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  • 27/04/2013 Fishing Report by Scott Belbin on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)

    27 Apr 2013 by Scott Belbin

    Report on-board Lady Grace

    Today I had 7 onboard, 3 adults and 4 children and we had 6 rods. We headed out and fished up to high water. It started off slow with a few bites and Tom was the first to catch, he had the Lady Graces' first ever Dogfish! One of the other men then had a whiting and then Matt decided to show them how to do it by catching the first skate. We quickly got his bait back in the water and weighed the skate, it was 5.2lb male and Matt decided he wanted to take that one home for his mum and dad. Almost straight away Matt was into his second skate weighing 5.11lb which was another male so he kept this one for his uncle Dean who had brought him to Mersea. Uncle Dean then caught a whiting and the gentleman opposite caught a dogfish then Matt eas into his third skate, this one weighed 5.4lb but was a female just giving birth so she went back to live another day. Shortly after Tom caught his first skate and had a helping hand by his dad Stewart , it was another female weighing 8.12lband soon after Dean had his first female skate too at 7.4lb. Then Matt was onto another fish, by now thry were all thinking of throwing him overboard, this time he had a 2.13lb cod. It then quietened down towards high water and we headed home just before the rain threw it down. We finished with 5 skate, 1 cod, 2 dogfish and 2 whiting. A nice mixture of fish for beginners to see and I am glad we didn't catch anymore as I was certainly kept busy enough with this group of children reeling in needing baiting up and casting out very frequently. All the female skate went back to live another day.

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