Deep Blue Charters

25/04/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

23/04/2025

🚨7 SPACES TOMORROW🚨 Smooth-hounds, bass, pollack, wrasse…. Etc. £75 Eastbourne.

23/04/2025

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22/04/2025

🔵 Today, Tuesday 22nd April 🔵

The weather and conditions when leaving the safety of the marina arms this morning was refreshing for the eyes, and soul.
Flat calm, no wind and blue skies. Not what the forecast said before I went to sleep the night before.

Straight out to the reefs, paying no attention to small patches of birds circling and squawking over some
ground, because my start was delayed yesterday due to the power cut affecting the fuel machines - and I wanted to catch some tide on the reefs.

Pollack straight away. Little to no tide on the ebb, especially when SW breeze picked up. Less than 0.6kts drifting all tide.
Anchoring the beginning of the flood saw some action, with a nice thornback being the noticeable mention.

Other than the conditions to start, the fuel pontoon being operational, and a thornback/spider crab double shot 🤦‍♂️, today was almost a carbon copy of yesterday - I probably should’ve just wrote that at the beginning and left it there…..

Lots of wrasse, smoothies, pollack & a single Black Bream.

Mark P was made up with his 9lb & change Pollack, which he caught on his very light lure rod and end tackle.
Most memorable fish he’s ever caught (his own words) apparently 👏🏻.

Day off tomorrow -
☀️ Some settled weather coming ☀️
🚨 SPACES THURSDAY🚨

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK

22/04/2025

‼️MORNING‼️ PENN Fishing

21/04/2025

🔵 Today, Bank Holiday Monday 21st April 🔵

A quiet day by our usual standard, but still some good fish over the rail.

Small tides, so effectively back to the cycle where we usually get lots of action from pollack, codling + others from our reef network.
This time last year we were hitting the big smoothies, but they are a little later this time out, so mixing things up on the rocks was today’s task.

The water clarity was better than the last few trips, as the small tides often help with. Not much visible bloom. Fish marking the sounder in big swathes, through the whole water column.

No real sizeable bass today, a few smaller pollack (all returned) and a few better examples. 4 species of wrasse. Finding Smoothies at anchor from the start, but like I said, no biggies yet.

My experience says that you can only fish for what’s there 🤷‍♂️, and on that note, we’ll go and have a look again tomorrow 😎👍🏻

Must investigate the wrecks again soon……

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK

20/04/2025

Matt does exceptionally high standards of rod builds, customisations and repairs 👏🏻

18/04/2025

🔵 Today, Good Friday 18th April 🔵

Ful crew onboard with a less than good forecast.
The crew was briefed yesterday about the forecast, and they all opted to go for it regardless.

A little bit scratchy, but to be expected given the conditions. Lots of algae bloom in the water on the flood tide.

17 small smoothies, few bass, wrasse, pollack and bits….

Couple of days off now by the looks of it. Back to it BH Monday if the forecast allows.

17/04/2025

17/04/2025

🔵 Today, Thursday 17th April 🔵

Chasing fish tails, and our own tails today.
Very scratchy out there this last couple of trips. Lots of algae bloom in the water on the flood tide after yesterday’s wind. The ebb tide cleared it up a bit. The dredger has also just been, and they have permission to dump their spoil a measly mile away uptide of the marina, which makes the water muddy.

Fish very scattered around, tons of marks on the sounder, but again being finicky on the bite. A few nice fish dropped. No big girl smoothies yet still, but several smaller ones. There’s not even that many pouting out there, not that I would usually complain about that, but it’s just bloody weird.

Best fish of the day had be Becky’s micro Codling 🤣👍🏻

Off out again tomorrow, before the wind comes back and spoils Saturday and Easter Sunday 🤬.

12 species landed today.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
Navionics UK

17/04/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

Looks like a windy Easter Weekend 😒

Anyhooo, have a look at my story for the biggest cod you’ll see this year.

16/04/2025

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15/04/2025

🔵 Today, Tuesday 15th April 🔵

A swing in the weather again….. it’s day on, day off at the moment.

7 crew out on the reefs all day.

Yesterday was a bit more challenging than the trip before, today was more challenging than yesterday. Tides falling but still making the drifts a bit swift.

Quite a few snags from the chaps, some of whom have had a bit of a fishing hiatus. Blowing the cobwebs off today was a little bit of a baptism of fire - for some.

Fish all over the shop again, but they were being a bit finicky.

Day off tomorrow with the wind forecast, back at it on Thursday - 🚨COUPLE OF SPACES AVAILABLE🚨

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK

15/04/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

Bit damp first thing…..
Bait sorted & hooks sharpened.

14/04/2025

🔥Today, Monday 14th April 🔥

A full crew mixed session.

Bassing in the morning, smoothie hunting at lunch and the some drifting on the reefs.

Plenty of bass, with lots returned. More than half a dozen small smoothies in a quick hour at anchor. Several codling, a single keeper pollack (weird, they were hard to come by today), a few mackerel and a smattering of wrasse on the drift for the last bit of the day.

Plenty of fish to keep the crew interested, but swathes of quiet spells, with the pollacks absence notable.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK