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Madness will be going offshore on Friday with Martin Tony and Jim as crew, anybody else out? will be listening on ch6

Sorted, family fishing emergency has popped up, so Deckhand Jenny has closed the shop tomorrow! See you out there 🎣

Tight lines - looking forward to the report already!

good plan.

Nice one Carl, have a great day

Unfortunately I had today off and had a short trip out (ended up on my own) and moved all my work to tomorrow. Good luck getting out (one way or another).

Me and my mate will be out with nigel on Lady V, under 10.30 bridge.

We are hopefully having the day off tomorrow. Probably try for some mackerel if we get out.

Yiiiiiiiiiipppppppppppppppeeeeeeeeeee 😉 Thanks Martin.

I arranged with my oldest grandson to have a bit of a "bonding trip" today. He's 20 years old, doesn't work, doesn't have any intention of working and doesn't see why he should work! So grandad offered him a day out fishing free of charge! Thursday was chosen as the day (not that it makes any difference to him, but that was the day he chose). I rearranged my diary and ordered the bait. Its been arranged a week or so, with excited texts going back and forward all week. Good (small) tides so should get us out into deeper water. Plan was to get the boat in early, motor down to the quay, he'd jump out and pick up the bait from Mike at Poole Sea Angling and we'd be out of the harbour by about 7.30. 12.40AM this morning I get a text, "don't worry about fishing grandad, I just remembered I'm going to Bournemouth this morning! PAA! So plan completely changed. My normal crew were all at work, and the one who wasn't at work had broken his ankle last weekend! After exhausting all (2 or 3) friends I have, I ended up putting the boat in the water on my own towards the end of the tide, (at Ridge Wharfe slipway that can be a scary exercise) and decided to stay in the harbour for a few hours. I think I must have beaten the club record for seaweed. Every cast resulted in a huge lump of the stuff covering the weight and the hook. A couple of moves just brought me more weed. I had a couple of possible nibbles, but no fish! After my worm supply was exhausted I gave up and had a very slow motor back through the harbour towards Wareham. I had a red and white lure trailing behind me at 3 knots and had 3 small bass take it. I'm not sure of the legality of lure fishing in the harbour at this time of year, but I wasn't intending on keeping anything (to be honest, I wasn't actually expecting to catch anything after the trip I'd had). Anyone wanna adopt a 20 year old grandson?