Fishing hasn’t been that good off the Essex coast recently, but Colchester angler Brian Grundy had a red-letter day when he fished aboard the Mersea-based boat Enterprise, skippered by Chris Mole. Fishing near the wind farm off Clacton, the crew found the thornback ray feeding, with Brain taking the biggest at 13lb 8oz on a squid bait. Four days earlier ...
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- 10 May 2011
Now's the time to target those bass and rays from the shore - and Sea Angler shows you just how to do it. In the very latest edition, on sale now at all good newsagents, you'll learn masses of new and exciting tips to help you land lots more rays and bass from your local mark. There's a huge 16-page ...
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- 01 July 2010
The famed ‘Tesco’s bag’ remains one of the few shore species capable of pulling your rod over. Even a baby bag - a 5lb thornback ray - will test your rod-rest stability as it picks up the bait and flaps like fury over the sea bed. Ray do fight - or should it be described as kiting because it uses ...
Rock fishing doesn't come much better than one angler catching 35 thornback rays in a session on two rods. Fantasy? It did happen... The place was North Clare in Ireland in June 2004 and the angler was Sea Angler magazine's contributing editor Alan Yates. Roll on two years and Alan was back, accompanied by some of his angling pals, to do it all ...
This week Leysdown, on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent, offers some excellent marks where you can catch a wide variety of fish. A mark known as The Green provides anglers with the opportunity to fish in comfort. A large expanse of grass, which is primarily a car park and popular picnic spot, also has a café. The approach road ...
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- 01 July 2009
