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Stone Bass

By Sean McSeveny On August 21, 2015 · 4 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I love to see unusual and exotic species turning up around the shores of the UK. This week I had a message from Stuart McNab, who runs the charter boat Dev Ocean out of Milford Haven. He sent me a picture of a 12 1/2lb Stone Bass that was caught on his boat. Stone Bass [...]
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Carp fishing in France

By Darren Mills On August 19, 2015 · Add Comment · In Reports
Last month I had the pleasure of joining several of my friends including my Dad on a carp fishing trip to Calvados in lower Normandy, France. We went to a lake called La Carrier which is renowned for its quantity as well as quality of Carp. The weather forecast for the week was fairly good, [...]
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Summer Fishing around Poole at its best

By Leo Toms On August 18, 2015 · Add Comment · In Poole Harbour, Reports
Although maybe the weather doesn’t reflect it. The fishing around the Poole areas is on fire at the moment. Me and my mate Martin have chosen to keep fishing the Southbourne beaches. Over the weekend we landed Sole, Red Mullet, Gurnard, Bream, Plaice as well as the usual Bass,  Smoothhound and Pout. Whilst none of [...]
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Plenty of Plaice

By Sean McSeveny On August 17, 2015 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Reports coming in from the weekend suggest that there was a lot of Plaice caught all along the beach. Unfortunately for most, they were at long range. The Mackerel however were not, as at times they were almost on the beach, as they chased shoals of White Bait onto the beach. I have heard from [...]
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Looking good for the weekend

By Sean McSeveny On August 14, 2015 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Does Chesil Beach fish in a NW wind? Is the Mackerel season over? Where can I catch Undulate Rays on Chesil? These are just some of the questions I have been asked this week. I get sent hundreds of emails everyday asking various questions, unfortunately I do not have enough hours in the day to [...]
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Gurnard galore

By Sean McSeveny On August 11, 2015 · 4 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Gurnard really are quite an easy fish to catch. At the moment it seems that there are loads of them all around this area. They have become one of my favourite fish to eat, so I am pleased to see so many of them. Tactics are simple; a two hook flapper rig baited with small [...]
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Sole fishing at Southbourne

By Leo Toms On August 10, 2015 · 3 Comments · In Reports, The Solent
Sean is at River Cottage today so the catch report will be delayed until Tuesday. Here is Leo’s catch report on a couple of successful trips last week. – Ade.   Thursday night saw me down at the Bistro on the Beach at Southbourne, still trying to crack that elusive first sole of the year. [...]
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This could be the best fishing weekend of the summer!

By Sean McSeveny On August 7, 2015 · 2 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Cod, Cod and more Cod. No this is not a cut and paste report from last winter! I have been gathering in the reports over the past two days and the Cod, along with the Rays have been featuring heavily. The stiff South Westerly winds have been churning up the shore on Chesil, creating a [...]
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Plenty of species in the Poole area

By Leo Toms On August 5, 2015 · Add Comment · In Poole Harbour, Reports
Being so lucky to live so close to the coast. I can keep a close eye on the weather and tides and move on the breaks in the weather. Acting on another night of calm weather forecast and a high tide of around 10pm.  I hit Southbourne beach hoping to bag a sole again, as there [...]
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Mackerel Mayhem

By Sean McSeveny On August 4, 2015 · 13 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
At last the Mackerel have finally turned up in numbers. Having seen numerous reports from friends, it looks like the Mackerel have finally made an appearance. The Mackerel turned up fairly early this year, with the first regular catches coming towards the end of March, then it all went very quiet for ages. Now they [...]
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Fantastic Ray fishing on Chesil Beach

By Sean McSeveny On July 31, 2015 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I thought that there would be some great fish caught this week, after the rough conditions on Sunday and Monday. What I wasn’t expecting was the number of good Rays that turned up. Most of them were Undulates but a number of Spotted Ray were also landed. My friend Paul Black called me late on [...]
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Cod On The Rock’s

By Anth Constable On July 28, 2015 · 3 Comments · In Reports, Tyne & Wear
Summer Cod fishing can be very rewarding, yet many anglers will decide to put away their cod fishing tackle during the summer, and in my opinion could be missing out on some very good cod fishing. I was recently invited along by a good friend of mine while he was targeting Cod from the cliff [...]
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Tough fishing as predicted

By Sean McSeveny On July 27, 2015 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
The wind certainly played its part over the weekend, but it didn’t stop you hardy anglers getting out there and catching some nice fish. Peter Cope emailed me yesterday, to let me know he had just returned from a weeks holiday in weymouth with his family. Their holiday home backed onto Newtons Cove. Every night when [...]
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Wind from everywhere

By Sean McSeveny On July 24, 2015 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I have been studying the wind forecast, and noticed that it looks like it will be blowing from almost every direction, during the next few days. This makes choosing a location a bit more difficult. Today (Friday), we have winds coming out of the East. This means that Chesil will remain fairly calm, and with [...]
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Plaice Fishing on South Shields Pier

By Anth Constable On July 22, 2015 · Add Comment · In Reports, Tyne & Wear
For me when it comes to fishing there is no better way then tying a specific rig and catching your target species. Today we will look at Plaice fishing on South Shields Pier situated in Tyne and Wear.     Walking along South Shields Pier you will notice painted number sections on the floor on [...]
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Summer beach fishing

By Sean McSeveny On July 20, 2015 · 7 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I am happy to say that the summer fish have well and truly arrived. With the return of the Mackerel, a lot of other species have turned up in numbers as well. I heard reports of a 15lb Thornback Ray being landed to the West of Bridging Camp. There are so many small Smoothound around [...]
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Big Bass and lots of mackerel

By Sean McSeveny On July 17, 2015 · 3 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I don’t know what is more exciting, the news that the Mackerel have returned in good numbers, or that two of my mates managed to catch double figure Bass from the shore this week. You might think that statement is mad, but the fact that the Mackerel have returned means that all the fishing should [...]
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Smoothounds all around

By Sean McSeveny On July 13, 2015 · 1 Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
The Smoothound fishing on Chesil has been slow to start this year, but at last they have arrived in numbers. Unlike many of the popular marks that produce Smoothound on the South coast, Chesil fishes well even when it is rough. This is mainly due to the fact that most of the well known marks [...]
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Things seem to be returning to normal

By Sean McSeveny On July 10, 2015 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
After a quiet couple of weeks, I am happy to report that the fishing seems to be picking up again. I got a message from Bradley Price, saying that his favourite mark at Abbotsbury has been producing some good fish for him. He managed to land two lovely Undulates on Pout fillet at distance. He [...]
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Fishing at Southborne

By Leo Toms On July 8, 2015 · 6 Comments · In Poole Harbour, Reports
Southbourne is one of those fishing marks that we rarely hear about. Hopefully this article will shed a bit of light on this great mark. On a rare occasion midway through the week the sun came out and the wind dropped away to a whisper. With the calm warm summer evening the conditions screamed sole. I [...]
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Where are the Mackerel?

By Sean McSeveny On July 7, 2015 · 12 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
There seems to more Bass on Chesil than Mackerel at the moment. I know it is a similar story along the South Coast and I would love to know why. Don’t get me wrong, there are Mackerel being caught, but certainly not in the numbers we normally expect. Reports from further North suggest that the [...]
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The Wall of Articles

By Adrian Crawford On July 6, 2015 · 6 Comments · In Admin, Reports, River Cottage
Sean is running his River Cottage course today  so no Monday report, which gives me time to give you an update on new developments on the site. You may have noticed google maps popping up all over the place, we had them in Beta for a while and they are now going live on posts where a [...]
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At last, a 42cm Minimum landing size for Bass

By Sean McSeveny On July 3, 2015 · 9 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
At long last the powers that be in Europe have seen fit to agree to increase the Minimum Landing Size(MLS) for Bass to 42cm. The current size limit for most of the UK has been 36cm. At 36cm Bass are still too immature to spawn, so they never even have a chance to increase the [...]
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Fishing Skegness for Smoothound

By Anth Constable On July 2, 2015 · Add Comment · In Marks, Reports, Tyne & Wear
When the opportunity arises to go fishing for Smoothounds and the conditions are perfect, I get a great sense of excitement knowing it’s going to be a great day. Originally our group consisting of myself, Arran and Michael had  arranged to hit the golden sands of Skegness on the Sunday but a keen eye was kept [...]
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My scariest catch!

By Sean McSeveny On June 29, 2015 · 5 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
I was lucky enough to be invited by my friend David, for a days Salmon fishing on the river Frome near Woole. I have fished this stretch with David in the past, with mixed results. I have never managed to catch a Salmon there, but I have caught just about everything else including Pike and [...]
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Water temperature increase, helps improve the fishing

By Sean McSeveny On June 26, 2015 · 2 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Water temperature is directly linked to fish behaviour and movement patterns. Using a satellite feed that I am subscribed to, I have been tracking a large area of warm water that has built up in the Bay of Biscay. Over the past 10 days a narrow band of this warm water has seeped up the [...]
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The hidden depths

By Sean McSeveny On June 25, 2015 · 4 Comments · In Boat Fishing, Reports
Boat Report Boat fishing catch reports for Weymouth and the other parts of the South coast, have always been a bit patchy on the site. Don’t get me wrong I love doing them, but at the moment I am really struggling to find the time to do them. I have only really included this one [...]
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Lure Fishing in the footsteps of Poldark

By Sean McSeveny On June 24, 2015 · Add Comment · In Cornwall, Marks, Reports
Lure fishing in Cornwall, may not be the first thing that springs to the mind of many people thinking of visiting Cornwall this year. especially after watching the BBC’s recent drama Poldark.  In this article, I hope to let you in on a few of the marks that are real gems, for lure fishing fanatics [...]
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Mackerel fishing on Roker Pier, Sunderland

By Anth Constable On June 23, 2015 · 1 Comment · In Marks, Reports, Tips, Tyne & Wear
Roker Pier is situated on the coast of the beautiful city of Sunderland and is a brilliant venue which can offer outstanding fishing for anglers throughout the year.  At the beginning of the year rumors started among anglers that the pier would be closed to carry out construction work in the summer of 2015. Thankfully the [...]
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Fishing frenzy

By Sean McSeveny On June 22, 2015 · 3 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
It has been another fantastic weekend of fishing all along the coast; For me it has been especially good on the lures. I am now moving into my third week of non stop fishing, and I still can’t get enough of it. When I have not been guiding, I have been doing lots of short [...]
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Early summer fishing at its best

By Sean McSeveny On June 19, 2015 · 5 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
That Friday Fealing I don’t know where to start with todays report. Some Friday’s I sit scratching my head, wondering what I can write about; I have no such problem today. Having fished or guided almost every day for the past 10 days, I feel very much in touch with what is happening locally. It [...]
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Solent Smoothounds

By Leo Toms On June 16, 2015 · 1 Comment · In Bait, Guiding & fishing lessons, Poole Harbour, Reports, The Solent
After reading lots of good smoothhound were being caught up the Solent I decided  to try and get a piece of the action! My mate Martin tagged along and we decided on fishing  “parkshore” a venue well known for producing good hounds this time of year. Never having fished that far East before we used the satnav [...]
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Always expect the unexpected

By Sean McSeveny On June 15, 2015 · 4 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
We were expecting Smoothound and ended up with Plaice and Gurnard! I spent the weekend fishing with a great bunch of guys from the North East over the weekend. They had traveled down to fish Chesil, hoping for a Smoothound or two, and maybe an early Bream. Saturday’s fishing was quite tough, with a stiff [...]
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Summer Cod

By Sean McSeveny On June 12, 2015 · 2 Comments · In Reports
Chesil Beach is not a well known summer Cod mark, and to be honest I don’t think it ever will be. However reports from along the beach this week are suggesting that more than a few Cod have been caught. I even heard from a reliable source that one weighing 9lb was caught at West [...]
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Sole fishing on the Thames

By Darren Mills On June 10, 2015 · 3 Comments · In Reports, Thames
Many anglers living outside of the South East of  England rarely think about the Thames holding  saltwater species. In this, the first  of my articles exploring this area, I will be looking at just how good the fishing can be several miles upstream from the mouth of the river that runs through the capital of [...]
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Summer Fishing

By Sean McSeveny On June 8, 2015 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
At last the summer species are here. There is nothing like fishing on a warm sunny day and catching lots of different species. That sums up summer for me. I love it when most of the summer species arrive, because you have no idea what the next fish is that you are going to catch. [...]
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Good tides, good fish!

By Sean McSeveny On June 5, 2015 · 2 Comments · In Reports
We are just coming off the back of a set of reasonable spring tides, the weather should be good for the weekend and hopefully the water will have cleared by the end of today. This should give us some good conditions that should see some good fishing. I expect to see a number of Ray [...]
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A story of two tails

By Sean McSeveny On June 3, 2015 · Add Comment · In Reports
Lure fishing for Pike and Bass over the past four days has left me exhausted. Hence the reason why the normal weekend report has been so delayed. Normally Adrian would have filled in for me, but he also grabbed at the chance to follow the adventures of a River Piker in unfamiliar territory. We were [...]
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Choose your mark carefully this weekend

By Sean McSeveny On May 29, 2015 · 4 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
With potentially tough conditions for fishing this weekend, the choice of mark will be the deciding factor between success and failure. The tides are picking up, so they should be far better then they have been for most of the week. If you are thinking of coming down to fish Chesil, then I would think [...]
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Fly Fishing for Blue Sharks On The UK Coast!

By Sean McSeveny On May 27, 2015 · 2 Comments · In Boat Fishing, Lure Fishing, Reports
[sam id=”1″ codes=”true”]Fishing for blue and other species of shark in the UK is becoming more popular year on year as anglers realise there are actually ‘big fish’ in our waters and it’s no longer essential to travel abroad to get into some serious action. Some charter boats have been hitting the headlines for years [...]
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Lure and fly fishing for Wrasse

By Sean McSeveny On May 26, 2015 · 4 Comments · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Fly fishing for Wrasse! Is that some sort of mistake, I hear you ask? Not at all. If you remember from last week, I mentioned that I was going to attempt to catch something a bit different with my new fly rod. My target species was Wrasse. I have had quite a few Wrasse on [...]
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The right choice.

By Leo Toms On May 25, 2015 · 1 Comment · In Poole Harbour, Reports
After the disaster of last weekend comprising on venues and still no fish. The confidence factor had taken a bit of a knock. I don’t know if I’m alone, but sometimes when you have good bait, a proven venue and good tides you get a certain gut feeling. Maybe it’s confidence through experience but sometimes you [...]
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At last the fishing has started to take off

By Sean McSeveny On May 22, 2015 · 3 Comments · In Chesil Beach
This week has seen the first of the Bream arrive on Chesil, along with loads of small Smoothound. Kevin Webb, was lucky enough to be fishing at Abbotsbury and landed both. You can guarantee if the Bream are at Abbotsbury, there will be even more down the Portland and Ferrybridge end of the beach. The [...]
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The Bass are back…..

By Adrian Crawford On May 18, 2015 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
….as predicted the Bass turned up over this weekends spring tides and Sean was out to meet them lure rod in hand. Sean is out guiding so no report from him today but a full report will be posted tomorrow. I know the best tides for lure guiding are already getting booked up so now [...]
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Fly and lure fishing for Bass around Hayling Island

By Hazel Tipping On May 18, 2015 · Add Comment · In Reports, The Solent
During the summer months Hayling Island can be one of the best fishing marks on the south coast both from the beaches and off the boats. This week I was invited on a boat to join my good friend Ian on a Bass fishing trip with a difference. Ian has been a keen angler for [...]
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This should be the weekend the Bass turn up

By Sean McSeveny On May 15, 2015 · Add Comment · In Chesil Beach, Reports
Bass fishing in Dorset, or at least around Portland and Weymouth normally bursts into life on this set of spring tides each May. Well those spring tides are building up right now, and I for one hope that the Bass follow the same pattern that they have been doing so for as long as I [...]
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Wreck fishing from Weymouth onboard Snapper with Eddystone Eels

By Sean McSeveny On May 15, 2015 · Add Comment · In Boat Fishing, Reports
Combine the youth and exuberance of a young charter boat skipper with Eddystone Eels, one of the oldest and best known names for lures in the UK and you get a great fishing combination, especially for a days Wreck or Bass fishing. The Weymouth charter fishing fleet, has long been regarded as one of the largest [...]
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Solent Smoothounds and Rays

By Darren Mills On May 12, 2015 · Add Comment · In Reports, The Solent
Smoothound fishing in the Solent can be amazing. In my first report for Fishing Tails, I will take you through a recent trip after the Smoothounds and Rays that the Solent is famous for. Myself and my friend Alan Brown decided to head to a local mark on the shore at Selsey, West Sussex. We [...]
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Never trust long range forecasts

By Sean McSeveny On May 8, 2015 · 4 Comments · In Reports
A few days ago I looked at the weather forecast for the weekend, and it looked terrible for Saturday. I then start to change the plans I had, to move them to Sunday. Now I see that with the weekend almost upon us, the weather looks reasonable for Saturday. Hopefully I can turn my plans [...]
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Extending the fishing forecasts and new writers

By Sean McSeveny On May 7, 2015 · 4 Comments · In Reports
I am delighted to announce that Fishing Tails is extending its coverage area, with the addition of two new contributors. I am sure many people already know of them, the first is one of the countries most well known women anglers and top bait digger, Hazel Tipping who runs Hookers baits. Our other new contributor, [...]
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