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12/09/2015
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
12 Sep 2015 by TERRY BATT
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Well guys, Nic and I are off tomorrow for a nice cruise for 12 days, a welcome rest after 5 years of being away from home and all our friends, and fishing buddies, working bloody hard in the Irish sea to come home with all our dreams fulfilled, and a cracking boat all paid for, house paid off and a little cash in the bank, I can tell you that we endured a lot of sleepless nights, worries ,and faced the unknown as we were entering into a field of work-boat operations we had never been involved it before, but Nicola had total faith in me, and I must admit rightly or wrongly, I don't suffer from self doubt,...!! happily it all turned out fine, and now we are back charter fishing, and that is what we have always enjoyed and couldn't wait to come back to, and we are so grateful to all our fishing parties that have welcomed us back, and are once again sailing with us.... Nicola and I cant thank you all enough.... and now we are taking a well earned break, but looking forward to getting back to it once we return.... so Tight lines to you all.. By the way....."I wear the trousers" just don,t tell Nic....
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11/09/2015
Fishing Report by Trevor Crawley
on Girl Mandy (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
11 Sep 2015 by Trevor Crawley
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Hi all, just to confirm we are now back on this site. The reason we left was the amount of withheld numbers or dropped calls and when we tried to ring back the phone would be switched off or on answer machine. Since going off site ( as such ) we found out who it was and this has now been dealt with. Many thanks for all our old clubs and some of our new members for being patient. our own website was still running but we had a intercept on the site which found and stopped us getting the nuisance calls and emails. Once again thank you for bearing with our problems, cheers Trev / Matt
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10/09/2015
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
10 Sep 2015 by TERRY BATT
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Just a quickie... Nicola and I will be away for the next two weeks, but wish all you anglers good fishing and calm seas...
tight lines.......... see you in 2 weeks.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! View Boats Page
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09/2015
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
Sep 2015 by Mark Peters
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Good news !! Cod are moving in already several codling most trips biggest so far 5lb plenty codling all over looking like its going to be a one of those memorable cod seasons. Still plenty rays around and incresing hounds are thining out now still few poping up. This month we will be looking for bass berfore they go for the winter some nice size fish around if we can get ther mixed bags at the moment Rays cod and bass take advantage of this while you can
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07/09/2015
Fishing Report by Phil White
on Chinook 3 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
7 Sep 2015 by Phil White
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Great news guys-Here come the cod !
The last few days have seen an influx of cod to all areas with a good showing of cracking fish between 4-5 lb. These fish are really early so should be our best season for a long time. Tight lines. View Boats Page
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07/09/2015
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
7 Sep 2015 by TERRY BATT
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We did it again…!!!!!
Monday 7/9/15
I had a group of anglers from Newmarket and they arrived on Vanishing Point-2 at 0730, we were all ready for them, so within a few minutes the ropes were cast off, and we were on our way once again to the prolific offshore mark that fished so well yesterday (although we couldn’t fish it for the first 2 hours yesterday due to conditions) but today we were determined to hit our mark 26 miles out from Bradwell for the first of the ebb..!!
Once we arrived on the mark, it was a little on the swelly side but no problem to our huge cat..!!! So once the anchor went down, lines were cast out, and within 2 minutes Mike had a lovely fish on, so quick in fact some of the others hadn’t even cast in..!!!! What…!!!!!!!!! They had a quid for the first fish, so that fish was null and void.
After about 6 or 7 minutes we had a double hook up, one fish 12 lbs, and another 9 lbs, and it just didn’t stop all day..!! I don’t know exactly how many Skate were caught today??? Somewhere between 55 and 60 really good fish, many around the 10 lbs mark I would say, they kept around 18 fish, and some of the larger dog fish, but returned a lot of fish to the water alive..!!! great fishing, by great fishermen, some for the table, and many returned to fight another day… well done chaps really good day, hope we see you all again soon.. View Boats Page
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06/09/2015
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
6 Sep 2015 by TERRY BATT
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What a day…!! Sunday 6th Sept,
We left Bradwell at 0700 and arrived 25 miles out in just on an hour, but due to a very brisk North West wind some 10 mph more than forecast, it was not fit to fish this mark, so we turned the boat around and headed closer in to the Gunfleet sands, where the water was much calmer, and we began to fish.
We hadn’t been there long and we started getting a few fish, doggies, and a few small Roker… but being a small tide, 5.1m there wasn’t much run on the tide, aaaargh !! I really wanted to be further offshore, but after a couple of hours the wind did ease off, and I took the decision to push back out to my original fishing mark, 6 miles South of our position, and I Am glad I did…!!
Once anchored up lines were cast and within 5 minutes we had two Roker hooked up, both double figure fish…!!! Just as I thought, the fish were thick on the ground, just a shame we couldn’t stop there for the first two hours of the ebb.
So… once we were off the blocks (so to speak) we then had a quadruple hook up, four good Roker on..!! And all my anglers were as happy as could be.
I had a very nice father and son team on today, Neil and son Harvey, such a polite young man, and a very quick learner too, Harvey caught some nice fish which included Thornback Rays to 9 lbs, and Smoothounds, and was casting his own rod like a Pro..!! well done son, you will be welcome any time on VP-2..!
My very good friends Ian and Elaine were on the boat today, lovely to see them again..!! and Ian had a secret weapon in his fishing arsenal.. a fish cent feeder, well Ian was fishing two rods, and the one with the feeder out fished the other rod 4 to 1.. pretty impressive I Must say.
Well the day just flew bye, and we stayed an hour longer as the weather was now settled and the sea was virtually flat calm, but it was time to hit the button for home, and although we caught around 30 Roker, we only kept around 7, so Nicola started to help the guys gut, and skin their fish.
A lovely day had by all, and we do it all again tomorrow, looking forward to it…!!
Tight lines everyone..!!! View Boats Page
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04/09/2015
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
4 Sep 2015 by TERRY BATT
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Lots of fish being caught offshore Roker to 12 lbs and still a good run of Smoothounds, but with the water temperature now dropping, the summer fish will start to leave, and we are already seeing some winter species we had a Codling yesterday, along with some Whiting,so all looking good...!!
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02/09/2015
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
2 Sep 2015 by TERRY BATT
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Well like Ray Martin, I would agree, Saturday was lovely weather for a change and yep, we also had non stop action on the boat, strange as it is Herring is certainly the bait for the Roker, and like Ray said, all we got on Ragworm were doggies, and a few Whiting, Bass seem to be more on the lug-worm at the moment, and squid also a good all-round bait, taking Bass, and Roker. Monday the boys called early at 0630 to see what the weather was doing? so I looked out by window as I live 200 mtrs from the river Crouch and told the organizer it was blowing about 12-15 mph NE and raining, and he decided to cancel, and I didn't argue with him because it certainly would not be a great fishing day, and I didn't want to be seen to be ripping the party off by forcing the issue about going.... But... 10 minutes later I get a call from the other half of the party who were already halfway to Bradwell.??? and were horrified to hear I (apparently) had cancelled it, well I quickly explained I merely told the trip organizer the weather conditions, and he decided no one wanted to go..!!! well the lads on their way did not want to be cancelled and were prepared to pay for the whole boat and bait, even thought they had £90. worth of worm bait already, but were dedicated fishermen and I love em for it, so enthusiastic so we meet on the boat at 0915, I would have gone at 0600,but once again the organizer told me the boys didn't want to go early, and told them it was me who preferred the later start ...huh.. I wanted to get up in the shallows for the first of the flood tide for the Bass, sadly that didn't happen, but we did head out for the Maplin sands and pushing against a hard flooding tide but still made 22 knots and was on our first spot in just under an hour, and after a very wet 20 minutes we got our first bite ... a hound around 12 lbs a nice start, then we got a few more fairly quickly, then with an Easterly wind and a big hard flooding tide both together we slipped anchor, so had to re-position the boat, and it was like throwing a light switch the fish were gone, weather the noise of the anchor dragging, lifting it and dropping it again, disturbed the fish??? but we didn't get another bite so I made a move not far, but far enough on a clean bit of ground, and eventually we started getting a few bites again, Hounds, Roker, Doggies, Whiting... then at the top of the tide around 1400 we went back over the top of the sands to try for some Bass, which was what the guys really w
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08/2015
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Aug 2015 by Scott Belbin
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August has been a good month to us although it may have been wet and windy at times we have managed to get out and as ever the fishing has been great. Our inshore trips have produced a nice variety of fish with many winter species such as cod and whiting showing already which is a good sign for the coming season. We have had a few tub gurnard mixed in which have been showing more frequently over the last 12 months than they have for several years. The smooth-hounds have been here all along and we had another run of big fish as is traditional around this time of year for us. We had several good trips and saw plenty of double figure fish. However one evening trip stands out as the best trip for them. As we had a couple of late arrivals and due to tides and having to steam a fair distance we could only manage just over 3.5hrs fishing as it was just a 7 hour trip but luckily it was a busy 3.5 hours. Things started slowly with one or two hounds coming aboard or being lost. As the tide started running it went with two or three big hounds coming in at a time. These fish fight well enough anyway but in the shallow waters around here I would say they are unbeatable very often jumping, rolling on the surface and dragging our anglers on a lap of the boat. The best fish of the evening fell to hiroshi just as darkness fell. It was clearly a decent fish with a lot of weight behind it and after the obligatory lap of honour around the boat she gave me a shot with the net. Once in the boat and photographed we weighed her in at 23.5lbs which was not only a PB for Hiroshi but for the boat too. needless to say we were all pleased for him. We had several more fish before heading home for the night. I couldn’t tell you an exact number of what we had but I stopped marking them down at over 40 and I know we had several more after that so with at least 50 decent hounds for the night along with the odd small bass and whiting it had been good.
On the offshore trips we’ve been concentrating on bass which haven’t been bad although maybe not as good as previous years. We have always found a few fish and some nice ones too. these too fight very well in the shallow clear water where they can be caught on nice light gear too. sizes vary from trip to trip but most have been 2-5lbs so far.
As I mentioned earlier there have been the odd codling showing for a while now and they are pushing closer in shore too. they could well show up in numbers on one of the next sets of tides as they move in for the autumn run along with the rays.
Over the next month we should see a mixed bag as the summer species and winter species overlap for a while. Anything could be on the cards and most will show on squid bait although worm can help for some species. For more information, available dates and weekly updates please visit my website www.essexseafishing.co.uk or call 07956411528 View Boats Page
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