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  • 29/06/2015 Fishing Report by TERRY BATT on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)

    29 Jun 2015 by TERRY BATT

    Report on-board Vanishing Point-2

    Hi Gareth, Monday got cancelled due to unbelievable circumstances, two car crashes, and accident at work, and an unexpected hospital appointment, but these things happen..! but we were not busy during last week, so Wednesday we were off, lovely day, high expectations of big Smoothounds as it was a dedicated hound trip. But....!!!!! when we arrived on site pot to collect our hermit crab pot, which had been down for a few days, we should have had about 150/200 hermit crabs in, but sadly nothing..!!! once again, small private fishing boats are leaving port early, and pulling our pots, they empty them out, and just throw the pot back in the water, not even baited up, and this has got to STOP..!! we had no option to return to Bradwell, and say goodbye to our party, who were not pleased, as they all took a day off of work, and didn't want to fish for Skate, as they had their last few trips catching them, so we lost £450. 00 charter fee, the party all lost a days fishing and a days holiday, and it cost us around £50 in diesel to and from the site where our pot was. This mindless act of theft has a massive impact on our living,... and it is our living!! and as if that wasn't bad enough, we went to pick our pot up last evening ready for today's trip, and guess what..??? yep it took me and Nicola 15 mins to even find our pot, it was a quarter of a mile away from where we dropped it, when we did eventually find it, and retrieve it, there was a few hermit crabs in it, as who ever stole our crabs did have a bit of a guilt, as they did put in 3 mackerel a whiting and a pouting, then threw it over the side with all the ground gear wrapped around the pot so it didn't fish well at all ...!!! PLEAS PLEASE..!!!!! guys, who ever you are???, please stop pulling our crab pots..!! as with summer fishing ramping up, all the professional charter fleet are busy, and we are struggling for bait as it is, and we don't charge for these crabs, we harvest them for our parties to try to help with the cost of the day, the last thing we need is to have to cancel a trip once we are actually on it, like I had to do this week, and lose hundreds of pounds.. But the weekends fishing was very good, lots of hounds, one or two Bass, still some Whiting being landed, and a shed load of spotty dogs... Ok well, we are off today with a fisheries MEP on board, he wants to see first hand the state of our fishing, well he certainly has a nice day for it, I will put photos up later and see if you recognize any one... Tight lines
    ( and please whoever you are, leave our pots alone)


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