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  • 02/2019 Fishing Report by Scott Belbin on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)

    Feb 2019 by Scott Belbin

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    Im sorry for the lack of reports on here lately but to be honest there wasn’t much to shout about around here at the start of the year. After the Christmas period we saw the return of the cold weather and vast amounts of sprats and herring inshore. These combined ruined the inshore fishing for a few weeks. I ventured out a few times with the odd hardy and keen anglers just to see what was about but things were grim in places. We turned our attention to the flatties on a couple of trips and scratched out a few dabs and flounders along with the occasional pin whiting. Thankfully the lads were often happy just to be afloat and still had an enjoyable day. I am pleased to say that with the mild weather over the last couple of weeks and a lot of the sprats having moved out the fishing has greatly improved inshore. The thorn-backs are back on the move and there are some good fish amongst them. We often have some our biggest rays in this early part of the season and so far the biggest has been caught by one of our regulars Martin Ryan, it went 13-14lbs and was returned swiftly (as we do with all of our females). We havnt seen any codling as yet but you will be pleased to know the warmer weather will get the dogfish feeding again. As the bait fish move off we are often left with one or two decent whiting that have fattened up on the sprats. Offshore is much of the same along with a few spurdogs on the right tides.
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