I cycled down to the Westend beach this morning at sunrise. It was -1.5degrees and a hard frost covered the landscape.
I was expecting the low tide to be a good ‘runoff’ as it was the lowest spring of the month with minus figures on the tide table. I was disappointed to see that is was [...]
Had a great day out on the 29th Jan. As usual, I met up with Cousin Chris at 8:30am at titchmarch marina. We had the obligatory cup of coffee then cast off and headed out of the marina. There was a dredging barge with a digger/backhoe which was blocking our way out of the marina [...]
I managed to get back to the favourite pastime of digging lugworm. I got down to the west end on my bike about 7:30am which was an hour after low water. I dug for approx 1hr 15 minutes and found about 50 worms which is not my best effort but OK considering the miserable conditions. [...]
I was planning to have a fishing trip on the Ha’penny pier tomorrow but I hurt my back last week shortly after my Ragworm digging episode.
Not sure if that was what contributed to the back twang but I am only now getting over it. Well, I half promised to paint the living room ceiling tomorrow [...]
I managed a couple of hours fishing on the Ha’penny pier yesterday. I did the eBay drop off at Tollgate post office first and then headed down to the pier. I got there at 2:45pm which was about 1 hour before high water. I baited up with segments of King Ragworm using size 2/0 hooks [...]
Well, as promised, I ventured down to the Wrabness foreshore this morning. Low tide was just after 8am and there was a raw westerley breeze. I haven’t dug Ragworm for years so I knew this was going to be fun. I soon found a few Rag ’squirts’. This occurs as you slowly walk over the [...]
My apologies for not making any posts for a few days. It has been freezing cold out and I have not been digging for fishing for a little while. I think I might venture out tomorrow morning and try my hand at digging some king rag
I will try Wrabness shore for the Ragworm. Harwich beach [...]
No fishing or digging so far this week. The eBay business is having to take priority at the moment. I thought things would slow down a little bit after Christmas but so far so good. The good folks that buy on eBay still have some money left. I suppose it depends on what you are [...]
I had an hours digging down the west end yesterday (thursday). It was cold and it took a good 10 minutes before I could feel my fingers. Once I got warmed up, I was OK. I got about 60 good sized lugworm.
There were a number of seagulls where in attendance. They were waiting to pick [...]
Well we got to go fishing. Chris and I met up at Titchmarsh Marina at 08:30hrs. It was minus 4 celcius according to the temp sensor on the car and it felt it. There was frost everywhere including the deck of the yacht Lollipop which made things a tad slippery. All in all a [...]