Latest Fishing Reports: Essex
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19/03/2017
Fishing Report by Phil White
on Chinook 3 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
19 Mar 2017 by Phil White
Report on-board Chinook 3
The last fortnight has seen a big influx of thornback rays into all the inshore areas in the Thames Estuary. These fish are early this year but with the lack of cod they are very welcome.
We are starting to see some big female rays with one reported at 20 lb last week, the best we saw on Saturday was a whopper caught by Peter Hudson at 16 lb. Not only was this his best thronback but his biggest ever fish. All the females are carrying eggs and should be returned alive.
Best baits are herring, squid, mackerel and most other fishy baits, remember to use heavy traces and strong hooks as the trace quite often gets caught around their spines and tail.
The piers and shore marks are fishing well for thornbacks, whiting and dabs with the bigger tides best, mid flood to mid ebb usually. Quite often this time of year you see some different species like gurnards or other flatties.
Offshore has been good for thornbacks, whiting and dabs with some dogfish turning up, best baits are squid and herring although if you want a chance of a spurdog then mackerel is very good as well. These hard fighting sharks give good sport and are protected so should be returned alive. They can grow up to 25 lb or so
Prospects are excellent, there will be some spurdogs turning up in a few offshore places soon, lots more thornbacks and odd bass.
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03/2017
Fishing Report by LESTER BAKER
on Seawatch1 (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Mar 2017 by LESTER BAKER
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After a long hard winters fishing the last few weeks have seen some good catches of early Thornbacks and prospects look good for some bumper days on these rod bending fish over the next couple of months along with the arrival of other summer species
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03/2017
Fishing Report by Mark Peters
on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)
Mar 2017 by Mark Peters
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Well over 100 thornback Rays this weekends 11th 12th march 2017 bigest 15lb fantastic start to the season time to get aboard DAWN TIDE II call 07523488290
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03/2017
Fishing Report by Terry Bolingbroke
on Gloria B11 (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Mar 2017 by Terry Bolingbroke
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Hearing good catches of skate and small cod looking forward to getting out there soon hopefully the weather will hold out
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09/03/2017
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
9 Mar 2017 by TERRY BATT
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With lots of Thornback Rays coming in now and fishing is good.......!!
We find ourselves with a completely empty boat for this coming Saturday 11th due to a late cancellation.
So if you have a fishing party that want to go fishing call ..... 07768306646 View Boats Page
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03/2017
Fishing Report by Trevor Crawley
on Girl Mandy (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
Mar 2017 by Trevor Crawley
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Just to put certain facts straight we are out as much as we can and only loose a few trips due to bad weather but i cant see the point in going on and on about whose boat is best at nearly 13 ton in weight we can hold our own in most weather so size does not matter all the time we may not be the fastest but a track record of nearly 48 years in the job i dont need to bullshit we are all trying to do a job. Fishing has improved and a good amount of double figure skate coming to the net plus our friends the dogfish have made a show along with some good whiting but alas no cod We have a few good tides left so get your gear and get out here men and ladies
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08/03/2017
Fishing Report by TERRY BATT
on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)
8 Mar 2017 by TERRY BATT
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With fishing picking up nicely now, and the finest charter boat in the fleet that gets out when most other cannot due to wind....!
There are some really nice big Thornbacks Rays coming out at the moment, so well worth a trip to put a good bend back in those rods that have been put away all winter.
Not forgetting on the Vanishing Point-2 we do clay pigeon shooting for those more competitive groups, and is also a lot of fun.
Call Terry or Nicola on : 07768306646 View Boats Page
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04/03/2017
Fishing Report by carl porter
on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)
4 Mar 2017 by carl porter
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WERE BACK
seeng as the cod fishing failed to materialise this winter we decided to pull the boat out and have a proper clean up and add some more gadgets!!
a new five year codeing has been issued ensuring she is fully compliant and is fully up to date with all safety an life saving equipment
refurbished propellors and a sqeaky clean hull will ensure a fast ride out to those offshore banks
looking forward to the summer now and those big smoothounds and the plaice and turbot fishery we only just
scratched the surface of last year
our first trip this weekend produced over 50 skate for one of our regular crews !!! no monsters but a lot of fun after 3 months ashore ! as the days grow longer and the water warms we should see plenty more and the big girls View Boats Page
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03/2017
Fishing Report by Terry Bolingbroke
on Gloria B11 (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Mar 2017 by Terry Bolingbroke
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Reports of larger numbers of skate coming in in big quantities book now for walk on trips and parties contact Terry or Lee details full details on the website
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05/03/2017
Fishing Report by Ray Martin
on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
5 Mar 2017 by Ray Martin
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Fishing has finally improved with good numbers of skate moving in.
should get better and better :) View Boats Page
