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11/2015
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Nov 2015 by Scott Belbin
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Sorry my November report is a little late but although we may not have been quite as busy afloat the last few weeks due to the weather I have still been rushed off my feet on the shore in between our trips. As you may have gathered the cod fishing has slowed down a bit inshore and the weather hasn’t allowed us to get offshore much lately either. This hasn’t stopped us getting out though and as usual the blackwater estuary has kept us busy and provided plenty of shelter along with a good days fishing. Personally I like the mild weather, it usually helps most of our fish hang around a bit and at the moment its keeping the dogfish and thorn-backs around in good numbers. I think as is often the case there will be several factors in the cod catches dropping off. I think the main one will be the large numbers of bait fish that have arrived. There’s certainly lots of herring there and maybe one of two sprats. On the last trip they looked well spread out and broken up but this is to be expected after the wind we’ve had over the last few weeks. as I mentioned this hasn’t stopped us getting out even in some of the worst winds. One note able weekend was when we were joined by the lads from the England boat team. The weekend had been organised by Rolf it and being fairly local himself was keen to show off the sheltered fishing we had on offer. This weekend turned out to be perfect for us as we wouldn’t have got anywhere else but the estuary. The lads had been split up in to two teams, on day 1 one would team fish on my boat and the other on dads on day 2 half of each team would swap boats. Day one was wet and windy but we got to where we wanted to fish and had lots of fish aboard the boats. With the points system the lads were using numbers was the key and we weren’t disappointed with plenty of treble shots of whiting, dogfish codling and the odd ray. Day two was dry but very windy so we ended up seeking shelter even further up the blackwater. The whiting didn’t let us down and we saw several dogfish, a few dabs and thorn-backs along with a tub gurnard. As the tide got up there was no respite from the strong winds but the lads fished on and were rewarded with more treble shots of fish. after the weekend the feedback from the lads was good and I hope we did our area justice in some undesirable conditions. It was really interesting for myself and dad to see how the lads fished and we may have picked up some different methods along the way.
Over the coming weeks I have a few spaces available on either offshore or general trips and I am obviously taking bookings for next year too. the numbers of cod may have dipped but they are still a good stamp and if we can find them the rays are filling the gap a bit. last trip we had 17 and 3 cod along with plenty of whiting and dogfish.
For more information, weekly updates and available dates please visit www.essexseafishing.co.uk or phone 07956411528 in the mean time have a good Christmas.
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13/12/2015
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
13 Dec 2015 by jon old
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Bringing us up to date to the weekend of December 12/13th 2015, have put up with really blowy conditions last couple of weeks enough to test patience of a saint. Have managed a few trips inbetween keeping us inshore hugging the beach just to get fishing. Even though we have been plagued with whiting few good keepers among them with anglers kept busy all day, it is the cod people want to catch and unfortunately apart from the whiting knicking the baits the odd few cod about are not getting a look in. The main factor in all this is the temperature is so high for our seasonal average being so warm with our sea temperature round about 11 degrees still i fear too warm for our cold loving cod to appear in numbers yet. Today Sunday 13th was first opportunity with little wind to head out to deeper water fished in around 70- 90 ft off one of our banks which tails off to 130ft good cod mark in the past for us, today was good flatty mark! Apart from the whiting nothing else but few decent flatties no cod for us didnt hear any other boats with cod either. Tried a few other marks during the day and ended up for last hour right inside for more of the same. Wasnt a fantastic day fish wise but most enjoyable glad we tried off a bit hoping for our weather to become winter a bit! Big thanks to everyone Barry and his crew, two newbies on the Flyer from London Alex and Siergy, regular Dave Jones pressganged for a photo for today! Good lot of banter as usual, appreciate my xmas present still wearing them! Looking forward to next trip pray for cold weather everyone. Cheers . Jon (High Flyer)
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13/12/2015
Fishing Report by david jones
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
13 Dec 2015 by david jones
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Tough old day again Jon .we did some distance but still the cod are eluding us, Good size flatties won the day .whiting still in abundance need a few weeks of cold weather to bring them cod in .Good day plenty of banter lots of tea and choccy bars,don't think we can try any harder. Thanks to Barry and his crew for saving me a space.see you soon.
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07/12/2015
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
7 Dec 2015 by TERRY BATT
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After what seems like forever, storm after storm...!!! it looks as if we may get out tomorrow??.
Not sure what we are going to find, as we were out on Friday and it was blowing 36 mph SW conditions far from good, there was a few of us out there mostly Cats I must say, myself and John Rawle from our port Bradwell, and in the distance I could see a couple of white cats from the river Crouch I think, Hard Labour (Carl, or Shane,) at the helm, hope they did better than we did..??not sure who the other one was, I was too far away..
At the time of writing this, BBC breakfast news and weather is on, and it don't look good from Wednesday onward, so I am not expecting to get many trips in this week again...Arrgh..!!
I do sometimes get customers ask..." why are you cancelling? I thought you boat could handle the weather??"
Well the short answer is... yes the boat can take the weather, as can we, and we have worked in seas up to 3 meters in the Irish sea, but I don't think you would be happy trying to fish in those conditions, so like all responsible skippers even those with big Catamarans vessels we only have your best interest at heart, and not seen as just trying to extract cash out of you what ever the weather..!!
OK Guys n gals, that's it for now.if we do manage our trip tomorrow I will let you know how we got on..
photo of target species... Tight lines..!!
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12/2015
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
Dec 2015 by Mark Peters
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Well When we get out we are finding some nice fish to 10lb when the gaps in the winds let us
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29/11/2015
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
29 Nov 2015 by jon old
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Bringing us up to date to weekend of 28th/29th Nov, extremely windy conditions gusts of 54mph but fortunately for us the wind being west we could get out. Sat proved bit rainey at times reasonably testing no cod today plenty of whiting some lovely keepers among them, everyone hauling in at times they are a nuisance but least everyones busy! Couple of flatties as well but whiting non stop all day.Thanks to Paul and his team for the day was good to meet you boys finally, as for Sunday much the same, only one codling caught by yours truly enjoyed the ribbing i dished out to poor lads, everyone caught plenty whiting all day again. Picture today of Cambell with cracking whiting of 44cm around 2,5 pounds lovely to see shame not more of them. Big thanks to Cambell for organising the lads was an enjoyable day all round headed home as winds gusted 40mph plus at 4 o clock least we got the day in. Was the only boat out on Sat place to ourselves and today accompanied by 2 other Gt Yarmouth charter boats no one else came out ! Thanks to everyone from the weekend despite the wind, looking forward to when these cod come in properly hopefully soon, until then tight lines from the High Flyer. Jon.
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28/11/2015
Fishing Report by paul smith
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
28 Nov 2015 by paul smith
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went out with jon today we all had a great day dispite the cod not showing but jon never gave up trying .but plenty of sizeable whiting and dabs .It was a pleasure to go out with him Plenty of tea/coffee and snacks and a good bit of banter to . will book again soon thanks again jon
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23/11/2015
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
23 Nov 2015 by brian poppy
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Had a go today off the roads plenty of Whiting to keep us busy plus 2 nice Rooker best coming in at a bit under 6lb,no Cod showing on this mark wanted to get out to the Newcomb Bank but there was to much swell i am sure there will be some good Cod there when the conditions are good enough for us to go.
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23/11/2015
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
23 Nov 2015 by brian poppy
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Had a go today off the roads plenty of Whiting to keep us busy plus 2 nice Rooker best coming in at a bit under 6lb,no Cod showing on this mark wanted to get out to the Newcomb Bank but there was to much swell i am sure there will be some good Cod there when the conditions are good enough for us to go.
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23/11/2015
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
23 Nov 2015 by brian poppy
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Had a go today off the roads plenty of Whiting to keep us busy plus 2 nice Rooker best coming in at a bit under 6lb,no Cod showing on this mark wanted to get out to the Newcomb Bank but there was to much swell i am sure there will be some good Cod there when the conditions are good enough for us to go.
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