Paul D

Certainly coming along fast.

Anyone interested in crewing on Neo out of Christchurch tomorrow. Planning on around a 10AM start and watching the airshow plus getting a bit of fishing in. Weather was too good to not go ! Filled now

No fish reported as released. Everything reported is in this thread I believe.

Cracking write up Al and sounds a great place for a holiday

Your brother been borrowing your boat again Les

Heard on the news that the coastguard will be striking on Monday, so if out over the holiday take extra care.

Missimg football to fish this comp, Sunday much better 4 me.

Hi, I was going to ask if you were the guy I was chatting to at Wick last weekend, but then noticed your boat is yet to arrive Plenty of club members fish out of Wick / Christchurch ( myself included ) so you will be in plenty of company. welcome Paul

Just had a thought. If the RNLI had not managed to free the rope from the prop on the Merry Fisher, then we could have had a photograph of an E-Tec powered Orkney 520 towing a stricken Merry Fisher through Christchurch harbour

myself and new member simon on Neo

Should be updated now

Don't know why I am posting this in Catch Reports - only mackeral caught today. Got back from Ireland on Thursday having had 4 hours sleep, but the weather window looked so tempting this morning I just had to get out and checkout my recently serviced engine plus get some fishing in. Mackeral were scarce - took me around an hour to catch 6 and chatting to Gastronaught I had apparently done well catching 6 of them in an hour ! Then set of on numerous drifts only to watch Alun J haul in a medium sized bass - but none for me today. I blame the mackeral, when you want Joeys all I could catch were huge ones ! Bit of drama as well, a boat radioed in that they had run over their anchor rope, so the lifeboat was called to tow them back in. I offered to tow the boat to Wick but fortunately the RNLI managed to free the prop by the quay ( I was much impressed with assistance they gave the vessel - diving under the transom to free the rope ). Still, quite glad they got the rope free as this was one of those bigger Merry Fisher's so would have been fun towing her against the emptying harbour. Still good to be out in such beautiful weather.

John, If you are venturing out and want a "buddy boat" then feel free to give me a call. I am off tomorrow but weather not looking good for a while. Personally, I would go for a Wick launch and get accustomed to your boat in the relative safety of the harbour before venturing out the run etc.

The club does have a committee. Do you think it is reasonable to expect the committee to do all the work ? Asking forum members to help is unrealistic. It is a club open, so needs to be organised by club members. Besides, do you really expect that we will get a flood of offers to help from forum members who don't even want to join the club ?

This Sunday, weather willing, will be the Lure Only Species hunt. The scoring will be same as per our normal species hunts. Fish have to be caught on lures only. ( so 4 mackeral to start I guess ). NOTE : There is to be a prize for this competition which will be funded by the website proceeds. ( Likely to be a tackle voucher from Poole Sea Angling Centre ). ===================================== Myself and Paul Rowcliffe will be fishing on Neo

Welcome back John. Paul

John, I had mine done by South Coast Outboards along Bridge Street.

Whjy is this? is it to do with breeding? PJ Female lobsters have a V notch cut into their tail and these lobsters are then returned. It is illegal to keep such a lobster. V Notch - Wales

I got some stainless ones off these people a while back. They don't do them now They do these ones though Chromed Bass

Just spotted this on BBC News :- Bus Tips Over

I have posed the question on Yahoo Answers :- So far have this one - For the same reason you don't put on your parking brake when you put your car in long-term storage. Molecules are in constant random motion. When two substances are in contact, then molecules from one substance can migrate into the other, and vice versa, creating a blend of the two substances at the interface. With rubber, we take it a step further. Rubber is just barely a solid. You might say it is a very, very viscous liquid. As a quasi-liquid, it will "flow" right into the rubber in contact with it. All this "flowing" results in a big "solution" of rubber. It's not so much a chemical reaction, as it is physical process

Worth bearing in mind though that doing this is essentially no different to attempting to smuggle the item into the country

Simon, In defence I refer to the following post :- Sat or Sun For information, I also prefer to fish on Sundays ( for footballing reasons ! ) and petitioned for the day to stay on a Sunday. But as they say you can't please all the people all the time. regards Paul

Martin, Can I crew for you ?

Simon, I think this comp has always been scheduled for the Saturday since March time ?