JIMBOB

Paul yes the bigger fish were all on joeys .found mackrel no problem there were shed loads out there! had a few bass on live eels also, but all small ones. James

I Would love to come ,but Ive got the 6th to the 16th off work so the chances of getting the 24th of are slim ,I will find out in the week. Rich you can crew on DR if I manage to wangle it.I will let you know. James

Had a cracking day today of the Island, With a fair few stonking bass to make a bit of a red letter day The best fish went 9lb 8oz, 8lb 12oz,7lb 12oz to me and Marks best going 7lb 8oz and 5lb 10oz most went back alive. Todays biggest.

Yep The flurocarbon seemed to work as did the portland rig. Its got to be one of the best types of fishing there is, 6 to 12lb rod 20lb braid to and 2oz of lead.Those bass hit like an express train! and fight every inch of the way to the boat!

I went ahead with my sole trip on wednesday as planned .I went out late and headed straight down to barton.There was quite a brisk wind from the west but it was fishabil.As usual there were loads of fish on the mark mainly bream and small bass ,I also managed 2 small small eyed rays, great fun on a spinning rod! We Had to wait an hour into dark for the first sole and only a little slip.,followed by two more, only one to me but the biggest at 1lb 6oz. ran out of worms by 12.30 so a fairly early finish. I think we would of had more sole if there hadnt been so many bream and spiders robbing the baits. but mission accomplished I also managed a trip thursday afternoon for those bass we started off on the ledge and headed out to the Island, freshwater ridges and had a go on the bridge wich wasnt for the faint hearted with huge overfalls kicked up by the massive tide.It made me glad that the raider had such high gunnels. we seemed to get bass just about everywhere we tryed. with about 10 on the boat and a few lost fish, my best fish went 9lb 4oz, and 8lb with a couple of 4lbers aswell . We met up with Paul J on the ledge on the way in and had a drift up the run with live mackrel,(something ive always wanted to do),but no bass there.A fantastic day afloat and a few new marks found Tight lines James

and anouther of 8lb to back it up

3rd time lucky

opps

Will post a report soon, in the meantime the best of todays haul 9lb 4oz bass, ( weighed on dry land by 2 sets of scales, just for adam )

Whos comeing then? weather is looking ok west 4/5 today easing all day to a 2 by 12am. should be well sheltered Highcliff side. I am haveing a slight change of plan as im missing out the skate part and just going for the sole. Im goning to leave late about 8ish and head straight down Barton way. James

Its looks like it might get bit windy for wednesday , but its from the west so we can sneak down to highcliff or barton where it will sheltered. James

Forgot to post this before , last week when out conger fishing. Just before dark Kev shouted " what the @$*!* is that" ,Darren and myself looked round to see a football sized object landing on the sea,it fell without a splash and was floating very high in the water, a bit like a balloon, it was grey/brown with hexagonal shapes all over, we all just watched it for a while as it drifted away in the fast tide. We then pulled the anchor to chase after it as we were about to move on to another mark. By the time we had got that done we couldn't find it again We thought some kind of weather balloon?...........?

Huge hooks,A Stiff rod, Strong muscles and LOADS of patience!!

On recent trips to the Island all the charter boats on the marks we have been fishing were useing floats. Is any one familiar with this technique? Ive never seen it used before. They seem to be useing a large cigar float,ball weight and live mackrel and catching every drift! The depth of water is from 27 to 60ft so they must be fishing quite shallow. Has anyone tryed this method ,if so shed some light? James

Very nice, not a bad haul

Headed out this morning with Adam from xchurch and most fish turned out to be a bit of a struggle. The mullet were playing hard to get but we did get a couple after an hours trying! I think this was down to the tide or lack of it. On to the ledge for the end of the ebb, and the pollock this time were hard to find ,I think again due to the lack of tide. This called for plan B my secret Huss mark this payed off and I quickly bagged 2 huss. Then we tried a few other spots and managed to winkle out 8 species each in the end ,9 on the boat in total. The main thing I noticed was the lack of bream, last month there were thousands of the little bait robbers on every mark I fished, when today Adam and I had just 1 each! I think this was down to the tide today being like one big slack! Species tally for the boat: mullet ,bass, dogs, mackrel, bream, pout, wrasse, pollock and huss. Made it over to the Island after the comp only for Adam to show me how to catch Bass he had 3 the best going 5lb James

Nice tope paul Its looks bigger than 31!!! who cares about the species when you get to fish on a boat like QT James

Charlie will I will be on the slip at 7 to fish for 7.30 just ment the aprox slot ,tides are spot on for tomorrw for anyone going from xchurch James

Gordon,thats a thornback.

Adam theres lots of tide that nite and the slack not until the early hours, thats why I was going for the sole. James

Tides look good for a trip out wednesday or thursday evening/nite.Xchurch hw is 9.30pm, Lw xchurch harbour 4.30 am.( for wednesday thurs 1/2 hour later) my plan is to head out about 6ish and sit it out for a skate till dark then move in to southbourne/boscombe for a sole. then hope to be in for 12 to 2am depending on the fishing Ive got crew just looking for buddy boats. Any takers? James

I will be out from Xchurch on sunday on Dawn Raider with Adam, Going for the 7am till 2 slot, then off for a bit of bassing at the back of the Island after the comp Tight lines James

Nice one Dan shame It wasent from a boat, Ive been meaning to try down that way for the sole one nite ,now after seeing your sole I might well do James

A bit of jealousy there Adam.... We weighed a 8oz lead on a moveing boat and it weighed 10 oz on my scales. not to bad I think, concidering we weighed one of the bass we caught 3times on your scales and after zeroing three times gave 3 totally different weights from 3lb first attept, 2lb 4oz second to 3llb 6oz third. On mine it weighed 3lb 6 to 8 oz. I weighed my sole on dry land and if you feel it needs a re-weigh. feel free its still in my freezer. Im not going to rush out and buy a new set of scales just because ours dont match,. I paid quite a lot of money for two sets of scales, a set of fly weights for smaller species and a set of heavy nash scales for the beasts and im sure just about every set of scales in the club are going to vary from one anouther and mine are of some of the better quality scales avalible. James