mersea ?

Member Joined: Jan 17, 2007 Posts: 36 Location: essex

any marks on mersea that may be worth giving a go

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Apparently not- the talk in the local shop was that at this time of year Mersea fishes as poor as Southend. I wouldn't bother.

Member Joined: Jan 17, 2007 Posts: 36 Location: essex

but i bet theres no weed :lol: :lol: :lol:

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I get that from the dodgy loke round the corner :lol: :lol: Plenty of lug to be dug at Mersea though so take your fork!!!

Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 11:33 pm

Hmmm, if there are good lugworm beds at Mersea there should be reasonable fishing there too, particularly for flatfish.
Perhaps it is not as accessable, from an angling perspective, as other venues.

Tight Lines.

Guest

Fish4fish- Mersea is easily accessible to fish from and it's where a lot of the local diggers get their worms but nobody I know bothers to fish there in winter- apparently it's okay for bass in summer- but give it a try and send in a report.

Guest

Fish4Fish - Mersea suffers the same fate as Brightlingsea this time of the year - too much freshwater. Mersea Stone, opposite B/sea, fishes well in the autumn for Whiting and sometimes Codling and has very deep water close in....but it can be difficult to hold out on the bigger tides, particularly if there is a lot of weed about. In the summer the Stone becomes the territory of the sailing and waterskier types, and quite frankly becomes a pain to fish.

The beaches from the stone to the West of the island are much shallower and as stuartdv says, where a lot of people dig lug - there are some ragworm on these beds too (which would be more likely to attract flatties) but they are a long way out and many of the rag beds are quite hazardous to dig because of the risk of being cut off by the tide. At the town end of the beach there used to be a set of fishtail bars which looked very "fishy". I've fished this mark a couple of times in the past and caught schoolies in the summer and there used to be a nearby car park so it was reasonably convenient.

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:42 am

Have posted a report on fishing session at this venue.

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Tried the other side tonight and I can confirm there's too much freshwater about......most of it fell on me!

No fish but I have given my gear a good clean :lol:

Regular Joined: Jan 13, 2005 Posts: 449 Location: Norfolk

We have had occasional stingrays and schoolies at West Mersea in front of beach huts. Like has already been said though; it doesn't get much attention in the Winter. Funnily enough though, we have fished East Mersea a few times; including middle of Summer. We were catching some nice eels and also got the odd three pound codling. Bit weird I know for July. They were really dark like the cod you catch from areas with kelp beds.