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In my hunt for stingrays I had a nice by catch on my huge rag baits. My mate weighed it on his electronic scales at 2,12 after taking off for his mesh bag. Also had a lot of fun on the smuts. Nice to get a fish on the board, although it'll get beaten by loads of undies this month[emoji23][emoji23] Returned to grow much bigger Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk

Osprey 24 Expedition for sale Yamaha 421 sti 370 hours Brand new Hydradrive single new prop and a spare Lowrance 10 &7 HDS gen2 Side/downscan 20 rodholders Twinscrew bowthruster 2 dsc icom vhf Great stereo with 2 of 4 speakers on deck Deck wash Bathing platform,transome door Etc etc This boat has wanted for nothing Had engine out last year for check over and paint and new gimbal bearing plus full service inc injectors overhauled etc,etc Over 500 litre fuel tank so massive range @ approx 1.5 litre a mile Also will inc 2 spare overhauled hydradrives Please message for more info Moored Poole Dorset £33.5k Poss deal 4 PBSBAC member Poss p ex smaller boat but work commitments forces sale only used once in 5 months

Sserenity Looking to get out to hunt for species Sunday 3rd Any one want to join me Late start8:30ish Call 07733101037 Tony

Sorry to hear you are not getting out on her often enough Nigel and feel you need to sell her. I sure you will get plenty of takers it's a fine boat.

Always sad when someone sells up, as you know Nige always a space on board mate. Hope you are letting that floating anchor you tried to use go with it. 😂😂😂😂 Soon be snapped up I'm sure.🤞🤞

Take the 2 online surveys here. After careful consideration I went for 5km exclusion for all zones. 5m for minimum depth of net from surface. And mage all options for netting. Make your own decisions: http://www.sussex-ifca.gov.uk/live-consultations R

Ditto & Ditto

Best wishes Nigel..

Good luck with the sale Nigel, she's a cracking boat

Looks like you had a birthday to remember and so it should be. Belated best wishes Trevor

Nice one Trevor

I know I don't look a day over 59 Terry, Thank you for the compliment. Cheears Trev Less cake, but plenty of scallops, prawns and fillet devon red - followed by ...........wine............................ can't remember......... Cheers Terry

Have a fab cake day uncle Trev, hadn't realised you were THAT old.

And they call them Recreational Fishermen. The fines should have been bigger. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/recreational-anglers-charged-for-breaching-bass-regulations?utm_source=6637c7de-83d9-40f1-b0cc-da9d2895e005&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=govuk-notifications&utm_content=immediate

The fine should have been at least 10x . Ignorance is not an excuse !! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I can understand making a mistake for a few under sized bass, but 68? Who the hell are they fishing for? The whole Indian community?

Dean and I decided we would go out on the boat fishing Sunday so arrangements for food and bait were made . Down the boat for a later start at 8:15. First stop was at Cobbs Quay fuel berth to fill Madness up after our Alderney foray then out into the harbour. We had a conversation about what we should do, breaming was on the agenda but seeing how flat the sea was along with the combination of small tides we plumped for mid channel wrecks. On our previous trip over to Alderney we lost all our pink look alike eels which had seemed to be the colour preferred by the fish, a quick call into Poole Sea Angling got us something similar then off we went this side of mid channel to see what we could find. The trip out saw a flattish sea which gave us a comfortable cruise speed at 20+ knots. Got to our first wreck which had fished on previous occasions but unfortunately not today with just a couple of hard won fish appearing. After giving it a good length of time the decision was made to move to the next closest wreck which was about 1.5 miles further west from the first mark. This small wreck fished slightly better but was not blistering sport with just the odd cod. Off we go again another 5 miles west to a reasonable sized wreck. This move was well justified with Pollock to 15lb and a splattering of small 5-8lb cod. Coming home was interesting with visibility down to 50 metres at one point, the fog was really quite thick and a total change from the morning. At one point Dean said look up I can see the sun to which I replied unfortunately we were not going that way and still couldn’t see more than 70/80 metres ahead, really strange. Close inshore (within a mile of land) the fog cleared to hazy sunshine. The point of making an issue of the fog is that if we did not have radar we would have been travelling at about 6 or 7 knots and bricking ourselves but with all the navigational aids on Madness including radar we were able to not only keep up a reasonable cruising speed of about 15 knots comfortably but we were able to see boats on the screens that were around us . Had we not had radar we would have came straight over the wrecks off Swanage where several boats had divers down. We could see these on radar 6 miles ahead so could take a slightly different course giving them a wide berth and not spoiling there (or our) day. I know that most of the club boats that go offshore are very experienced skippers and have all the kit and more. If less experienced members want to take their boats well offshore please take the time to talk to those that have been there and done that. Your learning curve will be greatly reduced

Lofty's in this months Saltwater Boat Angling mag.

Yes well done Lofty a great achievement. Tony

Nice one and well done Lofty