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07/07/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
on Galloper (Brightlingsea, Essex)
7 Jul 2025 by Scott Belbin
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That's a wrap for our tope season. It looks like a bumper year for tope throughout the country and that includes Essex.
Targeting one specific species can often mean it's hit and miss. Particularly when that species is an apex predator (so there's fewer of them) but when it goes well it's hard to beat uptide fishing for tope. These not-so mini sharks are different gravy to anything else you will catch when uptiding.
I often say that the great thing about Essex is the average stamp is 35-45lb and the potential is for much bigger too.
We don't often get huge numbers but the fish we catch are worth the effort.
I was lucky enough to have a few single angler exclusive boat hires for tope this year. I feel even more pressure to find fish and justify their financial investment with me but thankfully it worked out very well for nick and Barry on their trips.
Barry gilders has tope fished the last few seasons (4 year 3 weeks) and often watched others catching fish while he missed the tope but smiled throughout. This year he got his tope, first a small 12-15lb fish, then a 47lb male then crowned it off with a female of 67lb!!
Nicks trip was memorable too with his pb smashed with a fish of 57lb one of 11 he caught that day and lost 6 more!! The previous day John's group had 11 tope as well and lost 8!
There's far too many others to mention but I do want to mention my mate Wayne. He fished on my charter boats for nearly 20 years and loved his tope fished. Last year he sadly passed away although he broke his pb tope just weeks before hand.
He left his tackle to us and I thought it would be fitting to use his rods and reels for tope this year. They accounted for the vast majority of fish this year. I'm sure he was watching over us. Hopefully we did him proud though I wish he could have joined us.
With the tope done we are concentrating on the bass fishing offshore and continue with the general trips inshore. If you want to join us please call 07956411528
Next spaces
08/07- 6 spaces @ £60pp
21/08- 8 spaces @ £60pp
31/07- offshore bass fishing 7 spaces @ £115pp
03/08-offshore bass fishing 4 spaces @ £115pp
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