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25/09/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
25 Sep 2021 by Colin De Block
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A great day out for the lads from Thorpe Bay angling association on Lead Us charters
With a 5lb smoothound being landed within the first 5mins which marked the start of a great day's fishing for all involved
With a total of 7 species including a codling 1.5lb the first of the season, Thornback ray 6lb, Hounds to 6lb plenty of quality Whiting , Pout , Dab and of course lots of spotty dogs .
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26/07/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
26 Jul 2021 by Colin De Block
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27 July at 07:42 ·
WHAT A DAY ON LEAD US MONDAY 26/07/21
With perfect conditions we headed out of Lowestoft on Lead us once on the mark the Bass started coming in one at a time to start with then in 2's, 3's, then 5's and 6 at a time providing some very hectic sport for the team and keeping me on my toes with the net, with almost 40 being landed
A short move at slack water also produced some nice hounds a ray and plenty of whiting thanks to the team for their efforts and a great day had by all
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29/05/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
29 May 2021 by Colin De Block
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A quick update from Lead Us charters covering the last three trips , the fishing has been excellent at the moment with plenty of quality fish coming aboard with a good mixture of Hounds , Rays , Cod , Doggies and Whiting keeping us extremely busy at times. A nice Thornback at 11lbs
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07/05/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
7 May 2021 by Colin De Block
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It was great to get back out on a fishing charter boat again yesterday, in particular because I was in the company of good friends both serving and retired RAF. Originally we had Colin De Block's boat Lead Us booked for Sunday, but after looking at the weekend weather forecast and having a cancellation for yesterday, boat skipper Colin prudently decided to alter the booking!
To avoid excess traffic disruption, the road bridge that crosses over the harbour entrance at Lowestoft only opens at set times and it meant an early start for all of us to catch the 7am opening. Once through the bridge, we led a small flotilla of catamaran support and transfer vessels out into the open sea, where Colin turned Lead Us to the north towards his first chosen mark.
After a relatively short passage in a calm sea, with the sun risen nicely in the sky, Colin slowed the boat to find a single-crewed Warrior 16 sat exactly where he wanted to anchor! As Colin anchored Lead Us a safe separation distance to the east, the guy on the Warrior brought aboard a succession of whiting and dogs and appeared to be struggling to keep up with baiting up the three rods he was using, so things were looking promising!
As soon as the boat was nicely settled on the anchor, Colin gave the all clear for lines down. I've been struggling with a bad back, so instead of going flat out for smaller fish in competition mode, I decided to fish just one rod with bigger baits, to try and hook up with something decent and have a relaxing day. Everyone else was using two rods and soon the inevitable dogs, some decent whiting and small hounds started to come aboard. Meanwhile, I tied a Cox and Rawle 5/0 onto a span of 40lb fluorocarbon line, put on a whole large hermit crab (courtesy of Matt Overton of Sukat Fisheries), chucked it across and into the tide, then sat down on my box to relax my back!
Colin soon had the kettle on and took the order for teas or coffees, then passed round the first of many cups, that were most welcome throughout the day. Our group was one short due to one that couldn't make it due to the date change (shame about that Scotty!), so Colin came out of his cabin to fish next to me. He cast a two hook rig uptide and soon his rod was bouncing away with a dog on the worm baited top hook and a small hound on the other peeler baited hook. I was struggling on the hermit baited rig though, missing bouncing hound bites completely, or dropping hounds on the retrieve. But I persisted with the same method, hoping for the one lunker fish that would make my day.
Eventually the tide run died away and Colin decided to move out to a deeper mark that would hopefully offer us some more run. His new boat is a lot faster than the previous Lead Us and we were soon fishing on the new mark, where Colin fired up the cooker to warm up the first batch of sausage rolls for his hungry customers! I had managed just one dogfish on the first mark, that had managed to get its greedy jaws round a whole hermit! But unfortunately the larger fish didn't come out to play for me on the second mark either and the big baits went largely untouched. Although a smattering of dogs, whiting and small hounds continued to come aboard for my mates around the boat.
All too soon the tide run died again and Colin announced a final move inshore again to catch the run after slack water. Once anchored, I changed tactics to a standard up and over clipped shore rig, with a Kamasan B940S and Chinu 2/0 pennell. Once baited with a peeler crab and hermit tail cocktail, I clipped the rig and cast it away from the boat. The result was almost instantaneous, with a half decent hound tripping the lead downtide and after a brief struggle, lifted aboard. Significantly, the hound was hooked neatly on the upper Chinu, with the rest of the bait hanging outside the mouth. A quick wrap of the same bait with crab elastic and the rig was launched to the same area, where a repeat process resulted in another hound of similar size, again hooked on the Chinu. Next cast soon resulted in a dreaded dogfish which destroyed the crab cocktail, so my thoughts of catching hound after hound on the same bait were not realised!
Everyone around the boat was catching, with Wiggy at the back of the boat catching a decent hound of over 8lb, amongst the stream of dogs and whiting. Daz was doing well too at starboard cabin boy position, bringing a couple of 8lb plus hounds to the net, as he edged closer to his target of ten hounds for the day. Nige and his brother Steve were also catching plenty of fish, so it was all most enjoyable. Colin was busy with the kettle and sausage roll production line, so I was watching his rod tip, which was directly in my line of sight. I was calling out bite after bite for him, but he was suffering from my earlier woes, missing bites and losing fish. Then I had a relatively gentle bite on my rod and hooked into a really feisty hound, that gave a good account of itself, taking line against the drag. The way it fought, I could have sworn it was the first double of the day, but was a bit disappointed when it only took the scales round to 8.5lb.
Daz reached his target of ten hounds, then Colin called lines up at 15:10, so we could get back in to catch the next bridge opening at 16:00. His rod had been gently knocking and as he went to pull in, it was obvious there was something decent pulling back on the end. After a short but lively battle, I was on successful netting duty as a cracking 12lb plus female hound surfaced, which was a new PB for Colin. So a perfect end to a really nice day's fishing.
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07/05/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
7 May 2021 by Colin De Block
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It was great to get back out on a fishing charter boat again yesterday, in particular because I was in the company of good friends both serving and retired RAF. Originally we had Colin De Block's boat Lead Us booked for Sunday, but after looking at the weekend weather forecast and having a cancellation for yesterday, boat skipper Colin prudently decided to alter the booking!
To avoid excess traffic disruption, the road bridge that crosses over the harbour entrance at Lowestoft only opens at set times and it meant an early start for all of us to catch the 7am opening. Once through the bridge, we led a small flotilla of catamaran support and transfer vessels out into the open sea, where Colin turned Lead Us to the north towards his first chosen mark.
After a relatively short passage in a calm sea, with the sun risen nicely in the sky, Colin slowed the boat to find a single-crewed Warrior 16 sat exactly where he wanted to anchor! As Colin anchored Lead Us a safe separation distance to the east, the guy on the Warrior brought aboard a succession of whiting and dogs and appeared to be struggling to keep up with baiting up the three rods he was using, so things were looking promising!
As soon as the boat was nicely settled on the anchor, Colin gave the all clear for lines down. I've been struggling with a bad back, so instead of going flat out for smaller fish in competition mode, I decided to fish just one rod with bigger baits, to try and hook up with something decent and have a relaxing day. Everyone else was using two rods and soon the inevitable dogs, some decent whiting and small hounds started to come aboard. Meanwhile, I tied a Cox and Rawle 5/0 onto a span of 40lb fluorocarbon line, put on a whole large hermit crab (courtesy of Matt Overton of Sukat Fisheries), chucked it across and into the tide, then sat down on my box to relax my back!
Colin soon had the kettle on and took the order for teas or coffees, then passed round the first of many cups, that were most welcome throughout the day. Our group was one short due to one that couldn't make it due to the date change (shame about that Scotty!), so Colin came out of his cabin to fish next to me. He cast a two hook rig uptide and soon his rod was bouncing away with a dog on the worm baited top hook and a small hound on the other peeler baited hook. I was struggling on the hermit baited rig though, missing bouncing hound bites completely, or dropping hounds on the retrieve. But I persisted with the same method, hoping for the one lunker fish that would make my day.
Eventually the tide run died away and Colin decided to move out to a deeper mark that would hopefully offer us some more run. His new boat is a lot faster than the previous Lead Us and we were soon fishing on the new mark, where Colin fired up the cooker to warm up the first batch of sausage rolls for his hungry customers! I had managed just one dogfish on the first mark, that had managed to get its greedy jaws round a whole hermit! But unfortunately the larger fish didn't come out to play for me on the second mark either and the big baits went largely untouched. Although a smattering of dogs, whiting and small hounds continued to come aboard for my mates around the boat.
All too soon the tide run died again and Colin announced a final move inshore again to catch the run after slack water. Once anchored, I changed tactics to a standard up and over clipped shore rig, with a Kamasan B940S and Chinu 2/0 pennell. Once baited with a peeler crab and hermit tail cocktail, I clipped the rig and cast it away from the boat. The result was almost instantaneous, with a half decent hound tripping the lead downtide and after a brief struggle, lifted aboard. Significantly, the hound was hooked neatly on the upper Chinu, with the rest of the bait hanging outside the mouth. A quick wrap of the same bait with crab elastic and the rig was launched to the same area, where a repeat process resulted in another hound of similar size, again hooked on the Chinu. Next cast soon resulted in a dreaded dogfish which destroyed the crab cocktail, so my thoughts of catching hound after hound on the same bait were not realised!
Everyone around the boat was catching, with Wiggy at the back of the boat catching a decent hound of over 8lb, amongst the stream of dogs and whiting. Daz was doing well too at starboard cabin boy position, bringing a couple of 8lb plus hounds to the net, as he edged closer to his target of ten hounds for the day. Nige and his brother Steve were also catching plenty of fish, so it was all most enjoyable. Colin was busy with the kettle and sausage roll production line, so I was watching his rod tip, which was directly in my line of sight. I was calling out bite after bite for him, but he was suffering from my earlier woes, missing bites and losing fish. Then I had a relatively gentle bite on my rod and hooked into a really feisty hound, that gave a good account of itself, taking line against the drag. The way it fought, I could have sworn it was the first double of the day, but was a bit disappointed when it only took the scales round to 8.5lb.
Daz reached his target of ten hounds, then Colin called lines up at 15:10, so we could get back in to catch the next bridge opening at 16:00. His rod had been gently knocking and as he went to pull in, it was obvious there was something decent pulling back on the end. After a short but lively battle, I was on successful netting duty as a cracking 12lb plus female hound surfaced, which was a new PB for Colin. So a perfect end to a really nice day's fishing.
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07/05/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
7 May 2021 by Colin De Block
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A great day chasing the hounds for the boys from the RAF and a PB for myself out of Lowestoft on Lead Us.
We fished three different marks which all produced fish the last being the most productive, fresh peeler crab being the most productive bait 30+ being landed and a lot lost , plenty of them were in the 6 to 8.5lb bracket and a PB for myself at 12lb
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24/04/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
24 Apr 2021 by Colin De Block
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Beginners luck for Ian on Lead Us a new boat record 24-04-21
What an introduction to angling for Ian first cast bang straight into this lovely 12lb Blonde Ray a PB for him and a new boat record. Well done Ian View Boats Page
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14/04/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
14 Apr 2021 by Colin De Block
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14 April at 10:18 ·
Mission accomplished eventually
After a 20 mile steam to the grounds that had been producing some nice Spurdogs we settled into fishing which was hard going due to the strength of the tide, at slack water with only a few spotties and whiting being landed we upped sticks and headed to a mark that was producing by this time with the ebb running hard and wind picking up making fishing really difficult, as tide tide eased Kevin Southey landed a lovely fish of 18lb and a new PB for him shortly followed by another of 14lb. After a short time I was into a good fish another Spurdog approx 12lb which was unfortunately lost at the net. A hard day on Lead Us but some nice fish in the end View Boats Page
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04/04/2021
Fishing Report by Colin De Block
on Lead Us (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
4 Apr 2021 by Colin De Block
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A great start back this week for Lead Us 05-04-2021, with plenty of fish on all three days . The first two days lots of Doggies , Whiting and Dabs keeping the crews busy all day . And yesterday 4th topping all three with 5 species, Doggies, Whiting , Bass , Codling and Thornback Ray
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12/2020
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
Dec 2020 by brian poppy
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The fishing has been very good just lately with a run of small Cod to keep us all very happy with fish all between 2lb--4lb iam sure there will be some bigger fish show up very soon iam hoping to get out to the shoal as at this time of year we normally get those fish that we used to get 40 years ago off the beach,have a great xmas all and look forward to seeing you in 2021 to book a trip call 07771926590.
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