blueboatdriver

Plaicemat, The bass nursery area is to the west of a line drawn from Jerry's Point through Brownsea Castle to Salterns' Pier. So you were legally allowed to keep this fish if you were on a bouy off Brownsea Castle . Nice touch letting it go though. Would have tasted better than those mackeral you kept

Great report Martin and I'm jealous as hell, but I'm sure Dancing Ledge is West. Unless of course you launched from Weymouth. Not trying to split hairs honestly. Maybe the celebrations in the bar went on longer than expected.

What size was it Charlie? I know the answer is probably in front of me here somewhere but it's knowing where to look ( I'm just lazy)

I may just stay in the harbour for 48 hrs next weekend and try to recatch your bass. It might even have grown a couple of ounces by then. Could be the money winner?

Just as they are will do fine. You could probably catch them without the feathers at the moment

Charlie, I will not make a decision until first thing tomorrow morning as the forecast is a bit iffy. Will call on channel six if we're about. Cheers, Simon.

Size is all relative: I 'm sure Paul will put a picture of anything you've caught on the front page if it means drinks all round.

yeah, It's bloody scary isn't it. I never realised how long ago it was until I started to think about it.

Kim, Took mum and dad and the kids up the river on Sunday; cracking weather, almost too hot at times. Saw your boat there on the mooring and wondered whether you'd be having a pint on the quay. Dad and I did.

I used to work in the channel and used to see these massive rafts of algae. They were only a couple of inches thick and I'm sure your intake would be below that level. Even so it would probably be as well to steer around. One of the crew once managed to scoop a baby lobster ( about 1mm across ) out of one of these weed rafts. He put it in his saltwater aquarium and it grew to about three inches and started to eat his smaller fish so he got rid of it. This was on board an old french crabber called Esperans about 22 years ago. Sorry I think I've started reminising(?) I'd better stop now before I get boring

The website seems fine from here.

I saw the incident from about 30ft away. The boat in question did seem to have a nice looking anchor, unfortunately it didn't seem to reach the bottom. The cruiser still had the boat in tow next to the ro ro terminal about two hours later. Looking at the state of the casualty it definately looked like a case of too much maintainance

the other one

A couple of snaps of the Burnham boat along side us a Ballard. A fair bit of friendly banter was exchanged in both directions; especially when they started to catch some bream as well as us. A great day; hope we can go to Burnham next year.

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What's a smut?

Yes I totally agree. We had a great day; plenty of bream but no great specimens. Those Burnham lads certainly don't mess around when it comes to launching and retrieving!

Greenslades' ice making thinghy is knackered.

Thanks for that, both helpful. Fingers crossed for Sunday.

Is there a list of species to specimen weight percentage ratio anywhere at hand (you know what I mean)? If by a miracle I happen to catch anything decent I need to no if it's worth hanging on to.

Correct me if I'm wrong; but isn't beer extremely expensive in Norway?

With absolutely no offence meant to anyone here, I cannot imagine a time when an Arvor is likely to be constrained by its draught or restricted in its ability to manoeuvre in the East Looe channel.

A good rule of thumb: MIGHT IS RIGHT

http://www.tugmistress.co.uk/ Try this link. Loads of info on Scrabster and the north of Scotland. There's an angling section and I'm sure if you mail her she might be able to point you in the right direction

My relationship with the wife is just about to head south