Deep Blue Charters

22/01/2025

🔵 Today, Wednesday 22nd January 🔵

A wrecking day mid channel.

7 crew, 5.35m tide, flooding from 10:30. Overcast and damp. Little breeze to start, a cold NE wind picked up at midday.

Bombing it out to the wrecks to catch the last of the ebbing tide. It was a bit sloppy until we reached the first shipping lane then it flattened right off.

Lots of gurnards, some decent, around the wrecks. A few nice pollack (no monsters) picked off. Best pollack of the day spat the lure half way up. Couple of codling on the reefs on the way back in, with more gurnards.

One of my eagle eyed crew spotted a bit of pot rope round my engine while we were transiting at speed between the wrecks 20 miles off. Thankfully the boat speed had kept it straight out the back and didn’t allow it to wrap the prop, but it was close.

That’s the last of the trips for a little while according to the forecast. Those of you with trips booked in, please keep in touch.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK

22/01/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

21/01/2025

I've just reached 2.5K followers! Thank you for continuing support. I could never have made it without each and every one of you. 🙏🤗🎉

21/01/2025

21/01/2025

The moment you feel the tug, you know it will be worth the battle

19/01/2025

*Edit* This is Mike, he is a retired Paratrooper training for his attempt to break the record for rowing around Great Britain. Mike messaged in the comments to say thanks for looking out for him. He is usually very well prepared for his rows, but on this occasion he acknowledged that he let his high standards slip a little. I’m glad he got back safely.
I’m wishing you the best of luck Mike, just don’t forget your radio next time 😉👍.

If anyone would like more info on Mike’s challenge, or to show your support to our servicemen, here’s the link.

https://www.pegasusround.uk/

Things you don’t expect to see at sea number 10174…

A man in a rowing boat, 5 miles South East of Eastbourne, making his way back to Newhaven, no VHF, no visible life jacket, choppy waters. He said he was ok, and was trying to make his way back to Newhaven which is 15 miles away. I don’t fancy going round Beachy Head in my boat today. 🤯

I spoke to Solent Coast Guard to notify them that he’s out here.

19/01/2025

🔥A longer video of our Dolphin encounter on Friday 17th January🔥

Being out at sea such a privilege. I’ll never take it for granted. Spotting this big pod of Common Dolphins will stay in the memory bank forever (I hope).

18/01/2025

🔵Today, Saturday 18th January🔵

7 chaps from Sarf Laaandan mate!

Conditions were less than ideal for a group using all my equipment. Short choppy seas giving white horses, and a bitter easterly wind was bracing.

The lads plugged away all day. Plenty of tackle lost. Plenty of laughs had. Needless to say, it wasn’t the big fish day they/we had hoped for. Always next time lads.

Thanks to Shaun for supplying the sweets 🐷 and keeping the lads baited up 😉👍

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK

18/01/2025

Things you don’t expect to see at sea number 10174…

A man in a rowing boat, 5 miles South East of Eastbourne, making his way back to Newhaven, no VHF, no visible life jacket, choppy waters. He said he was ok, and was trying to make his way back to Newhaven which is 15 miles away. I don’t fancy going round Beachy Head in my boat today. 🤯

I spoke to Solent Coast Guard to notify them that he’s out here.

18/01/2025

If anyone knows Mark Camp can you ask him to get in touch with me please?

17/01/2025

🔥Today, Friday 17th January🔥

Common Dolphins, rods overboard and a bit of fishing happened today….. never a dull moment on DB.

Wrecking offshore. Full crew. Overcast, not much wind. Falling tides of 6.8m, flooding most of the day.

Steaming out at nearly 30kts to the shipping lanes with 8 of our regulars on fairly flat seas. I saw a couple of fins off my bow so slowed for a look, only to see a lot more fins start to break the surface and turn towards us. We spent about 5 mins going round in circles playing with a massive pod of Common Dolphins. They were everywhere, the videos don’t do the scale of the pod justice.

Onto the wrecks…. patchy, but fishy. A few pollack we took off one wreck all had very bad net rash along their flanks (see photos). The wreck in question did have a very snaggy end on the flood, presumably these fish live amongst it as residents.

Moving across another couple of wrecks saw us with more pollack, as you do. A quick look around at the south of the reef system on the way back in found more fish, a good few table sized pollack, a nice chunky pollack which fell to a new prototype lure - a collaboration with Sidewinder Lures & our good mate The Fish Locker, and a Codling, to keep up our Cod wrangling reputation 😉.

Busy day tomorrow….

PENN Fishing
XTRATUF
Navionics UK

17/01/2025

16/01/2025

🔵 Yesterday, Wednesday 15th January 🔵

A mixed crew to fill the boat around 4 of the fishaholic Species League crew.
A day out on the banks (with a few wrecks thrown in for good measure) was the request. Greater weaver and gurnards were the intended target.
Given the success of our last offshore wrecking trip, the other anglers making the numbers up came on board to get amongst the pollack

It was a different day to that of a few days earlier….

Flat calm at sea again. 7.1 metre flood tide turning to ebb at midday. No wind forecast. We found a very steady drift of 2.2kts mid lanes on the banks. Almost that bit too quick. We plugged away until the tide started to drop a little, catching weaver, tub & red Gurnards and the other nuisance fish.

The fishing didn’t really pick up on the sand when the tide started to drop so we made a dash to the first wreck. Another boat was on the first big wreck that I wanted to have a go on, so I chose its smaller neighbour wreck instead. The tide dropped off so quick that we only managed a few drifts before the boat was spinning every way but the right way. A bit of ghost net must be on here as well, due to the fact that when the tide dropped, snags appeared a good number of turns above the wreck.

Steaming several miles to the second wreck got us there just in time to catch the start of the ebb. Fishing was slow, but there were fish marking so we persevered a little while until we started to get knocks.

A few pollack for the table to take home followed.

Back right inshore for the last 20 mins to see if the crew could get some flatties to tick off their lists, but it proved futile in the swamp coloured 6m deep millpond.

Fish there but not feeding much on this big full moon tide. Not a bad day still.

PENN Fishing
XTRATUF
Sidewinder Lures
Navionics UK

15/01/2025

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15/01/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

Sandbanks and shipwrecks….. offski.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK
Species League