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  • 12/05/2012 Fishing Report by carl porter on Hard Labour (Wallasea Island, Essex)

    12 May 2012 by carl porter

    Report on-board Hard Labour

    This weekend the bass came out to play. With an improving forecast right through until Sunday, Saturday saw us on one of the offshore banks with the intention of finding a few bass and they did not disappoint. Although the majority of fish were schoolies there were some bigger fish mixed in. Bait of the day was lug worm for the bass and from here on into the summer when we are looking for bass we will be using a lot of lug. Final tally was about 20 bass with 5 fish retained for the pot. Amongst the rest of the catch were hounds upto 5lb, roker, whiting, doggies and a bucket full of dabs.

    Sunday again saw us on the offshore banks but with a different quarry in mind, as our party of anglers wanted to catch roker. Bait today was mainly herring. After a slow start and a move to find a bit more tide, the fish started to come on. slowly at first, but as the tide started to die double and triple hook ups were fairly common. Again we had a few bass on this bank on the worm baits, going a shade over 4lb, Also the ever abundent dogfish and plenty of dabs again putting in a show, with a few more hounds to boot. All said and done the guys took home about 18 roker, biggest was 9lb10oz, with at least 10 more released, a dozen dabs and 4 bass.

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