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  • 24/11/2012 Fishing Report by Scott Belbin on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)

    24 Nov 2012 by Scott Belbin

    Report on-board Lady Grace

    Today I headed out with Stewart and his son Tom of 10yrs old and Tom's friend Harry. We got to our mark just before high water and fished up until slack and luckily the tide started ebbing quite quickly. Tom showed his dad and friend how to do it by catching the first whiting, then his dad caught one and all of a sudden there was no stopping Tom, he was hauling in whiting every cast while Harry watched and waited patiently, finally Harry started catching a few whiting too and then quietly he reeled in his first ever codling. After a slow start Harry was neck and neck with Tom on the whiting front and had a codling too. Although his codling was sized, he let it go to live another day so he could catch it again next time he came out. Tom ended with 14 whiting and Harry had 13 whiting and 1 codling. We headed in from our 4hour trip with 2 very happy boys and a very pleased dad. I was even happier when I realised that all the big boats that had been out all day had struggled to catch codling, 3only had whiting all day and codling at all so we had one lucky codling aboard Lady Grace.

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