Mike Fox Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 (edited) Caught the 9.30 a.m. bridge lift out of Poole, and having heard about the recent success on a favourite club mark with the small-eyed ray (in the members-only section), we decided to have a dangle. Arrived before high water, and checked out the mark, anchoring uptide of a fishy looking bit, just as another boat "Just Perfick" I think, anchored dead astern ( he must have heard the rumours about the secret groundbait recipe we thought). We started dropping groundbait , and started attracting the doggies to mackerel chunk and to whole squid. George had the best at 2lb 6oz, and we had 3 or 4 each (and Carol squeaked a solitary common smoothhound) before the wind shifted from NW to SW4 maybe 5, the white horses started, and we began to wonder if wind over tide might make sea state worse, so upped anchor (had to steam it out, snapping 3 cable ties on the "trip"). We had a look at a nearby mark, but decided against anchoring as the waves were now making foredeck work interesting, and started to return towards Poole, having a chat with club boat Sheila Marie who had had similar thoughts. We trolled a mackerel line, and soon had 5 nice ones, and as Bournemouth Pier came abeam and the wind died away again, we started a long drift in the rough ground inshore, getting our large mackerel baits savaged by small bream (we think!) that didn't take the hooks. We were getting a bit fed up, and lost a lot more gear than usual on one particular "tackle graveyard", but perseverence was rewarded when Carol hit a very spirited fish, which was eventually netted as a personal best bass of 8lb 6oz, which was a cracking way to christen her new 6500 multiplier. We managed one more on the same mark before we had to leave for the 5.30 bridge lift. We had seen club boat "Sammy" out earlier, and had seen them inshore, so suggested that they might like to check out our mark for future reference. Before they did - another boat had apparently nipped in! It might prove to be a good one, and will definitely try it again. Mike, Carol and George Edited September 1, 2007 by Mike Fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 What a beautiful bass, Carol looks well chuffed with her catch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djredrupp Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 nice catch! was that near b'mouth pier? out tomorrow for the bass, but not too sure where... Dan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coddy Posted September 1, 2007 Report Share Posted September 1, 2007 Hi all Bill (Ferret) and I went out today on Sammy, as the forecast said it was the best day! Sea state was lovely and calm first thing with the sun shinning and all the great feelings of being out on the water made us feel great, so hopes were high for a good day. Tried a couple of marks for mackerel but no success so I want to see if the wreck mark I had was a good one and I was pleased to say it was spot on! We had a few drifts over it but nothing want to play so off to another new mark I had learnt about. Down went the pick and found the tide ripping through and needed about 1lb of lead to hold bottom. We were soon into bites but could not connect so we downsized the hooks and we were then into Bream, only one keeper the rest were small but good fun. Bill managed the only doggie of the day which makes a change as we have loads of kennels around here. The wind increased from a light 2 to a blustery 5 and the sea state got very uncomfortable in the short chop so we decided to up an move inshore. Waved at Frisky Fox on the way in. Stopped off to watch a bit of Zapcat racing then got asked to move as we were drifting in the racing course! Stopped off for a bit of drifting close into shore and got bites straight off which turned out to be small bream again. After a while my rod had gone quite so I reeled in to re-bait when I felt some weight and up came a nice plaice approx 1lb+. As the tide dropped off so did the bites so we decided enough was enough for today and headed back in and recover the boat. Nice day to be out, found a wreck mark, which was a first for me, tried a couple of new marks which we caught fish on so not a bad day out at all. Fish caught: Mackerel Bream LSD Plaice - new for Sammy's fish list this year. Coddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul J Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 Carol, Thats a fantastic fish and a great photo. Well done to all on Frisky Fox PJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 what a fantastic fish - and a good photo too Mike. I took the liberty of a little work on it ................. and it's also about 20% if the file size now too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Fox Posted September 2, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 (edited) Nicely cropped and uplifted Duncan! George and I are dead envious! Mike PS George is our resident photographer! Edited September 2, 2007 by Mike Fox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duncan Posted September 2, 2007 Report Share Posted September 2, 2007 Geoge took an excellent photgraph - I had the easy bit that took about 10 seconds with expensive software and a bit of practice............ if you are going to get a print done let me know and I will email the larger file back to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 Duncan, Can I assume you use Adobe Photoshop? If so there is a very good FREE alternative called "Gimp": http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/...-i586-setup.exe You will also need GTK installed: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gimp-win/...10.13-setup.exe Alternativley a simpler software for batch resizing and croping is "Paint.NET": http://www.skyorb.com/downloads/Paint.NET.3.10.exe You will need dot net framework 2.0: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en Hope this is useful. Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daz Posted September 3, 2007 Report Share Posted September 3, 2007 nice fish well done the bass elude me caught a 2lber just of bournemouth pier at poole rocks i think its called was more of a fluke catch than a targeted fish but hey they all count FISH ON!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Nice one Carol Sam tells me you were so excited when he saw you that you were struggling to talk Great photo for the scrap book Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manic Moore Posted September 5, 2007 Report Share Posted September 5, 2007 Sam tells me you were so excited when he saw you that you were struggling to talk I wonder if I can get the FPO fishing for Bass............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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