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04/10/2014
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
4 Oct 2014 by jon old
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Been a bit slack on the reports lately due to being out the water for winter refit now all done, plus last few trips not fantastic as in between summer/winter period so catching a few skate and doggies but also small winter codling and whiting making a show. Plenty of fish really bit on the small side but keeping the anglers busy better than nothing! Report covers weekend of 4/5th with Sat being very lumpy, strong southerly whipping the sea up, fishing wasnt too bad with Stephen pictured here with 3 nice skate, about dozen smoothies same for spotty dogs and whiting most of the day. Had to run for home early day at 2.30pm as sea turned bit nasty time to call it a day.
Totally different Sunday no wind, flat as your hat pleasure to be out, got let down by 6 anglers thanks lads its only my living, rest of us had cracking day weather wise no skate today unfortunately not sure why?. The whiting were on the bite all day practically, kept a few for the table , had about 20 smoothies all released back nice to see well done, about dozen spotty dogs as well all put back , big thanks to first timers Bob, Tia and Scott on High Flyer and regular Chris, many thanks for washing down. Good weekend in all thanks to everyone, looking forward to these codling coming in soon, need a few frosts! Please note as we are constantly getting let down we are now insisting on using our £20 per head deposit system to cure the problem, sorry to all those reliable ,dependable people out there. Cheers, Jon. High Flyer.
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10/2014
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Oct 2014 by Scott Belbin
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Im sure you don’t need me to tell you that autumn is here now even if summer does keep showing its face on the odd day.we can have some great autumnal fishing around essex for a variety of fish with cod and thornback rays our main target. The fishing this year looks promising with good numbers of early codling showing at the moment. To be honest in some places they didn’t seem to go away all summer and we have just watched them grow. Inshore most fish are 8-18 inches long with the average fish around 15-16 inches. These are a bit small to keep right now but another few weeks and we should have some great sport. Although its not too bad right now with good numbers about. On a short evening trip in the estuary we had a dozen last week. Not bad less than 3 hours fishing. Further off the bigger fish have just started to show in numbers and this set of tides is likely to push more of them up. The thornback rays have been in good numbers through September and into October. Most fish are 4-8lbs at the moment and the stamp of these is likely to go up in the coming weeks. Some trips have seen over 30 rays amongst the odd dogfish or two.
There are still a few bass and smooth-hounds kicking about as the left overs of our summer. These fish can pop up as late as December as a nice addition to the catch. Over the coming weeks we will be targeting some mixed bags of cod and rays both inshore and further afield. This time of year can be one of the best for a decent cod and things look good so far. Pictured is john with one of the best so far at 8.12lbs. i wouldn’t expect one every cast but they are definitely out there and to a much greater size too. i update my website very regularly with dates and reports. so for more information, available dates and reports please visit www.essexseafishing.co.uk or follow us on facebook on the essexseafishing page. or call on 07956411528 View Boats Page
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03/10/2014
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
3 Oct 2014 by Mark Peters
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October 2014
The codling have started seeing them most trips now up to 5lb plenty roker about and the odd nice size bass too most trips for more pictures reports and dates see my web www.dawntidecharterfishing.co.uk
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09/2014
Fishing Report by Terry Bolingbroke
on Gloria B11 (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Sep 2014 by Terry Bolingbroke
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HI all you fishing guys and girls out there, have not spoken to you in a long time but I have been very busy. I thought I would just let you know what's catching, it would seem that the summer fishing is coming to the end and the winter fishing is on its way with cod and whiting and skate catches making up the bags. Although the skate have never left us, but the catches have been a lot smaller and smaller smoothhounds are on there way out. What I can say is I have had a good smoothhound season. I think there has been a drop in mature bass with not many double figures and over being caught, this year our best being 11ibs. A good thing for this winter is the codling are on the way I had 7 small codling the other day and they are earlier than last year. Last year they came in October, By the way guys and girls just to let you know I have dropped my prices from the 1st of this month to £350 up to eight persons on a weekend, and £45 for individuals on a week day. deadbait, rods/reels supplied, also snacks, coffee and tea all day long,
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28/09/2014
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
28 Sep 2014 by brian poppy
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Went Sat and Sunday to the outer marks as conditions were very good for a ride out the Rooker were not showing on Saturday but Sunday was an inprovement with only 3 nice fish all around the 5/6lb size coming in to the boat right at the start of the ebb there feeding paterns are all over the place at the moment may be its the big tides that weve had this last week that have changed there moods,bp
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25/09/2014
Fishing Report by chris Mole
on Enterprise (West Mersea, Essex)
25 Sep 2014 by chris Mole
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codling and COD showing
been having good mixed bag this last 2 weeks with
skate , cod ,codling,bass,hounds,eels,soles,whiting, dabs
and spottys, looking good ?
TIGHT LINES CHRIS View Boats Page
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24/09/2014
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
24 Sep 2014 by brian poppy
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Fishing has been at its best over the last few weeks and this has been the first chance ive had to put in a report,plenty of Rooker have been coming out with Bass running good in the big tides on certan marks that only fish when the strong tides are flowing like this weekend i hope i can get to this mark as iam sure we will find some big Bass,loads of Hounds and Spottys with Whiting and Cod now showing iam pretty sure it will be an improvement on last season with some good sized fish putting in an appearance,Brian
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07/09/2014
Fishing Report by Carl Whalley
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
7 Sep 2014 by Carl Whalley
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We booked up with Shane for our first trip out.... Great day had by all 8 of us!..plenty of fish , including a couple of reasonable skate , and Shaun was only too happy to help the novices out........great boat , and a comfortable trip !.....many thanks Shane!...we will be booking up our next trip soon!...........Carl and all the lads from Coates Builders!!.
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08/2014
Fishing Report by carl porter
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
Aug 2014 by carl porter
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Well the last couple of months have seen some mixed fishing. Some exceedingly good days and some not so. In general good numbers of bass and hounds have been coming to the boat. Some nice specimen fish boated in amongst them. Plenty of high double figure hounds to 19 lb 9oz and nice bad to mid 7 lb range.
As for now the bass are still around and the Roker are starting to show in good numbers again. We've seen the first of the codling, which is a good sign for the winter fishing. Weekends from now until January are filling fast so get in quick so as not to be disappointed. There are a few individual spaces up for grabs on various dates from now until November. View Boats Page
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04/09/2014
Fishing Report by chris Mole
on Enterprise (West Mersea, Essex)
4 Sep 2014 by chris Mole
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sept 4th 2014
long time no write
well summer has been kind to us with not many cancelled trips,
summer fishing has been good but mixed up lots of thorn backs
then into good bass fishing in april /may/june , tope started good
but soon disappeared as did the mackrell, hounds have been ok
with some very good fishing at the end although still odd ones about
main catches at mo are skate, bass, spottys odd hound odd codling
looking forward to some better bass and start of the cod ,
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