Spurs provide early promise

POOR WEATHER AND the lockdown did their best to curtail my charter trips in the Thames Estuary in the early part of 2020, so I hope things can only get better this year. Spurdogs, thornback rays and even early smoothhounds are likely to make up the catches.

I’d had a nightmare start to 2020 because I’d been waiting since the launch of my new boat The Galloper in October 2019 for a window in the weather to coincide with the right tides to get offshore from my base at West Mersea, Essex.