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December 3rd, 2009
Had a quick trip down to the promenade at Harwich to use up the rest of the lugworm that I dug last Sunday. The worms were mostly half dead, limp and starting to pong so I thought it might be a waste of time. I arrived at the bottom of Barrack Lane around 11:10 am, just an hour before high water.
There was another Angler there who was just setting up. He was using Squid and Mackerel.
First cast, I get a small Bass which I returned safely. Thereafter I got bite after bite until about 12:15hrs. All the fish caught after the Bass were Whiting and I caught about 12 in total. 4 were big enough and one of them went to 1lb 1oz and was 37cm long. Biggest whiting so far this year. The smelly worms did the trick and the other Angler caught nowt
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November 27th, 2009
Had a great days fishing with cousin Chris on his yacht yesterday. We were fishing just inside (out of the shipping channel) the guard bouy in Harwich harbour. It was a windy south westerly with a steady 20 knots.
Luckily we were not far off the pilot station, in the lee of the land. It was still a bit on the lumpy side, especially when the pilot boats came in and out. Half of them slow down and obey their own speed limits but the other half give it the full throttle and do about 15 knots or so.
The pilot cutters wash made the good ship Lollipop rock and roll. You get used to it after a while!
We were using Lugworm for bait that I had dug the day before at Earlams. I managed to dig around 180 worms in about 1.5 hours. As usual, we had plenty of worms and we didn’t get to use them all. I brought the unused worms back home and re-wrapped them for the next trip on the pier on Sunday or Monday
We finished up with about 8 whiting between us and I caught the bonus Codling. I didn’t even see it bite. I was just winding it in to check the bait! Sometimes you just get lucky. It was only lightly hooked in the bottom lip so I was lucky to get it into the landing net! The Codling weighed in around the 4lb mark. Not a huge fish but a nice size to fillet.
All the fish were filleted this morning and they are now in the freezer!
Thanks again to Chris for taking me fishing. Hopefully we can get one more trip in before the boat comes out for its annual scrub.
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Codling with cheesy grin
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Container ships at Felixstowe port
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Not quite so cheesy, just a happy fisherman
Fishing off the guard, Harwich harbour.
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September 24th, 2009
Had our usual (we we try to) bi monthly trip over to Fennes yesterday 24th Sept. The weather was beautiful for this time of year. Light westerleys with a slight ripple on the surface.
I fished two rods. One on the float and one out on the ledger. I started catching Perch almost straight away. I tried spam and strips of ham that had been in the fridge at home a day or two longer than it was safe to put in a sarnie!
I also had some large shrimp for bait that I had bought from Iceland, Dovercourt. Nice store.
Chris was fishing with his Maver pole. He was using the full 13 metre section.
We ended the day with lots of fish coming to the net. I had a couple of nice Perch, the largest being 2 lbs and a common carp around 5 lbs. I caught the biggest Perch on a ledgered shrimp!
Chris caught loads of silver stuff, some nice Bream and finished with a ugly carp!
A good days fishing.
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This one is a pound and a half
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Perch of 2lbs
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Bream caught on Maver Pole
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Ugliest Carp in the Lake.
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Handsome Common Carp and Angler
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