budding fishermen. 7 mackerel, all kept 14 bream all went back 7 cingers all went back I ballan wrasse went back

It was a bit of a Bill & Ben day! Weed. Weeeeed Weeeeeeeeeeeed. 🤣 I had 2 small Bass in the harbour as well Martin which were of course returned. We came back in on the 5:30 lift and Jackie walked down with Daisy for a quick drink before home. (I do like a pint of Madri) 👍 As always Martin, Thank you for a fantastic day out. In my view the fish are a Bonus on top of a day out. We had a fair bit of banter, No shortage of food & coffee (and cakes), the sea was quite calm, and sunshine most of the day. A day out on a great boat with a fantastic skipper (and me & Phil) Pure magic. Cheers.

Alfresco had a slow day (can we blame jetlag, probably not. Lol) Started in the harbour, only one checker and 4 smoothies of 4/5 lb Fun on very light tackle, but not target. Weed was a pain, so we went outside. Looked around a couple of marks but no signs of fish. So just picked one and dropped anchor.. Not a great plan or result. even after a couple of short moves. I had one black bream 1lb 3oz. A couple of congers Wendy had a few Ballens and pout. A last hour move Was also poor, just one more small bream and a conger. By 4 we were lagging so called time. Great to hear many on the radio taking part and supporting the Club. Well done all. Especially those that caught well.

And for those who don't know . . . . . . Weed.mp4 Which is probably why I'm so daft now. 🤣

Loads of bream, a few dogs, Jenny got a lovely 2.2 black bream

Flobolob !!!!!

Madness had a slow day. Through the bridge at 7:30 then off to Dancing ledge. We managed about 6/7 bream but all small. I would guess the largest was one which fell to me and was probably 1lb. Jim had a couple of strap congers we all had dogfish. As the tide changed we moved back to ballard where we did didly squat. Spent the last hour in the harbour where we repeated the success we had at Ballard

Full report from Loobie 1V from Farmer Colin in due course. We had a wonderful day with a good few fish. 20+ B Bream 26-32cm best probably 1lbs 2 Congers 2 LSD 5 Plaice 2 Tope Most fish were well inside the legal limit to retain, 5 B Bream retained

I was due to travel up with my mate and his party early on Sunday morning . On Saturday ,one hiatus after another landed in my lap to such an extent that I had to let them go on ahead whilst I did some sorting out. On the up side at least I had Robs one year old pup to help me call my cattle out of my neighbours Barley. IMG_0107.mov The advanced party went on ahead and drew the boat out of its bothy on Tuesday morning and guess what? Yep, the wheels fell off.🤧🤭🤭🤭. Fourteen years ago I went up and the same thing happened and we never did get to sea, but this time we had Amazon overnight delivery and new bearings were dispatched for midday Wednesday. By then things had settled at home and with only Thursday looking half decent weather wise , I decided to train it to Bristol and catch a flight to Inverness etc Such stress! Finally made Huntley by supper time😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨 The boat is actually a beautiful Orkney 590 cw a mariner 60. we got her in to Banff marina, which is in the historic well sheltered fishing harbour. We were made welcome by the friendly harbour master. Incidentally this berth will cost about £1000 for the season. services: slipway, floating pontoon, access security , fresh water hose and I think I saw electric hookups. Shes right at the very back of this photo Soon at sea, and first stop and fist stop chosen as it appeared to Be a wide dish shaped gravel plain. We had no bait but felt sure to catch some . Coloured feathers and white feathers were used. Ten minutes in . Our host kicked off with a double; haddock and a dab!👍👏. This was all right and soon more haddock followed. We could have stayed but I wanted to try a very promising looking spot a couple of miles further out before the deteriorating weather might drive us back. That bank looks so fishy! we caught haddock at the top of it and below it . In fact despite my planning we seemed to catch a fish and a few doubles every ten or so minutes wherever we were. It looked like wind and rain were closing in so we retreated to the earlier mark. The others carried on as before, but I changed tack an rigged a Tubot rig baited with a haddock flank. It hit the bottom and within 4 seconds, bang. Up came A ling. It didnt carry on like that but another later fell to my mates baited feathers. The weather threatened We moved closer in shore where apart from a couple of mackerel , the action stopped. Early evening and our skipper, knowing there was a supper on the stove, drew stumps. A great intro to the Moray firth; About 24 Haddock 4 Mackerel 2 ling 1 Dab CO2 credentials….Dont ask

Thank you Mal for all the effort you put in to promote the club. 👍

Boblin fished the harbour apart from lots of small bass, 5 gilts to me the best 1lb 1oz. Cracking fish Adam well done.

Best Black Bream for me was 1lb ....... Also a Gilthead Bream at 13oz on Reel Magic, as well as losing another much better one by the boat 😒

Well done Blake, Some cracking fish caught [emoji1][emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Myself, son James and Brian as Greg said headed to South Deep. Brian had a few schoolies then a Gilthead of 1lb 6ozs, more schoolies. I fished off the bow and had my line taken and it was a smoothound of 5/6lb and another slightly smaller just after. Then I had a huge Gilthead but tried to lift it onto the bow without a net and dropped it halfway out, schoolboy error on comp day. 😢 Weed got bad so headed out to Swanage, wind was bad so stayed in the bay, had a few black bream between us, biggest was 1lb 10oz to me. Tried again in the harbour but the weed was horrendous so called it a day. You wasn’t on your own Rob I left the squid in the fridge that were next to the ragworms, another schoolboy error but Dave Evans kindly gave us a packet to save a trip to the quay. Cheers Dave. 👍👏. Result Brian P - Gilthead 1lb 6oz Chris W - Black Bream 1lb 10oz. Blake W is fishing in Comp Sunday (junior)

Well Graham, I may as well go first: Myself and Rob left Lake Yard at 08.00AM and travelled round to South Deep, where we joined Kingfisher, Reel Magic and Boblin. The day did not start off that well for Rob as he realised that he had left his lunch bag in the car back at the car park. (that old chestnut!!!) Luckily Carol had packed some nice orange glazed Ginger cake for us both and I had cooked Chicken Egg Fried Rice the night before, and yes luckily for Rob there was enough for two. We had a steady flow of the usual schoolies and then I landed a Guilt Head Bream....Boom, my target species and one of my favourite eating fish and one I need for my species list. I then landed a Black Bream which put up a nice fight on light gear. Shortly after that the rod bent over and the reel started screaming. At last a huge Guilt Head Bream tanking off...... well that's what I had hoped. Unfortunately, it was about a 6 to 7lb Smoothie which Rob duly landed with the net. Rob then landed a Black Bream. The target fish were hard for us to find today and were certainly not large, but we did have some sport and no shortage of fish coming aboard, albeit not the right ones!!! So our results are as follows:- Me - Guilt Head Bream 1lb 1.5ozs Black Bream 1lb 6oz Rob Samways - Black Bream 15 oz So all still to play for Graham.

Brilliant Mal!!

I rode home on Sunday while you were all at the Bream. It blew on Friday and Saturday so whilst found things to do it wasn’t boat fishing. Paul had bought a week permit for the Devron and managed to meet a couple of par and two brown trout. I enjoyed an afternoon watching on among the foreign flora and fauna. The “serviced “ engines had been looked at by a farmhand. Not quite a service and we checked out a place where they could be fettled by a professional. I failed to master his Raymarine dragonfly sounder. If anyone uses one successfully I’d love to have a chat. We couldn’t find bottom with it. The 20 yr old sat nav wouldn’t load beyond the legal derrogation page. We returned to the boat to try to resolve these issues….on going.

Well done Adam, An amazing result [emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Plenty of Bream for Fisheagle. About 20 around the pound mark. Best fish John 15 ozs. Allan 1lb 13ozs. And 1.8 Black Bream.

Well done Jenny That is a lovely Black Bream[emoji1][emoji106] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Reelmagic best I could do was Black bream 1lb 3oz

YKnot had a 2lb black bream, best we could do. Plenty of bream on the area. Plus 2 congers 6 LSD and 20 bream. All returned.

Yipppppeeeee ! We're going fishing We're going fishing We're going fishing We're going fishing 😁