Chris and his crew out today.

We had an 8.00am start today. I got down there at 7.30am and it was blowing 25knots NE with an ebb tide. Not very nice. Once they had turned up and said to Chris if you don’t fancy it don’t worry we’ll book for another day or we can just fish the Medway. They said no, it’s fine, let’s have a play in the river.

We got anchored and waited for the ebb to start running. It got going and Duncan Monk had a lovely bite on his uptider. His rod was bent right over and it was nodding so we knew it was a good one. It came to the surface and I netted it for him.

I put it on the scales and it went to 18 1/2lb what a monster for the river Meday.

We had a few more codlings and whitings but that made our day well worth going. Good choice lads.
Check out the photo in our ‘Gallery‘ guys. Or ‘catch’ it below.

Well done guys. See you on the next one though it will take some beating.

All the best

Skipper Steve

Duncan Monk with 18 1/2lb cod from the river Medway.

Adrians crew out today and the weather they gave was NE – 15mph. So I knew if we left at 7.00am we would not get out into the estuary. I rang Adrian and told him I wanted to go at 4.00am he nearly passed out but what a good move it was.

We got anchored up with a nice bit of flood tide and were straight into the cod. We had 14 cod in just 3 hours, then it slowed as the tide eased off.

As I thought, once the tide started to ebb it would get too rough for us but we had done our bit.

The cod we had were between 4lb and 13lb.

Barry caught the 13lb cod on whole squid and I managed to chuck out a rod too and got one of 9 lb.

Thanks for getting up so early lads but I think you were happy with what you took home.

All the best

Skipper Steve

Out this evening not a good night with high tide being at 19.30pm.

We had no tide run all night which I did explain to the anglers.

With only a few whitings on board it was expected.

Out next Thursday tide  will be better.

All the best

Skipper steve

Unfortunately both days fishing were cancelled due to high winds.

All the best

Skipper Steve

Mark Knights crew out today for the maritime cup which is a cod only competition.

Cod, only over 5lb, are to be weighed in.

So, an early start today away at 3.30am. Wwe headed out to our chosen mark and the wind blowing 35 knots – southerly.

As you can imagine it was rough but we stuck it out for 3 hours of the ebb tide and managed to get some codlings between 5lb and 6lb so contenders – a good start. Headed back for a bit of shelter and we had another codling first cast of 5lb. Then waited for it to start to flood. We managed a skate and a couple more codlings then it was time to head back in to get to the Hastings Arms pub to see how we got on.

Yes, it was our lucky day. John Powney, on my boat, got the best bag of cod and I got ‘BEST SKIPPER’ so a preety good day.

Thanks for taking part lads

All the best ‘Best Skipper Steve 2009′