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01/03/2014
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
1 Mar 2014 by TERRY BATT
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Went fishing Saturday 1st March with some friends, lovely day, fishing was quite good, and we had Codling to 4lbs, Whiting over 1lbs, Roker, dogs, cracking day out, cant wait for Vanishing Point-2 to come home and start fishing, looks like it's worth going now...!!
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03/2014
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
Mar 2014 by TERRY BATT
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Sorry to say Vanishing Point may be delayed yet again....
I will update this info later in the week..
Terry & Nicola.. View Boats Page
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01/03/2014
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
1 Mar 2014 by jon old
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Todays forcast was brilliant very light northerlys decided to do a bit of distance north ended up 12 miles up the coast to a bank, well proven skate hot spot hoping for a early bit of luck. Unfortunately only a spotty dog and dabs played ball there for us. The wind started to be a pain turning east making it lumpy decided to head in anchored up on a old favourite spot of mine caught whiting from the off with few small codling and decent flatty. Moved right back inside the Roads as the wind was blowing totally different to the forcast god knows why they cant get it right nowdays bloody annoying. Still catching under size codling and few keeper whiting, well done to Stephen for releasing sizable codling for another day nice to see a bit of conservation going on, maybe we would all have better sport if we all took a leaf out of his book? The day ended up mainly with small fish probably caught 40 to 50 undersize codling in all plus whiting being the usual pain, a spotty dog and couple of dabs. Big thanks to all the lads for enduring the morning rain and the longish journey out there, didnt take many photos as mostly small fish but pictured here is James Houlder with a cracking pound and half possibly 2 whiting best one of the day. In all not a bad day for this time of year hopefully all these small codling will return end of the year alot bigger and worth catching. Thanks again to Stephen,James,Richard,Matty,Chris Carter and Chris Merrison, Dave ,Shannon champion dab catcher and Chalky.See you all soon. Cheers. Jon. (High Flyer)
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01/03/2014
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
1 Mar 2014 by Colin De Block
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out of Lowestoft on Lead Us 01/03/14
A day out with Josh and family headed to a regular mark with hopes of a few codling which had been reported over the past couple of weeks, dropped anchor with a couple of hours of the flood left within a few minutes the first fish was landed a nice sized whiting followed by plenty of undersize codling and a few more whiting until slack water, the ebb started with a few more whiting and the first sizable codling things quietened down as the tide started to race, as the tide started to ease again we had a good flurry of codling to 5lb plenty more smaller ones ending up with 8 sizable codling to 5lb approx 15 undersize a 1lb pouting and half a dozen good whiting a very enjoyable day had by all. View Boats Page
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01/03/2014
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
1 Mar 2014 by brian poppy
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Went with Andrew today busmans holiday we had 15 Cod upto 4lb and some big Whiting not a bad days fishing considering the big tide and swell we encounted the ebb proved the best tide again long may it last bp
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27/02/2014
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
27 Feb 2014 by TERRY BATT
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UP-DATE OF ARRIVAL OF VANISHING POINT-2
Hi Guys, just another up-date, as so many of you are phoning with the impending arrival of Vanishing Point-2 to her new berth at Bradwell marina in Essex, a port this new vessel has never seen..!!
Since her launch last year, she went directly to Barrow in Furness, to work out in the Irish sea, but it looks as though her work there is done now, and we are looking to start the homeward passage from the other side of the country around the 7th March, as that’s when the Caledonian canal is opened, so if you want to track her progress around that time, just go to AIS ships live and type in VANISHING POINT-2 and you will be able to watch our progress.
Once the boat is safely back in Bradwell, we will take a couple of weeks just to do some service work and prep her for her new role of Charter Fishing..!!! yay!! By putting all her fishing rod holders on, we like the stainless steel ones that fit on the gunnel’s, so it keeps the deck clear, and bait cutting facilities, and alike.
Then I would say, at the end of March we will be ready to start taking those long awaited bookings for you all, and give you a trip of a lifetime, where you really will be cruising at over 20 knots!!, and if the sea should chop up, you will hardly notice it as with the fine bow entry, she has wave piercing technology built into her structure, she goes straight through a 1 metre wave with virtually no effect from any angle, you won’t truly appreciate it until you have tried it, I know we didn’t.!!!..
Ok guy's, as I say just another up-date for you so you know where we are, and I didn’t think it fair to start taking bookings, only to have to let you down, that’s not how we rock..!
Look forward to seeing you all very soon, and get ready to be impressed..!!!! Tight Lines
Terry & Nicola… View Boats Page
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22/02/2014
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
22 Feb 2014 by Scott Belbin
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last time I wrote on here was last summer and a lot has gone on since then.
briefly the autumn was ok with plenty of thornbacks about and loads of dogfish and whiting as you would expect. as usual there were a few summer species hanging around until late autumn and the odd cod showing from September time. however codling didn't show in number until the very end of October. i'm not sure what caused this blame it on what you like they were a little late but once they turned up they were in reasonable numbers and fairly steady. Of coarse there was the odd dud day mixed in but on the whole we have seen steady numbers right through until now. there was a brief cold spell around the start of December which started to thin the thornbacks out a little but when the temperature picked up they soon came back.
most of the codling have been fish of 2-4lbs the usual stamp for inshore although there have been a lot of 6-10 inch long codling about the past couple of weeks which is promising for this autumn when they should be back and around keep able size. as I mentioned earlier its been a notably mild winter compared to many of late which I think isn't a bad thing for the codling and a good thing for the thornbacks which have provided us with great sport and some sizable fish between the codling. there have been a lot of double figure rays coming out which unfortunately cant be said for the cod. I don't mind admitting I haven't seen one all season as yet but I have only managed one offshore trip due to the wind.as for the wind I cant complain much as I'm sure many other ports have suffered a lot worst than us. there has been many I time when we have been grateful to be out and thinking of the unfortunate boats tied up around the country. I don't envy some of the skippers trying to earn a living from some ports this time of year.
one of the big bonus's for us is the shelter of the black water estuary and surrounding area. just last Sunday we managed to sneak a day out with 18 thornbacks and a few other bits and bobs. in absolute comfort despite the strong winds. Saturday was good with 11 rays and 30 codling. we kept one male ray and 26 of the codling. 2 of the codling were the tiny things and another two legal but not worth keeping. we have had several days like that this season which usually sends everybody home with a smile.
over the next month or so we should see the spring run of codling before they leave and as the water warms further the rays will grow in numbers. if were lucky we might get a last chance offshore in search of a better cod if not im sure we'll be happy with the inshore codling rattling the rod tips.
im sorry its been a while since my last report on CBUK but I do update pictures and availability on here. I will try to do a monthly report on here if I get time. if not you can always find an honest report from each trip on my website www.essexseafishing.co.uk View Boats Page
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22/02/2014
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
22 Feb 2014 by brian poppy
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Snagg Ally again today with Luke and his mates things looked good from the start with a Cod coming in to the boat for Matt a few Whiting showed but not numbers like we had at the barny on Wednesday we finished up with 4 take home Cod and 3 put backs and some good sized Whiting i weighed one and it came in at 1lb5oz thats a big fish i hope you enjoy your fish boys and look forward to seeing you all again soon,bp
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19/02/2014
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
19 Feb 2014 by brian poppy
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This report covers 2 trips, sunday 16th i took Ryan and his work mates north to an area that hasw been fishing quite well as late with 7 boats around the same patch we were sure to find a few Cod and Whiting and we did we finished up with 5 nice Cod to 4lb and a few small Whiting plus a few put backs to grow a bit bigger all the boats had much the same i hope you enjoy your fish you boys and look forward to seeing you all again soon,Wednesday 19th conditions were good for a look around some of our other marks we ran out to the s/holm bank not much showing only on top of the shelf so decided to run off to the next mark the 3 mile bank this was barren after a good look round i ran south to the barny and old favorate area that i havent been to for 3 months due to weather and reports of not much showing but today gave us a nice supprise loads of big Whiting coming in to the boat we kept all the 1lb plus fish we had 57 we lost count of how many we put back when the tide started to ebb we ran back north on the tide and droped in to a spot that has give us some good sport in the past and it didont let us down i had a 3lb Cod after being on the mark about an 1hr then Gary had a good knock from his uptider out come the net a lovely fish of 6lb on the button we stayed till 17.00 but with the tide still minging through we called it a day perhaps we are going to start seeing some bigger quarry like last year well done you boys see you soon,bp
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19/02/2014
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
19 Feb 2014 by Mark Peters
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Febuary
Havent got out much over last month due to storm after storm and 70mph gusts bit when we have got out in the small weather windows fishing has been good. Plenty of rokar about well over a dozen a trip up to 14lb still cod showing seen few round 5-6lb off shore in shore plenty small codling. Last trip they had 18 roker up to 11lb and few codling around 5lb with the odd whiting and doggy
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