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23.07.02

The Circular - your monthly newsletter

I expect you nearly forgot about the match looming up in front of you didn't you? I expect you thought I had forgotten about you didn't you? But never fear it is here your newsletter with all the info you need to know about Reculver.

Reculver was a very popular venue for the Romans who could often be seen casting their baits to the horizon to catch huge codus during the winter and enormous bassus and thornbackus rayuses in the summer. After a hard days fishing they would pack up their gear and head of to the local chariot holiday camp for a glass of mead or two, an oyster supper and a few carry out whelks for the misses back at the encampment…..well that's what I've been told…. obviously I can say how or true or not that is (Ray Hills might now he was about then!!) but things have changed a lot now.

Local contacts inform me that there are reports of Bass to 4lb and some sizeable Eels being caught. There are also the odd Plaice being caught at long range…..just beyond where us mere mortals can cast but where Jason "Argonaut" Mann might be able to reach. I expect there will also be little pouting, whiting and rockling to be caught as well.

Take a mixture of baits with you…lug for the pouting, rockling, whiting and bass, ragworm for the bass pouting, whiting, rockling and eels, peeler crab for the pouting, bass, plaice and eels. If the water is clear it would be advisable to take some feathers with you as it is possible to catch mackerel along there and bass have been caught on feathers as well. Try using baited feathers to attract fish…….those hokkai lures baited with lugworm can be a killer for the whiting……..if you are not catching fish why not try something different you never know. Get yourself some garden worms for the eels…….spray your lawn with water tonight and cover it over with a bit of tarpaulin over night and collect the worms on the surface of the grass in the morning….what could be easier to get free bait. An old roman fisherman told me that if you keep the worms in water they turn white and look like white ragworm that the eels go made for and you may even catch a biggus bassus.

I'll see you on the beach

John Padmore
Secretary

PS Don't forget the next club meeting is on Wednesday 31st July at the Billet Pub, Sittingbourne at 8pm where you can try on a sweatshirt for size …..although Mark Hammond has already tied on the small size one and said it was a tight fit!!