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  • 09/06/2016 Fishing Report by TERRY BATT on Vanishing Point-2 (Bradwell Marina, Essex)

    9 Jun 2016 by TERRY BATT

    Report on-board Vanishing Point-2

    Ok...... I got several calls yesterday to say that various anglers had been fishing either on their own boats and caught next to ZERO... all day, and were desperate to get something for their fishing buddies.

    Me and Nic, were on our way out an 4.pm yesterday afternoon just to attend to our crab pot, as we had it lifted last week, empted and thrown back in again 1/2 a mile from where I put it so it took us over a week to locate it, we thought we had lost it forever, but at least we got it back..... I digress... but it was on our way out late afternoon yesterday some angler saw the Vanishing Point-2 and called me for some help... and we always help any small boat fisherman where we can, as I am sure any of them reading this will endorse, so when we find our crab pot raided and there is nothing left for us it hurts a bit.. but there you go..

    Several of our guys were out on charters with others as we were not out yesterday and called me to say it was a mega tough day with very little caught, I am sure it was a hard day as the wind was in the Eastern quarter and as we all know when the wind is in the east the fish bite the least..!!!

    So on the way back from attending to our hermit crab pot, Nic and I decided to have a quick fish on a mark for whatever reason seem unaffected by Easterly winds, as we approached the area I found a 14 foot fishing boat right slap bang on one of my marks, it was so close I couldn't help myself I went very close to where he was just to see, I reckon he had his anchor in the last hole I made there at the weekend....lol but I wasn't going to fish there anyway he was too far East and South, so we got to where we wanted to be, Nic shot the anchor away and we were settled, and fished one rod each for 40 minutes as that's all the time we had, but after such abysmal reports I need to know if these fish were still there,

    Well Nicola kick off the proceedings within 10 minutes , with a nice 8 lbs female Thornback Ray, then I hit in to a nice male at 9 lbs , and while I was unhooking my fish, Nic was into another Ray so I left my one to net her fish another Ray about 7 lbs, so as we had two fish on deck we tried to take a selfie as there was no one else on board to take a photo of us, just look what that Easterly wind is doing to my hair !!....lol

    We do have a great time no matter what we do even down to potting for hermit crabs we turn it into something special... and why not.!!

    But on the serious side of things .... we found out what we needed to know.. the fish were still there if we need to fall back on them, but we will leave them alone if we can get out, to get on other species, but it is just a fall back position if we need it, because love em, or not.... it's better to get good bites, with nice size fish, than sitting there all day staring at a rod tip doing NOTHING...!!!

    Ok guy ... tight lines...!!

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