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11/2015
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
Nov 2015 by Scott Belbin
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Sorry my November report is a little late but although we may not have been quite as busy afloat the last few weeks due to the weather I have still been rushed off my feet on the shore in between our trips. As you may have gathered the cod fishing has slowed down a bit inshore and the weather hasn’t allowed us to get offshore much lately either. This hasn’t stopped us getting out though and as usual the blackwater estuary has kept us busy and provided plenty of shelter along with a good days fishing. Personally I like the mild weather, it usually helps most of our fish hang around a bit and at the moment its keeping the dogfish and thorn-backs around in good numbers. I think as is often the case there will be several factors in the cod catches dropping off. I think the main one will be the large numbers of bait fish that have arrived. There’s certainly lots of herring there and maybe one of two sprats. On the last trip they looked well spread out and broken up but this is to be expected after the wind we’ve had over the last few weeks. as I mentioned this hasn’t stopped us getting out even in some of the worst winds. One note able weekend was when we were joined by the lads from the England boat team. The weekend had been organised by Rolf it and being fairly local himself was keen to show off the sheltered fishing we had on offer. This weekend turned out to be perfect for us as we wouldn’t have got anywhere else but the estuary. The lads had been split up in to two teams, on day 1 one would team fish on my boat and the other on dads on day 2 half of each team would swap boats. Day one was wet and windy but we got to where we wanted to fish and had lots of fish aboard the boats. With the points system the lads were using numbers was the key and we weren’t disappointed with plenty of treble shots of whiting, dogfish codling and the odd ray. Day two was dry but very windy so we ended up seeking shelter even further up the blackwater. The whiting didn’t let us down and we saw several dogfish, a few dabs and thorn-backs along with a tub gurnard. As the tide got up there was no respite from the strong winds but the lads fished on and were rewarded with more treble shots of fish. after the weekend the feedback from the lads was good and I hope we did our area justice in some undesirable conditions. It was really interesting for myself and dad to see how the lads fished and we may have picked up some different methods along the way.
Over the coming weeks I have a few spaces available on either offshore or general trips and I am obviously taking bookings for next year too. the numbers of cod may have dipped but they are still a good stamp and if we can find them the rays are filling the gap a bit. last trip we had 17 and 3 cod along with plenty of whiting and dogfish.
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