2026 Bream Comp

[Greg]

Wendy and Charlie. Plus jetlag.
Alfresco Sunday

Oh ye, that old chestnut


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[biggcol]

Sea Drift - Carl and Jenny Sunday

Marlin - Greg and Rob Samways Saturday

Fisheagle hopes to fish. At the moment, Saturday is our preferred day. Crew myself, John Dunster and Frank Morris or a non member.

Samoya - Graham, Freddie Nash & William Leaver (both juniors) Sunday.

Y-Knot is out, I have a space.

Kingfisher Chris, James and Brian Pragnell

REEL MAGIC  Mick and Dave Saturday 

Kodiak - Saturday, Adam + Crew TBC

Min y mor- Terry, Amanda 

Loobie 4 - Jerry 1, Jerry 2, Farmer Colin maybe 

Madness - Martin, Jim and Phil

Boblin Bobi, Colin and James Saturday 

[PeteS]

Sea Drift - Carl and Jenny Sunday

Marlin - Greg and Rob Samways Saturday

Fisheagle hopes to fish. At the moment, Saturday is our preferred day. Crew myself, John Dunster and Frank Morris or a non member.

Samoya - Graham, Freddie Nash & William Leaver (both juniors) Sunday.

Y-Knot is out, I have a space.

Kingfisher Chris, James and Brian Pragnell

REEL MAGIC  Mick and Dave Saturday 

Kodiak - Saturday, Adam + Crew TBC

Min y mor- Terry, Amanda 

Loobie 4 - Jerry 1, Jerry 2, Farmer Colin maybe 

Madness - Martin, Jim and Phil

Boblin Bobi, Colin and James Saturday 
Won’t B Long - Pete, possibly Bridget, Phil Higgins. Sunday

 

 

[Graham Nash]

how did it go today? What have we got to beat? 

[Greg]

Well Graham,

 

I may as well go first:

 

Myself and Rob left Lake Yard at 08.00AM and travelled round to South Deep, where we joined Kingfisher, Reel Magic and Boblin.

 

The day did not start off that well for Rob as he realised that he had left his lunch bag in the car back at the car park. (that old chestnut!!!) 

Luckily Carol had packed some nice orange glazed Ginger cake for us both and I had cooked Chicken Egg Fried Rice the night before, and yes luckily for Rob

there was enough for two.

 

We had a steady flow of the usual schoolies and then I landed a Guilt Head Bream....Boom, my target species and one of my favourite eating fish and one I need for my species list. I then landed a Black Bream which put up a nice fight on light gear.

 

Shortly after that the rod bent over and the reel started screaming. At last a huge Guilt Head Bream tanking off...... well that's what I had hoped. Unfortunately, it was about a 6 to 7lb Smoothie which Rob duly landed with the net.

 

Rob then landed a Black Bream.

 

The target fish were hard for us to find today and were certainly not large, but we did have some sport and no shortage of fish coming aboard, albeit not the right ones!!!

 

So our results are as follows:-

 

Me - Guilt Head Bream 1lb 1.5ozs

         Black Bream 1lb 6oz

 

Rob Samways - Black Bream 15 oz

 

So all still to play for Graham.

 

 

 

 

[Kingfisher 126]

Myself, son James and Brian as Greg said headed to South Deep.

Brian had a few schoolies then a Gilthead of 1lb 6ozs, more schoolies.

I fished off the bow and had my line taken and it was a smoothound of 5/6lb and another slightly smaller just after. Then I had a huge Gilthead but tried to lift it onto the bow without a net and dropped it halfway out, schoolboy error on comp day. 😢

Weed got bad so headed out to Swanage, wind was bad so stayed in the bay, had a few black bream between us, biggest was 1lb 10oz to me. 
Tried again in the harbour but the weed was horrendous so called it a day.

You wasn’t on your own Rob I left the squid in the fridge that were next to the ragworms, another schoolboy error but Dave Evans kindly gave us a packet to save a trip to the quay. Cheers Dave. 👍👏.

Result

Brian P - Gilthead 1lb 6oz

Chris W - Black Bream 1lb 10oz.

 

Blake W is fishing in Comp Sunday (junior)

[Jim]

Sea Drift - Carl and Jenny Sunday

Marlin - Greg and Rob Samways Saturday

Fisheagle hopes to fish. At the moment, Saturday is our preferred day. Crew myself, John Dunster and Frank Morris or a non member.

Samoya - Graham, Freddie Nash & William Leaver (both juniors) Sunday.

Y-Knot is out, I have a space.

Kingfisher Chris, James and Brian Pragnell

REEL MAGIC  Mick and Dave Saturday 

Kodiak - Saturday, Adam + Crew TBC

Min y mor- Terry, Amanda 

Loobie 4 - Jerry 1, Jerry 2, Farmer Colin maybe 

Madness - Martin, Jim and Phil     (Fishing Sunday) 👍

Boblin Bobi, Colin and James Saturday 
Won’t B Long - Pete, possibly Bridget, Phil Higgins. Sunday

 

[Jim]

Yipppppeeeee !

We're going fishing    We're going fishing    We're going fishing    We're going fishing    😁

[Mal Thomas]

YKnot had a 2lb black bream, best we could do. Plenty of bream on the area.

Plus 2 congers 6 LSD and 20 bream. All returned.

[Wight Magic]

Reelmagic best I could do was

Black bream 1lb 3oz

[Kingfisher 126]

A family day out but Blake fished the comp only one Gilthead at 14ozs. 
We did have an interesting time with some large smoothounds biggest 6/7lb.

 

plenty of small bass, but we had a bonus species a silver eel,

then ten minutes later I thought we had a strap conger but it was a huge silver eel. Weighed in at 2lb 4oz, well done Blake a cracker apart from the slime everywhere. 🫣

8 Bass, 4 Smoothounds, 2 Silver Eels, 1 Gilthead Bream.

 

Comp Result. 

Blake - Gilthead Bream 14oz. 
 

Silver Eel new club record. 

Edited Sunday at 04:04 PM by Kingfisher 126

[Greg]

Well done Blake,

Some cracking fish caught


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[Graham Nash]

I took the two grandchildren back to the outer patch again and it proved a good move.

I baited up grandson 1s rod and dropped it in, as soon as it hit the bottom it was taken with a good bite. First (and by far the best) black bream of the day. 37cm and 2lb. 

A steady stream followed but nothing could match this one. Wrasse, mackerel and small congers made it a very memorable trip for two budding fishermen. 

7 mackerel, all kept

14 bream all went back

7 cingers all went back

I ballan wrasse went back 

[Carl James]

Loads of bream, a few dogs, Jenny got a lovely 2.2 black bream 

[Greg]

Well done Jenny

That is a lovely Black Bream


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[Leicester Fisheagle]

Plenty of Bream for Fisheagle. About 20 around the pound mark. Best fish John 15 ozs.

Allan 1lb 13ozs. And 1.8 Black Bream.

[sparky]

Best Black Bream for me was 1lb ....... Also a Gilthead Bream at 13oz on Reel Magic,  as well as losing another much better one  by the boat 😒

[Adam F]

Kodiak's report:

 

I had deer stalking buddy Pete onboard, and as we were locked to Sat with the breezy forecast opted to stay inshore.

 

We fished the Patch for the morning - a little mark I found a few weeks back - a real honey hole, of what I assume are black bream nests - the sounder was wild!

 

A 1lb box of squid was gone in no time and we were only fishing 1 rod each. But whilst it was non-stop action, the stamp of fish was very average. Best fish to me (as only member counting) was 1Lb 12oz. 

 

After a few hours of manic fishing the powerboats started up, and we soon found that we were in the middle of the racetrack. Whilst it was pretty cool to see these monsters zooming past at what I assume must have been over 60 knots, it killed the fishing pretty quickly! Pete asked it Kodiak was quick enough to keep up.... I never run her at anything like WOT, but a quick blast proved that 36 knots was still someway short!

 

Plan B was back in the harbour out of the wind after a Gilthead. The plan worked when wind, tide and weed aligned and it was pretty hectic fishing. We had about a dozen gilts, including a new PB for me.... and only 1oz under Charlie's club record.... MAN... do they fight. I think they might just be the hardest fighting fish lb for lb we have.

 

For Charlie's overall catch and release record, black bream - 40 fish caught, 5 retained. Gilthead, 12 caught, 3 retained.

 

My Fish:

Black Bream - 1lb 12oz

Gilthead Bream - 2lb 12oz

 

[biggcol]

Boblin fished the harbour apart from lots of small bass, 5 gilts to me the best 1lb 1oz. Cracking fish Adam well done.

[great white]

Alfresco had a slow day (can we blame jetlag, probably not. Lol)

 

Started in the harbour, only one checker and 4 smoothies of 4/5 lb

Fun on very light tackle, but not target.

 

Weed was a pain, so we went outside.

 

Looked around a couple of marks but no signs of fish.

So just picked one and dropped anchor..

Not a great plan or result. even after a couple of short moves.

 

I had one black bream 1lb 3oz. A couple of congers 

 

Wendy had a few Ballens and pout. A last hour move 

Was also poor, just one more small bream and a conger.

 

By 4 we were lagging so called time. Great to hear many on the radio taking part and supporting the Club.

Well done all.

 

Especially those that caught well.

 

 

[great white]

Great fish Adam, well done mate

[Greg]

Well done Adam,

An amazing result


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[jerry.shutter]

Full report from Loobie 1V from Farmer Colin in due course.

We had a wonderful day with a good few fish.

20+ B Bream 26-32cm best probably 1lbs

2 Congers

2 LSD

5 Plaice

2 Tope

 

Most fish were well inside the legal limit to retain,

5 B Bream retained

[Maverick Martin]

Madness had a slow day.  Through the bridge at 7:30 then off to Dancing ledge.  We managed about 6/7 bream but all small.  I would guess the largest was one which fell to me and was probably 1lb.  Jim had a couple of strap congers we all had dogfish.

 

As the tide changed we moved back to ballard where we did didly squat.  Spent the last hour in the harbour where we repeated the success we had at Ballard 

[Jim]

It was a bit of a Bill & Ben day!

Weed.

Weeeeed

Weeeeeeeeeeeed. 🤣

 

I had 2 small Bass in the harbour as well Martin which were of course returned.

We came back in on the 5:30 lift and Jackie walked down with Daisy for a quick drink before home. (I do like a pint of Madri)  👍

As always Martin,  Thank you for a fantastic day out.

In my view the fish are a Bonus on top of a day out.

We had a fair bit of banter,  No shortage of food & coffee (and cakes), the sea was quite calm, and sunshine most of the day.  A day out on a great boat with a fantastic skipper (and me & Phil)   Pure magic.

Cheers.