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11/11/2012
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Lady Grace (Brightlingsea, Essex)
11 Nov 2012 by Scott Belbin
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Well Saturday I let Scott take Lady Grace out for a short fishing trip in the River with 5 expert fishermen aboard, including Russell. I went along for the ride as I couldn't have Scott catching the first codling of the season aboard Lady Grace without me on there. We headed out for the first of the ebb where we set up anchor and caught alot of nice sized whiting through the day waiting eagerly for a codling but Mr Cod didn't show so Scott decided to have a move for the last hour and a half to try his luck on another mark. This second mark also produced a few whiting before the tide died off and we headed in. Sunday morning came and it was my turn to be skipper and I was determined to catch a codling today, as we headed out I told my fishing party that although it wasn't a competition between Scott and I, I would be deeply let down by them if we didn't catch a codling today and that they would have to swim back. We anchored up on the edge for the last of the flood and the first of the ebb where we proceeded to catch whiting in mixed sizes, not quite as big as the day before but still good fun for those that hadn't been fishing before. Just as I was contemplating moving down into the deeper water one of the lads had a decent bite which when he hooked into it, I knew it had to be a codling the way it was nodding so immediately got the net ready so we didn't have any chances of loosing it and success - we had our first 2lb codling of the season aboard Lady Grace with me as skipper. I had beat the old man! The sweet smell of success. Just as we all checked and rebaited our rods the seal popped his head up and swam round the boat and the tide had died a little so we didnt seem to get many bites so I headed off to my deeper mark where we anchored up for the last couple of hours. We caught more whiting and just on our last cast I had a lovely dab which I offered to the men to take home for their dinner which they did. So we had a second last cast before heading home joyously knowing we had beaten Scott with his experienced anglers the day before. To be fair, there was a fair jump in the height of tide which may have had something to do with it but we wont admit this to Scott, we will say it was pure skill on my part.
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11/11/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
11 Nov 2012 by Gary Flint
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Sunday 11th November 2012 -Gaunt Trophy -
Today we had a group of guys on the boat, fishing for the chance to win the Gaunt Trophy. Fishing was quiet for the first hour until a few codling began to show around the 2lb mark. As the day progressed the fishing improved with some bigger cod showing up to 3lb 8oz. With the trophy being passed back and forth around the boat all day when somebody caught a bigger fish, jags decided to blow everybodys hopes and hooked and landed and lovely Cod that weighed in at 7lb 1oz. With this in the bag everybody began fishing hoping for an even bigger fish but that wasnt to happen and Jags ended up taking the Gaunt Trophy and 2nd Place in the Catagory of Most fish, which was won by Nathan.
Great Bunch of Lads.
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10/11/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
10 Nov 2012 by Gary Flint
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Saturday 10th November 2012
Todays trip was mainly a large group with a few individuals added. Fishing was quiet at first until the first Cod of the day was pulled aboard by Mike who normally beach fishes. It was a lovely fish that weighed in at 3lb. Some of the other guys on the boat hooked and landed some more cod around the 2-2.5lb mark. Plenty of decent sized whiting again. Best cod of the day was one that Mike caught weighing in at 4lb. Total fish. 9 Cod and plenty of whiting. A decent sized Thornback was lost at the back of the boat in the process of netting it. Estimated around the 7lb mark. Plenty of Dabs aswell.
Good day was had by all.
Gary View Boats Page
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09/11/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
9 Nov 2012 by Gary Flint
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Friday 9th November 2012 - Individuals -
Today saw us briging some new and old faces back out aboard Discovery. We set off up the river and began fishing. The anglers who had been out before began fishing while the new faces amongst us were given a demonstration on bait and the rods/reels etc. It didnt take long for Fiona to catch the first Cod of the day weighing in at just under 2lb. H who was fishing at the front began pulling in some nice sized whiting untill he had his first cod of the day at 3lb, closely follwed by another of 2lb 6oz.
Plenty more Cod were pulled aboard with until Robbie who was fishing from a boat for the first time decided to hook into a lovely Cod that gave him a good fight right the way to the surface. It wasnt until we were unhooking the fish that we noticed another rig was hanging from the side of the cods mouth. The fish weighed in at 7lb 9oz. Daz was looking at the rig when he noticed that the rig was similar to the one that Nick who was fishing with us on wednesday used. So comparing the rigs that Nick had left with us and this rig showed that they were infact identical, the knots were the same, swivels hooks and the lenght. This may well have been the fish that Nick lost on wednesday and we hooked and landed it 2miles further down the river 2 days later. But credit to Robbie for landing such a lovely fish on his first time boat fishing. Total fish for the day was 13 cod to 7lb 9 oz with plenty of whiting and dabs.
A superb day fishings
Gary View Boats Page
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08/11/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
8 Nov 2012 by Gary Flint
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Thursday 8 th November 2012 - Lookers-
Today we had a group of lads that were mainly from Lookers car dealership. The fishing began slowly, with a few whiting being brought aboard so a move was in order. It didnt take long after that for the first cod of the day to be brought in. Fishing was steady all day with some decent sized whiting being caught. We also had thornbacks to 4lb 9oz. Best cod of the day was 3lb 8oz. Plenty of big whiting best being 1lb 8oz.
Good day was had by all.
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07/11/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
7 Nov 2012 by Gary Flint
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Wednesday 7th November 2012
Today we had a mixed bag of anglers aboard. Some formed small groups others were individuals. We did however have Nick from our sponsors Diawa out with us today along with Shaun and Renee from Foxons tackle in St Asaph North Wales and Malcolm who works for Rovex Masterline. The fishing began well with Renee hooking and landing a lovely 6lb 9oz cod within the first half an hour of fishing. As the fishing went on throughout the day plenty of cod were being pulled in. Nick managed to hook into a lovely fish but his line snapped above the rig so we didnt get to see the fish. A few thornbacks were also landed to go with the hundreds of whiting that we boated. Total for the day. 11 cod to 6lb 9 oz, Thornbacks to 5lb, Dabs and over 150+ Whiting.
A cracking day with a good bunch of anglers
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06/11/2012
Fishing Report by Gary Flint
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
6 Nov 2012 by Gary Flint
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Tuesday 6th November 2012 - Individuals-
We locked out of the marina today hoping that the Cod fishing had improved even more than the last set of tides. It didnt take long (1min) after dropping the anchor for the first cod of the day to be pulled aboard by H2. Plenty more Cod were pulled in throughtout the day with cod falling to nearly everybody on the boat great day with the totals being; 12 cod to 4lb, 250+ whiting to just under 2lb.
Great day with some good fishing
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11/2012
Fishing Report by jonathan cunliffe
on Discovery (Liverpool, Merseyside)
Nov 2012 by jonathan cunliffe
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congrats to the crew on discovery on recieving charter boat of the year 2012. looking forward to fishing with you again soon.
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14/11/2012
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
14 Nov 2012 by Rich Cope
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Uptide Competition so far . . .
I think its about time I wrote an update as Ive been a bit busy just lately with the current uptiding competition we're running here at Whitby. Even with the stiff winds we're still getting away fishing everyday with some fantastic results.
The first two days of the competition we had small tides and as a result the sport turned out to be a little slow with us only taking 20-30 codlings each day upto around 7lb or 8lb in weight.
The third day however saw a big jump in the size of the tides, this resulted in some excellent sport onboard Mistress, we took Cod over 10lb in weight (whick took the daily prize and is currently third heaviest Cod overall) and individual bags in excess of 57lb per angler. All fish caught seemed to be between 4lb-6lb with a scattering of better fish thrown in.
Today the big ones were a bit elusive, but the best angler onboard took 8 Cod all weighing between 3lb and 6lb, not a bad bag of fish at all. The biggest today weighed in at 5lb 12oz by local angler Andy Spilman and made the lucky chap £50 for his efforts. Well done mate.
Pictured is John Dixon winner of the 2011 uptide festival with his bag of cod weighing in at 57lb 10oz taken on the 12/11/12
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13/11/2012
Fishing Report by Paul Kilpatrick
on Sea Otter 2 (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
13 Nov 2012 by Paul Kilpatrick
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What week on the uptiding festival its fishing its nutts off more double figure cod its great to see fish of this quality just a stone throw from the shore this fish takes 2nd place in the comp a bonny fish for sponsore glen kilpatrick
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