January 2012

January has seen the sprats finally disperse. This has improved the cod fishing dramatically, we are now catching a reasonable number of Codling between 2.5lb and 4lb(Nice filletable size) plus the odd huge Cod. Several large fish around 20lb have been caught and two 26lb.

 

 Rogers group with some of the two dozen cod caught on the day.

                                                        Ken,Jim,Vic,and Gareth with some of their catch.

 

 

October 2011

October hasn't been as good as we'd hoped from a codling point of view. I think the high water temperature has delayed their arrival. Still plenty of Skate and whiting. We were one of the 21 boats taking part in the national police competition (135 anglers) the weather nearly cancelled the event but we managed to fish inshore, catching 138 whiting between 4 anglers on board in six hours. Overall we came 6th in the match.

 

September 2011

September, a good mix of summer species, plenty of bass and a few small codling showing plus good sport with whiting and still good numbers of thornback. Not to mection Dogfish. The late indian summer made several trips very enjoyable, it was great to see so many anglers returning bass these days keeping the odd fish for the barbeque!

 

August 2011

August proved to be a good month for smoothhound and bass, however several offshore bass sessions were cancelled due to the strong winds that we seemed to experience more and more this month.

 

July 2011

          July has been another terrific month with plenty of bass. Ranging from 2-3lb taking lures in the river stour on very light tackle, to bass up to 11lb on sidewinder lures or launce further a field. As usual the weather has played a major role in the type of fishing we have been able to do. The smoothhound fishing has been very good with plenty of 10-12 pounders being caught on most trips with some better fish in the 14-18lb range also making an appearance. The successful bait is usually squid/ rag worm, but hardback crabs or hermits are also excellent. There is certainly no need to spend a fortune on peelers.

         When the weather and some small tides coinsided (which isn't often!) we managed to have a couple of good Tope trips with fish up to 35lb being caught on mackeral head on a 150lb mono hook length and 9.0 circle hooks. This set up really does stop any deeply hooked fish.

Check these out on our photo gallery (Summer 2011)

 

June 2011

The Bass have definitely arrived!

 

This month we've had plenty of bass in the 4-7lb range, but our best so far is this fine 11lb fish for mark. His personal best. His previous PB was also caught on Laura III- But only half the size of this one. Very sportingly Mark returned this Bass to grow even bigger!

 

Just part of a catch of 45 bass up to 10lb (most returned to fight another day)

Dave Barham (left) and Jim Midgley from boat fishing monthly magazine featured in the november edition. Also take a look at the youtube video in the gallery page.

 

 

Tuesday 10th May 2011

  Plenty of Thornback Ray around at the moment. Vic, Pat and Andy with some that we kept. Most Of our catch of 14 on the day were returned, which is very nice to see. Today's anglers are conservation minded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 16th April 2011

Vic, Pat, and Ken with a good mix of Skate, Cod and Bass. It is nice to see the bass seem to have arrived early this year(Only last week a 15lb 4oz Bass was caught off the felixstowe coast) Several more skate were caught on this trip and it is great to see anglers returning the majority of these fish.

 

 

 

 

Friday 19th November 2010

Following a successful trip on Monday when we had 11 Cod, best 7.25lb we returned to the same location hoping for a similar result.  However this was not to be, as we had an even better day.  This time our squid baits were taken by a 15lb, 12.5lb, 10lb and an 8lb Cod, plus several around the 3lb mark and plenty of whiting! An additional Bass of 3lb finished things off nicely. The weather had made life interesting with thick fog refusing to lift all day!

 

 

 

PERHAPS THE COD HAVE FINALLY ARRIVED!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 20th November 2010

Steve's Group of light tackle anglers fancied a go at Codding using their Pike rods and braid   (3lb test curve rods)  Steve proved that it could be done even though I had my doubts, by catching this magnificent 17.5lb Cod!!! It took squid on 6/0 pennel. Needless to say the fight lasted a good 10 minutes!