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everyone man yer boats and head out to sea Happy Birthday Dan best fishes PJ

Happy birthday Dean PJ

I know in Alaska, they shoot them with a pistol before they come on board. I think you might get arrested in Norway doing that PJ

happy Birthday Mark Im glad you've pathed the way trev, i'll be there soon PJ

Nice fishing AL and a rare photo of you fully dressed PJ

Well done Rob= nice one PJ

All the comp dates for the year are now in the website calendar for easy reference. PJ

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Welcome back Jack, did you have a nice nap? PJ

The new series of Robson Green extreme fishing starts Monday at 9pm Lets hope it's better this time around PJ

Happy Birthday Duncan PJ

Welcome Colin and bobi you'll soon get to know the Christchurch clan, look out for the red and yellow club pennants when on the water. PJ

done, it is nice and quick PJ

Some stunning footage in this documentary about marine reserves. It's filmed in Oregon but much of it applies to this side of the pond Well worth a watch if you have the time (28mins)- enjoy http://www.oceansonline.org/video_html/video_cg_all.html Some shorter clips here: http://www.oceansonline.org/common_ground/cg_video.html PJ

Bob is a commercial saturation diver for Global Divers in Louisiana .. He performs underwater repairs on offshore drilling rigs. Below is an E-mail he sent to his sister. She then sent it to radio station 103.5 on FM dial in Indiana, who was sponsoring a worst job experience contest. Needless to say, she won. Read his letter below. Hi Sue, Just another note from your bottom-dwelling brother. Last week I had a bad day at the office. I know you've been feeling down lately at work, so I thought I would share my dilemma with you to make you realize it's not so bad after all. Before I can tell you what happened to me, I first must bore you with a few technicalities of my job. As you know, my office lies at the bottom of the sea. I wear a suit to the office. It's a wet suit. This time of year the water is quite cool. So what we do to keep warm is this: We have a diesel powered industrial water heater. This $20,000 piece of equipment sucks the water out of the sea. It heats it to a delightful temperature. It then pumps it down to the diver through a garden hose, which is taped to the air hose. Now this sounds like a darn good plan, and I've used it several times with no complaints. What I do, when I get to the bottom and start working, is take the hose and stuff it down the back of my wet suit. This floods my whole suit with warm water. It's like working in a Jacuzzi. Everything was going well until all of a sudden, my butt started to itch. So, of course, I scratched it. This only made thing s worse. Within a few seconds my ass started to burn. I pulled the hose out from my back, but the damage was done. In agony I realized what had happened. The hot water machine had sucked up a jellyfish and pumped it into my suit. Now, since I don't have any hair on my back, the jellyfish couldn't stick to it, however, the crack of my ass was not as fortunate. When I scratched what I thought was an itch, I was actually grinding the jellyfish into the crack of my ass. I informed the dive supervisor of my dilemma over the communicator. His instructions were unclear due to the fact that he, along with five other divers, we

oil spill off ireland http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7895633.stm

Sorry to hear that Clive, these were the reels i was admiring during the Dolphins Cod comp weren't they? You must be gutted pJ

An interesting new website and online tv shows http://onlinefishing.tv/news/sea/ check out the Angling Unity film and the news that Robson Green will have a new series in March PJ

Graham, Thanks for that, Just so you know, we will have a stall at the Canford Magna Jumble on March 29th Cheers PJ

A few may be overstating it a tad Bob PJ

Good one pJ

These byelaws are not very clear: If you wish to fish commercially (i.e. sell your catch) within the Southern Sea Fisheries District, your vessel must hold a current Southern Sea Fisheries District permit, which will be issued to a vessel providing that: Application forms can be requested by telephone, post or email. Full contact details can be viewed by clicking here. On applying for your vessel

Indeed thats all this is, nothing more nothing less PJ

Congrats on the new engine Gordon I wish you many trouble free, fun filled hours to come PJ

I think the numbers involved does make a difference- do we assume it's 6 for the purpose of this discussion? Personally, i would sign up to this but am wary of where this might lead. I don't have much trust in the authorities that govern our fisheries and would not want these numbers to be dwindled down to nothing over time in response to whinging commercials that are unhappy with quotas Perhaps this would give us leverage to make Bass a quota species- now that would make sense or even better a recreational only species - ( i know im dreaming again) PJ