BRYANS ANGLE

End of November i had a week of work to do some work around the house and as the weather was due to be mild, for this time of year anyway, i thought it would be a good idea to have a mornings fishing on my local River Crouch for the whiting that reports had said were there in numbers. And i thought it would also be good to take my pooches along for the session as they love it down there. After dropping the other half at the train station first thing i drove the 5 minutes it takes from my house to Fambridge with tackle and dogs in the back of the van ready for our little adventure. Loaded up with my gear and two nutcase dogs running amock in front of me i trudged the 2 miles, yes my chosen area was 2 flipping miles from the van,  to a nice bend in the river which narrowed the river quite a bit and also had deep water at the bottom of the wall. i,d walked the dogs to this area a few weeks previously when the tide was out and it scream fish as the river narrows up considerably ...

Last thursday i took the afternoon of work and took my Dad sea fishing as we havn,t fished together much over the past few years. The venue i chose is close to Waterbouy Towers but requires a key to gain access through a farmers gate , you then have a mile track to follow before you are at the bottom of the sea defense wall, there you have access to about 5 miles of sea defense wall that you can fish. After a little look around we settled for a nice looking spot which already had water lapping at the bottom of the sea wall. After half hour we both had our rods tackled up and cast out in the hope of bass and thornback rays, in fact we were happy with any fish that should tug our string. Baits consisted of ragorm, whole and chopped squid, herring fillets and mackeral strips to tip off. There was a bit of a fresh wind blowing which meant we had to don warm clothes.  As we sat chatting about this and that, Oscar the wonder dog wore himself out running too and fro along the s...