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Mick, since you’ve retired you have too much time on your hands and have put a bit of logic together and made some sense there. Careful you maybe asked to oversee a flounder re establishment programme for the harbour. 👍👏

Have a good one Brian. 🎂🍻🍻

Best wishes Terry, have a good day buddy. 🎂

Happy Birthday Oli, have a good day, spoilt no doubt. 🎉🎂🍻🍷

Have a good one Mal, plenty of 🍷and 🎂 I suspect 🤷 . 🎉

Happy Birthday young man, have a good one. 🎂🎉🍷🍷

Another one sneaks by Nigel, hope you’ve had a good un. 🎂🎉🍻

Have a good one Colin, can we assume the boat was a joint present or do you have to get Bobbi something to match? 🎂😁

Have a good one Allan, 🍷🎂

That’s exactly the comments I put on there Charlie, the days where huge bags of fish were landed are over in most cases. You see on you tube etc guys putting decent fish back all the time which all helps. 👏👏

https://bit.ly/3zbiE2x Completed.

Had a trip out Saturday as the Easterly was low enough to give it a try as the rest of the week looks a write off. Eldest son James asked if his father in law Tim could join us so off we went. Comment as we went under the bridge never been sick on a boat ever from Tim 🫣, his daughter suffers from travel sickness if she isn’t driving and Lenny my Grandson has been seasick both times he’s been out, 🤷. Anyway, cracking morning and no wind at all until off Old Harry and then not too bad. Plan was some bassing then anchor over the slack etc, I decided I would try for some fresh Maccy’s while the others went for bass. Well the bass came quicker than the mackerel again after several drifts producing fish every drift but nothing for me! Then James and Tim managed to tangle on the way down and I got hit at last, only problem was it was bass on the feathers all of them and the Dexter lure. I got them up and James managed to get three into the net the biggest on the Dexter snapped off in the commotion but the others were all keepers so can’t complain. By now Tim had started to ground bait for us which really wasn’t working because of the tide. 🤷🤮 so we now know what side of the family the motion sickness comes from. We carried on until the tide backed off and dropped the anchor for a bit of fun. Still no fresh mackerel but had squid, frozen mac etc, we had congers, some lovely bream and again a screamer run off but as soon as pressure put on the line the leader cut through 6-7 from the hook, thresher tail maybe? By then the small showers were getting heavier so we decided a couple of bass drifts on the way back and call it a day. It started blowing abit and the rain heavier we had a drift and called it a day as we were drenched through. It never stopped all the way in, bumped into Martin B on the pontoon who kindly bought us a pint, a coffee and shower should have been what we needed, but what a gent. 👍👏 Boat didn’t need a wash down after the last couple of days!! 😂 When James got home Lenny had drawn a picture of his dad and both of his grandads out fishing together.

Cheers Mal, sorry for having to make the crew work so hard for a few cups of coffee and some snacks. As always Mal leaves the boat looking like its had a valet, what a job. 👍 Then rounded off with the Mal Thomas taxi service home. 😁

Martin had catch of the day on Kingfisher. We tried for various species to see if we could get a decent specimen but really struggled, Mal, managed the triple 7, 2 x 7lb Congers 1 x 7lb Tope Chris, Red Gurnard 8oz Plaice 1lb 12oz Martin, Blonde Ray 6lb 6oz Plaice 1lb 6oz Catch of the day from Martin was a 3/4 yd Blue Ensign complete with a stainless flagpole well fought in the Swash which we flew up the harbour while Mal danced to YMCA “In the Navy”. If nobody claims it Martin will mount it in his garage. IMG_1872.mov A great day as always, banter, p—- taking, even managed a guiness to round the day off, cheers guys. 👍👍👏👏

Ticked plenty of boxes there Rob, sounds a great trip to be on well do. 👍

Not looking like a real comp with the numbers, but still going fishing what a shame, can’t blame the weather on this one. I’m sure there will be more than two club boats out over the weekend fishing. 🤷

Individual Specimen Comp. Lets start the list off, Kingfisher - Chris W, Mal T, Martin B.

Left Cobbs at 6.45am on Sunday with my eldest son James and his son Lenny , his first fishing trip with his grandad and he had been telling me the night before at a BBQ at theirs he was going to catch a shark, so no pressure! 🫣 While leaving the harbour through the entrance I noticed a marker bouy with a small fender being used as a Taylor bouy in the tide just off North Haven mast. Suspect fishing nets been laid overnight across the entrance!! As it was and would become a hazard as the traffic increased I radioed Harbour Control and reported it and they sent someone to investigate. i listened on Ch 14 and when they got there the fishing boat was trying to retrieve their suck net! As this was going on Barfluer asked for permission to leave their berth to go to France and were refused as there was a hazard in the shipping channel and were asked to hold station. They were soon on their way but it shows the impact peoples actions can have on others. First thing worth reporting. But the main thing worth reporting is we went Bassing, and James caught a mackerel on a Bass lure, what a result a mackerel and we weren’t even fishing for them. 👏👏 As Lenny wanted to catch a shark I hoped a fresh mackerel may encourage a tope or two over slack water, by then Lenny was producing his own ground bait, bless him as the wind had started to increase. The tope didn’t show up but an LSD did so managed to blag him with a mate of a shark story. Took his mind off the waves by letting him drive back so he was happy, auto pilot worked overtime though. He slept well and has been telling his mum all about it today so it sounds like it all worked out fine.

Well done guys, a great reward for the effort that's been put in, I suspect a porbie on the list next. 👍

June 1st Place; Colin Francis Thick Lipped Mullet 4lb 6oz 109% Specimen- 2nd Place; Colin Francis Thick Lipped Mullet 4lb 2oz 103% Specimen 3rd Place; Chris Witheford Bass 9lb 8oz 100% Specimen - £25 Voucher Please add photos if possible.

Have a good one Alun, tight lines if you get out. 🎉🎂🍷

May 1st Place; Kev Couzens Brill 5lb 1oz 113% Specimen- £25 Voucher 2nd Place; Gary Witheford Weever 0lb 13oz 108% Specimen 3rd Place; Dave Evans Bass 9lb 8oz 100% Specimen Please add photos if possible.

Happy Birthday Jerry, as Martin says be careful!! 🎂🤪🤪

Great effort guys, good luck with the new venture. 👏👏👍

Have a good one. 🎉🎂🍷