It’s always great to see a family out catching fish and making memories together. Even though the weather had turned a bit we were still able to find loads of fish for everyone and some nice hounds. We couldn’t fish where we wanted to but managed 20 hounds, some small bass, loads of whiting and…
It was lovely to see Jon and the lads out for their first time this year. The lads opted to target hounds with a chance of other stuff in some of the glorious weather we have experienced lately. Although we had hounds all day long it took me a while to find the better numbers…
The smooth-hounds continue to show in fantastic numbers from brightlingsea. Saturdays trip saw Barry, mark and Steve have the boat to themselves. I gave them options of targeting rays, bass or hounds. The lads chose to go back on the hounds as they enjoy the sport and there’s plenty of time to target bass in…
The fishing has been very good lately. Baits aren’t lasting long at all before something gets hold of them. Smooth-hounds have been making up most of our catches. The last few trips we have averaged over 30 per day with our best days producing over 50. We haven’t seen any monsters but loads of scrappy…
It’s been great to see a few rays showing at last. Unfortunately no huge numbers compared to a few years ago but enough to give us hope. We’ve seen a few each day over most of our last trips. The most being 8 in a day. The smooth-hounds have been very numerous though. There’s loads…
Fishing has been busy over the last few trips. Fish are on the baits immediately now and we’ve had a great variety. Our main targets have been smooth-hounds, rays and bass with various other fish mixed in depending where we are. We were surprised to fish one mark the other day where there were so…
Although Essex isn’t often accociated with plaice nowadays they can still be caught in the right places. Infact the numbers have been pretty good when we have tried for them the last couple of years. We will be putting a few trips together for them over the next couple of months for those who are…
It was a bright and breezy weekend with the easterly wind and small tides against us. Thankfully there was no shortage of bites with whiting and dogfish keeping us busy. We found some hounds and thornbacks to make things interesting for the guys Saturday. The fish are here now so I’m looking forward to getting…
It’s always great to see different species and we weren’t disappointed the other day. The bulk of the day might have been made up with whiting, dogfish and pouting but Ivan managed to sneak out a tub gurnard, there was a micro dab and a couple of tiny conger too. This weekend we’ll be in…
apologies once again. I’ve neglected this again due to being so busy and there have been some technical issues too which haven’t helped. there hasn’t been a huge amount to report on over the last couple of months to be honest but things are looking up now. spring is arriving and bringing the fish with…
