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Hi, I have joined and paid up. I am primarily a fly fisherman targeting Bass from the boat. Prior to June I am interested in trying to catch a few Plaice and Bream. On the Plaice seem to get plenty of bites but rarely convert them to fish when drifting. Any advice most welcome

Who caught it? R

and I thought mine were bad, will be in touch soon with a few reels for you to work miracles with

welcome. you are in the right place for the advice! I have been interested to go after bass on the fly, have tried it in chichester harbour, but there are fewer spots to try it in Poole. I have been looking at the shingle bar near the harbour entrance, lots of gulleys and 6ft water, and it is outside the bass nursery area. lots of traffic through. let me know how you get on.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-56514997

Good news, if this happens at Poole can it be counted as a new species😜😜😜😜🤣🤣🤣

So Doombar did fine 😃. Im not going to bother with a catch report, this was a boating trip. The main aim was to find a wreck (Betsy Anna) this small wreck is about 10 miles from Cobbs. The sea swell was nasty, I practiced drifting over while plotting. I trust my fish finder to show fish ( yes they do !!!) shoals of small fish surrounding this wreck. No chance of trying out my new slow jigs due to the swell so with Swanage bay not far I decided to use the Navionics shading features in my honest opinion it is truly fantastic. I have in the past struggled to find the tiny features, the ledges and reefs let alone the areas of sand between slate beds. The other exercise was to also show Tracy that if you can watch you lure on the finder in 60ft of water they WILL show a fish ( don’t believe that swim bladder noncence) Messing about with different cone angles is also very interesting, combine that with the signal strength, clarity etc is something I had never had time to play with let alone altering the angle of the transducer. I was the person that just left it on standard settings, I no expert but four hours messing about has been well spent. So you find the fish ? that means nothing, getting them to take your bait/ lure etc is down to skill and experience, this is why some of the ‘old boys’ with none of this electronics stuff will out catch you every time 😂