"You're looking at cod, rays, whiting, flounders, pouting, dogfish and a few bass," local match angler George Smith confirms. "We get a good run of spring cod every year but the fish vary in weight, plus there's the odd scattering of dogfish too."All of them biding their time... According to Hull University's Geography Department, few coastlines anywhere on the planet ...
After several weeks of not showing, the Thames estuary cod have reappeared with Kent angler Keith Slater (68) taking five fish during a recent trip out. Keith used a lugworm hookbait tipped with small slivers of unwashed squid and was targeting a wartime wreck lying east of the Isle of Sheppey. Another two cod slipped his hooks during the session.
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- 07 April 2011
Inshore cod may have quit the coast for now, but offshore sport continues to be buoyant, with anglers taking prime late spring specimens like this 14-pounder from deepwater wrecks. It was caught by Somerset angler Andy Evans when he fished a soft lure from the deck of the Plymouth, Devon-based charterboat ‘Sea Angler 2’, skippered by Malcolm Jones.
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- 01 April 2011
Boat fishing along the north Kent coast has been pretty grim of late, but a short window in the weather allowed Keith Slater, skipper of Don’t Panic out of Chatham, to get out and see what was feeding. One of the best catches on what should have been a dab fishing trip was taken by 74-year-old High Halstow, Kent-based angler ...
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- 03 March 2011
Dorset postman Phil Prestidge from Parkstone, Poole, returned to Chesil beach after bagging a 20lb cod from the famous mark. There, fishing whole squid bait on a Pennell pulley rig, he reeled in another great cod weighing 15lb 6oz. “I got on the mark early in the morning,” he said. “There was a big swell running but the wind had ...
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- 03 March 2011
Grey Viking II, out of Brighton and skippered by Ray Burn, raided a wreck a couple of hours off the Sussex coast and hit pay-dirt in grand style by taking 27 big cod to more than 30lb. One of the stars of the trip was this 22lb prime winter cod caught by Southend-on-Sea, Essex angler Clive Marshall. The chunky fish ...
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- 22 February 2011
Most anglers have to wait many years to catch a double-figure cod from the shore, but not North Shields angler Neil Muir, who caught this 10lb 1oz fish just 18 months after taking up the sport. The personal best fell for a worm and fish cocktail offered on a Pennell rig cast from a rock mark on the north side ...
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- 15 February 2011
Devon angler Mark Loewy only had a few hours to spare, so he headed his boat Sun Up just a mile offshore in the hope of snatching some whiting, but instead hooked this huge 21lb 7oz cod! “I was thinking of packing up when the top of my 6lb Daiwa Kenzaki rod locked solid,” said Mark, 43, from Torquay, who ...
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- 15 February 2011
Sport aboard the Poole, Dorset-based charter boat Silver Spray remains lively to say the least. Just two weeks after landing a cracking 13lb bass, the crew have been on the trail of giant cod, and with some success too, as this giant of 24lb, landed by customer Kelvin Hindmarch proves! Fishing over snaggy marks that can’t be trawled by commercial ...
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- 08 February 2011
Of the best laid plans of mice and men often turn to rubbish, to paraphrase poet Robbie Burns, it is fair to say the process can work just as unerringly in reverse. For all the planning we put into life's landmark moments, how often does the tension of arranging the perfect wedding or surprise birthday party dilute our enjoyment of ...
