i have held back a few reports from our offshore trips so far this year, i had most of them booked up in advance and i am trying to avoid people holding off booking until they see a good report. here’s one from march

We were offshore today with 6 lads on board, all of whom fish with me regularly. The lads had made their way down from Norfolk for a nice early start and the weather was absolutely cracking. We had a long steam ahead of us as with perfect conditions I wanted to try something different. The lads humoured me and we had a drift of a few marks with lures. After a couple of hours with nothing but the occasional whiting or pouting I said to the lads we had best head off in search of spurs but to leave their rods tackled up as there was one more mark I wanted to try on the way. As we approached it the sounded started to blank out with 20 meters solid of fish showing! We were still several hundred yards from the mark so I was hopeful somebody was home! I lined up our first drift and sure enough the lads were soon into fish. they turned out to be bass and there were some nice ones amongst them too. We went back around for another drift as some of the lads on certain colours hadn’t caught. The next drift only produced 2 more and there were very few showing on the sounder. It was clear the fish had spooked so we carried on to have a go at the spurs. We arrived at slack tide and as the tide turned all we saw was dogfish. As the tide got going we saw some more dogfish. We had a short move and found lots of dogfish so we headed to a mark closer to home where we had good numbers of spurs on several occasions. Fishing was nice here. We had a couple of hours with steady numbers of roker coming in and ended up with 28 roker to finish the day.