Luke Uses The Force On Lancashire Plaice

The beast from the East has made the fishing challenging. As the saying goes when the winds in the east the fish bite least. To an extent this is true at this time of year but there are still good fish around.

At the moment the Fleetwood channel is still producing cod with some good sized plaice at low water. The beaches and Walls remain quiet with most anglers scratching for a few whiting or flatties. But with Spring hopefully just around the corner the fish should be back in numbers.

In these weather conditions and with a couple showing on the pier it is always worth a shot for an early thornback ray. Your bait presentation should survive shredding by the whiting that have now moved out in to deeper water.

Luke Preston enjoyed a cracking day fishing in Morecambe last Sunday with dad Matty. Young Luke landed a dozen plaice over low water. The pick of the bunch was a cracker measuring over 50cm that tipped the scales at a whisker over 3lb. A real chunky prime fish for this time of year. The plaice all came on frozen black lugworm tipped with squid.

Luke with the best of his dozen plaice

Fleetwood and District Angling Club fished their latest match in freezing conditions on the Ferry beach. Despite the low temperatures the sun shone and there were just enough fish to make it tolerable.

Most of the fish were little codling but a couple of decent fish were beached. The better fish were at distance and yellow tails were the top bait.

Craig Tompson won the day with a bag that included the best fish, a cod of about 3lb. 17 anglers fished and 13 brought fish to the score card.

1^st Craig Thompson 5 cod 104 points

2^nd Hughie Porter 6 cod 71 points

3^rd Ken Stubbs 6 cod 65 points

4^th Kevin Blundell 4 cod 44 points

5^th Bob Egan 4 cod 1 flounder 40 points

6^th Phil Lamb 4 cod 33 points

7^th Dave Wilson 1 flounder 16 points

8^th Trevor Barnett 1 cod 15 points

9^th Ken Forrest 1 cod 14 points

10^th = Tony Thorpe 2 cod 12 points

10^th = Ray Rodger 1 cod 1 flounder 12 points

11^th Dave Norton 1 cod 7 points

12^th Mike Owen 1 flounder 3 points

The match was also the last leg of the winter league with no change to the top three positions.

1^st Bob Egan 49 points winning £140

2^nd Andy Whiteside 44 points winning £84

3^rd Hughie Porter 42 points winning £56

After the match the members retired to the Conservative Club for their AGM where they were served welcoming food and hot drinks.

Special offer of the week at Bispham Angling is 10% off all beach casters.