lady jane Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 well the waves lended themselves to surfing rather than fishing. after drifting in the large swell for half an hour we gave it best and went onto a drift inshore this produced one wrasse of about two pounds which was released. next move was to anchor up on some banks about two miles off swanage,this mark kept us busy with bream after bream it seemed more like the end of april rather than november, this is were johns lsd was caught. thank you to john (soleman) for crewing, well done on getting on the prize list. a big thank you to all involved with running an excellent competition. all the best, andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Headed for Baiter at 6:15, picking up Soleman en-route. My crew for the day, Westray ( Steve ) travelled from Portsmouth. Met up at Baiter, registered and blagged some marks from Dean . Steamed out to the "Gravel Bank" mark following Whistler and another boat. Nice big swell and I was feeling pretty grotty as had little sleep the night before. Hook down and I got a knock on the squid rod almost straight away. Steve then hooks into a good fish and 20 minutes after dropping the hook a 13lb Blonde Ray is boated. Returned the fish as surely more than 60% specimen is needed. I only managed the one dogfish in the end - but it looked pretty fat and at 2lb 1oz was 66% ish specimen weight so dropped this into the bait tank for later weighing. Tide then slackened and fishing stopped. Once we had turned we were fishing on much snaggier ground. ( in hindsight we should have re-anchored ), however, plugged away and I had a small bream. Decided to move to the Gulley where we were joined by Illusion and then tried near the Spoil Ground and near the training bank ( where we noticed they were netting ). No luck apart from a couple of wrasse, so headed to Brownsea castle where Steve had a schoolie ( should have weighed it in retrospect ). Tried for herring ( what happened to the one weighed in as sounded a good size )- no luck there so back to Baiter. Exhausted today but already looking forward to next years one. PS: Heard the suggestion that maybe we should consider having a greater % specimen weight for Eels, as there were quite a few weighed in which did not figure in the final prizes. Sounds a good idea to me. Picture of Steve's Blonde Ray attached Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 Also, forgot to mention the fun we had steaming back in through Sea Spray's wash ( we had waves form the ferry coming in one direction and wash from Sea Spray in the other which made quite an interesting time ! ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 One earlier shot for the Poole Bay Doggies ( who I think were fishing the comp from Sea Spray ? ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newboy Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 I don't think herring was on the weigh-in list?! We thgought about herring bashing until we spotted herring was off the menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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