Charter Boat: Galloper
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Boat and Skipper Details
We have recently purchased a blyth 33 catamaran powered by two 8.2litre doosan engines capable of cruising 16-18knts with a flat out speed over 23knts. the blyth catamaran is a fast modern boat comfortable both at anchor and under steam. She has some indoor seating a toilet accessible at deck level and spray cover to keep you drier and more comfortable. we have a live well on deck and seating for more than 10 people on deck.
with a beam of 5 meters there is loads of deck room even with 10 anglers on board.
WE ARE AVAILABLE TO TAKE BOOKINGS 7 DAYS A WEEKS 12 MONTHS OF THE YEAR
most trips run from 6-7.30am untill 16.00-17.00 at night although if you book the boat we can arrange times around you. we also offer night trips from 1600-12.30am at night and evening trips in the river from 1600-2000hrs in the estuary. these are available upon request and we can arrange trips to suit your requirements.
we have hire tackle available with penn fixed spool reels at £10 per rod per day.
for further information available dates, gallery, weekly reports and more please visit my website www.essexseafishing.co.uk
I have fished since I could hold a rod and grew up aboard my dads charter boats in the 90's. as I got older I took my Orkney longliner out and my dads boats when I got the chance. I am obsessed with fishing I have no other real hobbies and just about any free time I have is devoted to fishing related activities. This may sound a bit sad but as I enjoy all kinds of fishing I have little time for anything else. My real passion is for sea angling but if I had more time I would like to spend a little more time fresh water fishing aswell. the first 'Galloper' was bought by myself and my dad back in 2007.she was a brinkliner 28 and kept me busy for a couple of years. My wife stacey and i bought the second 'Galloper' back in march 2009 she was an aquastar 33 and we ran her untill 2013 when we bought our evolution 33 also named 'galloper' and the evolution did very well over the next six and a half years.
early in 2019 we bought a blyth 33 and spent 10 months completely overhauling her to bring her up to the standard we like to give our customers. the bltyh catamaran is a vary stable and spacious platform which is very popular with the anglers for her speed, room and stability.
i look forward to many good trips aboard her over the coming years. Although I'm only in my 30'sI have plenty of experience as a skipper as before all of this i was running my dads boats since I got my Yachtmasters Offshore licence when I was 17 so I HAVE NOW BEEN A QUALIFIED CHARTER SKIPPER FOR OVER 20 YEARS before that I was taking his boat out with my grandad or brothers or friends whenever I could. I like to think that all of this along with many holidays spent fishing other venues has helped make me one of the most experienced skippers around.
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Upcoming Individual Spaces on Galloper
| Sat 07/06/2025 | 2 Spaces | 10 Hours | £60.00pp |
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| Sun 15/06/2025 | 6 Spaces | 10 Hours | £60.00pp |
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| Thu 19/06/2025 | £115.00pp |
Offshore plaice and bass
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| Sun 22/06/2025 | 5 Spaces | £60.00pp |
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| Sat 05/07/2025 | 1 Space | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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| Sat 12/07/2025 | £60.00pp |
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| Thu 17/07/2025 | 12 Hours | £115.00pp |
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| Sat 19/07/2025 | 1 Space | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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| Sun 20/07/2025 | 7 Spaces | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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| Sun 27/07/2025 | 1 Space | 10 Hours | £60.00pp |
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| Sat 02/08/2025 | 2 Spaces | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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| Sat 09/08/2025 | 7 Spaces | £60.00pp |
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| Sun 10/08/2025 | 6 Spaces | £60.00pp |
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| Sat 16/08/2025 | 4 Spaces | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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| Mon 18/08/2025 | 12 Hours | £115.00pp |
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| Thu 21/08/2025 | 10 Spaces | £60.00pp |
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| Sat 11/10/2025 | 3 Spaces | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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| Sat 25/10/2025 | 1 Space | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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| Sat 15/11/2025 | 1 Space | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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| Sat 13/12/2025 | 4 Spaces | 12 Hours | £100.00pp |
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Reviews
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Aaron Stevens (24/04/2021)
First time out with scot and had an amazing day ! Very professional and aware or everything happening throughout the day,
Ready to help and assisted at a secondary notice!
The boat was spotless and he had no problems finding the fish ! 5 starts well earnt ! Will be back !Skippers Reponse: cheers Aaron, glad you had a nice day. look forwards to seeing you again.
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Nick Hills (24/11/2019)
Another great days fishing aboard Galloper with Thornbacks and whiting plus a pb for Kaz! Cheers Scott see you next week (don’t forget my worms)
Skippers Reponse: glad you enjoyed it nick. see you at the weekend.
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Nick Hills (03/11/2019)
Thanks Scott fantastic days fishing on your new boat. Can’t wait for the next trip out with the boys.
Skippers Reponse: glad you enjoyed it nick, nice to see you getting back into it. see you next time.
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Greg Mallia (07/04/2019)
Excellent Skipper went with two non fisherman friends and he could not do enough to help them, which let me get on with my fishing. Mind you think I should have got some help as they caught more than me.
Skippers Reponse: i'm glad you enjoyed your day Greg. thank you for taking the time to review your experience. best leave the others behind next time!!
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Simon Lewis (11/11/2018)
We had a fantastic day out fishing with Scott. Very friendly and extremely helpful to us novices. Coffee and tea served regularly throughout the day. All in all, one brilliant day and will definitely be going again.
Cheers Scott, you made my mates 60th birthday present a memorable one
Location
Bait & Tackle
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Toosey Tackle
St Osyth, Essex, East, England
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Colchester bait and tackle
Colchester, Essex, East, England
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Brian Deans Tackle Shop
Clacton On Sea, Essex, East, England
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Robertsons Fishing Tackle
Dagenham, Essex, East, England
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Alfie's Angling
St.Osyth, Essex, East, England
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Clacton Angling Centre
Clacton-on-sea, Essex, East, England
Catch Stats
- CBUK Catch Log: 46 Species have been caught onboard Galloper, including: Anchovy | Ballan Wrasse | Bass | Black Goby | Black Sea Bream | Blonde Ray | Blue Shark | Blue Skate | Bluefin Tuna | Brill | Coalfish (Coley/Saithe) | Cod | Common Skate | Conger Eel | Dab | Dover Sole | European Eel | Five bearded rockling | Garfish | Greater Weever | Grey Gurnard | Haddock | Herring | Lesser Spotted Dogfish | Lesser Weever | Lobster | Mackerel | Pilchard | Plaice | Pollock | Porbeagle | Red Gurnard | Scad | Shore Rockling | Smooth-hound | Sole (Common) | Spotted Ray | Spurdog | Starry Smooth-hound | Stingray (Common) | Thornback Ray | Tompot Blenny | Tope | Tub Gurnard | Turbot | Whiting
Latest Catches 1,400 photos uploaded
2 oz Bass
25-May-2025
2 oz Bass
15-May-2025
2 oz Thornback Ray
14-May-2025
2 oz Bass
13-May-2025
2 oz Bass
9-May-2025
2 oz Bass
9-May-2025
2 oz Bass
9-May-2025
2 oz Thornback Ray
29-Apr-2025
2 oz Starry Smooth-hound
29-Apr-2025
2 oz Porbeagle
26-Apr-2025
2 oz Blue Skate
26-Apr-2025
2 oz Common Skate
26-Apr-2025
2 oz Bass
Apr-2025
2 oz Bass
25-Apr-2025
2 oz Thornback Ray
24-Apr-2025
2 oz Starry Smooth-hound
24-Apr-2025Latest Fishing Reports and News
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02/06/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
2 Jun 2025 by Scott Belbin
I thought it was probably about time to put out my annual spurdog report. As many of my regulars know by now, I like to keep some of this stuff under my hat for various reasons.
In reality at times it would be better to put these up as we're catching them but It's not going to happen so if you want to join us you'll have to get booked in and take your chance with the rest of them next year.
Our season started better than last year but after that it was hard to get enough trips in to have a good look around offshore and locate these fish. There's no other boat in the area willing to put in the time, effort and miles that we do so it can be hard to locate them at times. Eventually the mother load of fish turned up (along with everything else). When there's that many fish offshore then a certain amount will overspill to the inshore grounds too occasionally. We had some mixed in inshore as well which is always nice to see.
I noticed lots of other boats happened upon a few too. One or two seemed to dine out on a hand full of fish lucked out over one or two days which was cute.
We had a several hard days and lots of successful days on spurs over the course of 6 months. Dad always said it's harder when targeting one specific species on a trip as you might have a good trip for other stuff and miss the target species which still feels disappointing. However it does feel great when we do find them by design and put the lads on some special fishing.
Our best day was truly remarkable. The weather was perfect and the fishing was chaotic to say the least. The lads were on multiple hook ups throughout most of the day as packs of spurs and hounds came through. There were loads of double figure fish and PBs for most anglers. Admittedly it was hard to keep an accurate tall but we finished with 82 spurs and 54 hounds. We also had 8 rays, loads of dogfish and a few whiting. There were some serious amounts of fish there that day and hopefully it's one we will all remember. Not quite matching our biggest ever day of 88 but getting close.
We had lots of other days with great numbers and double figure fish. On a quieter day I even managed to sneak out a double shot of small ones.
Although we experienced some great fishing I am a bit concerned that the general stamp seems to have dropped significantly and some areas just aren't producing at all. Hopefully it's just a lul and not due to commercial pressure since the reintroduction of commercial quota for spurs. Only time will tell.
For now, with our spur season wrapped up we will be targeting big tope as well as turning our attention to the offshore bass fishing as it improves. I have a few spaces left for tope and loads of availability for bass between now and December. We target them in various areas from shallow banks to deep water. On lures, static baits and live baits. Please get in touch if you fancy in offshore trip or even a general trip.
Next spaces
08/06- boat available for individuals and groups
15/06- 5 spaces @ £60pp
19/06- plaice and bass trip £115pp
22/06- 6 spaces @ £60pp
28/06- boat available for individuals and groups
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28/05/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
28 May 2025 by Scott Belbin
Tony and the lads joined me the other day for a blustery smooth-hound trip. Armed with loads of crabs for bait and a great attitude as always we headed out to one of our many sheltered marks. Fishing was good from the first cast with screaming reels and bending rods as well as the usual chaos big hounds cause in shallow water. We knew there were some decent fish around as I'd seen several caught and more lost recently but tonight the lads were on form, drags were set and they had decent tackle. The biggest one of the trip went over 19lbs and there were lots more mid doubles too. This was just what we hoped for and very similar to last year's trip at this time when they had hounds to 17lbs. It's almost as if they know what they are doing!
We are so fortunate that we can offer fishing of this quality even in conditions like these. Hopefully the weather will improve soon but we can't complain about what we have been getting regardless of the weather.
I have spaces this weekend and the following week for groups and individuals.
Next spaces
01/06- tope fishing 1 space @ £100pp
07/06- 2 spaces @ £60pp
08/06- boat available for individuals and groups
15/06- 6 spaces @ £60pp
22/06- 5 spaces @ £60pp
Please call 07956411528 for more information
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26/05/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
26 May 2025 by Scott Belbin
We've been so lucky with the fishing available to us over the bank holidays despite the forecast. As is often the case the worst of the weather didn't materialize and we have enjoyed some surprisingly pleasant trips. Smooth-hounds have made up a lot of our catches and of various sizes depending on where we were fishing. One trip was very busy and I lost track of how many hounds we saw between 2-8lb. Other trips we've seen more in the 8-12lb size.
Bass have varied from trip to trip. We've caught them most places, some on bait and some on lures and feathers. In-between the very busy hound trip we had 8 keeper bass and several undersize. There's been a few rays each trip too and various other species such as Whiting, dogfish and dabs.
The sheltered marks we can fish really are our saving grace and it's great to be able to offer our anglers fishing of this standard and avoid the frustration of cancelling.
I have spaces this week over the school holidays if you want to join us please contact me on 07956411528
Next spaces
28/05- available for individuals and groups
29/05- available for individuals and groups
01/06- 2 spaces for tope fishing @ £100pp
07/06- 5 spaces @ £60pp
08/06- boat available for individuals and groups
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26/05/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
26 May 2025 by Scott Belbin
We've been so lucky with the fishing available to us over the bank holidays despite the forecast. As is often the case the worst of the weather didn't materialize and we have enjoyed some surprisingly pleasant trips. Smooth-hounds have made up a lot of our catches and of various sizes depending on where we were fishing. One trip was very busy and I lost track of how many hounds we saw between 2-8lb. Other trips we've seen more in the 8-12lb size.
Bass have varied from trip to trip. We've caught them most places, some on bait and some on lures and feathers. In-between the very busy hound trip we had 8 keeper bass and several undersize. There's been a few rays each trip too and various other species such as Whiting, dogfish and dabs.
The sheltered marks we can fish really are our saving grace and it's great to be able to offer our anglers fishing of this standard and avoid the frustration of cancelling.
I have spaces this week over the school holidays if you want to join us please contact me on 07956411528
Next spaces
28/05- available for individuals and groups
29/05- available for individuals and groups
01/06- 2 spaces for tope fishing @ £100pp
07/06- 5 spaces @ £60pp
08/06- boat available for individuals and groups
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24/05/2025
Fishing Report by Scott Belbin
24 May 2025 by Scott Belbin
We continue to find plenty of bass, hounds and rays among the other species lately. Nick had these three lovely fish the other day which you can see he's very pleased with. Other species included some unseasonably high numbers of whiting and dabs. Special mention goes out to Neil for his dab catching skills not exactly the plan in may but interesting to see so many coming in and tony will enjoy eating them.
Aside from the exciting prospect of dabs there's still loads of bass and hounds around. We also have specialist trips targeting tope or bass or plaice available over the next few weeks.
We are incredibly lucky to be able to offer some fantastic sheltered fishing inshore and I have spaces on Bank holiday Monday if you are keen to get out. The forecast has improved too.
Next spaces
26/05- 8 spaces @ £60pp
01/06- tope fishing 2 spaces @ £100pp
07/06- 5 spaces @ £60pp
08/06- boat available for individuals and groups
Not all dates advertised please call 07956411528
