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17/07/2016
Fishing Report by Terry Bolingbroke
on Gloria B11 (Brightlingsea, Essex)
17 Jul 2016 by Terry Bolingbroke
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Great weekend last week with some good smoothes and bass all catch and released so hope the good weather continues and more fishing to be done
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07/2016
Fishing Report by Trevor Crawley
on Girl Mandy (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
Jul 2016 by Trevor Crawley
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Short note with the pic of a nice turbot caught from the upper Thames. Well done lads.
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15/07/2016
Fishing Report by carl porter
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
15 Jul 2016 by carl porter
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after a change from the regular thames species the hard labour crew set sail for something different
after a 4am start and a 5 hour steam we arrived at our first mark and it was plaice and turbot from the start
nothing huge but all keepers
along with the flatties came a steady stream of gurnard/ weavers /mackerel and sandeels
then mark latched on to something better a...20lb blonde ray !!!
mid afternoon saw us put into a south coast port for a well earned beer and steak supper
day two saw us back on the same grounds the weather was much more agreeable with nice straight drift lines
and it was fish from the start !!!
this time we had some lovely turbot and plaice and I had lovely brill ...and some truly huge mackerel ..
back into port that evening with a well satisfied crew !!!
day three we tried a couple of wrecks which were full of Pollock pouting and small codling
so it was one last drift for the flatties before we headed home and another 5 turbot and a nice brill for steve
midday we swung the bows for home with around 80 turbot and plaice for the weekend we were well pleased
as well as the amount of species
turbot plaice dab brill mackerel scad sandeel Pollock cod gurnard blonde ray pouting weaver .....and dogfish!!
so after almost 200 sea miles for the weekend we arrived back in wallasea sunday afternoon ...knackered!!!!
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21/07/2016
Fishing Report by Phil White
on Chinook 3 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
21 Jul 2016 by Phil White
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Plenty of big hound action this week with the best at 17.5 lb, with calm seas and good tides expect to see some big fish come out.
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19/07/2016
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
19 Jul 2016 by TERRY BATT
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What a lovely couple of days we chose to go on a long 24 hour trip, exploring mid-channel wreaks and offshore banks..!! with temperatures hitting 32 degrees we were glad we took the huge Igloo ice box I brought back from Florida..!!!
We steamed 42 miles South West to make a start, we tried a couple of wreaks but with little success, it was possible pilot error but we didn't go blind we did have co-ordnance but the wreaks were not as big as I was expecting but we did find one that was defiantly there as some of the guys hooked pt on it...lol But Dave Barham had a lovely Gurnard off it , then we started to search for the under water terrain that looked like it might throw up Plaice and Turbot, and we found the perfect spot so we marked it on the plotter with a view to come back to it, as the tide was running to hard to fish it at that moment in time.
Looking at what it was we were trying to achieve, and that was to unlock the mystery of where the Plaice hand out, and with no inside help it was very much a coming together of heads with my 30 years knowledge, and Dave's vast knowledge of all types of fishing, we set about looking at the ground available to us in basically our area, and not having to steam to the Goodwin sands or the Varne ..some 52 miles away, but I was tempted to say the least, as I think I would have found Turbot, but I wanted to find fish on the wreaks and banks off Essex not Ramsgate, or Dover, that would have not posed so much of a challenge as they are known hot spots for these fish, I needed to find these fish on my manor.
Well after a bit of a disappointing start with the wreaking thing we steamed 16 miles Nor-east to some ground me and Dave thought it screamed fish..!!! but more over we though Plaice..!!.
So we covered the distance in roughly 40 minutes, the we started to survey the area, then we found exactly what we were looking for, with large Knowles rising and falling beneath us and went on for miles, this had to be the place..(no pun intended) but first we wanted to see what bait fish was available... and there they were...!!! Sand Eels, mackerel, and launts
As some of you know, me and Nicola have been going to Brighton to learn to fish for Plaice for the last couple of months, and with some success I must say, but learning how to set up the drifts and getting the right set up were critical, and on the first drift, I got a bite, and promptly landed my first ever Plaice on Vanishing Point at £3.5 lbs that was followed by everyone catching Plaice not all as big as mine I have to say..... well it is my boat...lol
But we steamed through the early hours of the morning to an off-shore bank and thought this looks great for some Bass fishing, and with the stern of the boat backed up on to a shoaling bank we were set..!
The only thing that concerned us was although everything was looking good, fist light, calm sea, with just the surf braking over the bank, tide just flooding nicely, no birds were working the the bank, not even patrolling which did not bode well we thought, and after an hour of nothing but a doggie, we thought this is not going to happen so we decided to move on and have another go at the wreaks.
We didn't have to go to far until we came on a huge wreak about 300 foot long, and I set up the drift, it took a few goes to get it right, but once I managed to doge the pot buoys around the wreak I managed to get Vanishing Point drifting right over the bulk and we had Cod, Pollock, Pouting, Gurnard, and the wreak it's self...lol but that was a bit more successful than the attempt the day before.
Well during the night the huge wheelhouse on VP-2 was a sanctuary to everyone as we had a lovely curry for evening dinner which was prepared by our special guest Dave Barham with pilau rice...Emmm,,!! then a bit more fishing, before everyone put their seats back for a well earned sleep in the nice warm dry wheelhouse for a few hours.
Well we will be running more trips similar to this one, but will trim up the distances per trip as we know where we need to be and at what time.
I would like to finish of this report with thanks to some of our regular fishermen for coming on the trip with us to share this adventure .. Tom, Andy, and Dave, well done guys, and to think you were there, to catch some of the first Plaice to be caught as a target species...!!!
And a special thanks to my good old mates Dave Barham, for all his input to this success for the hunt for the elusive Plaice, and also to Jim Midgley for his amazing photography skills and great humor ......Tight lines. View Boats Page
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16/07/2016
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
16 Jul 2016 by jon old
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Bringing us up to date had weak tides so divers on most of the week been out 30 miles still very poor for mackerel just caught whiting on the feathers! Viz is great so might throw a wrecking trip next weak tides if anyone interested? Picture this week is of the lads from Spalding organised by Carl Knights big thanks to him,everyone first time on the High Flyer nice to see new faces was reasonably hard fishing very blowy so inshore glad we got a few fish . Look forward to seeing you boys in winter hopefully much appreciated.
Tides building for this week out Thursday for bass i would imagine on these tides ,only couple places left hopefully jig for sandeel then bit of drifting could do with a tope to be honest so guess what i.ll be doing!
Facebook seems to be busy have two pages JON OLD-HIGH FLYER and also HIGH FLYER SEA FISHING TRIPS if you wish to join and a new local page NORFOLK BOAT ANGLERS please ask if you wish to join,brainchild of local legend Steve Gus whiting regular on the Flyer.
So small heatwave this week hopefully might get a mackerel or two about time , will keep you updated , must do few evening trips contact me if interested will put trips together,until then tight lines people.
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14/07/2016
Fishing Report by Phil White
on Chinook 3 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
14 Jul 2016 by Phil White
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Fishing has been superb with stacks of good smoothounds, a few decent bass and plenty of thornbacks.
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07/2016
Fishing Report by Terry Bolingbroke
on Gloria B11 (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Jul 2016 by Terry Bolingbroke
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Good day last Sunday good catch of different species had a crack off on 35lb line so fishing is good contact me for availability
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12/07/2016
Fishing Report by Trevor Crawley
on Girl Mandy (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
12 Jul 2016 by Trevor Crawley
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Just a quick note the 24th of july has now been booked many thanks Bill regards Trev
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11/07/2016
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
11 Jul 2016 by TERRY BATT
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Sorry I have not put up any reports lately, but we have been that busy on charters that I have been to knackered to sit and write up the days events....
But we have a day off, and still up quite early, and this is when I tend to sit at the computer to tap out a few lines.
Fishing as I think we all know has been good from all around the Estuary, from Sophie Lee, to Enterprise, Eastern promise, Daphne Carole, and Vanishing Point, from the Blackwater, and all the Crouch boat, Predator, Early dawn, Hard Labour, all having great catches of hounds and Bass, and Roker...
I have to say, and I an only speaking from my own very bad experience of this Sunday just gone !0th July, we had a cancellation from one of our regular parties which was a shame but these things happen, so no problem there..... But..!! I got a call from a guy, who was obviously from overseas, asking if he could book the Vanishing Point for 10 of his mates..?
As we had the day free, and my dad was feel a little better, we took the booking.. and OMG I wish we never...!!!!
Now I hope Gareth Howlett does not remove this as it has nothing whatsoever to do with racism... but the total disrespect some of our fishermen from other Eastern block countries promising one thing and doing totally the opposite, and in that I mean, on the phone at the time of booking he asked if it was OK to bring some beers, well I am not a lover of alcohol on the boat, but I said as long as you just have a couple each and no getting drunk on the boat that would be fine, he said yes just a couple would be fine, no problem.
Well I was attending to bait and stuff when they arrived and didn't see the amount of booze loaded onto the boat...!!
as we started our journey to the Barrow deeps Nicola asked if they wanted tea..?? no we are fine thank you and asked if we had any shot glasses, I laughed and said no, I think it was at that point I should have terminated the trip..!!
Can you imagine it, they are running around the boat like school kids, saying how big the boat was and wow..!! never been on a boat like this, 5 of then standing on the bow to take selfies at which point I had to go and remove them as I couldn't see as they were obstructing my view, and it was a little blowy out there and even though the railing had been secured there still could have an accident, but they just laughed and said.... " don't worry we are
Russian we good" but Nicola went up, and got them down, so we continued.. by the time we got to our destination, they were all on it, turned out they had 40 bottles of Becks, in their bags it became obvious why they wanted shot glasses, they had a litre bottle of Vodka, two litre bottles of Capt Morgans Rum, of which was going round at an alarming rate... and after telling them the house rules on the very nice toilet facility, they come to me and said,," I think you toilet is blocked, and I went down to find this horrid brown mess that was full to the brim with water where they tried to keep flushing the toilet before informing me, then say in " I dot know what happened .?? only a little paper went down, I had to use the wet-vac to suck out tonnes of paper, and human crap, and it took at least three goes to finally get by the grace of God the remaining paper out of the impellers of the macerator, then finally the toilet was again usable..... amazingly they did actually catch hounds and skate, but the end of the day could not come soon enough for us, it was the charter from hell, I hope all you charter skippers never have to experience that, and in hind-sight I blame my-self as I should have put a stop to it early into the trip, but went on the promise they made to drink responsibly, and they just didn't give a stuff about anything, I am sorry to say... they were animals, and when they were finally leaving the boat, the organiser said..." great day Terry we will book more trips" well guess what..... they will never step on the vanishing Point-2 again of that much I can assure you,
Well that rant is over .....lol
But once again we were out yesterday very windy a constant 33-37 mph SW most of the day, but the party still wanted to see if it was possible to get out, well I said it's nearly always possible, as we have lots of sand banks to hide behind, and we did just that.
The boys were a breath of fresh air after the day before, a really nice bunch of chaps, and all 12 wanted to do the clay shooting as well as fishing,
Well we fished up to low water about 11.10, where they had some Smoothounds, and by then the water was low enough behind the sand bank we were behind, and it was windy, but flat calm ... so we set up for the clay event, and it was a close fought competition, with only one clay separating 1st, 2nd and 3rd paces...
That all took about an hour, then we moved to a spot where I know the wind will be with the flood tide so at least we would sit ok, and John Rawle very kindly gave me some lug worm on Sunday as he knew was out on Monday, and they came in very handy, as this mark I went to for the flood is primarily a Bass mark, and we had about half a dozen Bass before it was time to head for home, but the guys from yesterday were a joy to have on the boat, and we like to extend our best wishes to Dave, and his lads for a most enjoyable day out......
Not out today....DAY OFF....!!!! well not really, got a few jobs to take care of today, it's the only time you get to do maintenance is on your day off.. Grrrrr but got to be done, so when you lot say what a dream job i is, you don't realise that when your busy you don't get a day off at all.... well we are out tomorrow so will report back then
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