thornback

Not long now till my yearly week on the shore, hemsby last year but abit further along the coast this year at caistor on sea. Booked a lovely caravan overlooking the beach on elm tree caravan park and cant wait to hit the sand. Last year had whiting, flounder, dogfish and dabs.. Just wondered...

Conditions: WSW 20mph gust 30+ HW - approx 13:20. Fished from 9am till about 2pm. Species caught: 1 bass (miniature), 1 dab, lots of pin whiting, 1 dogfish, 1 thornback ray. Bait: lug and bluey. All fish caught on lug apart from the ray. Thornback was a 9lb female. All fish returned...

Hi there, I don't post on here very much (don't catch much worth commenting on normally !) but I just had a good session at Whitehaven last week. Now I normally fish the North East, Roker, SS, Hebburn, Etc., and I used to post on the NESA site from time to time but not for a while. Originally...

Fished down to low on the big tide a couple of days back. Fairly quiet at first with just small whiting and dogfish coming out. Rays came on feed about 90 mins before low and I had two..one of around 2lb and another just over 9lb. Just before low tip wrapped over again and a good scrap...

Finally after many months of persevering I caught my first thornback Ray using a loop rig with size 2 hooks with Bluey as bait. Wasn't huge maybe a couple of pounds but a welcomed sight nonetheless. Also had some very small smoothhounds and plenty of whiting. No weed which was good:)

Hid from the wind today on a spur of the moment couple hour trip. Was hoping for a spikey mackeral , instead had this very small very cute spikey flattie on squid rag cocktail Get in !! You cant stop the hustle.

Fished it an hour before and two hours after. Bait: makeral and crab Rigs 6/0 circle pennel/ 10/0 running ledger steel trace. Fished it with two rods didn't get any bites until the tide turned and was dropping. First got a small codling on crab bait. Then on mack and crab got a nice thornie...

Hi guys I'm just wondering if anyone can tell me where around Bristol/somerset is fishing well at the moment thanks

Will be doing a report in a while but to anyone who's noticed in after a ray , my quest is over . Will post report later on as still fishing. Buzzing is an understatement

Friday is the only day of the bank holiday weekend that was remotely fishable, one of the other skippers already had his name down to take a trip, so I put my name down to join the trip - all I had to do was show up and fish. 7:30am saw us almost leaving one of the anglers in the marina, but...

*I wasn't out last night and I won't talk about the night before, I still haven't dried out. But well done to Steve & Jake both finding fish at different locations. Here's how they got on . . . . It's about time we caught up with Steve Harder, who has been that busy tying rigs and preparing...

As I worked all but the bank holidays over the Christmas / New Years period I thought I'd take this week off to use up the holidays I had rolled over from last year. Obviously we've had plenty of set backs in regards to weather, luckily the 10th's forecasts were varied but mostly reasonable -...

The wind has been pretty relentless for more than a month. Only small chances of getting out have shown them selves. Out of Swansea a 12hr drop in wind speed doesn't always mean good conditions to head out in as we have the swell to contend with also. Luckily, Cardiff doesn't really have the...

great weather but a bit windy so we stayed in The Haven. Turned out to be the right decision as the wind got quite strong. Plenty of fish in The Haven to be caught, lots of fun for all the family ! Gran, Mum, Dad and the Children all caught, Congers, Thornies, whiting, Dogs and more. All on...

I've not been able to write a report for a couple of weeks - thats not to say I haven't been fishing - Sorry about it being such a long report and lacking pictures. 30-31/08/2015 Saw a couple of bass trips 30th Did a massive loop of the gower, found only a couple of fish for the day. Ended the...