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Planning started on Friday, bait, invites and scheduling. Purchased bait now I must keep it alive, set fridge to 10 degrees, that should do it. A push off at 6.30am was planned due to a Springs and boy did it come in quickly. A Cuckoo decided he was going to make himself known at 6.30 am, it was beautiful listening for 15 minutes at very close quarters. The Plan was a trip across the Bay for some Plaice. Easy trip across the bay, nice a smooth. Then I saw a bank of fog coming over Old Harry, at it's worst 100 yards visibility, time to engage the radar and it worked well and I could understand what was being plotted, bonus. On our first drift we heard amongst fog horns a channel 6 call from John on Kelly's Heroes, he had made a similar plan and had some early success, nice to hear a call out on Channel 6 for PBSBAC on the VHF. We had a few plaice and gave it a few hours till the weed got underway. Then I moved off and noticed my engine note changed and I hoped I was being a DQ. Dropped the Anchor on the secret ray mark, that had actually turned into a Secret Bream mark, no rays. We had a busy time with double shots of Bream. Then lifted the Anchor for a slow trip back, good job we did because the engine started to run on 3 cylinders and vibrating. Not good and would we get home, the power dropped off and we were limping home with a developing problem. Managed to find a sweet spot in the miss firing mode to get us home. A Long wormy wash down and a look to see if we had a loose spark plug lead, nothing spotted, however the engine did seem to run better at the end, so I am hoping it was fuel contamination. The engine has just had a big service, so I am hoping for a good outcome. I will call the engineers Monday for a diagnostic check. Btw my radio issues did not repeat, so SS on Tiger fish you may have an issue, please check your radio. It was a good weather day at Sea and sharing another day on board with my Bro and bestie doing the same drifts. Thanks Chris for all your support today and I hope you found a few more. A day with a bit of everything.

Decided at the last minute Friday afternoon to go for a day's fishing on Saturday as the wind and sea state looked favourable. But what I didn't realise was that the temperature was gong to be so cold. I headed for the Patch via the 07.30 bridges out of Cobbs with Bream and other species in mind. The tide was coming towards slack water so the fishing was quite slow mainly small Bream and the odd Ballan. Just before the tide was going to run again I uplifted the anchor and moved a little distance to an old Bream mark. As the tide started to ebb, the larger Bream came on. In fact every drop some nice Bream were coming aboard. All went back alive to fight/breed for another day. As I wanted to up my species I moved to the SRM. No rays but and an LSD and a nice size Smoothound to about 7lb came aboard. I then decided to drift for a Plaice for an hour before going in with no joy but a passing small Bass did oblige. All in all a good day's fishing with 6 species for the day and the a much warmer end of the day too. (Thankfully)

Wendys first fish this year. Nice day in the bay.

My son James with an Easter Monday 11 1/2lb Bass, first bass of the season on Kingfisher.

Adam too Ruben and myself out on Saturday after we all spent the morning at a work party on our pheasant syndicate. The late start meant a late finish. We were out on Southbourne rough (tried a couple of spots) but it was slow going. But plenty of pout!! A move to Ballard yielded some keeper bream to keep us happy. A late move as the sun was dipping for a bass led to me getting one on on a lure and Adam dropping one. Cracking day out, thanks chaps. R Sent from my SM-S721B using Tapatalk

I was out with a local friend and what a glorious day to be on the water. I decided to give The Bridge a go first as my friend's wife likes bass. A very slow drift speed and dirty water seemed a bad combination and, predictably, nothing stirred. Then a move to the Ledge to try for bream and, again predictably, some bar steward was on 'my' usually dependable mark, we tried nearby but, annoyingly, his catch rate exceeded ours. However, we caught bream and kept a few for home consumption. Doggies outnumbered the bream by about 3:1. Plaice then beckoned but, again with the lack of movement, .3-.4kn, and the decidedly murky water, nothing much doing and we only added a couple of small gurnard, a doggie and slipper limpets to the tally; where have they all come from? Having got bored, we decided to have a little cruise and went to socialise with Gummage (Martin) who appeared to have been having a 'Gummage' sort of day. Nice to catch up though. On the way back in, we saw Allan on Fisheagle waiting for the Town bridge, no such problem for me, not having radar does pay off sometimes, I hope he had a better day. I was really surprised back in the marina upon checking my log for the day to find we had done 49 nautical miles, surprising how it adds up. I really must do better at coordinating good weather with decent tides, that's twice now. Terry.

Turbot time for Graham on the Shambles

Matching a male cuckoo wrasse with Gary’s tee shirt!

Only two weeks before the Bream Comp. Lets hope for some good weather and a good turn out.

The swash and inshore were unfishable earlier yesterday so I pushed out to deeper water for some bassing until the wind died down. It did, and became very pleasant had a few nice bass then came in and tried for some bream, showing but the LSDs and smoothounds only coming to the boat. Got fed up with loosing tackle so went plaice fishing in the swash, had a few small ones but the weed as Charlie said was like bringing in a washing line! Defo fish bite least when the wind is in the east. 🫣 Still nice to be out and not at work. 🤷

Link here: https://www.southern-ifca.gov.uk/live-consultations

Nice evenings fishing

Shame the fishing didn't match the weather... I was surprised how early the May water has arrived this year - presumably the unseasonal amount of sunshine has been a factor? The water at Ballard was much much clearer - you could see the bottom in 12' of water. It was good to be out regardless.

Dogfish were unfortunately jumping on the hooks whatever bait was put on, the LSD was even less impressed with the labrador!

A trip out yesterday in glorious weather, our plans were scuppered after going out 18 miles it was still a horrible dirty chocolate colour. After discussion we headed back in rather than going further to look for better water visability. After checking the usual marks we had a dozen Bream, again the majority were males, some monster Pout and the obligatory LSD and congers. My great start to the month came back to bite me as i failed to catch a Bream all day!!! A few club boats out so it will be interesting to see how they got on. I think boat cleaning and gardening until the grot disappears.

Thanks all I was in Bournemouth with wendy earlier. So popped over to Christchurch angling. They had one simular to my broken one. So I picked one up. Just need to launch the boat on Monday and try it out.

It is with a heavy heart both Jerry and myself feel the coming weekend forecast is not favourable for small boats exiting the swash, Chris has been out today on a smaller wind forecast and said it was very lumpy. Watch for a new date asap.

Its conger time, for Wendy.

Madness - Jim - Phil - Martin Y-Knot - Mal and tbc Fisheagle - Allan Marlin - Greg and Crew TBC Canaletto - Dale, Russ and Andy Alfresco, Crew TBC Looby 1V - Jerry - Jerry2 - Stuie

Dale well done for entering, there are rules and regs on the Club Website third one down in the competitions section, saying about pretty much everything like number of rods, number of hooks, times etc. However obviously everything is done on trust and having fun. Any questions do post again. I will post 48hrs beforehand about weather. Its really good we have a few boats entering and time for more yet

Biggest fish Dale, photo of the fish and weight.

Rob and Reuben throwing lures to bass feeding on baitfish by Old Harry under the setting evening sun

The consultation was released today and I have filled it in, doesn't take long. You can find it on the Sifca website under "Live Consultation" The consultation paper is asking for participation, Voluntary code and some questions on bag limits and sizes. Please take the time to read and fill in, if your happy to participate.

The winner is Jerry with his huge pollock Nice one Jerry Some other great photos this month, thanks to everyone who submitted a photo

One week to go before the Bream Comp, around 20 anglers and 7 boats signed up we have a competition, which is great news, and hopefully a few more boats to enter. Don't forget juniors there are prizes, and seniors get your name on that trophy. Lets get lots of pictures, and perhaps keep count of males and females to help those needing that information to help the future of the bream and our sport. I will post weather report on Thursday/Friday

Very like our day.

Don't forget me. I'm here if anyone wants crew. ( And I promise I won't catch more than the skipper ) 👍 😇

Thornback caught yesterday, say 5-6lb

Red letter Pollock day on Loobie 1V

Madness - Jim - Phil - Martin Y-Knot - Mal and tbc Fisheagle - Allan Marlin - Greg and Crew TBC

Madness - Jim - Phil - Martin Y-Knot - Mal and tbc Fisheagle - Allan Please copy and paste this post into a new post and add your boat name and crew Please do note quote this post and add names as this way creates work Ta Muchly

Nice one guys, well done

Fisheagle subject to weather.

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Bream comp entrants please post here Madness - Jim - Phill - Martin Y- Knot- Mal and tbc

No problem Charlie, will keep them for you until I see you next .

Just Called Trevor skipper of Rocket, his Calendar has a space for Friday 9th May. This could be a bream comp opportunity for those who don't own or who would like a trip carefree. Drop your name here if it suits you and I await Trevor's response.

Welcome back Mike, I hope your lines are tight and you enjoy our Annual Comps. Enter all fish on the fish recorder and Chris does the rest. If you pop down to our next meeting we can show you around the website.

Writing this by chance to see if I can find some more information on a sailing boat called Lakota that was built in Poole in 1961, it stayed in the Mitchels Boat yard way back when. It is currently in Donegal and interested in the history of the boat. https://www.boat-disposal.co.uk/lakita-33ft some photos to show you the boat.

Well done Wendy ,chip pan on ! It's going to be at least three weeks before I can get out to play 😀 can't wait, let's hope it's a good plaice fishing season, I know there are some club members live for that. Colin.

Hi Mike You are currently registered on the forum as a forum member and not a club member so you will not have access to all areas. I'll ask @Brian to check your membership status and update your forum registration

No problem Colin, I think I had the last one in the shop, when asked what it was all I got was, "a boat landing net mate" May be worth giving them a call, to see if they are getting more in.

Hi Charlie, I am in the market for a net about like you are describing, if you think your pleased with it when you have been out could you pass on details and a pic would be good please? One of my crew could pick one up for me from c a c no prob. Thanks. Colin.

I am having a few issues on the boat, Tiger fish could not hear me transmitting on CH 6, tried it later on 65 and I was loud and clear, tried it with a local boat and they heard me loud and clear. What's going on !!! East winds seemed to be causing me anchoring issues on the flood, just keep tumbling the anchor. Wasted quite a bit of time on a very slow slip, not happy. Re anchored 3 times and kept dragging, then moved and the Ebb was easier. I could see the target but could not anchor accurately. Moved to a softer bottom for an easier anchor grip, caught another 35 dogfish, 1 Thornback ray and 10 bream to 1.5lb and 6 straps Exhausted after a day of managing 4 rods.

Was that four on each side Mal… pop me a message if you would like the full size pic files, good to see you out there [emoji1303] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Family over from South Africa and nephews desperate to fish, the weather window slotted in a treat. Wind direction was well out from some apps, but trusty XC unfortunately correct, first spot produced nothing, so a move found the fish with a dozen+ Bream to just over 2lbs, lsd, Whiting and whips kept them busy for a couple of hours. "don't be disappointed if you miss a few bites lads as they can be finnicky!!!!!" They hit the baits as if they had never eaten before!! So great success and hook ups, i explained about the males, females, eggs breeding etc so one fish each taken for tea. Incredibly small tides killed off the chance of a Plaice at the end of the day however the sun came out and we headed in after a really fun day.

Never caught anything so never needed one. 😪 🤣

Having seen lots of reports of some decent Pollock being caught, yesterdays weather window and tide to good to miss. 7.30 bridge and a lovely calm sea and a good run just over two hours at 23knots bought us to our first wreck. Two shooting friends and Dogfish Dave on board, the two friends were new to wrecking so i had tied up lots of rigs!!!! First drift an 8lbs Pollock for Baz, his first ever Pollock so over the moon and a good Red Gurnard to Dave and a fat Pout for Piggy. The sun came out and it was glorious, nearly 200ft with a maximium 3 knot drift all the ducks were in a row! A reasonably steady flow of fish throughout the day with some smaller ones managing to be put back. I christened a new SPJ outfit with first a PB 15lbs Pollock, then a 19lbs Pollock then an 18lbs fish!!!! All the fish gods were smiling on me that day for sure. With 3 Pollock each i decided we should head for home for the 4.30 bridge, after 10 minutes we hit a VERY thick fog bank, about 50m viz, radar on 3 other very experienced Yachtmaster crew on board helped one watching the radar, and two on watch was good for confidence, encountered one small boat off Durleston on the radar then one total ejit in the Swash doing 20knots with no radar echo on a rib!!!! Luckily we made the bridge with time to spare, none of us had seen fog in the forecast. Really red letter day for me and a great all round craic.