Braintree Sea Angling Club members boarded charter boat Enterprise at West Mersea for their latest evening boat competition.  Conditions were good and they were soon anchored up fishing in the late afternoon sun.  Fishing was steady with a trickle of dogfish, undersize whiting and thornback rays coming aboard mainly for the anglers on the port side of the boat.  As the tide eased a move to deeper water saw more fish coming aboard from all around the boat.  By the time the tide turned the wind had increased preventing the boat from sitting nicely in the tide making the last hour of fishing difficult but this didn’t stop Chris Leonard on the stern finding a couple of cod and a bonus smoothhound to ensure a win. His final tally was three cod, four dogfish, one smoothhound, four thornbacks and a whiting for 123 points.  In second place was Barrie Senior with five dogfish, three thornbacks, one whiting and another bonus fish a tub gurnard for 75 points.  Third spot went to Alan Porter with 68 points from his catch of seven dogfish and three thornbacks just ahead of Brian Grundy who had 67 points.