jack

well done both.If you dont try you cant win...jack

Welcom abourd Dommy,tight lines....jack

Thanks again to one and all for some useful and informative advice and opinions,I will give it a try,and if ANYONE can comment on its effectiveness it's got to be me.as I am starting from ground Zero...jack

Yes we have heat,it was too much at times so we turned it off !! eat your hearts out you "trailer sailors". Andy is not happy about our seating,and my own Directors Chair tends to slide about,so he is looking at fitting a rear facing settee,I suppose the upholstry will have to be PVC.a bit cold on the bum in the winter,unless of course we could have heated seats like................no perhaps that would be going too far.!! jack

Thanks Steve,I did wonder about the Doggies,but as you are dealing with the only club member who is delighted to catch a fish of any shape; size ;type or reputation, "bring 'em on "...I have the polycups full and frozen,I have my little laundry bags, I have lots of weights.I planned to attach the bag to the weight,if they eat the bag too, at least it's working... jack

Is there any point in useing rubby dubby on our winter fishing trips ? or is it a summer thing,? jack

Hi John,you must have been in the same water conditions ,out toward the needles on sunday,as Andy and I. we thought it would be almost glassy flat ! how wrong can you get, but no-one else seemed to notice...us sensative souls will have to stick together,against these "macho" sailor boys ! . jack

Hi Duncan,What I meant by" lumpy",was that my tea kept slopping out of the cup when it was balanced on the gunnel !...Just as a bye the bye,,this was our first trip with the newly scrubbed and anti-fouled bottom..you would not believe the difference even though the old stuff is only a 12 mth build-up. before we did it 2.3 revs [our normal plod ] gave us 15-16 mph [or knots,] can't remember which it shows ,on sun. it popped along at 20+ for the same power, even more noticeable was the fast accelleration.Money and effort well spent,speeding us on toward those fish that are just waiting out there with our names on !! ps. they must be getting pretty peed off by now !!cheers all... jack

Well written Mike,keep up the same fishing and you will soon be bad enough to join a select little sub-division of the club.no names no pack drill...oh and no fish either...jack

\nice one Gordon..who cares if it was the biggest or not !!! as he says on "little Britain"..."I WANT ONE "....jack

I Know I cant catch Fish,but I bet I could give nits a good run for thier money,..still I am almost bald .perhaps Andy would be willing to give it a try.I will have to put it to him..jack

Well ,for once Andy and I were not the odd ones out,we left P.H about 09.45 out toward needles. tagged on to a group of fellow "danglers" about 6ml from needles[is this area still the outer poole patch,or called something else.? ] stayed 2 hrs. blank..tried again 2ml closer and to the east of needles.kept losing baits without the slightest bite indication,even if lashed on with cotton, moved after lunch to 1ml or so closer to needles.thought the tide had fallen completely away until we realised that a nearby goup of boats had slid away to the north without a sound...realised we were driffting,..pulled up the anchor to fid a loop around the bouy ring with the anchor happily bobbing 50ft beneath it. moved to a point 2ml s.w of needles.had 2 dogs ,once again with no indication of a bite,our reels were just holding on the rachet..do the darn things get the bait in thier mouth and just lie there chomping at it.? in all another uneventful day !. our only excitement was a reply from great white when we called up,on hearing him on the radio.we did'nt say much as they were obviously carrying out thier own advice to say as little as possable on the radio....We thought the conditions were rather lumpy given the forecast...cheers..jack

Thanks Duncan,you'r last comment confirms it,as where I thought it was,it was like Tesco's car park when we were there....jack

Just idle curuiosity,but 6ml from poole.or from the needles ?Andy and i have had a little success in that area,but its 15+mls from poole ent.and that would equate with 4/6 ml from needles...same area... ,or another.?....jack

Well..Well..Well...when I slipped it back,who would have thought it would swim that far....jack

Bought and received a Shimano Triton 2000 charter special. New unused {no box or paperwork]

As I said to Andy when we joined the club."we are sure to get some useful and inteligent help from these chaps"...I knew I was right. jack

Andy and I are "out" at the moment on Cobbs Quay.Would you believe it.?..the fishing is just the same as usual,for us !!..jack

Bob,this is the only type of fishing where I can beat "all comers"... jack

Cheers Sam......... jack

Hi Tom, Welcome to the club,Dont let Rich's "probably" put you off. You will soon see for yourself...jack

Rich..It's already on its second "go round",being on Discovery,it will come around again soon...jack.Ps.just for our water-bound carreer lad [sam ],They will definately let you fish off thier boat !!!

Thanks Mike..Had been offered it but did'nt bother..Will do so now..

Criky !!!, when you know what you are do-ing wrong ,it all begins to make sense!!jack

When my children were younger and fishing trips were a real extravagance on my pay,we all regularly eat everything I caught.[thank God that isn't the case now,my family would starve to death.].we cooked conger ,in long fillets [less bones that way ] and then separated the flesh from the bones really thoroughly,useing the meat to make fish cakes,that were frozen and used as required.Dogfish were cut all around the body below the head,The head then nailed to the fence post and the skin pulled off,usually in one go,with a pair of pliers.flesh was often quite sweet,not to everyones taste. this was approaching subsistance living but we were brought up "waste not,want not"... .Those were also the"Bad old days" when the skipper dictated how many fish,you got to keep. He kept and sold the rest,and nothing went back....jack