We had a very pleasant trip offshore the other day. With bright sunshine and no wind we headed for the horizon with lots of options depending on the conditions. We decided to give it a go for plaice as I felt conditions suited them and we had explored other options in previous trips. Several of the lads hadn’t caught them before so we scrapped together some traces and gave it a go to see what was showing. The first drift showed signs of life with a nice plaice for Chris early on as well as several missed bites. Over the next few drifts we refined our rigs, the lads tuned into the bites and I smartened up our drifts. It was great to see some of the lads like Chris, Mick and Nick getting into this way of fishing. They may have never fished like this before but they were still catching a steady stream of fish with several double shots coming out. To be honest they were out fishing some of the more experienced lads at first! After the tide turned the fishing seemed to turn up a notch and by now everybody was catching. Wayne had a pretty little tub gurnard and there was a good number of dabs thrown in too. Not that we were complaining but dogfish were noticeable in there absence. Only around 6 came out all day. The lads kept 20 odd plaice for the pot and let as many again go. I must admit I thought there might be a few but it was as good as I’ve seen for Essex plaice fishing in years. Of course we would have liked to have seen more but around 40 plaice for the day as well as the other species made for a very pleasant trip.
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