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Helen had to have her Engagement Ring and Wedding Ring cut off during our honeymoon in Turkey ( she was stung on the finger by a wasp ).

I thought the same re: brownie points but apparently the fence was around Sandbanks ...... I am sure Paul will be OK for Alderney on Saturday though

Oops - Appologies - the beer is a bit strong here !

Pete, You are more than welcome if I take Neo out. Might be a big if though as will have been away from home for the week with a forthcoming trip to Alderney coming up. If it is bright and sunny though, could be tempted

Leaving Friday is not doable for me either I suspect. ( Some of us have to work ) Hope Neil is planning on a Saturday departure, but if not let me know and I will hopefully be able to book time off work.

FPO says .... When you said we were going on a caravanning holiday I didn't realise you had this in mind

Lets hope not

Charlie, If Adam can't make it, then I have permission

That's married life for you Adam

Dave, Very nice looking boat. I am sure you will have great fun and can't wait for the better weather.

Rich, Round 4 - Bass Catch and Release Comp - Saturday 2nd August. Full list is here :- Comp Details

Cheers for that tip Andy. I also have a bag of M10 washers now as many of mine were the incorrect size ( as you pointed out a while ago ).

Sundays are the best days for me. I go to football every other Saturday ( although that could change soon ! ). Also, have to go into town to pay on cheques to the bank ( not open on Sundays ) plus I think getting permission for Saturdays may be much harder.

So there are 2 boats looking for crew now. I am almost tempted to go on one boat but would be a bit too tired with having to leave home next morning at 4 AM. Still tempting mind. Surely 2 club members without a trailed boat would jump at this chance ?

As if the looks were bad enough, they only went and called me a fathead

Welcome to the forum Richard

My "cheapo" - Taiwanese ABU 7000 is looking a bit worst for wear. Now has one retainer left from 3 and the plate on the side has fully sheared off and the metal is somewhat corroded / pitted. ( I must post a picture ! ) Still works though as hauled up 2 eels on the weekend

Got me thinking I might be needing a service soon as well. 2 years up now and must be over 200 hours. Better start saving I guess Gary, also remember you have an extra cylinder to our, so bound to cost more !

OK Mike - Post the image on World Sea Fishing exactly as you have done here. Then when the forum administrator removes the copyright material ( which he will do as it will be in breach of their rule 13 ) post a reply to their moderator exactly as you have done here. I will then be interested to see what happens next

and AS I TOLD YOU VIA PM. The picture has

The results are as follows :- Position Points Angler Score 1 20 Pete Russell(Snr) 54 2 19 Alun Jones 47 3 18 Chris Gould 40 4 17 Gordon Moore 35 5 16 Carl Hurren 31 6 15 Charlie Chapman 26 7 14 Martin Burt 22 8 13 Gordon Holt 21 9 12 Paul Dore 16 10 11 Dean Burt 16 11 10 Dan Chapman 12 12 9 Clive Tyler 10 12 9 Neal Sturt 10 12 9 Aaron Murray Junior 10 15 6 Gary Austin 8 16 5 Pete Russel(Jnr) 6 17 4 Rob Francis 4 18 3 John Young 4 19 2 Tony Devine 2 20 1 Charlie Annear 0 20 1 Carol Fox 0 20 1 George Fox Junior 0 20 1 Tom Baker Junior 0 20 1 Jim Davies 0 20 1 Steve Davies 0 20 1 Alan Hocking 0 20 1 Craig White 0 20 1 Mrs Craig White 0

I am unfortunately off to Sweden the following morning, so shan't be able to make the trip I can, however, fully recommend this to anyone with a trailed boat. You will be given a buddy boat from the Burnham Boats to show you how to avoid any pitfalls ( and if you are lucky where to catch some fish ! ). Catching Thornback Rays is like fishing for dogfish and it is great fun.

You might have but it wasn't quite big enough.

This site goes live at lunchtime today. I have been asked to pass on to others. So here is the link Emergence-ski

Fished aboard Alfresco today and my meagre catch is not going to be presenting any competition for the trophy at this early stage. Still, had a great day out again and we sat out a heavy hailstorm before grabbing a few eels each before moving in for some other species ( ie. dogfish ) and Charlie showed the way with a pout as well. Most enjoyable, although I was feeling a little rough to start. Pulling up a conger made me feel so much better strangely