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  • 04/10/2015 Fishing Report by TERRY BATT on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)

    4 Oct 2015 by TERRY BATT

    Report on-board Vanishing Point-2

    Many congratulations to Ron with a lovely 17 lbs Cod, a real character who catches real fish..!! well we stayed inside yesterday, and had a cracking day, first we dropped about 1 mile from the shore line, but realised even with 3 hours of ebb tide left, it just was not running hard enough to catch fish..so we pulled the anchor and move 1,75 miles South, into deeper water of the Wallet and we found the run we needed to fish properly...! it wasn't long before the first decent Roker came up and that started the trend, Nicola warned the guys not to keep to many unless they were able to deal with them, which none of them could, so I think they kept around 4 or 5 which Nic kindly gutted and skinned for them. We found as Ron accurately reported, the Codling were tightly bunched, and you were either on them or you weren't..!! and we found most bites were very shy, so Nicola got out her Rod baited with a whole Squid, and I said to the guys... I know who I am putting my money on...!!!! and within 7 or 8 minutes she popped a lovely Codling on the deck, and said to the boys.... "now that's the way to do it" and kindly gave the fish to one guy who was struggling a bit, so that made his day... ( bet he told his wife he caught it) but we did well enough, but around 11.20 am when the tide was on the turn, we did go back inside a mile off the shore line for the flood ,(we passed "Hard Labour" just getting ready for the flood so hopefully they did well, always nice to see the lads from the Crouch) ...! and yeah nice bit of run on the tide, and more Rokers and more decent Codling to 9.5 lbs... well after such a blinding weekend of weather, after all those Easterly winds of last week, looks as though we have some doggy weather to look forward to this week, but the saving grace is there are some good Codling in the river Blackwater now, fair bit of weed to unfortunately but hey... that goes with the territory ..we are out as from Wednesday onwards so will report in as the week unfolds.

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