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  • 28/07/2013 Fishing Report by Ray Martin on PLAN B (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)

    28 Jul 2013 by Ray Martin

    Report on-board PLAN B

    Fished Friday / Sat and Sunday and what a contrast..
    Friday was slow - very hot and muggy - the fishing only picked up when we managed a nice lot of hermits in the drop net. This got the smoothounds interested and resulted in numerous fish in the 7-9lb bracket. We tried for skate with fish baits during the slacker tide but did not get one. On the return to port, I spotted birds working a distant sand bank.. we feathered for about an hour and managed around 70 bass. Brilliant fun and made up for the slow day.
    Saturday was a fresher day and the fishing was good from the off with loads of hounds and also skate, nearly every fish caught on hermit.. I tried with peeler and did not get a bite and changed to hermit and had a hound in 30 seconds. Looked for the bass again, but did not see one !!
    Sunday was a total write off - strong SW winds kept us close to home but I thought we would still manage to catch the skate and bass on the banks.. how wrong can you be. We were top boat on the day with one eel and 4 school bass.. lets see what next weekend brings.

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