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GO GO GRIMSBY!

There aren’t many places in the UK where you’re pretty much guaranteed to catch cod and codling these days. The Bristol Channel can be hit and miss, but this year there have been quite a few quality cod caught there. However, for consistent numbers of codling and cod up to double figures, the River Humber has proven itself to be the single best place to go in recent years. I’ve been lucky enough to fish out of Grimsby for the past three consecutive years on numerous occasions, and I’m yet to blank there.

NEW (OLD) BOAT

I received a phone call from my good friend, Roger Cooling, back in October informing me that he’d ‘bought another boat’. It soon transpired that he’d actually bought a fully-operational charter boat and his intentions were to work her in the Humber throughout the winter months, with

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