From Memory, this is not won often in the Solent.
Maybe because the organisers have to cancel or postpone if the weather is so bad that boats would be restricted to the Solent.
If it was good enough for us to get to the Solent from Poole, we would probably be able to fish in the bay.
Personally I would not know where to fish for them in that area, so would probably not go.
There looked to be a weather window after Christmas when I looked yesterday, but as Alun says that seems to have closed already. Bugger.