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Issue 04.0826.08.04

The Circular - your monthly newsletter

Here it is what you have been waiting for - your newsletter with news and views from your fishing club.

Gravesend at this time of year should be a cracking venue with plenty of fish. Expect to catch loads of whiting and maybe a nice little codling, eel, sole, bass or Thames Trout. There will also be some flounders close in that will readily take maddies but go mad for peeler crab. I have heard that locals use cooked prawns as bait but I doubt if they would be my choice as a frontline bait. If the whiting are about in plentiful numbers I would use a three hook paternoster with 225 - 300 mm long hook lengths with size 2 hooks (but there again I would use that most times on the beach anyway!!). Try a few luminous beads above the hook, a little thumbnail size piece of squid or mackerel or herring on the hook tip and you'll be catching all day long!! If the weather remains sunny(!!!) then the fishing will be....... challenging at best......when the mud flats get really warm when the sea is out the fish are sometimes reluctant to come in with the tide and remain further out at sea. Be prepared for such a situation and make/get some single hook clipped down traces that will enable you to cast out that bit further with a small bait to reach the fish hopefully unless the fish decide to stay out in the middle of the Thames which is about 1 mile wide here!!

Please note the pick up point for the next venue in the minutes - McDonalds at the end of the Medway Tunnel - it will take you longer than 10 mins to get there from Sittingbourne so be prepared - oh and I'll have a Big Tasty and large banana milkshake if you order before I get there.

See you on the beach

John Padmore
Secretary