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Last year, the first I heard of bream showing on Yarmouth Pier was on May 5th. I know they have been around for a good few weeks this year already, but I hadn't seen one. I was booked for something else in the afternoon so my only chance to go and find out for myself was a trip out over low at...

I'd heard rumours of smoothounds in the Solent so went and had a look for myself yesterday. First drop, the smallest dogfish ever caught. Bigger dogs followed as did a pout and a whiting then a nice little smoothy of around 2lbs. A conger at about 5lb made it 5 species so a decent 3 hours on the...

I've just fitted a Hydrofoil to my Tohatsu 9.8 piece of cake to fix even hanging over the back of the boat at high water. First impressions are very good. Very little front lift and much quieter, (I assume it is spreading the exhaust gases over a wider area and less turbulence from the prop)...

I was given a heads up for a quite interesting spot 400yards off Norton Wall Just outside Yarmouth Harbour. 16' dropping to 26' onto a flat platform. The sort of ground I like. I was told it was a low water mark so I shifted my boat onto deeper moorings this morning so I could get out on the ebb...

I went to Yarmouth Pier a couple of hours before high tide last night and had a dangle hoping for a squid or ten. Conditions were not that good with rain forecast and 16mph westerly wind and I thought that it might keep most at home but there were probably 10 guys braving it most were bottom...

It was still dark when I decided to get out of bed this morning. A bit of a fitful night meant I was wide awake from 4.45,knowing there was little chance of nodding off again. Not wishing to disturb her ladyship or the dogs I fumbled around on the floor trying to find the clothes I'd dumped...

I had a short period of a couple of hours yesterday, 9am til 11am, to get out of the harbour and back in again as I had a busy afternoon I'd already committed to. Weather and wind was looking good but worsening Thursday so a must go trip. My plan was to go to a favourite mark, catch four bream...

A late report from Tuesday. I was out on the water by 9am and anchored off Bouldner Forest shortly afterwards in 24' of water at what turned out to be a very productive spot. As usual I'd found the bottom of the drop off that runs all the way along there. The first bait that landed on the bottom...

Deep in the depths of Bouldner Forest is Bouldner Castle. It isn't a castle, it just has one castellated tower but is a good reference point when fishing between Yarmouth and Hamstead Ledge. I regularly drop my anchor in about 500 yards out from said building and fish at the bottom of an...

I had a bit of a session off of Bouldner Forest in 50' of water yesterday. I was accompanied by my fishing mate Mike in his own SIB. The weather was good, I actually got a bit of sunburn on my, recently shaved, head. Scores as follows Me 4 doggies 1 conger 6/7lbs Mike 2 doggies 2 hounds...

Just a quick three hours on the water this morning. A coldish start on a very smooth sea. Only a couple of miles out of Yarmouth harbour anchoring near the wreck of the Margaret Smith. A good few fish but nothing remarkable, pout, doggies, whiting and just one conger eel. Considering I was so...

The weather has been rubbish recently, well weeks of it actually, as I have been trying to catch my first ever squid. Loads and loads of preparation but few opportunities to actually try. This afternoon I decided I had a window of about an hour and a half to get to Yarmouth Pier and give it a...

It looks like the weather will give us a morning fit to fish tomorrow, hopefully. My fishing mate and I will be going on a little trip out of Yarmouth Harbour, to the right and up towards Hamstead Ledge, a very well known spot. Rumours of codling are rife but only small ones. Still it would be...

My last couple of trips out have been short distance into Bouldner Bay just a mile or so out of Yarmouth Harbour. Fishing in 30' of water at the bottom of a bank that rises about 20 feet over a distance of 50 yards or so. It's a long bank parallel to the shore about 300 to 400 yards out with...

On a very flat sea yesterday afternoon I had a 20 minute ride up to Hamstead Point, around the corner from Hamstead Ledge with another friend on his own boat. This was on the recommendation of a very knowledgeable angling friend who suggested the possibility of a few gilthead bream amongst the...

Another couple of hours out on my boat yesterday this time I anchored about 200 yards off the end of Fort Victoria pier. The old pier is a structure that has long past it's prime and some organisation has plans to develop it, and the beachfront that goes with it, into luxury housing and a fish...

Managed to get out on my boat for a couple of hours this evening in search of bream. Just half a mile from Yarmouth Harbour towards Fort Victoria between Norton Wall and the Boathouse Cafe. Only 200 yards off at a spot I've caught before. The fish were there for about half an hour and I got 4...

I decided I need an hour or two with a rod last evening so headed off to Yarmouth Pier about 2.5 hours into the flood. I have a favourite spot for pile dangling and luckily no-one was in residence. A few other anglers on the Pier and lots of visitors including a couple of couples with a couple...

I had a 5.5 hour session off of Bouldner Forest a couple of miles east of Yarmouth on the Solent today getting on the water at about 9am. What a view from half a mile offshore, strikingly beautiful. Also along for the day was my mate Mike in his own boat. I really need to get my gear sorted...

I've seen a few masked crabs this week, possibly as a result of the long tides. I have read that they can be used as bait. Given that it can be very easy to collect a few at low tide, I'm going to try them out. I'm thinking of cutting them in half lengthways and binding them on the hook. Has...