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  • 20/10/2015 Fishing Report by TERRY BATT on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)

    20 Oct 2015 by TERRY BATT

    Report on-board Vanishing Point-2

    Bloody wind...!!!! we woke up yesterday (21/10/15) and once again the wind was howling from the SW, but we did have options..!! either stay in the river Blackwater all day, or push on Eastward some 12 miles, and we could fish the last two hours of the ebb tide with wind and tide together... we should have had three hours of ebb to fish but sadly there was a crash on the motorway which made half of our party from Kent an hour late..!! which kind of didn't go down too well with the rest of the party, but as a skipper. knowing the boys were on the road, I really had to wait for them, because if I just left without them, we would have been around £250.00 out of pocket, and I am sure no one would have volunteered to pay double to make up the shortfall, but as irritating as it was, no one can help a motorway crash... so we just waited for them.

    Nice bunch of lads, and when we finally got out of the marina, we put the pedal to the metal and cruised Vanishing Point-2 to 24 knots and was down on the fishing ground in about 30 minutes.

    Once we got fishing, it wasn't long before the first doggies and Whiting started coming over the side, then after about 25 minutes the first Codling caught by Ken Pipe rolled into the boat, then Colin got one, then Ken got another one...! then Colin replies with a second Codling.... blimey it was like the Ken and Colin show....lol.

    But with the wind increasing to 42 mph and the tide was dying on it's feet, I waited to the last possible minute to pull the anchor and head back to the river, I would have liked to have taken a slow ride back, but with the wind blowing hard against what little tide there was, the sea was quite lumpy, about 1.2 meters and my boat don't like to go slow in a heavy sea so I had to bring her up to 20 knots plus and iron out the sea, put on a movie and head back to the comfort of the river.

    Once anchored up in the Backwater, we lay more to wind, as the tide was quite small, 5.2 metres, so after a while we deployed our drogue, which after a short while did pull the boat round the right way..!!!

    Once settled the boys started caching Whiting, crabs... lots of Crabs...dough..!! then we saw another couple of Coding come to the boat before it was time to go home..... It wasn't the best day we ever had, but we can only play the hand we are dealt..!! but all the lads, well most of the lads, enjoyed their day and vowed to return to fish another day... like next week..!!! and hopefully the weather will be kind to us and we can catch them a nice feed of plump fresh Cod and Skate.....Tight lines..!!!!!!!!!!!


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