charlieannear

I'm afraid I won't be out unless there's a miraculous change of forecast.

Fair enough!

Is there anything that can be done regarding the upload software? Things like Facebook and e-bay (I think) sort out filesize for you when you upload. I guess I'm lazy but I would also call myself pretty I.T savvy, however, I often give up on uploading photos to the gallery after reducing the filesize, trying to upload, having it fail a couple of times... Sorry to hijack the post! Well done on your efforts in the comp gents.

Me and Andy Southwell on Star Turn

Hi Glen I've got a 5kg Bruce style on my 18 ft Family Four. I would say a 7kg Bruce style would do you fine. I'm sure there will be a second opinion along very shortly!

Well done gents, sounds like you had a really good day out on the water!

Yeah, Rob and I had a couple of those last weekend too. Ours were hooked through the head, as if they were just in the wrong place as the hook passed by them!

Keep at it glen, the fish will come! Don't be disheartened by the lack of catches so far, it is only now that the water's are warming up and the migrating fish are coming back. At our club species hunt last month about half of the competitors failed to catch! In our boat one caught a couple fo fish first thing then nothing all day and the other caught nothing at all! And that's with the same rigs, the same bait and about 3 foot apart. Still, you've come to the right place, the guys on here will soon get you on track. And yeah, join the club!

What are his rates?!! LOL......funny, very good ! Dont worry you get club discount........ Rob, I work at the top end of the triangle at the end of poole road. How near there do you live cos i can collect from you sometime. PM me if you dont want the world to know or call me on 07922 712260 and we can sort something. Cheers mate. Dom Haha! Even dodgier response!

What are his rates?!!

Rob Francis & I, aboard Star Turn were there somewhere nearby! We pulled up to the popular area about 11.40 and using the sounder found a spot on the western edge of the group. Turned out we had picked a spot between Stargazer and Overdraft! (Note for next AGM- Make Wedger's club penants compulsary for social identification reasons!) Our first bit of excitement (if you can call it that) of the day was when a total 455hole in a big gin palace went through the whole pack of boats at about 30 knots, actually passing between Star Turn and Overdraft, and we were only anchored about 15 metres apart. I took a photo but sadly the boat name is not legible. The boat was drawing loud shouts of all sorts of language that would make a navvy blush, to which the erstwhile crew of ST joined in. Don't tell our Mums. The 'pilot' was so brain dead that he thought all the shouting and jeering was us showing our appreciation of his amazing boat handling skills and wallet size, to the extent that he grinned and waved. If only I'd sorted that roof-mounted GPMG on my boat... Although he was by far the worst, he was by no means the last of the day. How the drivers of these hulking great motor cruisers can think it's acceptale to pass right through such a closely packed group of anchored boats, at such speed, in an otherwise unoccupied bay is completely beyond belief. WTF do they think we are all parked there for?? Is there anything that can be done about it? Anyway, within 10 mins of dropping a bait Rob was into the bream with a nice male specimen for his score sheet. He was 5-0 up before my rod-tip started dipping and before long I'd just about caught up. A new experience for me at least, there was no let up for us all day. This was partly because when things were quieting off we deployied the Burley Bomb loaded with our secret recipe "Frannear Burley" which soon brought the fish back to us. Rob even had to drop bare hooks so that he could eat his sarnies! Various boats including Prodigy passed by on their way to other waters during the course of the afternoon and Stargazer was replaced by I think another club boat, a John Dory(?) but the name slips my mind now... Rob started showing off by playing a rod in each hand and catching 2 bream on each rod at once!! With a couple of Garfish and a lone mackie to add to the cool box we called it a day about 17:00 with a respectable catch of bream up to about 2lb, and having returned all females and number of smaller males, along with a dogfish. Somehow we caught a couple of blennies too... I am finally getting out there and fishing! (Note to self: Need to invent a machine to de-scale and gut fish...)

Ably assisted (OK, led) by Rob Francis, I took Star Turn out yesterday to run in the Opti and I am pleased to report that it performed faultlessly. Following running in advice, we ran for an hour at quarter throttle and 2 hours at half throttle (frequently varying revs slightly all the time). I'm certainly looking forward to next time out when I can open the throttle a bit further! The motor starts easily, it's very quiet in the water and only used 14 litres of fuel (even though the boat wasn't properly up on the plane) going out to Old Harry, over to Poole Patch and back to the slip. I've also got a whole suite of engine data available on the Navman plotter via the Smartcraft interface- hours of fun button pressing to be had there! Rob also saw how it's quite a complicated set of arrangements that have to be in place in order to get the boat out of my drive, and even more complicated to get it back in again, eh Rob?! Rob might also like to comment on what a fine ride and fishing platform the "Porno Boat" (as he calls it) provides. Anyway, next time out I can open the throttle on the Opti a bit further and do some performance trials... watch this space!

I was planning on catch and release.... release you bloody thing, release!

I second that Mr Chairman. Does the swear filter catch "Gits"? Ha ha, no it doesn't!

You know that episode of Only Fools and Horses where Del Boy disappears over the horizon on a Jetski....

Blimey, that was quick, that outboard on Neal's cruiser only came off my Shetland yesterday, and it had no tgearbox then!

Cheeky I know, but are these still available?

"There are no problems, only Challenges."

Getting there...

Do you recall which one Dave? There are 2 that I know of, 1 in the fish market (which I've been to) and one in Green Street (that I haven't been to!) The tackle shop at St Ouen Motor Works was a bit run down when I was there last, but it might have just been a bit too early in the season...

Al Sorry to jump in, but this is Penn's dedicated reel man. He can either carry out the service or send parts as required. Ewen Hill Penn Shakespeare UK Ltd Unit 15 Evans Business Centre 68 - 74 Queen Elizabeth Avenue Hillington Industrial Estate Glasgow G52 4NQ Tel: 0141 880 9029 email: service@pennfishing.com He is an absolute legend and his service is impeccable. Tom I can second this, I was recently in need of some innards for a reel and Ewan was first class! Although I think he struggled a bit with my westcountry accent!

You'd never know Tom was sponsored by Penn would you! As anyone will tell you, I'm a novice and have no clue about tackle, but... I had no tackle at all when I joined the club, and was on a budget. (

JoJo's not going if the weather's going to make fishing uncomfortable. We're not putting ourselves through that two weekends in a row.

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