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  • 11/11/2012 Fishing Report by Scott Belbin on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)

    11 Nov 2012 by Scott Belbin

    Report on-board Lady Grace

    Well Saturday I let Scott take Lady Grace out for a short fishing trip in the River with 5 expert fishermen aboard, including Russell. I went along for the ride as I couldn't have Scott catching the first codling of the season aboard Lady Grace without me on there. We headed out for the first of the ebb where we set up anchor and caught alot of nice sized whiting through the day waiting eagerly for a codling but Mr Cod didn't show so Scott decided to have a move for the last hour and a half to try his luck on another mark. This second mark also produced a few whiting before the tide died off and we headed in. Sunday morning came and it was my turn to be skipper and I was determined to catch a codling today, as we headed out I told my fishing party that although it wasn't a competition between Scott and I, I would be deeply let down by them if we didn't catch a codling today and that they would have to swim back. We anchored up on the edge for the last of the flood and the first of the ebb where we proceeded to catch whiting in mixed sizes, not quite as big as the day before but still good fun for those that hadn't been fishing before. Just as I was contemplating moving down into the deeper water one of the lads had a decent bite which when he hooked into it, I knew it had to be a codling the way it was nodding so immediately got the net ready so we didn't have any chances of loosing it and success - we had our first 2lb codling of the season aboard Lady Grace with me as skipper. I had beat the old man! The sweet smell of success. Just as we all checked and rebaited our rods the seal popped his head up and swam round the boat and the tide had died a little so we didnt seem to get many bites so I headed off to my deeper mark where we anchored up for the last couple of hours. We caught more whiting and just on our last cast I had a lovely dab which I offered to the men to take home for their dinner which they did. So we had a second last cast before heading home joyously knowing we had beaten Scott with his experienced anglers the day before. To be fair, there was a fair jump in the height of tide which may have had something to do with it but we wont admit this to Scott, we will say it was pure skill on my part.

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