Latest Fishing Reports: East
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05/05/2013
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
5 May 2013 by Ray Martin
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Nice lot of skate over the weekend, sadly weather on Saturday was not what we were expecting. Had a few live hermits and they got hit , possibly by hounds but did not connect with the fish so not sure.. I expect the first hounds to show any day now..
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01/05/2013
Fishing Report by LESTER BAKER
on Seawatch1 (Brightlingsea, Essex)
1 May 2013 by LESTER BAKER
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Hi there, my first report - a little bit later getting started with the new venture than I expected ( the boat was damaged by a coaster which ran amok in Brightlingsea then due to the bad weather repairs were delayed )
Never mind we are now up and running and catching fish.
Seawatch had her first party out on Sunday and Tony's party managed 19 cracking Thornbacks with the best at 17 lbs 6 ozs , pretty good going as only one of them had been sea fishing before!
Fishing can only get better now with the Bass and Smoothounds joining the increasing numbers of Thornbacks on the grounds - So for some arm aching fun give us a ring and join us on Seawatch 1.
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27/04/2013
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)
27 Apr 2013 by Scott Belbin
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Today I had 7 onboard, 3 adults and 4 children and we had 6 rods. We headed out and fished up to high water. It started off slow with a few bites and Tom was the first to catch, he had the Lady Graces' first ever Dogfish! One of the other men then had a whiting and then Matt decided to show them how to do it by catching the first skate. We quickly got his bait back in the water and weighed the skate, it was 5.2lb male and Matt decided he wanted to take that one home for his mum and dad. Almost straight away Matt was into his second skate weighing 5.11lb which was another male so he kept this one for his uncle Dean who had brought him to Mersea. Uncle Dean then caught a whiting and the gentleman opposite caught a dogfish then Matt eas into his third skate, this one weighed 5.4lb but was a female just giving birth so she went back to live another day. Shortly after Tom caught his first skate and had a helping hand by his dad Stewart , it was another female weighing 8.12lband soon after Dean had his first female skate too at 7.4lb. Then Matt was onto another fish, by now thry were all thinking of throwing him overboard, this time he had a 2.13lb cod. It then quietened down towards high water and we headed home just before the rain threw it down. We finished with 5 skate, 1 cod, 2 dogfish and 2 whiting. A nice mixture of fish for beginners to see and I am glad we didn't catch anymore as I was certainly kept busy enough with this group of children reeling in needing baiting up and casting out very frequently. All the female skate went back to live another day.
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28/04/2013
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
28 Apr 2013 by brian poppy
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We fished the E/Barnard area today with a half decent forcast we new we would get some fish,plenty of spotty dogs appeared as they due a couple of small hounds and 1 rooker came to the boat before i pulled the plug and made for home with a strong s/east 27mph wind it was not good,Brian
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27/04/2013
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
27 Apr 2013 by Ray Martin
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Had a short trip on Saturday with a group of novice sea anglers.... Luckily one of them is a Diesel fitter and got the niggling air issue with my engine sorted. The fishing was slow with a few skate and dogfish on a lower river mark, we tried an old favourite and caught a few more, and sadly lost a big one when the line snapped.. thats fishing..
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21/04/2013
Fishing Report by neon ling
on Eastern Promise 2 (West Mersea, Essex)
21 Apr 2013 by neon ling
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Well another brilliant trip out with Derek.6 of us Rob Alan Mark Dan Brian and myself we started off by the wind farm gave it an hour up to nearly high tide never had a bite between us so we pulled the hook and blasted off down to a spot about 8miles off Felixtowe anchored up in about 80 foot and as the tide started to ebb we started to catch some clonking cod ended up with 24 cod between 6 and 12 and half pound I think we had 6or7 doubles only 2 roker 1 dog and 3whiting PBs for Brian 10lb 8oz Rob 11lb 2 oz Mark 9lb Alan 9lb 8oz and myself 12 lb 8oz have to feel sorry for poor old Dan he tried everything but blanked . But with Derek's new boat I'm sure it won't be long before he puts us on some more good fish great day thanks Derek
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25/04/2013
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)
25 Apr 2013 by Scott Belbin
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We headed out at 9am this morning to fish up to high water, it was a lovely still morning and I had aboard 2 couples that wanted to try their luck at their fishing. It started off a little quite with only Alan getting whiting bites but not much luck getting them in the boat, then Christine caught a nice whiting around 1.5lb, then once Christine had showed Alan how to do it he caught another whiting around the same size. Margaret, Alans wife, then told us that Alan had the lucky rod in the lucky spot on the boat so they swaped places and with that Margaret caught the first skate of the day which Alan was not best pleased he had given her his rod and place on the boat then. Margarets skate weighed in at 6.2lb. It was time to head home so they decided to give it another hour before heading in as they caught their first skate and were hoping for more action. Alan and Margaret then swaped places on the boat again where Alan then had a skate on around 4.5lb which we let go and Colin who felt unwell towards the end of the trip then caught the last skate around 5lb which took his mind off the sea sickness for a while. All 3 skate were males, they kept 2 for their dinner. A lovely day had by all.
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25/04/2013
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)
25 Apr 2013 by Scott Belbin
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We headed out at 9am this morning to fish up to high water, it was a lovely still morning and I had aboard 2 couples that wanted to try their luck at their fishing. It started off a little quite with only Alan getting whiting bites but not much luck getting them in the boat, then Christine caught a nice whiting around 1.5lb, then once Christine had showed Alan how to do it he caught another whiting around the same size. Margaret, Alans wife, then told us that Alan had the lucky rod in the lucky spot on the boat so they swaped places and with that Margaret caught the first skate of the day which Alan was not best pleased he had given her his rod and place on the boat then. Margarets skate weighed in at 6.2lb. It was time to head home so they decided to give it another hour before heading in as they caught their first skate and were hoping for more action. Alan and Margaret then swaped places on the boat again where Alan then had a skate on around 4.5lb which we let go and Colin who felt unwell towards the end of the trip then caught the last skate around 5lb which took his mind off the sea sickness for a while. All 3 skate were males, they kept 2 for their dinner. A lovely day had by all.
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22/04/2013
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
22 Apr 2013 by Mark Peters
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The skate are here in good numbers over 20 a trip easy last trip we see over 30 keepers ther are some nice cod around on other grounds still a few codling popping up here and there with the skate a few spur dog offshore marks we also had out first hound only a bout 3lb but a good sign there on the way soon to follow are the bass too
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21/04/2013
Fishing Report by Ron Angel
on Why Worry (Burnham-On-Crouch, Essex)
21 Apr 2013 by Ron Angel
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We went to have a look at the Cod again but no cody was at home.We needed to do something once we had committed to the run off.It wasn't looking to spectacular at one stage but eventually we got it right.
Not another boat in sight and we managed to put something resembling a trip together and eventually Bagging some nice ones.
Well done to the guy's today for perservering when the chins could of fallen and you could of given up. View Boats Page
