Latest Fishing Reports: Essex
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05/01/2013
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
5 Jan 2013 by Ray Martin
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Royal Mail Southend's Annual "Ken Wright memoral trophy"- First trip of the new year-(cancelled last year due to weather) this time weather absolutely perfect. Fished a lower river mark as the rumor mill suggested cod were in the area.. the amount of boats in the general area suggested this was not a "secret" mark... We caught dogfish steadily on our large squid baits, but continually missed bites which suggested small fish were in the area.. We scaled down and were rewarded by whiting and large dabs. Action was non stop and when the tide picked up we had to make a decision to either try for cod (worth a lot of points in the comp) or catch the smaller species and try to get enough points to win even if someone caught a cod... I opted for the smaller species and managed to win the comp.. however Barry Patel stuck to large fish or squid baits and managed 2 decent skate .. one more and he would have won.
Everyone on the boat caught a large number of fish and the final tally was well over 100 whiting, 12 good dabs, 15 dog fish, 2 skate and 1 pouting. NO COD... but I know where they are for the next trip.
Ray
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02/01/2013
Fishing Report by carl porter
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
2 Jan 2013 by carl porter
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Wednesday and thursday this week have seen good numbers of cod and roker coming to the boat. The forecast not being at its best limited us slightly in the marks we could fish. Both days produced in excess of 10 codling to 4.5lb and roker to 10.5lb.
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21/12/2012
Fishing Report by carl porter
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
21 Dec 2012 by carl porter
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with a small set of tides deepwater was the order of the day about 20 or so miles east .the ebb was a bit of a dissapointment really with 2 cod about 8 lb each and a couple of roker. however we decided to stay put and wait for the flood .an hour into the flood and bang it kicked off a couple of cod in the 7 to 8 lb bracket and then a crackin 25 lb fish followed by a regular stream of roker and cod several between 9 and 11.5 lb oh and a 2lb bass and a huge dab finished up with 12 cod 8 roker and 1 bass between five of us interestingly the big cod came on lugworm as did several others.
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12/2012
Fishing Report by carl porter
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
Dec 2012 by carl porter
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This month so far has seen the bigger fish coming on the feed, general stamp of fish are in the 5 to 7 lb bracket, with a good show of double figure fish. There are still Roker to be had and the last few trips have produced bass to 4 lb. Hopefully the sport will continue well into the new year.
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08/12/2012
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)
8 Dec 2012 by Scott Belbin
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I went out for just over a hour on my own in the River this morning bright and early for the first of the flood. After about 15minutes I was into a decent fish, putting up a great fight, I knew it was a cod but you can never tell how big it is until you see it as they all put up a great fight and are such fun to catch. As it got towards the surface I could see it was well hooked so I lifted it into the boat. My dad had just come out into the River and spotted me anchored up so came over to catch a glimpse of my 6.2lb cod and decided he wanted some of the action so tied his boat to my stern. After a short while we started to drift from the weight of 2 boats on one anchor so dad anchored up just beside me. We then had another boat decide to come and uptide me so the action died and I just caught a few whiting before heading in to do some work and start my boat trips. Definately worth getting up early for!
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02/12/2012
Fishing Report by carl porter
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
2 Dec 2012 by carl porter
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Weather this weekend was not the greatest, but we managed to get out and find a few. Saturdays weather was worse than Sunday. Biggest fish this weekend was 9 lb 13 oz, with the general stamp of fish in the 4.5 lb to 6 lb. Hopefully the weather will be kind and allow us off to the deep water marks
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01/12/2012
Fishing Report by Robert Squirrell
on Eastern Promise 2 (West Mersea, Essex)
1 Dec 2012 by Robert Squirrell
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Well it was Cold!!! But the Cod dis show. 7.00am Start, on a low tide. Out and along to Walton, about 2 miles off shore. A little bit bumpy but still comfortable for fishing.Bites were slow, but a few knocks. And then a Doggie. And then a Whiting. With all 7 of us praying for a Cod. Bites were on and off throughout the Morning, with Dan managing to connect with a nice 6lb Cod, and also a Thornback Ray. A move to another spot to try and find some tide, and bites still on the slow side, but Derek trying to find the fish as always. The another Cod to 6lb,and other smaller stuff. We headed in about 4.15pm, and were all Cold. The final tally for the 7 of us was 9 Cod, Biggest at 6 1/2 lb, and two at 6lb, then some a bit smaller. 2 or 3 Thornback,and a handfull of Whiting and Dogs.The Cod are out there, and we will be back soon. Thanks to Derek for an enjoyable trip as always.
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01/12/2012
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
1 Dec 2012 by Mark Peters
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first week of december
cod fishing is still fishing very well seeing over 20 a trip small ones and big avarage around 5 to 8 lb the roker are still around too we see some very nice whiting last trip 2 lb along with plenty of small ones doggys are slowly thining out giving the cod a better chance
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01/12/2012
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)
1 Dec 2012 by Scott Belbin
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Another lovely day out of the water. Started today off with a bird watching trip this morning, saw lots of dunlin, blacktailed and bartailed Godwits, Curlew, Redshank and loads of Grebe and dabchicks out on the water too. Then we stumbled across an extremely tame or maybe just a very photogenic Cormorant that wasn't phased by use circling the mooring it was perched on. This afternoon I headed out with Robbie and his Step son Michael who hadn't been fishing before and at 11yrs old he was dying to give it ago. We anchored up and within 10 minutes Robbie had a decent fish on, unfortunately he was too keen and struck too early so lost it. Michael started catching his first whiting and then just after high water he hooked into his first codling. He is a quick learner, he soon got yhe hang of it and left his step dad on zero cod for the rest of the afternoon until on that very last cast when Robbie reeled his last rod in and caught a codling too. He was pleased he'd levelled with Michael. Although Michaels was bigger and he had caught a lovely whiting for his tea too! An enjoyable day had by all.
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24/11/2012
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
24 Nov 2012 by Ray Martin
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Fished a mark about 10 mins from my mooring yesterday.. wind was a bit fresh and against tide so had to stay near home.. all newbies to fishing.. first cast was a 7lb skate for a 12 year old lad, never fished before.. then a 10lb cod for an 86 year old guy who only ever fresh water fished before many years ago.. then the usual small Whiting and of course lots of dogfish.. then 3 more 3-5 lb cod and another skate at 8lb.. everyone enjoyed the day despite strong winds and non stop rain.. happy days..
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