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  • 02/2016 Fishing Report by Scott Belbin on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)

    Feb 2016 by Scott Belbin

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    February wasn’t the easiest of months with a combination of poor weather and at times hit or miss fishing for us but things look to be on the up now. With regards to the weather I always look at it that if its rubbish one day we’ll get it back another day so with that in mind we must be due some good weather soon. With temperatures forecast to rise dramatically in the next few days this should help move things along a bit. we have been out once or twice a week and although the cod have been thin on the ground we have had a few good days on thorn-back rays. they have been a little hit and miss at times due to the cold weather but we have usually found some. The other day we had a good day despite less than perfect conditions. Thankfully we were able to take advantage of one of the many sheltered marks in our area to make things a little more comfortable. The day started off reasonable with a male ray of around 4-5lbs aboard on the second cast. We lost a better fish soon after but had a long wait before our next fish which was a small maid. With the tide running through nicely we should have been seeing more so we put a move in to our next mark. we spent the rest of our day here with rays coming out here and there for the rest of the day. most of the catch was made up of the smaller males although a couple of decent females came out. The biggest of which fell to Arthur and is the biggest so far this year at 17.1lbs. we also saw several whiting although mostly pin whiting as we’ve been seeing the last few weeks and we were overjoyed to catch two dogfish as well. We finished the day off with 23 rays and 7 happy anglers.
    Over the coming weeks things should liven up a bit, hopefully the weather will warm up and I’m sure we’ll see a spring run of cod yet. There’s plenty of time for it to happen yet as the best of last years fishing wasn’t until Easter. Even with out the cod there’s plenty to be had with rays ect and hopefully I’ll get offshore to see what’s off there soon too.
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