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Issue 05.0110.01.05

The Circular - your monthly newsletter

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

Happy new year to you all. Hope you have recovered from the seasons festivities and are looking forward to trying out those new fishing socks from Auntie Joan. A new year brings new hope and the chance to catch that fish of a lifetime - this year will be your year - trust me.

Lazer Quay on the Medway 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 to get your fishing off to a good start this year. 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 ( keep the beads next to your lamp to 'charge' them up), a little thumbnail size piece of squid or mackerel or herring on the hook tip and you'll be catching all day long!! Don't forget to take your lights with you as we will be fishing into darkness. If the weather turns frosty then the fishing will be....... challenging at best......when the mud flats get really cold when the sea is out the fish are sometimes reluctant to come in with the tide and remain further out in the deep channel (the flounders don't mind too much as they often wear thermal Gortex jackets at this time of year). 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. This venue tends to fish better as the tide is rising so concentrate on the fishing as soon as you get there - after high tide the fish tend to disappear with the tide down the river.

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 free Big Mac and Smartie McFlurry if you order before I get there.

See you on the beach

John Padmore
Secretary