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Marlin - Greg and Brad Sunday (finally got a weekend off 🙂 !!!)

plans have changed .... i might be able to make it Sunday (it will be with a non member if at all).

Change of plan for Fisheagle. Fishing with Mike Hall and Frank Morris on Sunday. Hoping to do some general fishing but will probably also try for a Bass. Jan Tryska has asked me to post that he will also will also be entering the Comp. on Holy Mackerel with a non member on Sunday.

JV Sunday Adam and Rob

Dave and Mick hopefully Saturday

Madness will be out Saturday with Dean and I

At last a window of opportunity, I had been going stir crazy. Stuie volunteered for crew and was pontoon-side ready for action at our 08.00 start time, regrettably Min-y-Mor had not been launched so Stuie issued a reminder whilst I attended to more basic needs after a long'ish early morning drive. Everything was forgiven though due to the sun shining, the sea being calm and a good day in prospect. First stop a mackerel call, well that was easy, nothing there. Second stop a tiny reef to pick up some small pollack, bingo! Off for a bit of bassing and Stuie was keen to catch one. It was not the most exciting session with the bass being markedly uncooperative, even Alun on Gastronaught was struggling. However, Stuie managed to get a couple, one a keeper, which seemed to please him so, job done. In the meantime Alun had gone in search of mackerel and lo, he found some. Off we went, of course, and caught as many large mackerel as we needed in very short order, thank you for sharing Al. So, two boxes ticked now for the plaice. I can only say, this was less than sparkling with only small fish coming to our worm offerings, by the way, good worms supplied by Stuie. His technique proved superior to mine with a variety of fish coming to his offerings, plaice, dabs, gurnard and a baby smoothy. We tried a couple of other spots on the way back to Poole but, I have to say, my heart wasn't really in it by this stage so we called it a day and back to the marina for 6'ish. What a fabulous day to be on the water, not a red letter day for fish caught but it has really perked me up. Looking forward to the next one. Terry.

Glad you had a good dayTerry and Stuie, glad you are pleased with the new boat and all went well, and didn't need my " secret" plaice Mark then, thanks for ringing Sunday I really enjoyed our chat and I must get to thinking about a smoker, it would be nice to do a couple of pollock, a second rate fish in a lot of people's book but you made it sound delightful, I could nearly taste it on the phone! Colin.

It was quite a lot of effort. No really! It wasn't all beer and skittles. 😉 Terry.

Well done guys Better than mixing concrete like I was

A hearty thankyou from me Terry - a very comfortable boat and the skipper assisted me regularly........ Plenty of cups of tea as well and enough fish to make the day even more enjoyable too.

I intend on being out on the Saturday (weather permitting). It will be me and a non member.

damn it, wife has organised a social event for this weekend. does that count as grounds for a divorce?

Its a miracle they survived looking at the force of the impact and the state of the plane when it was recovered but the pilot did an amazing job of averting what could have been a tragedy in such a crowded area, as did the family who rescued them

Steve and mullet

Great photo skills Diane [emoji846]

Gastronaught: Alun, Steve on Sunday

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Didn’t bother. I had a dozen of them. Probably around 10 lb??? Big head this one. Mullered my Tope baits

A very sad sight indeed Mick. Carol and I had left the Air Show early to pick our son up from work. We waved to Tony and Loraine on Serenity on the way out of the anchorage area. Unlike me, we ambled back taking our time as we would be too early for the 16.30 bridges. We had just passed the Shore Road mark when were saw the two Wing Walker Bi-planes pass us. We looked at them for a couple of moments and then Carol commented that one was flying low. I thought it was going to do a Fly Pass by the Haven, instead to our horror we saw it just out of the sky round the corner of the Haven. We did not see it crash but we were soon there and saw the Life boat attending to some persons by the Brownsea pick up point by the Haven. The news since have reported that both the Pilot and the Female Wing Walker were safe and sound and had got away with minor injuries. Apparently, the plane had nose dived and flipped over. The two then popped up and were rescued by a passing Rib. Eye witnesses saw the plane ditch just before the Chain Ferry on the harbour entrance side. This happened just in front of a guy fishing from the Rocks Thankfully, both are alive but really upsetting to watch it go down. Greg