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Steve's going over Ben,in fact I think he's there now for Festival

Nuts,im working

Hope you had a great day Malcolm

Tried again today with Mal as crew,it was a lumpy day and hard work with just the two of us to keep the chum going.I started to feel iffy so went inshore where we had a perfectly marked ray,bream,tope,dogs and a 1lb3oz mackeral.Chris,Dave and Ben stuck it out for the duration.

Charlie are you tempted?????????

If weather ok Chris let's go for it ,I'll give you a call

Boat sorted today.....bilge pump replaced with the largest one they do at force 4 now works on auto and override Lack of power.......gave this a lot of thought while having a lay in until 8am.......eliminate fuel feed for faults,if that didn't do it get the fuel pump bench tested and if that didn't work leg off as possible fault internally causing a high resistance???? After changing the bilge pump I started on fuel system first I took off the Racal filter ,bowl was clean then I tried the primer on the top and it wouldn't pump............it can't be this easy can it? So I bypassed the Racal because if it doesn't pump it might let air in and wormed my way out past the festivities on Mudeford key out into the chop......sweet she is singing again Ill get a new one this week from hyphose I'd be up for another shark hunt with buddy boats...... Nige

Well done Steve ,great skills

Friday evening eventually got off the mud at 9.30pm but we didn't waste the waiting time with prep of macy for the onion sacks. With Mal on bouy watch across the ledge with the spot light and beyond we put the hook down in the middle of Poole bay and put some baits down.After a ray and about 4 conger largest over forty I put my head down for 3 hours and got up at 4am when Martin and Mal informed me they had a busy night with 10 or so rays plus conger and pout.After a cuppa more mackerel,bacon rolls and lots more mackerel we set off all be it at only 14knts max.I wasn't going to stop and try to fix as we had a schedule to keep and now this meant we would be late but we plodded on and after what should of taken us half the time we arrived at our mark south of St Cathrines. Started putting lines out and we were treated to mackerel being chased on the surface all lines in,chum trail with mincer and 2 onion sacks.Its not really a sit back and wait,as the mincing/ chum is constant,feathering and monitoring and adjusting the two baits we had just off bottom.It would be easier on right place right tide to anchor ,ready to be buoyed off.We had a conger ,lost a few tope and caught a few tope as second best.In between I cleaned the fuel pick up which gave us a couple more knots and while doing this I noticed the bilge pump hadn't been working so Mal hand pumped it.We tried numerous drifts until the tide was taking us at 5.5knts at which point we headed home early as we were all knackered,apart from Mal who is like the Duracell Bunny.He went fishing Friday on his own boat with his brother then on mine Friday night......all night and he hardly even sits down.........whatever you're on Mal I need some 😃thanks for steering the boat as well when I fell asleep at the wheel😱😱😱. It was a hard 16 odd hours on the boat but enjoyable with fantastic company and a couple of PB,s broken,thanks guys

Wanted to spend a day trying for shark ever since we lost one a few years ago.Mal,Martin(branco) and me are going to give it a go,although the tides have made it very unsociable .We will have to go out Friday evening and be back in by 4pm Saturday, so we will anchor up somewhere Friday night for some bottom/bait fishing. We have begged borrowed and stole some HD gear off of club members.........thanks guys,onion sacks and mincer at the ready and some traces that I have had for a while are all at the ready. I will post whatever the outcome providing we don't all fall asleep from the "Christmas Eve" excitement as Mal,s wife Laura puts it Nigel

Good luck Allan,although with ledge expert Jan aboard you're in for a great day

Sorry Charlie

Nigel........14 species Mal...........12 species Sam ..........4 species

Sorry to be thick,but if we all caught a mackerel is that 1 each or can only one person claim it?

Great vid enjoyed that especially Ben 😂

Awesome thanks for sharing,a very rewarding trip.Well done Nige

We had a good go.........16 species for team Wishin

1) Fisheagle. Allan Green, Dave Samuels and John (Non Member) 2) Court Jester - Neal plus crew TBA 3) Frisky Fox - Mike and Carol 4)Wishin Too-Nigel,Mal,Charlie&Sam A

That was in the run when Mal and I came back in Thursday night ,I believe it had sunk on the ledge and it had been raised by divers and air bags but only managed to get to the run when some of the air bags had deflated

Had a similar thing when I came into Poole quay to get some refreshments a couple of years ago. I came in very very slow(unusual )and his line was around my prop with duly emptied his reel,he went ballistic at me and threatened to do all sorts to me. I then pointed out in a similar manner that if he didn't notice the big white boat I was in perhaps a visit to spec savers.....didn't help the situation but didn't think it warranted physical action especially with all the CCTV,we parted company still not friends😎

If it an authorised dell won't they supply one?

Great work Charlie,an issue that really does wind me up is the inshore/poole bay trawling by the same two boats. If you come across any petition or an organisatition against this practice I would be extremely interested as we all witness their devastation first hand Thanks Nigel

Well done all I know how intense these matches can be

Massive well done