dicky

Sounds like a great trip

Have you gone for it guys, have a great trip if you have.

Do you have a junior section? In our club we now have a junior secretary that organises around 4 comps a year on club boats. This is predominantly on their family boats. We charge £5 a child and there is a prize for all at the end. We also arrange charter trips for them, just 4 hours which the club members have subsidised. We're up to around 12 junior members now which considering we have less than 50 senior members isn't bad.

Surely those blonde ray weights are wrong?

Anyone know of a Pirate 21 for sale, after the later model with the self draining deck. Thanks

Well done, nice blue. We've been trailing down there every September for the last 4 years now and love it, just wish it was closer.

We had 5 days in Fowey last week. Had a couple of sessions on the sharks landing 8 to over 100lb. Didn't see a single tuna though, last year they were everywhere. We fish around 12-14 miles out. Only caught about 6 mackerel which is a concern!!

£1500 a year to keep on a trailer? really? That's ridiculous. Do you get free use of a launching tractor for that?

Charlie Read all my post as that calculation was just working out the oz. Underneath i had the complete weight. Also if over .5 you round up not down lol

Those scales are reading in pounds and decimals. to get the ounces then multiply 16 by the decimal so 16 X .98 = 15.7 oz 16 X .28 = 4.9 oz Undulate was between 15lb 15.7oz and 16lb 4.9oz Spotty was 4lb 11.2 oz using weight shown on scales (4.70) Hope that makes sense.

Not quite but only a few miles apart in landlocked Oxfordshire lol

Your Witney near Carterton.

When you get a bite are you letting out line as you drift? The method for plaice on the drift is to fish holding the rod with the reel in free spool but your thumb on the spool stopping the line. The instant you feel a bite release your thumb letting out line for around 10 seconds then thumb the spool again and as the line tightens you should feel the weight of a nice spotty on the end. Oh and welcome

Porthcawl for me too, just renewed and same as last year

Nice looking engine, hope she serves you well.

Thanks Tarlach, i should have thought of attaching a link doh.

I have a Vercelli Spyra Fiamma for sale which would easily handle chesil i have used on the Bristol Channel. I actually bought it with chesil in mind but realistically i only fish it a couple of times a year at most as spend most time on the boat or beach in Somerset. Google the rod and read any reports on it, it may be what your after

What about The Service Centre in Poole, not used them myself but seen then get recommended on other sites

i like to bleed fish out as soon as i catch them. A quick cut of a couple of gill rakers and place them in a tub of water for 5 minutes then on ice. I also gut cod straight away as they stink if left to long.

If you're happy with the fishing where you are then i would save the £1600 for a year and see how the drive is. You may find that at 7 am on a Saturday or Sunday morning the roads are fairly quiet. We regularly travel to hayling from Oxfordshire and the motorways are normally clear in the morning but a bit busier at 5 in the evening

watch out for weevers

I've seen that somewhere else recently lol, again fine looking boat 😁

That was in Shetland if i remember correct. Underground tunnels transporting fish to a secret packing area for distribution. There are many factors leading to over fishing but mainly rule makers and commercials are responsible. I don't think recreational anglers even scratch the surface

do you mind me asking why you want to use mono? is it in case an oversized mackeral comes along?

that's the sort of attitude that will really mess up fish stocks. Don't believe all the bull about the EU boats doing all the damage and our fleet being whiter than white. We have a shady history when it comes to commercial fishing and a free for all would result in the collapse of all fish stocks.