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Don't keep this to yourselves.

 

Celebrate the two year classes of IVc and VIId cod which have procreated successfully.

Then wait for 95% (CEFAS) to be caught before spawning and wait another 18 years for the same, like I have.

 

I gather the 'black fleet' is also having a few and able to sell it via various distributors/consumers ...

a local wet fish shop nearby is being supplied by his brother (an Under-10) ...

'supply and demand', eh?

Quotas? Wassat mean?

<_<

:lol: A great chance to let the cod stocks recover and have a reasonable year for breeding and what do DEFRA do, increase the commercials quota, have they no brains. Leave the quotas the same for a couple of years and let the stocks build up so as there is a breeding stock then every year could be a good year for all. :D

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Spoke to another forum member today, who was out on his boat with his brother and seemed to be doing well, with a couple of doubles and quite a few other decent cod.

 

A few are going out tomorrow, too, but I'd already committed to a beach trip. I probably won't catch much (not a fan of daytime beach fishing), but a social is nice sometimes :)

 

Thats tough Elton . . . I'm out tomorrow in my boat on my own!!! :rolleyes:

 

SW

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Spoke to a couple of boat owners at Felixstowe today. Loads of small cod, but nothing big at all.

 

One had a 17lb 2oz cod earlier in the week, though.

 

We only had small stuff off the beach today - roll on 2009 :D

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Thats tough Elton . . . I'm out tomorrow in my boat on my own!!! :rolleyes:

 

SW

 

 

Sorry to say, Cliff, but today was a totally different day to yesterday. Yesterday, lots of Cod into double figures. Today, we struggled to catch a few small ones. (One of those damn commercial fishing type chappies, with the yellow plastic leggings and grubby smocks, must have gone out last night and completely decimated the whole stock! :D ) Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but if that stiff Easterly is still there in the morning..................?

DRUNK DRIVERS WRECK LIVES.

 

Don't drink and drive.

 

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Sorry to say, Cliff, but today was a totally different day to yesterday. Yesterday, lots of Cod into double figures. Today, we struggled to catch a few small ones. (One of those damn commercial fishing type chappies, with the yellow plastic leggings and grubby smocks, must have gone out last night and completely decimated the whole stock! :D ) Who knows what tomorrow will bring, but if that stiff Easterly is still there in the morning..................?

 

Mmm . . . who knows, the forcast says N or NNE 5-6mph . . . is it worth it? Roll on summer, simple in the river after the bass with tooth picks! and if you dont catch who cares, its warm, calm and time to pic-nic! And then again I have a few ideas about the big bass, and you dont have to go 35 miles either . . . ;)

 

But for now, its 6.30am, deep water or nothing . . . :cold:

 

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One thing's for sure, you'll only really know if you're out there doing it, so good luck!

 

I'm starting to get a theory for the bit of beach I fish. I need a bit more trial, but the ebb seems to be the favoured time, and next week gives me a chance to fish a couple in the dark. They're small tides, but fingers crossed!

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Mmm . . . who knows, the forcast says N or NNE 5-6mph . . . is it worth it? Roll on summer, simple in the river after the bass with tooth picks! and if you dont catch who cares, its warm, calm and time to pic-nic! And then again I have a few ideas about the big bass, and you dont have to go 35 miles either . . . ;)

 

But for now, its 6.30am, deep water or nothing . . . :cold:

 

SW

 

Yep I was up for it, literaly 'up' and locking out by 6.40 . . . '5-6mph my foot', twice that + a bit I recon!!!. I thought the sea would fine off with the tide turn, non of it, finaly gave it best, and turned at 8.30am, heading for the marina. Could have found some shelter closer in for a couple of hours 'dangling' but I did not fancy winkling small 2 pounders out of the in shore sprat soup. I am also still being affected by a stomach problem that I thought had cleared? All in all, the day started with good intentions and ended as a 'put it down to experiance' semi disaster, should have stayed in bed with N-NE in the forcast, heart rulling the head?

 

Not to be put down, :rolleyes: keeping an eye on Saturday, 2-5 mph? I went over some ground on the trip that is worth a look? if the sounder was anything to go by, light on sprat, heavy on individual red echos! thats decent size cod on my digital sounder this time of year.

 

The weather will always have the last word, SW

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We were going out off portland tommorow, too windy E , sunday looks brill as the wind is going around to westerly, at the top end of the channel, the long range is giving a W3, hope you's get out as it is cod time.

Free to choose apart from the ones where the trust poked their nose in. Common eel. tope. Bass and sea bream. All restricted.


New for 2016 TAT are the main instigators for the demise of the u k bass charter boat industry, where they went screaming off to parliament and for the first time assisting so called angling gurus set up bass take bans with the e u using rubbish exaggerated info collected by ices from anglers, they must be very proud.

Upgrade, the door has been closed with regards to anglers being linked to the e u superstate and the failed c f p. So TAT will no longer need to pay monies to the EAA anymore as that org is no longer relevant to the u k . Goodbye to the europeon anglers alliance and pathetic restrictions from the e u.

Angling is better than politics, ban politics from angling.

Consumer of bass. where is the evidence that the u k bass stock need angling trust protection. Why won't you work with your peers instead of castigating them. They have the answer.

Recipie's for mullet stew more than welcomed.

Angling sanitation trust and kent and sussex sea anglers org delete's and blocks rsa's alternative opinion on their face book site. Although they claim to rep all.

new for 2014. where is the evidence that the south coast bream stock need the angling trust? Your campaign has no evidence. Why won't you work with your peers, the inshore under tens? As opposed to alienating them? Angling trust failed big time re bait digging, even fish legal attempted to intervene and failed, all for what, nothing.

Looks like the sea angling reps have been coerced by the ifca's to compose sea angling strategy's that the ifca's at some stage will look at drafting into legislation to manage the rsa, because they like wasting tax payers money. That's without asking the rsa btw. You know who you are..

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A spratt attack like no other around the inshore and estaurine Marks off of Kent

Someone once said to me "Dont worry It could be worse." So I didn't, and It was!

 

 

 

 

انا آكل كل الفطائر

 

I made a vow today, to never again argue with an Idiot they have more expieriance at it than I so I always seem to lose!

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