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Baywater Anglers Latest Schedule
Just a reminder that our new club year started on the 1st January, 2026 so club subs became due then. If you would like to rejoin and I very much hope that you do you can pay subscriptions into the club account directly by BACS transfer. Name of (Nationwide) Account = MR ML GREEN, Sort Code = 07-12-26, Account Number = 01970399. If you do, could you also please email me so that I can put the subscription onto the club accounts. You will also see that, for the first time since the club was founded in 1998, we have had to put the subscriptions up (agreed at Prize Presentation). We are still cheaper than other clubs in the bay and, if we are candid, I think we do a lot more than most.
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Upcoming Boat Trips General Information & Days Booked
Pick up: 8.00 am 4.30 pm (Please be there by 7.45 am latest), Venue: Pick up at Kingswear on passenger ferry pontoon, Event: Fishing on African Queen (Various), Cost: £60.00, Loan Tackle available upon request, bring your own bait.
Sunday, 26th July 2026, Reefing Please note change of date.
Sunday, 9th August 2026, Reefing
Sunday, 6th September 2026, Skerries/Reefing (half a day on each)
Sunday, 18th October 2026, Reefing
Sunday, 1st November 2026, Reefing
Sunday, 6th December 2026, Reefing (Reserve 13th December)
It would be lovely if as many people as possible come out on our boat trips. They can be great fun but we need at least seven people to cover the cost of the boat. Any surplus goes into club funds to help cover days when we are a few people short. Unfortunately, we ran at a small loss last year, which, with your support, I would prefer to avoid this year. In regard to the fishing, if the chosen focus is not doing as well as expected on the day, we will try something else. I have spoken to Alan about, on a couple of the days, having a half day on the reefs, and if they are not fishing well, heading out to a wreck.
PLEASE NOTE: The night before the trip, contact me on 07704 602180 to see if it is able, because of the weather, to go ahead. After 7.00 pm, when the weather has updated, is best.
Sunday, 28th June, 2026 Time: 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm, Venue: Stoke Gabriel Mill Pond, Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors, High Tide: 6.03 pm, Height: 4.3 m. Training Focus: Float fishing and spinning for grey mullet.
There should be some thick-lipped grey mullet around as well as bass and thin-lipped grey mullet. Ragworms best for thin-lipped grey mullet and bass with bread on light or bubble floats for the thick-lipped grey mullet.
Pick up: 8.00 am 4.30 pm (Please be there by 7.45 am latest), Venue: Pick up at Kingswear on passenger ferry pontoon, Event: Fishing on African Queen (Various), Cost: £60.00, Loan Tackle available upon request, bring your own bait.
Sunday, 26th July 2026, Reefing Please note change of date.
Sunday, 9th August 2026, Reefing
Sunday, 6th September 2026, Skerries/Reefing (half a day on each)
Sunday, 18th October 2026, Reefing
Sunday, 1st November 2026, Reefing
Sunday, 6th December 2026, Reefing (Reserve 13th December)
It would be lovely if as many people as possible come out on our boat trips. They can be great fun but we need at least seven people to cover the cost of the boat. Any surplus goes into club funds to help cover days when we are a few people short. Unfortunately, we ran at a small loss last year, which, with your support, I would prefer to avoid this year. In regard to the fishing, if the chosen focus is not doing as well as expected on the day, we will try something else. I have spoken to Alan about, on a couple of the days, having a half day on the reefs, and if they are not fishing well, heading out to a wreck.
PLEASE NOTE: The night before the trip, contact me on 07704 602180 to see if it is able, because of the weather, to go ahead. After 7.00 pm, when the weather has updated, is best.
Sunday, 28th June, 2026 Time: 3.30 pm to 7.30 pm, Venue: Stoke Gabriel Mill Pond, Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors, High Tide: 6.03 pm, Height: 4.3 m. Training Focus: Float fishing and spinning for grey mullet.
There should be some thick-lipped grey mullet around as well as bass and thin-lipped grey mullet. Ragworms best for thin-lipped grey mullet and bass with bread on light or bubble floats for the thick-lipped grey mullet.
Saturday, 11th July 2026, Time: 1.00 pm to 6.00 pm, Venue: Brixham Breakwater, Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors High Tide: 3.54 pm, Height: 4.1 m. Training Focus: Float Fishing
The tides are pretty awful this weekend with this one being not quite as bad as the others. However, I thought that it might be worthwhile having a look to see if there are any mackerel around, not to mention the possibility of a reasonable garfish. For mackerel, stick to mackerel strips while ragworms probably best on the LRF gear.
Sunday, 19th July 2026, Time: 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, Venue: Freshwater Cove Car Park Event: Social Competition for adults and juniors, High Tide: 10.42 am, Height: 4.5 m. Entrance Fee: £3.00 Best Specimen Fish
The tides are quite good this weekend so I wondered if there might be any bigger fish around. I also thought that it might be fun to turn it into a little friendly competition. Simple rules: 1 rod, no more than 2 hooks. Treble hooks banned.
Sunday, 26th July 2026 Time: 8.00 am 4.30 pm, Venue: Pick up at Kingswear, Event: Boat trip - Reef fishing - for adults and juniors, Cost £60.00. Please confirm your booking to me ASAP.
It is a small tide - perfect for the reefs so we are going to have a go for some bigger fish, like spurdogs, smoothhounds, bull huss, etc. You will need to bring along your own peeler crabs, squid, mackerel or blueys etc, depending on what you fancy trying out. For tackle keep it simple a running leger with short, 60 lbs trace is as good as anything for bigger fish or paternoster tackle for smaller species. However, if the reefs end up not being productive, we will try something else. It might end up with half a day on the reefs and half on the Skerries though, if the reefs are doing well, I suspect we will probably stick at that.
Sunday, 2nd August 2026 Time: 6.00 pm to 9.30 pm, Venue: Steamer Quay Event: Social Competition for adults and juniors, High Tide: 9.29 pm, Height: 4.6 m. Entrance Fee: £3.00 Most Number of Points (1 point less than sizeable fish, 10 points sizeable fish, 25 points specimen fish).
Sunday, 9th August 2026 Time: 8.00 am 4.30 pm Venue: Pick up at Kingswear Event: Boat trip - Reef fishing - for adults and juniors, Cost £60.00.
It is a small tide - perfect for the reefs so we are going to have a go for some bigger fish, like spurdogs, smoothhounds, bull huss, which should be at their biggest weight for the year, etc. You will need to bring along your own peeler crabs, squid, mackerel or blueys etc, depending on what you fancy trying out. For tackle keep it simple a running leger with short, 60 lbs trace is as good as anything or paternoster tackle for smaller species. Hopefully, there should be some black bream showing up now too, which are good fun on paternoster tackle.
Sunday, 16th August 2026 Time: 6.00 pm to 9.30 pm, Venue: Goodrington Promenade, Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors, High Tide: 9.39 pm, Height: 4.9 m. Training Focus: LRF and Float Fishing.
I thought that we could have a go with float rods and LRF tackle, just to see whats around. There might be some mackerel around as well as wrasse, pollack and mini species such as blennies, corkwings, topknots and gobies etc. Ragworm probably best on LRF tackle and mackerel strips probably best on float.
Sunday, 23rd August 2026 Time: 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m., Venue: Brixham Breakwater Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors High Tide: 3.11 pm, Height: 3.6 m. Training Focus: LRF and Float Fishing
The tides are pretty neaps this weekend but I thought that it might be worthwhile having a look to see if there are any mackerel around, not to mention the possibility of wrasse, scad or a garfish. For mackerel, stick to mackerel strips while ragworms probably best on the LRF gear.
Sunday, 30th August 2026 Time: 5.00 p.m. 9.00 p.m., Venue: Steamer Quay, Totnes Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors High Tide: 8.38 p.m., Height: 4.8 m. Training Focus: Legering.
Hopefully there should be some bass, mullet, silver eels - which need to be returned please and, possibly, some gilthead bream around. I have been watching the way in which they have infiltrated our local rivers and, I suspect, I dont know for sure, that there is a chance that they have come this far up the Dart too. For tackle, I personally use the lightest that I can get away with.
Sunday, 6th September 2026 Time: 8.00 am 4.30 pm Venue: Pick up at Kingswear Event: Boat trip - Reef fishing - for adults and juniors, Cost £60.00.
It is a small tide - perfect for the reefs so we are going to have a go for some bigger fish, like spurdogs, smoothhounds, bull huss, which should be at their biggest weight for the year, etc. You will need to bring along your own peeler crabs, squid, mackerel or blueys etc, depending on what you fancy trying out. For tackle keep it simple a running leger with short, 60 lbs trace is as good as anything or paternoster tackle for smaller species. Hopefully, there should be some black bream showing up now too, which are good fun on paternoster tackle.
Sunday, 13th September, 2026, Time: 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm, Venue: Teignmouth, Point Car Park or Back Beach, Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors, High Tide: 8.34 pm, Height: 5.1 m. Training Focus: Legering for Bass or Float Fishing
The tides are really good this weekend so I thought, now that the holiday season is mostly over, that it might be worthwhile having a look to see if there were any bass on the Back Beach or bass and smoothhounds on the Point Car Park.
Look after yourselves!
Martyn Green
The tides are pretty awful this weekend with this one being not quite as bad as the others. However, I thought that it might be worthwhile having a look to see if there are any mackerel around, not to mention the possibility of a reasonable garfish. For mackerel, stick to mackerel strips while ragworms probably best on the LRF gear.
Sunday, 19th July 2026, Time: 9.00 am to 1.00 pm, Venue: Freshwater Cove Car Park Event: Social Competition for adults and juniors, High Tide: 10.42 am, Height: 4.5 m. Entrance Fee: £3.00 Best Specimen Fish
The tides are quite good this weekend so I wondered if there might be any bigger fish around. I also thought that it might be fun to turn it into a little friendly competition. Simple rules: 1 rod, no more than 2 hooks. Treble hooks banned.
Sunday, 26th July 2026 Time: 8.00 am 4.30 pm, Venue: Pick up at Kingswear, Event: Boat trip - Reef fishing - for adults and juniors, Cost £60.00. Please confirm your booking to me ASAP.
It is a small tide - perfect for the reefs so we are going to have a go for some bigger fish, like spurdogs, smoothhounds, bull huss, etc. You will need to bring along your own peeler crabs, squid, mackerel or blueys etc, depending on what you fancy trying out. For tackle keep it simple a running leger with short, 60 lbs trace is as good as anything for bigger fish or paternoster tackle for smaller species. However, if the reefs end up not being productive, we will try something else. It might end up with half a day on the reefs and half on the Skerries though, if the reefs are doing well, I suspect we will probably stick at that.
Sunday, 2nd August 2026 Time: 6.00 pm to 9.30 pm, Venue: Steamer Quay Event: Social Competition for adults and juniors, High Tide: 9.29 pm, Height: 4.6 m. Entrance Fee: £3.00 Most Number of Points (1 point less than sizeable fish, 10 points sizeable fish, 25 points specimen fish).
Sunday, 9th August 2026 Time: 8.00 am 4.30 pm Venue: Pick up at Kingswear Event: Boat trip - Reef fishing - for adults and juniors, Cost £60.00.
It is a small tide - perfect for the reefs so we are going to have a go for some bigger fish, like spurdogs, smoothhounds, bull huss, which should be at their biggest weight for the year, etc. You will need to bring along your own peeler crabs, squid, mackerel or blueys etc, depending on what you fancy trying out. For tackle keep it simple a running leger with short, 60 lbs trace is as good as anything or paternoster tackle for smaller species. Hopefully, there should be some black bream showing up now too, which are good fun on paternoster tackle.
Sunday, 16th August 2026 Time: 6.00 pm to 9.30 pm, Venue: Goodrington Promenade, Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors, High Tide: 9.39 pm, Height: 4.9 m. Training Focus: LRF and Float Fishing.
I thought that we could have a go with float rods and LRF tackle, just to see whats around. There might be some mackerel around as well as wrasse, pollack and mini species such as blennies, corkwings, topknots and gobies etc. Ragworm probably best on LRF tackle and mackerel strips probably best on float.
Sunday, 23rd August 2026 Time: 1.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m., Venue: Brixham Breakwater Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors High Tide: 3.11 pm, Height: 3.6 m. Training Focus: LRF and Float Fishing
The tides are pretty neaps this weekend but I thought that it might be worthwhile having a look to see if there are any mackerel around, not to mention the possibility of wrasse, scad or a garfish. For mackerel, stick to mackerel strips while ragworms probably best on the LRF gear.
Sunday, 30th August 2026 Time: 5.00 p.m. 9.00 p.m., Venue: Steamer Quay, Totnes Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors High Tide: 8.38 p.m., Height: 4.8 m. Training Focus: Legering.
Hopefully there should be some bass, mullet, silver eels - which need to be returned please and, possibly, some gilthead bream around. I have been watching the way in which they have infiltrated our local rivers and, I suspect, I dont know for sure, that there is a chance that they have come this far up the Dart too. For tackle, I personally use the lightest that I can get away with.
Sunday, 6th September 2026 Time: 8.00 am 4.30 pm Venue: Pick up at Kingswear Event: Boat trip - Reef fishing - for adults and juniors, Cost £60.00.
It is a small tide - perfect for the reefs so we are going to have a go for some bigger fish, like spurdogs, smoothhounds, bull huss, which should be at their biggest weight for the year, etc. You will need to bring along your own peeler crabs, squid, mackerel or blueys etc, depending on what you fancy trying out. For tackle keep it simple a running leger with short, 60 lbs trace is as good as anything or paternoster tackle for smaller species. Hopefully, there should be some black bream showing up now too, which are good fun on paternoster tackle.
Sunday, 13th September, 2026, Time: 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm, Venue: Teignmouth, Point Car Park or Back Beach, Event: Social fish and teach-in for adults and juniors, High Tide: 8.34 pm, Height: 5.1 m. Training Focus: Legering for Bass or Float Fishing
The tides are really good this weekend so I thought, now that the holiday season is mostly over, that it might be worthwhile having a look to see if there were any bass on the Back Beach or bass and smoothhounds on the Point Car Park.
Look after yourselves!
Martyn Green
Please Note:
I have to pay this by Friday 26th June so, if anyone needs to pay their balance, could they please do so as soon as possible.
I have to pay this by Friday 26th June so, if anyone needs to pay their balance, could they please do so as soon as possible.