Fishing report 24th of June

Start of the fishing trip: conditions

It was a sunny early morning at Newhaven where I met the crew at the Fort Road Cafe at 0800. The crew came from London and were booked to go out and fish for tope, the school shark. Our waters off Sussex at this time of year produce some of the largest specimens in the UK.

Straight to the mark

I knew there were mackerel in abundance on this particular mark so there was no need to stop to pick up live bait. Tope respond best when presented with fresh fish caught that day.

Large tope with large baits

Tope fishing is always my favourite trip to take people on at this time of year. My crew quickly put mackerel feathers over the side and caught strings of mackerel to use as bait almost instantly. We then put down the tope rigs with fresh fish baits, and 30 minutes later we were into our first school shark of the day, a good size at around 50 lb.

Other species were caught

During the day there was a constant flow of other greedy species that devoured whole mackerel baits, including dogfish, gurnard, blonde rays, thornback rays and undulate rays.

See you soon. Regards, Captain Ant

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