I had a great days fishing with Cousin Chris on Thursday 19th March.
I drove over to Titchmarsh marina and arrived at 07:45hrs. I was a bit earlier than last time because Chris slept on board the night before.  Rather him than me as the overnight temperature was close to zero and whilst it is nice and warm in the bunk with the duvet on it is freezing when you have to get up for the inevitable pee in the night.
We had a nice cup of coffee and caught up on the family news and then cast off at 08:15hrs. For once, we had the tide ebbing with us as we left the Walton backwaters. Because of this we got to the fishing spot shortly after 09:30hrs.
We fished in the usual spot between Felixstowe and Harwich.

The weather forecasters got it wrong again. (I wish they were paid on performance). It was supposed to be a nice calm day. I don’t call 18 knots from the North East calm! Still, we were in the lee from the container docks so the sea was not lumpy.

For bait we used the Lugworm that I had dug the day before down at Earlams beach. I dug about 100 Lug and they were big ones!
I also wanted to try out the new rod and reel combos that I had recently purchased. I bought them from Lidls and they were the princely some of £16.60 each. They came loaded with line and even had a pirk and some plastic eels included. The rod and reels worked a treat. The rods were a little bit on the sturdy side but did the job nicely.

We started fishing the last hour of the ebb and the only bites and fish were tiddlers. Small whiting, pouting and even a couple of stray school bass which is very unusual this time of year. The water temperature is still only 8 degrees.
The bites started around 2 hours after low water when the Codling started to move back into the River mouth with the flood tide.  The bites were gentle and not fierce lunges like they can be. The sprats seem to have gone as well because the Codling we caught we not coughing them up like last time. We fished until 3:30pm and ended up with 8 codling between us.

Chris got 5 and I got 3.  Not a huge haul but the fish were around the 2lb mark so quite nice. Anyway the more fish you catch, the longer they take to fillet.  It was another fine days fishing using specimen lugworm as bait.

I filleted the Cod on Friday morning in the back garden. I thought I was still at sea with all the seagulls wheeling  overhead and screeching at each other. I admit I teased them with the left overs before putting them in the compost bin!

Shyte Hawks are not my favourite bird.

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