Ray Competition Reminder

[great white]

16 minutes ago, Sam said:

Change of plan for us. Apologies and hopefully catch the next one

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Nothing serious i hope

[Mal Thomas]

Saturday weather slightly improved and most are entering for Saturday so the comp will go ahead.

Tight lines.

[mw]

I will be fishing Saturday on Aztec warrior

mark winfield

 

[Greg]

Unfortunately due to Carol falling ill overnight we will have to sit this one out.

 

Good luck everyone

 

Greg

[plaicemat]

Good luck everyone, I shall be absent. Buggering off fishing was considered to be a bit selfish on our 50th wedding anniversary. Anybody else think this is a bit harsh?

 

Terry.

[Bobby Buoy]

Sadly my mate 'sea sick steve' was feeling query before the end of the swash! So we were limited to tucking ourselves out of the wind  at Studland and back in on 11.30 Bridge! 🙄 

On the plus side I did manage to catch some rays this afternoon 😎 

[Bobby Buoy]

...at the beach!!

[mw]

my catch report only managed a scallop as this flat and a shellfish does it count ?

other than that only sun rays 

mw

[Wight Magic]

Dave Evans  13 lb blonde ray 

[Steve S]

Graham 8lb 1oz Thornback
Steve 10lb 8oz Thornback
 
It was hard work but we managed to get 8 or so mackerel at the start of the flood, after that it was head to a ray mark.
 
We had 6 thornies in all and a bonus couple of bass along with a black bream and a few dogs but fortunately not the whole kennels. What was probably going to be the biggest ray Graham could not persuade off the bottom he'd gain a little line only for it to slam to the bottom again, eventually the hook pulled, suspect it was foul hooked. I hooked what I thought for all the world was a big bass only to see a thorny of around 8lb surface!
 

 

First ray of the day, 8-14 thornback

 

 

Graham's best ray 8lb 1oz

 

 

Best of the ray 10lb 8oz, weighted on the pontoon to get an accurate weight.

 

 

[PeteS]

Undulate ray 12-8

 

Only found 1 large mackerel, this undie took the head. Guest had 2 more about 2 lb each. Several smooth hounds on squid and a couple of dogs. Pleasant day but a bit slow.

 

[jerry.shutter]

14 Rays in the day. 

Jerry

Small eyed 7-14

Thornback 9-15

Jerry 2 

Small eyed 8-7

Spotted 2-15

Kev

Small eyed 7-15

Spotted 3-12

 

We had a good mixture of fish through the day Tope, Smoothounds, Conger, Bream, Dogs, Conger, Bass, Mackerel (2)!, Scad. Much better weather than forecast and a beer at the end of the day doesn’t get much better.

 

[Mal Thomas]

We were pleasantly surprised with the weather also, we had a reasonable day with Blondes, Undulates, Conger  and Stuie caught a couple of Red Gurnard for a bit of colour on the day besides our very red faces from the strong sunshine we did not expect. Stuie had a couple of battles with some sizeable congers as well as the opening Blonde Ray of the day.

He's a bit photo shy.😃

Chris had a couple of sausage rolls, Ginsters pastie a couple of bakewell tarts and a few cups of tea😂 , unfortunately Stuie and I stole all the fish. I think my best Undulate was 11.5lb best blonde 12.8lb so no cigar but we had a good day.

Stuie enjoyed a full on day out and was treated like the gent he is by Chris and Myself. Stuie captained us back ashore and then rushed  off to get the beers in what a star. So much fun to have some candid banter with the Guy's, what did you have questions followed by silence till someone says their best was x, usually the bloke who knows he has'nt done enough. Cracking day wish more members attended, may be next time when they see the reports and fish. 

[great white]

On 8/13/2021 at 5:04 PM, Sam said:

No rays for us

 

A bit tired after 4 nights on board visiting the Isle of Wight

 

Failed to find fresh bait which did not help
 

Nothing serious i hope

[great white]

What happened there seemed to re write Sam's post ????

[Ark]

Thanks for the invite Jerry and Jerry2

plenty of fish all day long 

plenty of laughs 

plenty of sunshine 

all in all a great day 

cheers Kev 👍👍

[Stuie]

Chris, Mal - thanks very much for the invite and all your help. I really enjoyed the day and didn't need much rocking that night.

[jerry.shutter]

Comp Results as per Oli’s new specimen sizes sheet, I believe the only difference will make Steve’s Thornback a bigger winning percentage.

 

First Steve S 10lbs8oz Thornback 80.77%

 

Second  Pete S 12lbs 8oz Undulate 78.13%

 

Third Jerry S2 8lbs 7oz Small Eyed 76.70%

 

Congratulations Steve,

Well done all who took part

[Jim]

Looks like you All had a good weekend.  🙂

[Steve S]

Yay, very close!

[great white]

Well done Steve, and all that turned out to fish