IT looks like temperatures are going to drop and there’s going to be more of a wintry feel.

Hopefully that means we might see some larger cod moving in closer to our shores.

Clacton Boat Club took advantage of the calm (although slightly foggy) weather at the weekend and several members launched their boats from the Martello.

They reported a few larger cod are now being caught, although there are still lots of small codling as well.

England international Rolf Marschalek fished from his own boat out of Brightlingsea.

Once again, codling were caught and they also found some decent thornback rays, with the biggest falling to Barrie Senior.

The sprats and herring shoals I talked about last week are still building and probably will do for another few weeks yet.

As yet, though, they are still not causing problems for us anglers.

The beaches are still to see any large cod, so it’s just codling, whiting, the odd bass and thornback ray.

Clacton Sea Angling Club fished an evening tide on the Holland beaches and the fish turned up in abundance.

Result: 1 Rob Tuck 471 points, 2 Alan Humm 321, 3 James Everett 273. Heaviest fish: Rob Tuck, a 45cm codling.

Whiting, codling, pouting and bass were caught.

The Jaywick and St Osyth beaches have fished really well this week, with thornback rays showing on day and night tides, most falling to whole squid baits.

Colchester Sea Angling Club headed to the beaches of St Osyth for their latest match.

They fished among the rocky groynes and between them they managed to catch eight thornback rays, which for this time of year has never been heard of.

Result: 1 Neil Cocks, 13lb (which included five rays), 2 Phil Buy 7lb 13oz, 3 Steve Yallop 6lb 13oz.

Clacton Pier has once again fished reasonably well, with codling, whiting and still the odd ray turning up, although the size of them is considerably smaller than their summer counterparts.

The Frinton beaches have fished a lot better this week, especially on the bigger tides.

Colchester angler Joe Mcdonald fished Frinton Wall in front of the golf course and had a great afternoon.

He ended the session with nine codling and a few whiting and all the fish fell to frozen crab baits.

The Walton beaches have also seen more codling, once again mostly on the night tides.

The areas to head for are Burnthouse or the Coast Guard beaches and now the crab life has slowed down because of the colder weather lugworm tipped with squid is the top bait.

Walton Sea Angling Club fished the local pier for their match and the fishing was slow until the tide started to rise, but fish were caught.

Result: 1 Doug Sadler 5lb 6oz, 2 Robert Tuck 4lb 14oz, 3 Vic Pearce 4lb 4oz. Heaviest fish: Robert Tuck, a 1lb 5oz dogfish.

If you have any fishing reports you can send them to me at popplewell1@btinternet.com