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17/11/2013
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)
17 Nov 2013 by Scott Belbin
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3 dads onboard today with their 3 sons. We had a 4 hour trip booked over high water. 1.5-2lb cod was caught by Stuart, 1 dogfish and 9 sized whiting with a couple of the whiting around the 1lb mark. If we hadn't had a boat come and sit uptide of us on the ebb we may have seen a few more cod.
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16/11/2013
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
16 Nov 2013 by jon old
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Very light westerly wind for once nice calm seas, as on slack water as we headed out decided to take advantage and try the deeper water on the 5 -6 mile mark. In 85 ft thought we might have a chance of those migrating thornbacks that made a show last week but was not to be. Only few flatties and the dreaded whiting again! As the tides a bit strong today we had to head back in to shallower ground to hold bottom trying a hole on the 3 mile mark same sort of fish again! Headed right in under Corton ,slow start with plaguing weed as tide raced through picked up the odd whiting most of the day. Just before slack nipped out again to the bank nothing changed still bloody whiting so came in to my mud hole as it got dark where we had a busy little spell on dabs and yes more whiting! Hard work today i thought for the running around but lads done well, thanks to Nigel for organizing the party with, SAS Roland, Russel,Dick,Tom,Ash,Carl,Chris,Paul and lastly George from Cambridge all first timers on the Flyer. Thanks men hope you all enjoyed the day, and the wives didnt moan too much about being late back in! All the best. Jon. (High Flyer.)
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17/11/2013
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)
17 Nov 2013 by Scott Belbin
Report on-board Lady Grace
3 dads onboard today with their 3 sons. We had a 4 hour trip booked over high water. 1.5-2lb cod was caught by Stuart, 1 dogfish and 9 sized whiting with a couple of the whiting around the 1lb mark. If we hadn't had a boat come and sit uptide of us on the ebb we may have seen a few more cod.
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08/11/2013
Fishing Report by mark crame
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
8 Nov 2013 by mark crame
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Good things come to those who bait…08/11/2013
[i]“I had a fixed purpose when I put to sea.
As I sat in the boat with my band of men,
I meant to perform to the uttermost”[/i]
I like to read. I find many useless words and sentences which make me think “Aha! I can use that!” Well, I have time to read when I’m on shift, lots of time in fact. I also get to see the sun come up and sometimes the caffeine is present just enough that I can put to sea, and like Beowulf I tend to do so with a fixed purpose.
Well, today was going to include sitting in a boat with a band of men. A small band, to be fair, Brian and I in fact but for someone normally alone in a kayak that’s enough of a band to suit a quote. The quest, as this was, was to find a large cod or winter roker from a bit further out, intercepting them on the way in. Kind of a game of roulette here, a gamble. We both have enough in the freezer for the time being so we could afford to be patient. For me I could go a lot further out than normal, chase the tide and sit out conditions that otherwise would have kept me inshore or even ashore. Not to mention only out for 3-4 hours. But I’m one of those simple-minded souls who’s always happy whatever as long as I have a rod in my hand.
Leave off work, exhausted, home, try to grab ten minutes, too excited, grab gear, bait, get changed, lock the door and down to the Yacht Club; in through the gate, down to the pontoons, engine warming up, kettle on, ropes off and away we go, out of the Yacht Club, out of the harbour and off to mark 1, out near the Southwest Holm. I’ve rigged up and baited up ready while Brian’s been ploughing through the swells, heading for where the fish might be.
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We’ve got quite a mixture here, longshore herring and mackerel, both fresh, stale herring from the freezer, unwashed loligo squid, Lancashire black lug and two life yellowtail lug. They’re, umm, in reserve or something… I whack pennel out uptide and a wishbone across, 2/0’s baited with blacks and squid rings/heads, and drop a downtide pennel off the back. The water is running hard out here.
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Brian’s first, a huge great whopping bend in the rod as the first whiting takes off!
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It’s ignored. It’s a nice keeper – a lot of them are out here, around the ¾-1lb mark as an average maybe – but no, something bigger is wanted. Not just by us though.
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Surrounded we were, anywhere up to five seals around us at any one time during the day. They didn’t want our whiting – there’s plenty of those and herring around – they were just waiting for the same thing as us, cod.
With Brian in the lead I checked my rod; double shot on the wishbone. Again decent whiting but the flow was so quick I had the traces quite twisted. Better under 2 knots, those rigs. Still, it untwisted and went out again.
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Then one hell of a bite on the cod uptider, one for the mantelpiece for sure:
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Next was Brian’s roker rod, his big roker rod. Head and guts sent downtide ona balloon…
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Things were really picking up!!!
The tide slowed, we’d had plenty of decent whiting but not found our quarry so it was off now to the Three Mile Bank. The promised land where the spurdogs and tope had come in the summer, where the hounds and roker had been in numbers. The good fish come through here but what a nightmare when I tried it on the kayak, absolute nightmare, the depth and tide had me struggling and quite frankly it’s unlikely I’ll paddle out there again.
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Well, we had more of the same; more good whiting, and I mean all the way through the day a few minutes apart, some tiny ones but mostly decent keepers, and more seals around us but we just couldn’t find a roker or cod this time. But that’s fishing, we tried.
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Inshore the others were struggling too, two small codling from the roads, another further south from us so ahead on a safe bet but not by much. One last try perhaps, down to the South Holm where the ebb should be starting, slack having arrived out here…
Brian went out to drop anchor and noticed the wind – it had built up considerably. The sky had darkened, there was heavy rain in a few places around us on the horizon so we hung back and waited. Then it started to hammer down with no telling how long it would last; we came in.
You know, it’s marvellous to come in without having to make an effort after you’ve been busy all day; none of the up-anchor and paddle, wait for the surf to be how you want it, drag everything up the beach and the slope. Very genteel this way of fishing and I’ve rather come to love being spoilt! Just a quick wash and brush down of the deck and a bit of tidying up and we’re away. Part two to follow soon no doubt, will the cod join us?
Marvellous day, haven’t a clue how many fish we had all in though, but there was certainly a lot. View Boats Page
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13/11/2013
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
13 Nov 2013 by brian poppy
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Took Chris and his mates out today off the s/holm hoping for a Skate only Whitings and Dabs the Whitings were in abundance today on both tides with a fish every drop the Cod that we are targeting seem to be a bit elusive on the outer marks but when they do decide to turn up we will not be disappointed hope you enjoyed your day out on short notice I will be in touch as soon as they appear,Brian
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09/11/2013
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
9 Nov 2013 by Ray Martin
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November has at last seen the arrival of large numbers of large whiting and dog fish, these are a bit of fun to catch and are making up for the lack of cod.
We are catching a few cod but nothing like the numbers we would expect this time of year, but fingers crossed they will still show.
Last weekend we had a Post Office competition and caught well over 200 fish with only 1 cod.
Now is the time to get out there, at least the fish are close in and the travel time is minimal giving lots of time to fish.
Fridays are now available as INDIVIDUAL DAYS- I will go out with a minimum of 5 , so treat yourself to a day at sea - Remember ALL bait is included in price. View Boats Page
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10/11/2013
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
10 Nov 2013 by brian poppy
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Conditions were far from perfect with a n/w 4/5 increasing I tucked the boat under the Corton cliffs plenty of Whiting coming aboard but no small cod today lets hope with the coming weeks the Cod season will turn up the goods we had some good dbls last season and right through till June when we had the last Cod of 6lbs that was a turn up when we were fishing for Bass,dont forget the Heaviest Cod Competion has started for your chance to win £100 for a £2.00 entry, last year 13lb4oz took the money we run this to the end of May2014 good luck.
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10/11/2013
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
10 Nov 2013 by jon old
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Todays report covers 9/10th of Nov as we didnt bother with any photos from the Sat. We steamed out to a ten mile bank north, reports of blondes from our commercial side, unfortunately on getting to the grounds the weather took a turn for the worse. After a hour we left having caught about a dozen doggies and handful of whiting. Headed inside the Roads again to countless whiting and a few flatties nothing worth shouting about just plenty of small action. On Sun the wind and rain was quite fierce at times keeping us inshore ,determined not to join the other boats at Corton we stayed on the banks outside the Holm ,rather choppy at times, paid off with couple of small skate returned and a nice keeper pictured here with Lukasz from Watton area, thornback of 7.5lb. Ended up with couple of keeper dogs, other small ones returned, few dabs and flounders and too many whiting wish i had a pound for everyone! well done to the lads for braving the conditions it wasnt great but we had fish so who cares.! Many thanks to both parties on the weekend , hope you all enjoyed yourselves.
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03/11/2013
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
3 Nov 2013 by Colin De Block
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out of Lowestoft on Lead Us 31st / 1st & 3rd
three days out with different wind and tide conditions on each day on a local mark produced some nice fish over the three days with approx 150 good sized whiting 14 cod to 4lb, 1 thornback @ 4lb and a good sprinkling of doggies and a good time had by all View Boats Page
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02/11/2013
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
2 Nov 2013 by jon old
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Lovely start to the day for once, flat sea ,forcast of wind later, perfect tide , pleasure to be out. With the tides being on the strong side the deeper water wasnt a option today especially with talk of wind later so decided to start near the Holm channel. Had a nice little session with whiting from the off, few nice flatties , few spotty dogs and a nice little thornback caught by Steve who put it back as it was female well done for being conservation minded. Went a bit slow so headed north up the Roads to a little hole i use in these situations few whiting again but the weed was just killing us . Moved back again right inside off Gorleston beach as the wind was getting up making the situation a bit lumpy. Plenty of whiting again and more flatties , picture today with some of the fish,the better looking anglers onboard, Kim,Jemma,and Racheal, thanks to Mike and Dave,also Shannon and Steve and Collin. Was an enjoyable day pity no codling again but plenty of other stuff to catch,appreciate you all coming out on the High Flyer. All the best. Jon.
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