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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

So,with no interest shown for a 6hr trip on Saturday 13th June,those booked on cancelled their booking which now frees u...
07/06/2026

So,with no interest shown for a 6hr trip on Saturday 13th June,those booked on cancelled their booking which now frees up this date for an ihr trip or 4hrs or any other trip for that matter.....
Same rule applies though; I need a minimum of 5 or cost equivalent to run a trip
Please contact me to book
Tight lines
Dominic

So the mackerel continue to be thin on the ground but the pollack fishing under the cliffs is better than it has been fo...
04/06/2026

So the mackerel continue to be thin on the ground but the pollack fishing under the cliffs is better than it has been for a few years! Averaging 50-60 fish a trip upto 5lb....
Here are the availability dates upto the middle of June:
8&9....10 spaces
11....4 spaces
12...8 spaces
13...8 spaces
14....5 spaces
15-19....10 spaces
20...8 spacez
21....7 spaces

Dates with 10 spaces are "empty" days, effectively no booking, so any format of trip can run

Please contact me to book
Tightlines
Dominic

A few people have asked for an update on whether this weekends fishing trips are running... Here's xcweather wind predic...
03/06/2026

A few people have asked for an update on whether this weekends fishing trips are running... Here's xcweather wind predictions and it shows (currently) that the wind is far too strong to sail... I will be putting up availability for June in the next couple of days and other information relating to the trips I will be running....

So yesterday was a first for me... Twice round ailsa Craig, the portion of an old volcano that remains in the Clyde estu...
01/06/2026

So yesterday was a first for me... Twice round ailsa Craig, the portion of an old volcano that remains in the Clyde estuary some 8.8miles due west of girvan.
It was absolutely stunning, the seals, the gannetry on the north face, about 400 gannets in the air that we got feeding and diving at the side of the boat, about 30 puffins, the strange domed foghorns of an era long gone and the quarries where they harvest the granite for curling stones...

So, we've been out every day for the past 5 days and apart from 1 mackerel yesterday, they have disappeared!! Huss, spur...
29/05/2026

So, we've been out every day for the past 5 days and apart from 1 mackerel yesterday, they have disappeared!! Huss, spurs and tope are yet to show on the offshore banks, though it's early for the tope. Inshore there are a lot of Huss upto 4lb feeding on squid(if you have it!) and plenty of pollack with the best going 5lb...the pollack are preferring bait(especially ragworm) or sandeel but are taking artificials to limited success.... Unless you have any ebbrox eels which (in any colour) are proving deadly.
Attached is a photo for clarification.
We have also caught a scallop!!??, several octopuses and are upto 12 species of fish landed

Dates for the diary.... Here's the availability upto 9th june:1,2,3...any trip available4...morning only available5...an...
24/05/2026

Dates for the diary.... Here's the availability upto 9th june:
1,2,3...any trip available
4...morning only available
5...any trip available
8,9...any trip available

Any trip available means I have no bookings for that date...

Trips available are 4,6,8hr fishing
1&2hr nature and scenic trips

Please contact me to book on
Tel 07739231331

Tight lines....

Current availability for last part of may and early June:May:23rd....6 spaces...8hrs24th...5 spaces ..6hrs... sailing 7a...
19/05/2026

Current availability for last part of may and early June:
May:
23rd....6 spaces...8hrs
24th...5 spaces ..6hrs... sailing 7am
24th...6 spaces...4hrs....sailing 1pm
27th...3 spaces...8hrs
28th ..4 spaces...8hrs
29th...free day...any trip can run

June:
1,2,3,4,5....free day...any trip can run
6th.... provisionally 8hr day...9 spaces
8,9,10....free day....any trip can run

Please contact me to book
Tight lines,big fish

Dominic

The numbers of mackerel are steadily increasing,as is the size of them and they are joined by some super size sandeels! ...
18/05/2026

The numbers of mackerel are steadily increasing,as is the size of them and they are joined by some super size sandeels! Pollack are showing in the weeds upto 4 lb but the big huss and spurs are not yet here.....
This week's weather uptil Friday night looks atrocious with south westerly winds....
The trips over the weekend are hopefully going to sail:
23rd may...8hrs....6spaces sailing 9-5
24th may...6hrs...5spaces sailing 7am
24th may....4hrs...6spaces sailing 1pm
Please contact me to book

Jack is pictured with a 2.5lb mackerel and a slightly smaller one taken off Logan head on Saturdays ebb tide

Hi folks,here's the free dates in May for Fishing.Also running scenic and nature watching trips....Mackerel showing on e...
11/05/2026

Hi folks,here's the free dates in May for Fishing.
Also running scenic and nature watching trips....
Mackerel showing on every tide with herring and sandeels mixed in but nothing of any size showing yet apart from Pollack to 6lb in the weeds
Dates in may:
14th....10 spaces
15th....5 spaces
17th...3 spaces
18th...10 spaces
19th... available until 12 noon
20th... available from 2pm
21st...10 spaces
22nd... available upto 12noon and from 3pm
23rd....6 spaces
24th...10 spaces
29th....10 spaces

3hr fishing is only on a private charter basis
10 spaces indicate a day free of bookings(currently)

Please contact me to book
Cheers Dominic

So,for you guys that have fished with me recently and looked up and seen the rock climbers....here's the climbers lookin...
07/05/2026

So,for you guys that have fished with me recently and looked up and seen the rock climbers....here's the climbers looking down at you!!!!

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