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Spooky Charlie. Your Tackle box and cold box are identical to the ones I have. ( Apart from the fact they don't fill up 1/2 the back of your boat ! )

Too many fisherman

Fantastic day by the looks of it. Must get back out there and have another go at the cod.

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Dan, No misinterpretation here. I also heard the interview with Jonathan Shaw and I heard John Humphries rightly say to him that the decision ( to ask for a larger quota ) was "breathtakingly short-sighted". The example given was one of the reporters was on an inshore fishing boat fishing for prawns within sight of Hartlepool. Blow me down they caught a large bycatch of cod, turbot etc. and had to throw it back. The answer is to not fish there - as it is obvious the intention was to catch a large number of unwanted fish to demonstrate the "discard problems". The interview, to me, confirmed that the commercial sector has the minister in their pocket. On THREE occasions Jonathon Shaw mentioned consulting with fisherman and scientists - NO MENTION of recreational sea angling at all. I so wanted John Humphries to question him on the MLS for bass decision. A better solution would be to close off areas and allow the stocks to properly recover and to pay fisherman to tie up their boats. - Iceland are doing exactly that and their cod stocks are in a far better state than ours.

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As some may have noticed, there have been some problems with the site. The current status is available here ( Keep this ref for when the site is down in future ! ). Hosting Status Currently the e--mail is not working, so I will not be receiving any catch reports ( and I suspect may fail to give a receipt via e-mail. ) - I would test this but have no catches to report

Took Simon ( Britboard ) out to hunt for a cod this morning. 8AM launch from Lymington and not a breeze. Flew up the Solent and onto the Car Park. and down with the anchor. 2 rods each out as the tide was just starting to flood. Clouds start darkening and one of the charter boats mentions the wind has picked up. Ok where we are - no wind .... yet ...... 1 minute later and the sea is looking ruffled and there is wind whistling - Easy F4. Sea starts building and as the waves were starting to break ( now around 15ft high - as measured by one of the charter boats ) , decided it was only going to get worst, so upped anchor and fled over the bridge and then sea became calm enough to do 21-22 knots all the way to West Lepe. Called PJ up just after crossing the bridge and apparently he is fishing on Christchurch Ledge and barely any wind there. Sea there is fine. I am certain he is winding me up. But no it was true. West Lepe was not much better. Wind picked up ( no where near as bad as the Car Park mind ) and then it started raining and the last straw was dragging anchor and hurtling past another boat out there ( If you are reading this apologies for going by so close ! ). Decided fishing was no longer much fun so back to the slipway ( where we met Andy - skipper of Lady Jane ) and off home. Fish for the day 3 or 4 dogfish

Nice fishing Adam - I bet Gordon was mentioning spawny ..... ?. We had no joy over by the island just Doggies, whiting and pout. Tried again today but very interesting weather ( see other post ).

Very impressive and I guess I will have to start polishing up the fishing trophies again

Had a day off work today and headed out from Lymington to hunt some cod. 8AM start and plenty of fog around out in the Solent. We followed Shogun out initially but then lost them in the fog, so headed for the shallows then up to Hurst and across the Solent. Fog lifted and all was OK. First spot we were into the usual doggies plus a around half dozen whiting ( none of any size ) and the odd pout. Tried further out to no avail and then moved onto the spoils where doggies were back. Tried to plug for bass but nothing showing. Terry was out of Lymington as well and heard Enticer and Tom on Illusion out there as well. Still beats working

A little bird tells me that one of the youngens did rather well on the Bass front as well

Mudeford Quay Management Plan I particularily like the Orange Peel byelaw

Reading my alerts from speeches in the commons .... Optimum MLS ?

Charlie, Give us a shout on Friday. Should be in the car park off the needles.

Nice fish Alun. Going to try for some myself on Friday

Nice one Alun. I am looking to get out on Friday, so now hard to decide between "Car Park" or ledge - decisions, decisions .... PS: Alun - Don't forget to put your catch reports in via the catch report page.

Don't forget to put the bung in before you launch her

Out fishing from Langstone tomorrow aboard a 12m+ cat. Weather forecast is poor but I am sure we can always fish inshore...... - Oh well, perhaps I will go on my friend's small boat instead Target is cod and hopefully we will succeed this time.

I have added pictures of Charlies boat to the photo gallery in Album Paul D -> Alfresco

Welcome Stu, I hope you enjoy your new boat and find the site really useful.

Fished the Lymington Cod Open Comp today with PJ as crew. No cod for us, nor for any of the other PBSBAC participants ( assuming Lady Jane did not catch another one ). Fishing was slow with one group of PBSBAC members fishing on a charter boat, Lady Jane fished as did Neo and Nipper. Nipper opted to fish inside the solent, whereas everyone else opted to fish in the "Car Park" ( aptly named as there were at least 40 boats in a small area ). As we searched harder and harder for the elusive cod, our baits ( in particular PJ's _ got bigger and bigger.......

Just busy triangulating your position and determining time of day from the level of the sun and boat position etc. etc.