Recreational Boat Fishing Trips are organised by Robin Lane. Contact Robin on 0787 6471 901.
These trips are non-competitive and target various species when in season.
Week-End trips for 2025. Sun 25th May, Sun 27th Jul, Sun 24th Aug, Sat 13th Sept, Sun 5th Oct, Sat 18th Oct, Sat 6th Dec..
Mid-Week trips for 2025. Tues 10th Jun, Wed 25th Jun, Thurs 3rd Jul, Thurs 10th Jul, Thurs 7th Aug, Wed 24th Sept, Wed 5th Nov, Tues 11th Nov, Thurs 20th Nov, Tues 16th Nov,
6th Mid-Week Recreational Fishing Trip. Report sent in by Dave Price.
On Tuesday 10th June, 7 club members went on a recreational fishing trip out from Lymington aboard "Double Six" skippered by Ben Wood. The south-westerly wind seemed to be gusting slightly stronger than was predicted, so a decision was made to go out of the river and turn left to fish the Solent. We were able to find some calm and settled water in the lee of the Island along from Cowes and settled down to fish the remainder of the tide. The target fish were smooth-hounds and bream. We were soon into the smooth-hounds and the first smooth-hound to come did a fantastic job of knitting everyone's lines together as it approached the boat. The members continued to catch smooth-hounds, bream and dogfish.
As the tide turned, we made our way over to the Hants side of the Solent but really couldn't find a spot where the boat could settle properly due to a combination of the tide and the gusting wind, so returned to the shelter of the Island in Osbourne Bay. Here we discovered what must have been a bull huss nursery area, as we all started landing beautifully marked tiny bull huss.
We carried on catching smooth-hounds, bull-huss, doggies and bream and then for the rest of the day gradually moved further east trying marks along the edge of the Island ending up opposite Lee-on-Solent. At one point we were anchored up just outside the main navigation channel for Southampton Docks and were entertained by a huge container ship coming out of Southampton Water, turning round the bramble bank and then steaming past us on their way out to sea. We finished the day with a bumpy ride back into Lymington River. A good day out with the target species caught and the biggest smooth-hound being just over 6lb.