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Dawn Venture is an Ocean Ranger Aquastar 38ft long, powered by 2 x Cummings 315hp turbo engines,fully coded commercially offering various types of fishing, film crew work, scenic trips, photographic trips and other commercial contracts, licensed for 12

31/10/2026

All the forecasts were showing something different....so we sailed!
Big tide,wind against tide but not too choppy and we managed to find mackerel of all shapes and sizes! 60 in all plus 30 horse mackerel and a sprinkling of gurnards and pouting.
Tides were too big to fish offshore and so we targeted a couple of inshore reefs.. managed 1 tope at 46lb,3 runs missed and some doggies.
Inshore Pollack fishing only produced one decent 4lb fish....the rest were all under 2lb.
3baskets of mackerel shown,all with different contents and the solo tope.....let's see what tomorrow brings before my operation at Edinburgh on Monday(0700hrs admission)

30/10/2026

*****late notice cancellation******

5 spaces have become available for tomorrow for 8hrs fishing sailing at 9am

Please ring / whatsapp to book
Tel 07739231331

Cheers
Dominic

26/10/2026

Due to a cancellation on medical grounds, I now have 7 spaces available for Saturday 31st October sailing 9am weather permitting!
Tackle hire available
Please contact me to book
Tel 07739231331
Cheers Dominic

24/10/2026

Were getting hammered by Boelo... 2m of swell in the inner harbour

23/10/2026

That's the storm mooring/off-haul attached and made visible with buoys.... Let's see how far off the wall it pulls me out, especially with big spring tides coming!

20/10/2026

So,thankfully,another day at sea in the last embers of the season before shutting down on the evening of the 1st November....
The weather didn't play ball,the rain was relentless,the wind didn't ease as it should've but we caught fish.... mackerel continue to dwindle even though the sea has the clarity of gin! We managed a dozen. Charlie missed 4 screaming tope runs,Ian landed one at 38lb,Vinny hooked and lost a skate and another was missed...3 spurdogs at 4-6lb were landed,Charlie caught the 4th(!) streaked gurnards of the year and there was a sprinkling of huss and doggies
Yesterday,Andy caught the 2nd squid of the year!

18/10/2026

So we finally put to sea after a week tied up due to high winds.... mackerel were scarce,perhaps only 15 minis,tope were even more scarce with a complete no show,not even any runs! Lots of gurnards and quite a few Pollack in the weeds upto 3lb. 2 nice huss landed as well with best one at 12lb
Please note:
Due to upcoming surgery and follow on recovery and consistently poor weather,the boat is shutting down from the evening of the 1st November until Easter 2027 except for the 2weeks around Xmas and new year

11/10/2026

So another weather window today... mackerel were present in sufficient numbers and we managed to land 4 tope at 2anchorages close in (31,21,29&37lb).I also know from speaking to Ian burret today who was at sea off Port Logan today that they landed at least 14 tope(across 2boats),one of which was pushing 60lb and at least 8 runs missed.....
We also landed a 10lb Pollack today

Next available date(5 spaces)...18/10/26

Spaces also available 21,22,23,30&31oct

Catch the tope before they disappear with the mackerel...

Tel: 07739231331

09/10/2026

So Gail won the golden ticket for tope for 2026 for catching the first to beat the boat record (which was 56lb) with a fine specimen of 58lb caught from an inshore reef near Port Logan on a live mackerel
Well done Bee Gailzee!!
Here's your online presentation.... I ll physically present it when you're next down!
Cheers Dominic

07/10/2026

So we got another day afloat yesterday in between storms... We managed to get enough fresh mackerel to fish with and we found the pack tope were on the feed.... Another 5 today and 6 missed... Tope were both inshore and offshore with the biggest at 40lb coming from the inshore reef. The smaller tope (20-30lb) are on the offshore banks in greater numbers.
The inshore pollack fishing under the cliffs produce some(but few) fish with the best at 3.5lb...I think it needs to settle under the cliffs in the shallow water to get the better ones back on the feed.
Tony's Huss weighed 17lb....biggest of the year! The biggest Huss on Saturday was 16lb so it would seem right to assume that the bigger Huss are moving in? The better sharks appear to be getting later and later every year now?
There is availability in October and early November that we could utilise before, I feel, the winter winds shut me down til easter.
October dates:
12-16 inc
18,19
26,30,31
November :
1-12
Please contact me to book... Minimum of 5 or cost equivalent to run a trip
Private charters are available

Address

Stranraer
DG98AN

Website

http://www.optimistcharters.co.uk/

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