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Not far from Pokesdown station....

Good condition this time, seven drawer upright, frost-free freezer...I'm not looking for much for it... thanks, Mark

Not exactly new, but perfectly servicable ...

Thanks Alun, I'm sure I will take you up on the offer, especially given your proven fish finding abilities The glitches on the boat that were apparent when you came out have all long been sorted now too !

All, I'm in the process of relocating to London and can't justify keeping a boat to myself down here, so alas she's got to go. Brand new last year, still only 85 hrs on the 85hp Nanni diesel, electronics, ground tackle, everything you'd expect. Not the worlds quickest boat, but a very nice stable platform to fish from. Boat and engine still under guarantee, and I'm open to offers. Of course we can arrange to take her for a spin, she's currently in Mitchells at Parkstone. Any questions please PM or email me. Reluctantly... Mark

Control Panel -> Add/remove software should get rid of it if it doesn't have an "Uninstall" program....

Mine was on me old Shakespeare uptide rod....great sport on that, belive Scotts was also on his new light rod...both fought brilliantly and were in no rush to come up !

Pretty good day on Saturday....went to a mackerel mark, and they were obliging, followed by a tope mark and they were also obliging. Only managed one each before the storm hit us, but at 12.5lb and 17lb we were pleased enough with our half day adventure...

Went out about 6.30, got a few maccy though they weren't exactly abundant, and then motored over to a well known lighthouse for a drift over the rocks with some live ones... Despite the bait being perfect size, and delivered on a portland rig we got nothing, though we only managed 3 drifts because of the failing light. Just before it went dark we then moved to the ledge and anchored up looking for the eel I dropped the other week. No eel this time, but a plague of doggies with a couple of junior huss thrown in (4lbish)...and a big cuttle fish... Will try again in a couple of days.

Yeah...count me in Tom...

appealed to me at least

Roger that ! Scott was aiming for the chin - neither of us would have contemplated anything else, but I reckon we're agreed that netting is the way forward

cheers Tom...lets see the piccy !

I'd heard of people favouring nets over gaffs - tail first sounds like good advice, cheers And yeah, we'll organise a meet sometime in the near future...

Scott and I took Espadon out on Friday night to the ledge for a spot of congering. After filling our bucket with mackie near the piers we motored over to a spot well known for bream and dropped the pick. To start with we were just hooking into a shoal of jumbo pout and the odd doggie, but then quite near midnight a much more promising knock on my rod was converted into something clearly quite unhappy thrashing around on the end. After playing this fish for what seemed like forever (it always does eh), probably more like 10 minutes though, she was on the surface...a lovely looking eel..long AND fat ! Scott was leaning over the back, gaff ready....one attempt to get it....just missed....second attempt....<SNAP>....the leader gave out....gutted Still, we got a good sight of it, and she was always going to be allowed to swim away again...would have just been nice to get a piccy and a proper weight to go with the fight. Scotts estimate (he's seen more of these things than I) was in the region of 40lb. Had plenty of other bites that felt "conger-ish" that we failed to convert, and we can also say that our first foray at night was a success, so overall it was deffo a good trip - a few of you out there will also be pleased to hear that both my windscreen wipers and GPS now appear to be both fully functional and reliable. I haven't driven into the side of anything for a while now either