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Ted's News
Last Update on 3.7.09
Our Torquay shop, Quay Stores, on Torquay Harbourside is open 7 days a week for bait; we carry a full range, rag and lugworm, peeler crab, frozen baits including calamari squid and the packets of the baby squid, mackerel, sandeel and launce.
Note occassionally we will be out of stock of some baits.
Fantastic range of lures, you have to see to believe.
Norwegian Halibut.
A friend, Kevin Rouse, the vice chairman of the Torbay and Babbacombe ASA has just returned from Norway where he fished for cod and halibut.
Got back from Norway early this morning. What a fantastic holiday, the holiday of a lifetime.... I would recommend it to anyone. That was the start of his email.
He was with seven others and they caught around 100 cod a day on a variety of lures in very deep water, none of the cod were massive he said, the best was in the low twenties.
But it was the Halibut that stirred his blood, his first weighed in at just over  twenty pound, (exact weight not given) but it was the one that got away that gave hime the thrill of his life.
Reeling up a big shad he suddenly realised that it was being followed by an enormous halibut, he said it was about 5 feet in length. Kevin let the lure drop back to the bottom and it was followed by the halibut that snatched it at about mid water. "The reel screemed and I had this terrific weight.... after rapidly stripping line off my reel for a minute or two I began to play it in - then suddenly the rod went light and it was gone! The hook must have become dislodged from the Halibut's mouth.....leaving us all in a complete state of shock! Fortunately we all saw the fish at the surface (the water is crystal clear and sea state was totally flat) a moment none of use will forget for the rest of our life"
The weight was estimated at 100lb judged against one in a freezer that weighed 78lb and was four feet in length.
"Just like a giant flounder" said Kevin.
picture courtesy Kevin Rouse.
Big Garfish off the South Devon Coast.
 Jim Huchins, a member of the Paigton SAA has notched up the first big garfish of the summer from Torbay. Fishing from Brixham Breakwater Jim had good sport with garfish that ended with him netting one weighing 1.14.0
picture courtesy PAIGNTON SAA
Charter Boats Still Catching Plaice from the Skerries.
I had a call from Dave Harrison skipper of the Dartmouth based Gemini to say there are still good quantities of reasonable sized plaice on the Skerries Banks off Dartmouth.
 This picture of Andy Roberts and Julian O'Toole show the average plaice being caught.
Picture courtesy Gemini.
Links to Gemini from our charter boat page.
First Big Conger
 Conger as always turned up on schedule; June normally the month when the first big fish are caught. The Gemini fishing out of Dartmouth and skippered by Dave Harrison had a good few days in mid month.
The best of the conger, all estimated because they were returned to the water was just over 90lb and that one caught by Pete Kitson.
The next best fish was estimated at a touch over 70lb, that one was caught by Mike Woods.
pictures courtesy
Gemini.
Devon Bull Huss
Now that bull huss are resident in South Devon they are a target fish; the latest big catch was made by Mike Johnson; at 18.3.3 from a boat mark off Start Point it becomes the new Paignton club record.
Cod and Ling
What a difference a few calm days make to our fishing, anglers are now reaching the wrecks with mixed success.
Paignton angler Gordon Richards boated a cod of 23.4.5 and a ling that tipped the scales at 19.14.6
 
pictures courtesy Paignton saa
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Giant Wrasse
 Most big wrasse are caught in February, but Mark Loewy changed all that when he boated a colourful balland wrasse that weighed in at 7.3.0, what a beauty. This fish comfortably won the Torbay and Babbacmbe weekend cometition. Fishing with him was young Archie Foord, son of the clubs records officer, he also caught a nice wrasse, his a  female that weighed in at 4.1.0 winning young Archie the clubs junior ward.
pictures courtesy Nigel Foord
John Dory
John Dory are not caught very often, but I was  aboard the Weymouth based charter boat, Duchess 2 skippered by Jeff Clark when Steff Francies caught this one on a blue storm shad, it weighed just short of two pound. As He reeled in he was cussing because he thought a pout had taken the bait. Dory's of course are one of the nicest fish to eat, so there was much ribbing about it being the skippers perks!!.
Big Dorset Bass,
 Fishing from his own boat out of West Bay,Cheff, Dan Clark, son of Charter boat skipper, Jeff Clark boated the first double figure bass of the summer on a shad lure, it tipped the scales at 10.4.0.
On the same trip his daughter Hollie aged 10  proved she was a chip off the old block by catching a double a figure pollack.
Dan is hoping to start his own charter boat from West Bay this summer, and there is going to be something different about it, watch this space.
pictures courtesy Jeff Clark
Bri xham SAC club shore record Small Eyed Ray weighing 13.10.4.
Nice to see the ray are here.
Picture courtesy Doug Mosedale, Brixham SAC
Cod and Big Brream off Weymouth.
My friend, Jeff Clark, skipper of the Weymouth based, Duchess 2 called to say they are catching a lot of cod and black bream,  the best of the cod over the Bank Holiday fell to Roger Bowring, at a touch over 19lb it was the the best of several he caught.
Black bream were grabbing the tiny suid baits ravenously and one of the better fish was
caught by Richard Livingstone.
pictures courtesy Jeff Clark
Gilthead Bream
More and more gilthead bream are being caught in the Salcombe estuary. Dave Fortune from Brixham took ten to 2.6.2, a new Brixham club shore record, but this was beaten a few days later when previous record holder, Sean Coulson regained his status with one of 3.7.7.  and now this has been topped with one of 5.5.2 caught by Neil Burnet
picture courtesy Mike Bailey
Brixham SAC
A message from my friend, Jeff Clark, skipper of the Duches 2 that .jpg) runs out of Weymouth said they are having a decent run of plaice, like this one of 4.4.0 caught by Caroline, more interesting was the fact they are already catching a few black bream off Portland, many of reasonable size.
A Kenya Bonanza
While holidaying in Mombasa, Kenya I managed to get some exciting fishing from one of Walter Brun's Sports Fishing boats. Based outside of Mombasa these well fitted boats are very reasonably priced, I paid  £80 for a half a boat for a half days. Fishing was excellent, on one morning we had one triple and two double hook ups on Dorado. I also caught a small wahoo on that trip. I was sharing the boat with Dave and Sonia Wilkinson from Devon on their first ever sport fishing trip and Dave had the best fish that day, a Dorado weighing 26lb. "Terrific" he said.
This is what Day Dreams are made of.
This has come in from Pemba Channel in Kenya, one of the countries top resorts, read all about the tremendous fishing so far this year as you sit through our cold winter waiting for the sring to arrive.
It was tangible, it was within reach, it was a Super Fantasy Slam of Six Different Billfish – Almost . .  . !
Morne Basson, an avid fisherman from SA, caught, tagged, photographed and released this potential All Africa Record Short Billed Spearfish whilst fishing aboard Shuwari on 10 January, 2009. This very rare and seldom-caught caught species (Tetrapturus angustirostris) is a pelagic, off shore, deep-water fish.
I received these pictures of Golden Ray on the move from Western Australia, fantastic pictures. Congratulaions to Sandra Critelli on superb pictures
Hi Ted. Do you get ray like this in the UK? Graham
 Looking like giant leaves floating in the sea, thousands of Golden Rays are seen here gathering off the coast of Mexico. The spectacular scene was captured as the magnificent creatures made one of their biannual mass migrations to more agreeable waters. Gliding silently beneath the waves they turned vast areas of blue water to gold off the northern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. Sandra Critelli, an amateur photographer, stumbled across the phenomenon while looking for whale sharks.
 She said, 'It was an unreal image, very difficult to describe. The surface of the water was covered by warm and different shades of gold, and looked like a bed of autumn leaves gently moved by the wind. It's hard to say exactly how many there were but in the range of a few thousand. We were surrounded by them without seeing the edge of the school and we could see many under the water surface too. I feel very fortunate I was there in the right place at the right time to experience nature at his best.'
 Measuring up to 7ft (2.1 metres) from wing-tip to wing-tip, Golden rays are also more prosaically known as cow nose rays. They have long, pointed pectoral fins that separate into two lobes in front of their high-domed heads, that give them a cow-like appearance. Despite having poisonous stingers, they are known to be shy and non-threatening when in large schools. The population in the Gulf of Mexico migrates in schools of as many as 10,000, clockwise from western Florida to the Yucatan.
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