Deep Blue Charters

12/03/2025

🔵 Today, Wednesday 12th March 🔵

An inshore lazy day. Only 3 crew, smaller tides and little wind forecast.

Scratching round all day for winter/spring bounty.
1,000,000 doggies, whiting, dabs, a couple plaice and smoothie pups and a flounder for Andy’s species list.

Warm when the sun shone, cold when it didn’t 🤣. In other news, water is wet.

Fin.

*edit* nearly forgot….. an interesting mark on the sounder over the reef this morning. It looks thresher 🦈, but is probably just a bait fish shoal 🫣.

12/03/2025

‼️EVENING‼️
Sunglasses lines already….wind burn is real 😬

11/03/2025

‼️Last shout - 5 spaces tomorrow‼️
Mixed fishing at anchor/drifting, so lures and bait needed. Pollack, codling, wrasse, flatties.
07:30 pickup - £75pp - Sovereign Harbour Eastbourne

10/03/2025

I’ve been following this tragedy all afternoon on the Marine Traffic app.

What a sad state of affairs, with some corners suspicious of foul play.
I’m not sure is they have recovered the missing crewman yet, but fingers crossed they do, and fingers also crossed that this doesn’t have a severe effect on the eco system.

📸: Photos taken from the Sky News link (attached)

https://news.sky.com/story/one-missing-after-north-sea-crash-vessels-owner-says-cargo-ship-was-carrying-toxic-chemical-13325750

09/03/2025

Oxley dog always watches over the rail when I pick a rod up.

07/03/2025

🚨LOCK MAINTENANCE UNDERWAY🚨

05/03/2025

🔵 Today, Wednesday 5th March 🔵

The highlight of today’s trip, by some margin, was the weather. Absolutely flipping stunning out there today.

A tough days fishing for my largely inexperienced crew. If you study the video carefully you might just make out a pouting sunbathing on the surface of the water.

They want to come back in May - so I must’ve done something right 😉👌🏻

05/03/2025

‼️MORNING‼️
A leisurely one today……

05/03/2025

A great fish for Phillip Hills, well done mate!!!

🎣🇳🇴💪🏻👌🏻🐋 New personal best COD 17.5kg 38.5lb for Phil Hills

03/03/2025

🔥Today, Monday 3rd March🔥

A small crew of 4, wrecking.

Lovely conditions forecast, lovely conditions found. Flat calm and sunny all day.
The flood tide has been a pig recently, and that’s the tide that is making most of the days up currently. So with that in mind, along with the dense fog forecast overnight, a 10:00am start was arranged.

Getting out of the locks, straight off (at warp speed) and onto our chosen route of wrecks, saw another boat already on our first one. We opted to join them on the wreck, being conscious not to steam over their drift, leaving plenty of room behind them, and not creating wakes. Shame they didn’t have the sense or courtesy to do the same. Cutting right past us several times, and steaming directly over the wreck to start another drift 🤯. If any of them follow me on here I hope they read this, and then manners are needed to be learnt.

Regardless of that, we were into double hookups from the first drift. This didn’t stop until slack water. Great fishing, and my job for the day was pretty much already done 😎👍🏻

Wreck hopping for the 2nd half of the trip saw us find more fish, but it was a single here, then nothing for a few drifts, then a single there, then nothing…. you catch my drift. Bumped into a mate at the end of our route, joined the wreck they and another boat were on, and all boats were skippered impeccably 👏🏻.

Overall then, a thoroughly enjoyable trip which ended as the sun was setting.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK

03/03/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

A planned later start today….

02/03/2025

🔵 Today, Sunday 2nd March 🔵

Forecast was wrong. Rougher out there than yesterday. Again, we couldn’t really get out to the wrecks until slack. So spent the morning scratching around. One of the crew was 🤢, another couple felt like they were going to be….
The wreck was marking fish.

Another hard slog, with a few fish. The bass was returned.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF
Navionics UK

02/03/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

Not all that nice out here again…. See my stories

01/03/2025

🔵 Today, Saturday 1st March 🔵

Hard. Work.

Conditions were less than good. Tides the wrong way round. A few anglers felt seasick - one was. Wind against tide. Didn’t fancy punching the tide off off/out out.

Nothing major to write home about, but as ever, vitamin SEA is always a nice thing.

We move on….. to tomorrow 🫣

01/03/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

Let’s see what Saturday has to offer….

28/02/2025

🔥Today, Friday 28th February🔥

Firstly, thank the fish gods that it’s March tomorrow. February has felt twice as long as January, and seen us only manage to beat the weather a handful of times.

8 crew, mixed abilities, wrecking!

High hopes for today’s big 7.42m tide. It was always going to be a struggle first thing, with choppy seas, wind against tide, and the dreaded (at least for me) flood tide for the first few hours. Punching the tide out to our first mark was a bit bumpy.
I said to the crew that the best of the days fishing would come towards slack at 11:30 and the first half of the ebb, and that proved to be absolutely 💯.

Smaller pollack starting to appear as the tide dropped below 1.5kts, a few better fish before the turn, a good few more fish when things got moving again.

The smaller pollack were released (all bar 1) after slow retrieves from 50m.

The bigger ones were my crew’s rewards for a bloody tough morning, but a lucrative afternoon.

Hard work pays off…..🥵

🚨Spaces 🔜 Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday🚨

Good luck to the guys at the Big One Show this weekend, I’m on the water so won’t be attending, but I’m sure it’ll be a good one.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
Navionics UK
XTRATUF

28/02/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

1st day out in forever…..

Still spaces for Sunday and Monday 👍🏼

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
XTRATUF

22/02/2025

‼️Morning all‼️

Catching up with admin today - so if you’ve messaged, called or emailed, and are still awaiting a reply, I’ll be right with you - sorry for the delay.

🌧️ What an utterly sh**ty patch of weather we’ve had of late. We haven’t been out since early Feb, so we’re due a bit of a break 🌬️

On a brighter note, spring is getting closer all the time. The bass season opens again on April 1st, so get ready for that crazy few weeks when you can’t help but catch them on everything you put in the water.
Bigger bass are often found lower down, and on the edges of these shoals. Increasing the size of your lure will single them out.

Hope you all have a good weekend.

*attention seeking photo from last spring - chill out*
MLS & Bag limits are strictly adhered to on Deep Blue.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
Navionics UK
XTRATUF