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.

Fishing off the guard, Harwich harbour.

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