TEMPERATURES have soared but not all anglers have benefited from the sea water being warmer.

For beach anglers, the daytime tides have made fishing difficult, with bright sunlight pushing fish out into deeper water.

Evenings and overcast days have produced fish and night anglers have seen the most.

Clacton Sea Angling Club headed to Walton Pier for their evening match and 59 fish were caught between 11 anglers.

First place went to Robert Tuck, with 214 points.

Lawrence Chisnall was second, with 139, and Berni Putko third, with 118.

They had a varied catch of pollack, pouting, whiting, bass, eels, rockling and cod.

The heaviest fish prize went to Lawrence, with a 36cm bass.

Walton Pier has had an up-and-down week.

Smoothhounds and rays are still there to be caught but they’ve been a bit patchy.

Bass are now being caught on lures from under the pier.

The darker-coloured lures will always catch more fish.

School bass and soles are now showing well from most of the Walton beaches.

The top venues are Hipkins beach, the coastguard beaches and Burnthouse beach.

Frinton’s beaches have been quiet but that’s because of a lack of anglers.

My trip this week was to the golf course beaches at Frinton, to fish an afternoon flood tide.

The fish were certainly feeding.

I fished ragworm baits, mostly at distance, and had a very enjoyable few hours.

I ended the session with five bass to 2.5lbs, three eels, a small hound and a rare plaice.

All the fish were caught on ragworm.

Colchester Angling Club fished the Jaywick beaches.

Mark Peters was first, with 2lb 6oz, Chris Mills second, with 1lb 3oz, and Ted Gower third, with 9oz.

The heaviest round fish was a 1lb 14oz bass, caught by Mark. St Osyth beaches have also been a bit hit-and-miss.

After dark is the best time, with a few thornbacks being caught.

Clacton angler Matt Clark fished there and landed a stingray around the 15lb-mark.

I’ve also had reports from other anglers that stingrays are being caught from this venue.

The boats have had a reasonable week, with hounds, bass, rays and now tope showing.

The Mersea charter boat Eastern Promise, skippered by Derek Moles, has been among the fish this week.

On board one of the trips were David Mynors and Andrew Barnes.

They had a good day, catching bass to 6lbs, some double-figure smoothhounds and a few tope, which fell to whiting baits.

Anglers from the Sophie Lea charter boat have been catching some of those bigger bass this week, with the largest – weighing in at 11lbs 5oz – caught by Sean Smith.

The tides for the weekend are 2.14pm on Saturday and 2.58pm on Sunday.