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I'm in the hospital.........please hold my mail Hold my mail until further notice, as I am in hospital. I was badly attacked by a woman in an elevator. A witness got her photo. See below. I was in the elevator when she got in. I was casually staring at her boobs when she said, "Would you please press 1." So I did ... and I don't remember much afterwards. May be out of the hospital in a few days. --

I'll buy her a woolly hat.

Lol, still don’t think I’d be man enough to tackle them !! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

have some canvas sides and rollup door made for your pullout roof

All on hold at the moment, might stick with MegaByte.

I agree with Dave...but it's been a worsening situation with the flounders for a few years. I think it's about poor spawning / recruitment....possibily something has changed where they spawn in Lyme Bay. Evidence, other than the poor catches, is seen in the Summer months. It used to be the case that when I used to launch at Mudeford [and the water is clear in Summer], there would be lots of little postage stamp size flatties zipping about as you paddled in the shallows....now you just see the odd one or two. Alun.

I remember fishing up near the stakes at the start of the Frome many years ago when up popped a seal about 150 ft from the boat, I thought that would be the end of the fishing or if we did get one the seal would be sure to have it when we reeled it in. But we ended up catching 68 flounders that day and the seal never caused us any problems. I know people are blaming the nets and the seals for lack of flounders but I think it is just a bad year the same as the cod these happen from time to time. The plaice fishing as been very good for the last couple of years after many poor years.

Hi Kippercave thanks for the reply i have tried via the PHA to track you down to thank you for the 50 ragworm you gave me about 2/3 weeks ago when i was floundering in my dinghy sorry but they didnt work????? i have never had it as bad as this winter i have fished again today and once again not a bite i have decided to give it 2 more trips then it back to the Needles.My best flounder last year(2017) was 3lbs-5ozs and you are right i have had 1 fish over the 4llbs mark (4-7) what i cant get my head around is the total lack of fish.I will keep in touch with everyone

I have fished the harbour since the fifties.In those days there were far less anglers fishing the harbour and you could catch the flounders all year except when they went out to sea to breed,You could catch them everywhere.An example was the blue lagoon at lilliput. From the entrance to the lagoon on the ebb tide you did not stop catching them until the ebb stopped.It has to be accepted that over the years with more and more taking up angling that the flounders have been fished out.Up until about three years ago you could catch a few flounders in Holes Bay,including some around the four pound mark but no more.They have got less and less over the last few years.I have good information that for the last couple of years pot baiters have hammered Holes Bay.Look out for a grey Poole canoe with two old timers in it.Not registered.They are the boys doing it. If it was not for the plaice and gilt head bream the harbour would not be worth fishing now. As we know trawlers are devastating the bay between Bournemouth and Boscombe Piers.There won't be much left there soon.The plaice will not reach the harbour. To sum up, the harbour is now overfished and in a minute there will be no fish left. It will take years to recover if it ever does. Just out of interest years ago you only caught flounders in the pound to pound and a half range.As the years went by you started to get bigger fish.In those days a four pounder was unheard of. Getting the odd bigger fish is not doubt because there were not so.many flounders and therefore more food for the odd flounders which were left.My opinion.