After the beast from the east hit in March the
fishing was a bit slow to get started but it did end
up being one of the best years ever for speices and
specimens,with the boat record for species being
smashed with a total of 60 for the year and several
boat records were broken!
Fish of the month for March was a 21lb Spurdog
caught by Darren Phillips, we also had Ling to 10lb
Thornbacks to 13lb
Fish of the month for April was a 17lb Undulate
Ray caught by Dave Colclough,we also had lots of
Rays,Congers,Smoothounds and of course Bream!
May was an amazing month with too many great
fish to mention, Paul Filer won fish of the month
with a Piscary record Bass of 16lb 8oz, Roy Adams
broke the Gar record with a fish of 1lb 8oz, we also
had Blondes to 21lb,Tope, Bullhuss,Spurdogs and
Bream to 3lb 3oz and Steve Maylin came 3rd in Poole
Sea Angling Center Bream comp with a fish of 2lb
11oz winning the Pat Manly trophy for Piscary for
the second year in a row.
June was also a bumper month with some good Tope
fishing, Blondes to 21lb ,lots of Smoothounds to 9lb
8oz, Undulates to 17lb. Darren Phillips hit the
jackpot again boating Piscarys first ever Coalfish
at 8lb, and Andy Speight almost beat the boat record
Turbot , with a monster flatty of 21lb.
July was unbelievable good , first of all the
Piscary Gilt-head Bream record was broken 3 times in
one week. First by Darren Phillips at 1lb 11oz, then
by Dave Colclough at 1lb 15oz, and finally by Shaun
Lyndsey- Collins at 2lb 2oz. Another first for
Piscary were the Thin Lipped Mullet we caught this
year. Again the record was broken a few times in one
evening, with the largest being caught by Andy
Mitchell at 2lb 14oz . We had our annual Stingray
trip , only one small one caught by Steve Churchill
to add to his & the boat species for the year.
Darren Phillips had another super rare fish a
Streaked Gurnard, only the second one we have ever
seen. Other notable fish we had were Bream to 4lb,
Thick Lipped Mullet to 3lb 11 oz and there were
quite a few nice Plaice around.
August fishing was pretty standard compared to
other months, however we did have some very good
sessions on the Rays ,Sole, Plaice, Bass to over 9lb
and Damen Court added to the speices with a Couch's
Bream again only the second one we have ever seen.
September saw us do a bit more offshore and
wreck fishing than normal where Dave Colclough
absolutely smashed our Tub Gurnard record with a
fish of 6lb 4oz we also had quite a few very big
Pollack and Undulates to 18lb
The weather stayed very settled in October and
managed to get offshore quite a bit again .The big
Pollack were still showing with fish to 13lb 12oz,I
had a personal best Blonde Ray of 27lb we also had
Smoothounds to 13,The Sole fishing was the best it's
been for a few years with fish to 2lb 4oz and Steve
Churchill added to the speices with a Golden Grey
Mullet.
Unfortunately the weather was not so kind in
November and we only did a hand full of trips, we
made the most of our days out though with plenty of
Congers, Spurdogs. Roy Adams had yet another first
for Piscary an Atlantic Bonito. There were still
plenty of Rays inshore along with some nice Whiting,
Andy Pedon equaled the boat record Ballan Wrasse
with a beauty of 6lb 6oz.
The weather was just as bad in December right up
until the end of the month when we got a few trips
in to finish the year off as you would expect the
fish was very good with Whiting to 3lb 6oz, Congers
to 47lb,Blonde Rays and Spurdogs to 17lb
All the fish of the month winners won a Bongee
Spongee.
The Piscary Tuesday Evening league was another
great success with Gary Rook winning the League on
63 points he wins a free trip, Gillon Thompson was
second on 60 points, Pete Dickinson was third on 58
Gary also had the most speices in the league with 22
second was Pete Dickinson with 20 he wins a free
trip by default.
Gillon Thompson had the best specimen in the league
a 14lb Undulate he also wins a free trip. The
evening league will be running again next year,
starting on Tuesday 7th May, then fortnightly until
24th September. Best 8 out of 11 to count for the
scores. Please contact me to book in or for more
details.
In the annual species hunt Darren Phillips came
out on top with 43 species , he wins a free trip.
Steve Collins was second on 40 , he wins a free
evening/half day trip. Dave Colclough was third on
39, then Nick Lark on 37, Roy Adams & James Ellis on
36, Kim White on 34, Rex Swansbury, Neil Mortimer &
Damen Court all on 31,Gillon Thompson on 29, Vernon
Allen on 28, Steve Churchill & Andy Peadon on 27,
Leigh Van Eldik on 26, Pete Dickinson on 23, Richard
Day & Rod Giles on 21.
The species hunt will not be running next year
however we will be running the Piscary Friday super
league on the last Friday of the month starting on
26th April for 9 months. There will be a total pot
of £1000 in cash prizes up for grabs contact me for
more details or to book in.