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Well where do I start? It all finished with the lifeboat! And a happy ending A nice chap called Adrian from the club met at mine 7.30am off to Chanbilly we went, duly plodded down river through the harbour and out over the bar. Fishing commenced drifting near christchurch ledge approx 1 mile of but no birds working. Very quiet in had 1 undersized bass but gave a very spirited fight as if it was a descent fish. Ady had a mackerel and I a garfish not alot happening so off to sewer bouys to try for Ady tea and fresh bait he managed 2 little mackerel not tea sized though off into livebait well (there lucky day released at the end of the day) We anchored up near the bouys and stayed there all day, frozen mackerel was working well. We had a few cracking runs but didn't connect 😕 We probably caught approx 6 thornbacks each all descent size and returned. About 5pm packed up as plenty of depth to go over the bar and still flooding rods tucked away and wind had picked up a little. TBC

Jerry if you can use one of your cucumbers for a bandanna, surely Rob can use one for a Wig winder🤣😂🤣😂

I’m told it never goes to plan when I’m on board! Well it did yesterday! We got the 7.30 bridge with perfect conditions although Jerrys forecast was showing it would be windy before midday so we stayed in Swanage bay to try for some rays. The tide was rising quite hard and not much was showing. As it slackened off a couple of strap conger and LSD, then a few rattles and a decent bream came up on a large hook. We changed down and caught a few bream for the table. The wind was now much less than expected so at slack water we ventured out slightly further to a bank in the hope of rays. The tide was now ebbing strongly and Jerry was first with a blonde. A hectic half hour followed with two more blondes and a tope each. My shoulder is aching today! It then went quiet and with a chop starting to pick up we decided to up anchor but the anchor had other ideas! It had set in very hard in the tide and would not trip despite some motoring around. After a battle it eventually came up and we headed back to the swash to try for some plaice. One for Jerry but nothing else showing so we called it a day. We spotted a kayaker really struggling trying to get past the chain ferry in the strong ebb so we threw him a line….he was mightily relieved and with some expert boat handling from captain we towed him back into the harbour…..catch and release I think they call it! Jerry has done so well with the cucumbers in his greenhouse this year that he’s having to find other uses for them and it turns out they make very good rig tidiers! thank you skipper!

Your welcome Rob, fun day, good banter with other club members out there and a few fish which always helps!!! The kayaker certainly used up his 9 lives and had his luckiest pants ever on, your line throwing was spot on so a good joint effort. I hope the Turkish Bream was good!!! I still cannot believe you used my cucumber for a rig winder!!!!!!!!!!!!, i cannot say my thoughts on a family forum

So glad you remembered how fishing goes, Martin. 😉 A lovely autumn day, some fish playing ball and good company, what more could you want, apart from more and bigger fish! If I may (well, I'm going to), I'll attach my record to yours. My friend Pete and I headed out about 08.30 and it was bloody tight getting under the town bridge. Going through the harbour with a flat sea no other boats about got me thinking what a shame it is not October. I decided to use the first of the ebbing tide trying for plaice and this proved to be a good decision with a good stamp of fish interspersed with other varieties making their presence felt. We had quite a few small to medium sized bream, sometimes two at a time, Pete got a couple of small bass, a lone dab showed up, something I haven't seen (or eaten, very sweet) for a long time, a thornback ray to me on the plaice gear and, as I reeled in the last cast, a BIG mackerel. What a good start apart from there being not a single squid around. At one point, Alun turned up and neither of us saw where he came from, suddenly he is just there sitting off our bow with about five rods out for squid, Ninja fisherman! And no, he didn't get any either. Now, off to the edge of the Ledge to try for bass which we ticked off, fish around the 3 - 4lb mark, perfect. We also had a lot of wrasse including one very large specimen which put up a bit of a scrap. Then, it all just suddenly stopped so, we decided to fish our way back to Poole, drowning the remaining worms. We did stop at Hengitsbury to see if there were any more mackerel about but, no luck. I did have something plucking at my feathers but not hooking up, I did convince myself that this was probably a squid, not getting it's tentacles caught on the small single hooks. Nothing else interrupted our peace on the saunter back to base. With an 04.30 start, the drive home after the boat washdown seemed to go on much longer than necessary. Looking forward to the next window, it's good, as Martin said, to be retired! Terry.

Sounds like some sort of initiation ritual..... what happens on Looby stays in Looby!! R

How did your day go bob?