Latest Fishing Reports: Essex

  • 16/06/2014 Fishing Report by Mark Peters on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)

    16 Jun 2014 by Mark Peters

    Report on-board DAWN TIDE II

    JUNE 2014

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    SKIPPER MARK PETERS

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  • 16/06/2014 Fishing Report by Mark Peters on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)

    16 Jun 2014 by Mark Peters

    Report on-board DAWN TIDE II

    JUNE 2014

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    www.dawntidecharterfishing.co.uk
    SKIPPER MARK PETERS

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  • 08/06/2014 Fishing Report by Ray Martin on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)

    8 Jun 2014 by Ray Martin

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    Another cracking weekends fishing
    The mackerel have arrived and are in good numbers, plenty of hounds about but no big ones yet....
    We had numerous species, cod,scad,dogs,bass,hounds,pouting,whiting and skate all on the same mark.
    I have spaces this Friday for individuals.

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  • 01/06/2014 Fishing Report by Ron Angel on Why Worry (Burnham-On-Crouch, Essex)

    1 Jun 2014 by Ron Angel

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    Had the pleasure of meeting George and his party last weekend. What nice guys to have aboard. Quick learners for guys that don't get to fish too often. It was a special Birthday trip and I hope you all had a good day. Mackerel, Hounds, Roker, a summer Cod and a nice Gurnard came aboard.
    Look forward to seeing you guys again.

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  • 01/06/2014 Fishing Report by Ray Martin on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)

    1 Jun 2014 by Ray Martin

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    What a couple of weeks of superb fishing!
    B/hol Monday we braved a fresh nw breeze and went to my favourite skate mark 18 skate and a nice lot of hounds
    Had to move when tide turned as it became too uncomfortable so headed for shelter.. Found a shoal of bass and ended up with a great haul.

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  • 05/2014 Fishing Report by Scott Belbin on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)

    May 2014 by Scott Belbin

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    May was another busy month aboard the 'galloper'. We were lucky enough to get most of our trips in with some very good weather at times. May has marked the transition from spring to summer with a few late winter species showing earlier in the month and summer species arriving in the form of mackerel and tope. We had some more big numbers of thorn-backs at the start of the month with some of our customers choosing to target them over the bass which also showed in decent numbers. We had several days with 35-50 coming out on several trips. Thankfully there have still been a few rays in the estuary which have saved the odd day when it has been windy.
    The last couple of weeks have seen the biggest change and although the odd cod has still been showing it seems summer is here with good numbers of hounds spread throughout most area's. Most of these have been the 3-7lbs fish which are great sport on light gear although 'big guy' did manage a double figure one on a trip with us the other day. The main numbers of the bass have slowed down on the ground fishing. However there's a few coming out on most trips and there will still be good numbers to be had over the coming weeks either on lures or offshore. The most promising signs of summer have been the big number of mackerel which are no doubt helped by the warmer weather and more settled conditions than last summer.
    Sundays trip saw a surprise for one of our regulars john. As usual we were having several last casts and were rewarded with a nice early tope of 13lbs. This is no monster but what was surprising was john managed to get her in on a 35lb trace having hooked her in the scissors. The tope can often turn up this early and with the warm spring we've had I thought there might be one or two about. Its typical that we had two rods out with fresh mackerel yesterday and didn’t have a sniff. The trip was fairly typical of late other than that with a nice mixed bag coming out. We had 14 or so rays, 20 odd hounds loads of dogfish a bass a dab and a tope.
    The thorn-backs will hang around over the next few weeks and slowly move further out as the summer goes by. If we're lucky we should see the first run of bigger hounds in the next week or two. Im hoping that seeing the first couple if smaller tope is a good sign for the season ahead. Were due a good year and those mackerel will make great fresh bait. As I mentioned bass will show on many trips with worm helping to target them. If conditions are right then we'll have a go with feathers or red gills and I have a few trips in search of them offshore coming up.
    With regards to baits Squid will pick most fish up, worm is best for targeting bass and crab for smooth-hounds. If targeting tope then fresh mackerel is great and can pick up the odd decent bass too. for more information, available dates and a weekly fishing update visit www.essexseafishing.co.uk
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  • 05/2014 Fishing Report by LESTER BAKER on Seawatch1 (Brightlingsea, Essex)

    May 2014 by LESTER BAKER

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    Been a while since my last report and the transition from spring to summer fishing is well under way in our area,still plenty of rays which have been joined by bass in numbers to worm baits in the right places mainly schoolies with the odd better fish..Smoothounds beginning to show here and there with the signs looking good for the summer fishing even had one or two small tope showing inshore already so looking forward to finding a few bigger ones in the next few weeks.

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  • 26/05/2014 Fishing Report by Mark Peters on DAWN TIDE II (Wallasea Island, Essex)

    26 May 2014 by Mark Peters

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    may the 26th 2014

    Had some good trips recently best trip was 72 bass 53 keepers up to 4.5lb. plenty of hounds about bigger ones slowly showing up had them up to 11lb so far skate are still about patchy at times but still showing well. The mackerel are well and truly in had over 150 last trip getting them most trips on the way out the skate bass and tope love it. Tope are showing had the smaller ones this weekend herd report of double figure ones offshore so looking to be a good season book in advance so you don't get disappointed when the time comes thanks skipper mark peters

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  • 17/05/2014 Fishing Report by Ray Martin on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)

    17 May 2014 by Ray Martin

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    The fishing is getting better and better... Hounds have shown and are getting bigger, large numbers of skate and bass !!
    We had a nice lot from a lower river mark and will be going again b/hol Monday,
    Spaces still available

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  • 05/2014 Fishing Report by John Dickens on Lisa Jane (Canvey Island, Essex)

    May 2014 by John Dickens

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    Now in may and fishing has got a lot betta getting smoothounds skate dogs odd dab lots of whiting still about and the odd tub gurhard

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