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  • 22/06/2015 Fishing Report by TERRY BATT on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)

    22 Jun 2015 by TERRY BATT

    Report on-board Vanishing Point-2

    Hi Guys,
    well the weather forecast was as usual very wrong suppose to have been a great week... start of summer??? instead it blew 20 to 30 mph most days..!!.

    Monday we went Bass fishing and the wind blew at 30 mph, so we went up river to have ago at the Bass in shallow water, and once anchored in 4 feet of water we got a Bass on the first cast, and several other takes, but the weed was horrendous, so we pushed further up river to the mussel beds to see if it was any better there, well it was marginally better but still very weedy.
    so we then went 5 miles East to have a go for Bass outside the shelter of the river on a big sand bar, but no joy there, we had some Skate but not what we was after.

    So the boys decided to take on the weed again up river, and they did persevere, but all we got was a heap of schoolies, so not our best hour...

    Tuesday 16thJune
    saw Vere's party on the boat, they had a reasonable day with lots of Skate and great banter, but again the weather played it's part .!!!

    Wednesday 17th
    June was Engine's service day...!!!! eerrrrr!!! but done now, in readiness for our long off-shore Tope trip the next day..

    Thursday18th June
    was forecast to be 4 mph Westerly...Fantastic..!!!!! yay..!!! at last, but no..!!! 28 to 30 mph West North west, but we still went out to the Knock deep, where we found our quarry first fish up was a lovely 40 lbs male, and the tide was running hard as it was a 6 metre tide, but we were up shallow so manageable, we had some good sport with some fish landed, and other ferocious runs of 60 to 70 yard runs and then after a while managed to throw the hook....dam..!! but a great day was had by all, well done Paul nice PB..!!

    Saturday 20th June,
    We had a group of individuals, and be had a great day on the Smoothounds, Tom who had never fished for these fish was just blown away with the sheer power of these lovely sport fish..!! ( Photo inset of Tom's first hound)

    Sunday 21st June
    once again, the party wanted to go Bass fishing, and got their own bait, Lugworm, & Ragworm , well I don't think I have ever seen bait in such terrible condition, the Lug, when opened was just a big blob of smelly jelly mess, and the Ragworm was all dead and rotting, so it was a good job we had Herring, squid, and hermit crab on board, so we took them Hound fishing for a couple of hours, then at low water they wanted to try fishing for Skate, it was hard at first, as once again the wind was blowing at 27 mph dead Westerly, wind dead against the tide..!! so the boat was swinging about for a while, but once we settled the boys got a nice few Skate, which they were still skinning as I approached Bradwell Marina.... lol, but they all seemed to have enjoyed their day out.

    Well that just about wraps things up for last week...! will be back after our next adventure on Vanishing Point-2

    Tight lines............!!!.

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