Tag: Chinook III

For this latest episode we headed back down to Essex to fish with our good friend Phil White, aboard his boat the Chinook III, with one species in mind... the Smooth Hound!The summer months of June, July and August are peak times to target this hard

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The last fortnight has seen settled weather and this has allowed the charter boats to get offshore where they have had some fantastic sport.There have been some excellent catches of everyone’s favourite fish the Smooth Hound, these hard fighting

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The last fortnight has seen some settled weather and the anglers have enjoyed some cracking sport.Offshore is improving all the time with good numbers of all species turning up.There are more Smoothounds with reports of fish up to 22lb caught, these

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The last fortnight has seen settled weather and with the water starting to warm up the summer fish are starting to arrive.Inshore There are still lots of thornback rays inshore with the biggest reported at 18 lb, these females are laying eggs and

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There are large numbers of Thornback rays turning up in all areas inshore, these hard fighting rays offer superb sport on light tackle especially if the tide is gentle, they can be caught on most baits but this time of year they are especially

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