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24/09/2017
Fishing Report by Robert Squirrell
on Eastern Promise 2 (West Mersea, Essex)
24 Sep 2017 by Robert Squirrell
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Sunday 24th September, and we headed out.. and out .. and out. Anyway it was worth it, as first mark saw us catching Smoothhound, few doggies and odd skate for luck, then a move not too far and we found the Bass! Not huge ones, but 15 Caught between 5 of us. Great days fishing. Great Skipper.
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28/09/2017
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
28 Sep 2017 by jon old
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Pleased to announce new vessel High Flyer 2 is now in service a Procharter P4 with Cummins 480HP turbo cruising around 20 knots capable of 30 knots if you want to pay for the fuel! Main feature is 4 metre beam with comfortable seating all round with outside deck toilet, press button eco flush system no more going downstairs feeling ill! Faster boat will come into use with our offshore trips cutting travelling time down more fishing. Latest Akios reels and Ugly Stik rods in use at the moment keeping the coding to ten plus two still even though we could have increased passengers the thought was to give maximum comfort and space. Obviously full safety spec , lifejackets available on request, safety briefing before every trip as usual.
We do use the Paypal Deposit System on the website of £20 per place booked fully refundable on bad weather etc due to the increasing problem of non showing persons leaving us standing on the quay particularly annoying when you refuse others because the boat is full. Please dont be offended by this unfortunately in place due to a small minority of people.
Website up to date daily so reliable, if you wish us to make up a trip on a certain date we will do our best to do so we cater for single bookings, boat bookings must cover the ten places financially up to you how many you divide that by, specialist trips catered for wrecking etc. Normal inshore trips £45 per head using own tackle , add £5 using ours to cover losses /replacement.
So looking forward to being of service, cod season should be upon us shortly dont miss out as weekend dates are going already up to xmas hope you can join us on High flyer 2. Until then,
tight lines everyone.
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09/2017
Fishing Report by Trevor Crawley
on Girl Mandy (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
Sep 2017 by Trevor Crawley
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Just a few lines to let the other skippers know an angler named Stewart phone number 07815588657 had a trip booked with us this Sunday after several calls and texts he said he will send a deposit but no word and refuses to answer the phone. I will not stop naming anglers who give it the big I am and then turn completely deaf when you try to contact them, they affect my business and my faith in the general public so till the next report tight lines and calm waters
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23/09/2017
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
23 Sep 2017 by TERRY BATT
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With the water temperature now starting to fall, and the whiting have arrived in large numbers, and there have been reports of a few Codling caught on the night tides from the Clacton area and a few have been netted in the trawl nets.... so do we dare to hope we may well have a showing of Cod this year... well the signs are looking quite good...!!
Still a lot of Bass at the moment off-shore these wont be there for much longer and before the weather takes a turn for the worse .....
But the good mainstay of Thornback Rays are there in good numbers, so you could in fact get 5 species in a single trip..!!!
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25/09/2017
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
25 Sep 2017 by TERRY BATT
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Report from Friday and Saturday.... Friday saw Dave Barham with one of his superb..............
(Fishing tutorial adventures with Dave Barham) and we set out quite early from Bradwell to be at an off-shore mark that normally fishes it's pants off... but I was a little worried at the lack of bird life, well I say lack..!! it was devoid to be honest.
We tried several marks in the same stretch of water for only a couple of very small school Bass.
Then I took a gamble based on last year when the same thing happened according to my little red book.. and steamed NW for 30 minutes to another favourite Bass Mark of mine.
Once we were settled and everything was quiet after about 15 minutes Dave hit into the first Bass nice fish about 5lbs and this was followed for the next 2 hours with a string of good Bass with some slightly smaller and some bigger around 27 Bass landed and even Dave missed some crashing bites..... but that's Bass fishing for you.... you don't get them all, no matter how great you are, I was lucky not to have lost my rod over the side, I just had to go into the wheelhouse to get more bait from the fridge when my hermit crab (which has been working really well for Bass) it didn't enter my mind I was going to get a large Smoothound attack...lol luckily Mark was on hand to catch my rod before it went over the side, so it only seemed right to let him land the fish... the way it stripped line off the reel at first I thought.. dam this is going to be a big Bass... then on the 3rd run it was clearly not a Bass but a big old Hound good double in shallow water..!! great fun.
So Saturday.... with my 6 anglers mustered on Vanishing Point-2 confidence was high for their specialised Bassing trip that they had been waiting so long for, some had never caught a proper Bass, like our dear fried Paul Charlesworth .
The only thing as you will see from the photos is that Friday was perfect conditions, but a little breeze from the SE just made it a little harder to get the boat positioned right, as this is critical if you are going to get it right.
But once we arrived and settled down, it wasn't as fast as the day before, in fact it was slow to start with, just as I was going to move, Alistair got the first one, nice fish around 5 lbs ... but being the great fisherman he is, a quick photo and back it went.
But undeterred I got Nicola to pull the anchor and repositioned the boat, and we had a few nice fish but still wasn't happy I repositioned a second time (the wind was just slightly wrong)
but once I was happy with the boat's position the bites came thick and fast, with many bites being missed, due to basically a little inexperience..! good Bass are not the easiest fish to catch, but once you have enough bites and learned how to react...... bingo there is your first real Bass in the net...
(Eh Paul....).
WE had 30+ chances with crashing bites but only converted that into 15 Good Bass landed, and only 6 fish kept all the rest returned, not just because that is the law now only 1 Bass per angler, but all the guys mostly like to fish for the sport...!! (aint that right Tom)..
Sunday, saw a stronger wind again from the SE but we were on general fishing so we went for a ride off-shore and conditions were better off-shore than closer in..!!
Once anchored up fish started coming almost right away, the out of the blue, we were astounded...!!!! we have seen Porpoises many times, but in nearly 30 years of being out there, we had a Dolphin surface right along side the boat, scared the crap out of Tony who was fishing in the corner...lol he called me and said a bloody great fish just surfaced right by the side of him, and although I didn't see it I could see the swirl of disturbed water it had left behind...?? then it surfaced again bloody hell...!! it was a Dolphin...!! it continued to swim all around the boat for and hour, at one point most of the party were on the bow watching the Dolphin going back and forth over the anchor rope ... he was just playing... and as we move out of the deeper water because to tide had started running to hard, the Dolphin swam right along side us as though he was giving us an escort, then as we parted company the lads saw a second smaller Dolphin swimming with the bigger one..... so may be we will run Dolphin spotting trips now...lol but what a real treat and a privilege it was to have them as company for an hour... we got some video of them as did some of the guys who have promised to send it over, I will see if I can up-load it later...
(Just a few of the Bass caught in the last few days
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20/09/2017
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
20 Sep 2017 by Colin De Block
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A busy 4hrs and the first Cod of the season
Headed off to catch the last of the flood and start off the ebb to avoid the full force of the big tides at the moment. Once the anchor was down and the boat settled we were into fish straight away a nice smoothhound to start with then almost a fish a cast a mixture of spotties and whiting, Tim had a lovely 5.5lb Cod and as the tide eased the thornbacks started to show with Josh and Mark both landing one apiece thing went quiet over slack water which only lasted 30 mins as soon as the flood started to run the fish came back again. We ended the session with 1 cod 2 smoothounds 3 thornbacks 2 spurdogs lots of spotties and a few whiting View Boats Page
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20/09/2017
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
20 Sep 2017 by TERRY BATT
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Lot's of fish coming out at the moment... Bass, Hounds, Thornbacks, Dogs, and the first of the Whiting are showing..... so all good.
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09/2017
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Sep 2017 by Scott Belbin
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Its been a long time since my last report on here. We had a few nice fish over the summer and the weather was ok on the whole. there were a few decent smooth-hounds about here and there along with some nice bass and the usual mixed bags of thorn-backs, dogfish and such like to make the days up. When it has been windy the blackwater estuary has produced the goods too. On the right tides we can do well in here and avoid the weed too. One morning with just two lads aboard we managed around 15 sizable bass (although most were returned due to the 1 bass per angler bag limit). We have also snuck out a few ballen and corkwing wrasse which aren’t too common around here. The river also produced the first codling of the season on my dads boat ‘Razorbill 3’ way back in august. It was only a small fish but hopefully a good sign of things to come in the fast approaching cod season. With that in mind im not expecting great guns from the cod but we should definitely see an improvement on last year (although that’s not hard as they barely showed). There were good numbers of little codletts along the shore in places in the spring so these fish are likely to return in the 12-18 inch bracket this autumn. Fingers crossed we should see a few bigger fish mixed in too along with the usual autumn run of thorn-backs, dogfish whiting ect. Although I may be a bit laxed on here with reports ect I keep my available dates as up to date as possible and my reports on my website and facebook are usually quite popular. For more information, reports and availability please visit
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17/09/2017
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
17 Sep 2017 by brian poppy
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With light winds it was off to the Newcomb Bank,plenty of Spotty Dogs and a nice supprise today the Spurs have turned up best was 7lb plus a good lot of Whiting and a nice 5lb7oz Bass.
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17/09/2017
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
17 Sep 2017 by brian poppy
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With light winds it was off to the Newcomb Bank,plenty of Spotty Dogs and a nice supprise today the Spurs have turned up best was 7lb plus a good lot of Whiting and a nice 5lb7oz Bass.
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