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Myself and Kev hatched a plan for a bit of bassing on the small tide then anchor over the slack water tide change. We had a few bass on the ebb when we got there, the tide was dropping away so dropped the anchor. The wind held us at an angle that was a pain but just about fishable. We had many congers from 18” to about 12lb and Kev got a bonus blonde ray of 11 1/2lb. When tide picked up we decided to try for bass again but it was very quiet. A nice day out with good company as we haven’t fished together for a while, thanks Kev. Always good to know club boats are around having a good day too.

Tea sorted for the pensioner. 👏

Kev with a decent blonde, been a while since he’s held one of them!

I have a laminated sheet with all the information on incase it’s not me making a call. Details of boat, name, numbers, life jackets, flares etc so anyone has an answer if asked.

For those who may be interested, the Sea Angling magazine has run the feature on our day out with Dave Lewis, 5 pages in total with good PR for the club. I can’t add the feature because copy rights but make sure it’s the Sept edition if it’s of interest. A nice comment about the harbour along the bottom of the cover. 👍

Hi Bob l will ring you no problem, my mobile ends in 279 so you know it’s me. 👍

Well done Martin, great report well done on helping out. if I help out grounded yacht I usually take a line from the mast lanyard so when you pull it lifts the keel. Always a tricky thing trying to unground boats, can cause damage to both boats, great effort though. 👏

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Hi Jim, Just watched this on the laptop and it's very impressive, well done great effort. 👍👋

Sorry to hear that Charlie, always a worry when things go wrong, finding the problem then getting the parts. Then there’s parting with the cash, that’s a guts ache regards leadtime. Give me a shout if cabin fever is getting the better of you, always welcome on board. 👍

A family day out but Blake fished the comp only one Gilthead at 14ozs. We did have an interesting time with some large smoothounds biggest 6/7lb. plenty of small bass, but we had a bonus species a silver eel, then ten minutes later I thought we had a strap conger but it was a huge silver eel. Weighed in at 2lb 4oz, well done Blake a cracker apart from the slime everywhere. 🫣 8 Bass, 4 Smoothounds, 2 Silver Eels, 1 Gilthead Bream. Comp Result. Blake - Gilthead Bream 14oz. Silver Eel new club record.

Myself, son James and Brian as Greg said headed to South Deep. Brian had a few schoolies then a Gilthead of 1lb 6ozs, more schoolies. I fished off the bow and had my line taken and it was a smoothound of 5/6lb and another slightly smaller just after. Then I had a huge Gilthead but tried to lift it onto the bow without a net and dropped it halfway out, schoolboy error on comp day. 😢 Weed got bad so headed out to Swanage, wind was bad so stayed in the bay, had a few black bream between us, biggest was 1lb 10oz to me. Tried again in the harbour but the weed was horrendous so called it a day. You wasn’t on your own Rob I left the squid in the fridge that were next to the ragworms, another schoolboy error but Dave Evans kindly gave us a packet to save a trip to the quay. Cheers Dave. 👍👏. Result Brian P - Gilthead 1lb 6oz Chris W - Black Bream 1lb 10oz. Blake W is fishing in Comp Sunday (junior)

Sea Drift - Carl and Jenny Sunday Marlin - Greg and Rob Samways Saturday Fisheagle hopes to fish. At the moment, Saturday is our preferred day. Crew myself, John Dunster and Frank Morris or a non member. Samoya - Graham, Freddie Nash & William Leaver (both juniors) Sunday. Y-Knot is out, I have a space. Kingfisher Chris, James and Brian Pragnell REEL MAGIC Mick and Dave Saturday Kodiak - Saturday, Adam + Crew TBC

Well done guys a great trip, weather, company and a few nice fish thrown in too. 👍👏 Great report Charlie. 👍