Fishing Report: 15th February 07 - Clacton-on-Sea

After my last couple of sessions I had decided to give things a rest for a while. I couldn't last too long without another try at the local Codling and ended up fishing the Gunfleet Sailing Club at Clacton-on-Sea over another latish tide. I fished from 9pm to 1.30am in rough seas with a strong onshore wind and large swells and although the flood tide was very quiet a good slack line bite to frozen Black Lugworm about two hours into the Ebb landed me a Codling of about 1.5 lbs. Nothing to shout about by normal standards but after the rubbish winter I've been having a very welcome change from Rockling and undersize Whiting. Casting into the wind and dealing with the large amounts of weed that were about on the ebb left me a bit knackered (I must be getting old!) but was nice to bring home my tea for a change.

Fishing Report: 13th January 07 - Clacton-on-Sea

The wind had been howling all day and the fishing reports coming in were not good but for some reason I decided to brave the wind and the spray to fish the Gunfleet Sailing Club at Clacton-on-Sea on a neap tide. I fished between the slipway and the pipeline with two rods from 5pm to 10pm with Black Lugworm and some very large Ragworm, hoping the wind had maybe livened up the fishing but the fish just weren't playing. I had only one bite all night which turned out to be a Rockling of about 8oz. So much for my Cod season!

Fishing Report: 5th / 6th January 07 - Clacton-on-Sea

Myself and an old fishing pal Trev fished The Chase at Clacton-on-Sea last night in an attempt to contact a Codling or two. High tide was about midnight and we fished from 0930 hrs to 0400 hrs using frozen Black Lugworm and Ragworm for bait. It was a nice night with a reasonable tide running and some colour in the water, however, the Cod did not show. I ended the night with 6 Whiting of various sizes and an undersize Codling, my companion Trev managed about 8 Whiting with most of our fish coming on the flood at medium range.