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8th birthday, 1st boat!! The journey starts here !! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Guys it’s starting to look like there may be a wooden spoon award for the biggest balls up during a club comp, fish being returned before weighing them, the plaice comp, gutting fish before weighing them, a trend starting to show. And of course plenty have been returned before being photographed during comps! Just thinking out loud. 😳😳

Don't worry I have forgotten about that, see my previous post

Well we are all getting older

Well done for getting out guys and catching fish I dutifully attended an 8 year old girls birthday party and had a sleepover watching videos with the other grand children I did not even get one bite!!!!!!!!!!

Not compared to where you go on holiday, its about 15 miles from entrance I bet that groundbait would sure help

When Charlie saw the Porbeagle I thought that the Russians were invading " don't panic Capt Mainwairing". Great fun for 2 days, Alan landed a PB Tope, I had a stunning Red Mullet, lots of Tope (with 2 landed at the same time that brought up all 4 rigs). Charlie had the smallest Bream ever landed and I had a Conger that may of only just hatched. I exercised my right to catch and release a lovely Spotted Ray when a stunned Charlie informed me (sternly) that this was a competition and it was around specimen size, oops. Thanks for the 2 days and our beers tasted extra special on Sunday night with a take away from Chinese Whispers

Saturday started well enough with three boats heading for wrecks 20 miles out, bait fishing went well in Swanage so off we go, trouble was it was a little breezy and the water was a bit coloured and nobody had a single fish. Dave and I decided to anchor the deep gulley, I believe Dave and Mick struggled for bites but we seemed to get a few Started with some Huss, best 9lb to Ian, then some Tope best 28lb to me. We were just about to move to try and anchor a wreck and Dave was pulling his anchor to come over when I had another close encounter with the Poole Bay Monster on my tope rig. looking down I could see colour and thought it looked odd, then I realised a F~~~~ng big Porgie was swimming straight at the boat, she hovered alongside for a little while as I barked all sorts of instructions at my poor crew to fetch a camera wind up the lines etc etc, then she decided that she didn't like sunlight and set off for Portland. By the time 200 metres of braid was off the reel I decided to up the drag, but all that did was straighten a 6/0 hook. I then got a bit focused an another go with some bigger hooks, so had to tell Dave I was staying put. we carried on catching plenty of Tope but the big fish did not return Sorry if I messed up your plan Dave, but it was a very big Porgie, at least 8 feet long and I got a bit excited

Kingfisher went out today and have to say the correct decision to cancel the cross channel trip, the wind was greater than forecast. We had a delightful slow trip back in and found out the wheelhouse windows need resealing urgently. Mal and Nigel spent the whole trip in mopping up with towels etc as we did a submarine impression for miles! ☹️☹️ Cheers guys. 👍👍

Charlie we may need a bigger galley. Dave, can you be a bit clearer when you say I "need to do a big chicken", nothing was ever proved in that case.