speak to sultzer on here he can give u an idea,but expect to pay £50 per person for a trip,minimum 8 persons.

its expensive but so is the fuel for the boat.

you could try andy jackson on loch sunart and hire a self drive boat
thats about £95 a day.for the boat.

u drive it u fish from it.

 

ok
i use Mv Cregallan - colin currie - price is for boat is roughly £50 per head max 8 anglers for skate - check my webpage you'll see the skate there .
but there is also ronnie campbell another good skipper .
but you will need to hire the whole boat for skate
All gear is provided .
On yer marks do a easter skate month march/april roughly £240 for the boat these are smaller boats from crinan
North star from crinan is another good boat
Vespaman stated the self drive boats at sunart .

in my opinion i have never met a bad skipper yet for fishing for skate

 

Thanks Guys, great information and a lot to review and take in.

As there is only 2 maybe 3 of us, would it be up to us to fill the charter or would the skippers be able to fit us in to a group of folk that haven't fully subscribed or vise versa? very keen to do it and happy to pay £50 - £75 each a day but couldnt afford the full wack so would be ideal if we could fit in with another group to make up the numbers and bring cost down. as always any advice and assistance is greatfully received.

cheers

 

Colin over the winter was offering midweek trips in Etive for £35 a head for 4 anglers up, and I am sure he would be worth talking to. Skate trips and weekends are obviously different to the above though.

 

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both of the above are highly recommend and deffo worth a call-they will give you all the info you need re-tackle ,bait,prices ,places available-get the info straight from these skippers and go with local skippers and 1st class boats with 1st class skippers.

ronnie campbell- 01631 750213 or 07721640024

north star-archie or sandy- 07713038720 or 07789071188

tea/coffee available and everything you need in comfort. good luck and enjoy.

tbh-best not hire small boat and go yourself if you,ve never done it before -these fish are big and need to be handled properly-without capsizing the small boat of course lol.enjoy -you,ll love it great day out.

 

Fin ta for the. Numbers. As you said a great day out.lol
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no probs mate-hope to meet up soon.

 

two of my mates were out with ronnie campbell last wknd and caught three skate smallest was about 75lb and biggest about 165 so all and all a crakin days fashin

 

thanks to Everyone for the information! i really apppreciate it will be in touch with the peopel mentioned and hopefulyl get a date set for a trip for me and my mate! cheers!!!

 

booked my self and bigbadcoxy onto a days fishing on North star at Crinan! there was spare spaces and time was right for us so went for it!! role on Mid-May!!!!!!!!

 

booked my self and bigbadcoxy onto a days fishing on North star at Crinan! there was spare spaces and time was right for us so went for it!! role on Mid-May!!!!!!!!

Awesome man, fingers crossed fir ya matey!!

Cheers, Joe.

 

can't wait! hopefully get some other fishing done over the weekend with Jaws aswell! will be awesome! hopefully get us into some new species!!

 

hope you enjoy yourself guys the skippers are good lads hope you get on the fish will be a new experiance for you if you do.

 

can't wait! hopefully get some other fishing done over the weekend with Jaws aswell! will be awesome! hopefully get us into some new species!!

bring plenty pain killers ,you will need them if you land a big girl
tight lines the fox.

 

i will pack the pain killers then! fingers crossed to even see one of those cracking fush!!

 

B&B booked for the night before! staying in Lochgilphead, any good spots for a few hours casting in the evening? any advice is welcome spinning and or bait can be done so i am not fussy any advice would be great! i will have a search through the forum aswell!!

cheers in advance for any advice/banter you have to offer!

 

while you are fishing for the skate can you fish for anything else at the same time or is this a stupid question haha cheers allan....

 

No idea Allan! hope to get a shot for other toothy critters though at some point!

 

while you are fishing for the skate can you fish for anything else at the same time or is this a stupid question haha cheers allan....

will sometimes allow one general rod down depends on tides for causing tangles with the skate rods and guys can have turn around sharing it if they wish then a chance of thornies,dogfish,blackmouth dogfish, spurdog.
good chance of conger on the skate rods to.

 

If you catch a spur before me I'll be reeling!! (Excuse the pun... )

 

Ah we'll get him a shore spur before then

 

Oh aye I will be catching a spur before you!! hahaha fingers crossed for anything I will be grateful for a wee LSD!

 

You can fish smaller baits for other species but this can lead to tangles as mentioned above. This happened to me when I was out in Dec and a bad tangle can be expensive if a few hundred feet of braid and a few sets of end gear get lost. The skipper will keep you right though. Small tides the weekend your going too so I'd imagine you should be able to. We had LSD, thornies and a conger when I was there. Only the LSD on lighter gear though.