Deep Blue Charters

30/06/2025

‼️MORNING‼️

29/06/2025

🔵 Today, Sunday 29th June 🔵

Flat calm, cloudy until the last hour or so, muggy.

Big tides made anchoring hard until the tide started to slacken off. Drifting the slack end of the tides was tricky, but not impossible. Fish marking in numerous spots, more to be had than we managed.

Bass at anchor and on the drift for Trev. Some nice bream coming up for a brief spell at anchor.

Few species today:
Codling,
Bass,
Pollack,
Bream,
Ballan wrasse,
Conger eel,
Sandeel,
Pout,
Mackerel.
Scad.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
Navionics UK
XTRATUF

28/06/2025

🚨Full boat available this coming Tuesday 1st July. Full boat or 8 spaces 🚨
£75pp - 07:30 - Sovereign Harbour, Eastbourne.

26/06/2025

Best of luck to the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England Team 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

26/06/2025

25/06/2025

🔵 Today, Wednesday 25th June 🔵

A smash and grab weather window……
Not being out for the last few days due to the wind forecast, today saw a nice little 25hr break in play for us to get out for a look see.

It started well, and ended well, but it was a tad on the tough side. Drifting with the wind with tide saw my anglers find the rocks a couple of times.

Still some very respectable fish on deck.

PENN Fishing
Sidewinder Lures
Navionics UK
XTRATUF

25/06/2025

Bit of a delay to this mornings pick up time 😬

24/06/2025

🤯 Fun and games in the locks 🤪

The amount of times vessels get caught out (including me) by the direction of the wind when entering the marina locks is mind boggling.
If the wind is blowing from the east, the wind hits the wall of the lock and pushes you to the west - and vice versa. If you have to make a tight entry to the lock because there is limited space, or because someone can’t read the signs and doesn’t moor up considerately with anyone in their thoughts other then themselves (usually yachts) leaving limited space, that makes it all the more difficult. As soon as your bow goes in, your stern comes out.

Always tie your stern to the pontoons first.

🥵 I had to jump over the back of Deep Blue here to keep the yacht from bouncing off my engines.

I told the crew onboard this day to record this entry as I saw what was going to happen a mile off. Thanks Ange 👍🏻

Never a dull moment.

23/06/2025

🐬 Dolphins spotted last week 🐬

There were quite a decently sized pod of large bottlenose dolphins playing in the wake of the boat on our way to the reefs last week. I didn’t manage the best of footage as I was busy at the wheel.
Some of the dolphins were right behind the engines, almost touching distance away.