Author: essexseafishing

Our 4 hour trips continue to prove popular at this time of year. With the blackwater estuary on our door step we have had plenty of great fishing to choose from over the last few weeks on them.  The schoolie bass that we often expect were a little late this year. In stead our first…

As our main tope season draws to a close I is  about time I bought you up to date with our some of our tope trips this year.  As with many things the tope were a little behind in places this year. Our first few trips produced some lost fish and small fish as well…

it has been lovely out on the water in this heat wave. bookings have been coming in thick and fast too so i thought i would give you a quick update on availability in the next couple of weeks this Monday 25/07/22-2 spaces @ £70pp max 7 anglers Monday 01/08/22- 5 spaces @ £60pp 06/08/22-offshore…

This week I thought I would put together some pictures of some of the ladies who have joined us lately. I love the fact that angling can be so inclusive and try my best to encourage everybody to come out and enjoy it. its great to see ladies, gentlemen, young children and those of you…

Thought I would do an update of the last couple of months fishing excluding the tope which I will update separately in a few weeks. The north-easterly winds and low temperatures in April affected some of our fishing this spring. It seemed to hold things up a little. The algal bloom (may weed/rot/tobacco juice) was…

  There continue to be some great hounds and bass showing lately. The hounds are in big numbers at times and really keeping us busy. There have been a lot of small fish around but if you kiss a lot of frogs there seems to be the occasional prince among them. Most days have seen…

There have been some great bass coming out lately. These bristling bars of silver are always popular to catch and sort after for the table too. Although some of the best sport we have with these will be on our offshore trips they are great fun to catch any time. Some fresh rag worm is…

Sorry for my lack of reports lately, I have been double busy on the boat as well as jamming in a holiday like I mentioned last week. I will update you on this in good time but for now I will try and catch up on how the fishing has been here in Mersea. We…

sorry for my absence of late. i have been flat out as well as a holiday in sunny Shetland (report to follow). I will get some decent pictures and a report on here asap but until then I have a few spaces this week to try and fill Saturday 25/06- 2 spaces @ £60pp max…

Its been another busy week aboard the Galloper. Hounds,  rays and Bass have varied in size and numbers from trip to trip but its fair to say everybody has seen plenty of fish. As we move further into summer time we have seen plenty of variety too. A couple of silver eels came out, 2…

We have a few spaces this coming week due to drop outs, the weather looks promising and fishing is on form. The last few general trips have seen a nice mixture of smooth-hounds, bass and thorn-back rays as well as dogfish, whiting, dabs ect. Spaces Sunday (29/05 4 @ £60pp) Friday 10 spaces @ £60pp…

We have seen a fair mix of weather over the last week or so and a fair mix of fishing too. The smooth-hound numbers continue to increase. These are the main target on general trips now along with bass. The size and numbers of each vary from place to place and day to day but…

I have had a couple of lads asking if I can fill spaces over the coming weeks. please let me know if you are interested in joining us on any 22/05/22- offshore tope trip 1 space @ £100pp 24/05/22-offshore tope trip 1 space @ £100pp 25/05/22- offshore tope trip 3 spaces @ £100pp 04/06/22- premier…