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  • 07/11/2015 Fishing Report by TERRY BATT on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)

    7 Nov 2015 by TERRY BATT

    Report on-board Vanishing Point-2

    Well yesterday (Saturday 7th Nov) was challenging to say the least...! when we left Bradwell at 0800 we had about 40 minutes of a dying if not dead 5.0 metre tide, so we took a slow ride down to the mouth of the river Blackwater, and breaking cover from the Dengie Peninsular,and started to feel the full force of the 26 mph Southerly wind that was relentless, but we dropped the anchor to see how we were going to lay, and of course we lay to wind, so not to bad,.....
    The boys started to fish, and to be honest it was quite comfortable and quite warm 18 degrees..!!, and within 10 minutes the first Thornback was netted.then another , then another..... once again it was like a spring Roker trip, I think our glob trotting Ron (Florida Ron...lol) would have been proud. well after 3 hours of the ebb done and the Southerly wind had now picked up to a max of 47 mph we were beam on by now, and although a little roly, even on our big cat, wasn't too bad, but we had 6 decent Thornback Rays, some big Whiting, doggies, and some lovely Dabs, but no Cod, so we decided to up stumps and head back inside the river.

    Stuart Belbin on Razorbill out of West Mersea came down to where we were Roker fishing, and I told him on the radio we were getting some nice Skate, and he dropped in behind us, but he was only there for about 30 minutes, then he went back to join Scott his son on Galloper, in the river, but we were still catching so we stayed for a while longer, but for once the forecast was right..!! and the wind did pick up all the time until it maxed out to 47 mph on my wind monitor, so that's when we went back into the river, plenty of decent Whiting, and Doggies in the river, but not really what my party wanted, so we decided to knock it on the head and hour early and put an extra hour on their next trip on the 5th December, when hopefully the weather will be kinder to us and they can have their extra hours fishing caching Cod..!!!!

    Well not out today (Sunday 8th Dec) by choice, we are going to Norfolk to see my Daughter Michelle for a great show in the afternoon, and a massive fireworks display in the evening at Potters leisure where she works, then a lovely meal at the Black Rock restaurant, and probably stay over and return tomorrow.

    I have ... rightly or wrongly.... (i think rightly) cancelled Monday's trip looking at the weather, so we are putting it back to Thursday or Friday when the weather looks much better......!!

    Well that's it for now, hope you all have good fishing wherever you are fishing from today, and looks much better out there today so..... tight lines...!!

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