Graham Nash

The biggest bass ive caught was inside the harbour too Neal. 9 1/2lbs while waiting for enough water to retreave my boat at the slipway.

some nice fish there and a HUGE smile

Five Scotsmen in an Audi Quattro arrived at an Irish border checkpoint. Paddy the officer stops them and tells them: "It is illegal to put 5 people in a Quattro, Quattro means four." "Quattro is just the name of the automobile," the Scotsmen retorts in disbelief. "Look at the papers: this car is designed to carry five persons." "You can not pull that one on me," replies Paddy "Quattro means four. You have five people in your car and you are therefore breaking the law." The Scotsmen replies angrily, "You idiot! Call your supervisor over. I want to speak to someone with more intelligence!" "Sorry," responds Paddy, "Murphy is busy with 2 guys in a Fiat Uno."

I have some bolt croppers if you need them Jim.

dont forget 5. the steam rally!

it makes a perfect excuse to try to get out in my book :-)

Hmmmm Jim & Rob must be fishing

a great ending, happy missus and kids too.

Good luck Jon .... I hope you find him soon (and well)

A man escapes from prison where he has been for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns and finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair, while tying the girl to the bed he gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom. While he's in there, the husband tells his wife: "Listen, this guy's an escaped convict, look at his clothes! He probably spent lots of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck." If he wants sex, don't resist, don't complain, do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is probably very dangerous. If he gets angry, he'll kill us. Be strong, honey. I love you." To which his wife responds: "He wasn't kissing my neck. He wwas whispering in my ear. He told me he was gay, thought you were cute, and asked me if we had any vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you too!!"

Ha Ha ... just as well i don't .... i'd be bankrupt!!

thats lovely Jim :-) ......

you must have the most understanding missus ever!!

I see some pretty impressive ones being dragged up on my "ray mark" charlie. You know where it is. Graham

I have a "mark" that is so specific that 50 ft either side of it is useless, so there are definitely spots that, from my experience are that specific. As for wrecks on the fish finder; I am nowhere near an expert on wrecks and have only fished a few but I have had my best results in locating them with a good quality inboard transducer, often finding that the wreck is not on the exact numbers advertised and sometimes the wrecks are so flat that they hardly show up anyway!! Keep at it, longer traces, dont scrunch your bait onto the hook so it stays on there as this looks un-natural and encourages deep hooked fish (on the rare occasion it catches) good luck

I drive or walk along Holes Bay Road every day, and many days there are 3 or 4 cars parked up with between 2 & 4 bait diggers in each. They come with their trays, newspapers, buckets and forks and they systematically decimate the area, never re-filling their holes (probably so they dont waste their time re digging the same spot the following day). Although I think it's wrong on many levels (I bet they dont pay taxes on their earnings for a start), I can imagine that if too many restrictions are placed on amounts these guys can collect it will push up the price, which in turn will bring more of them here with their buckets and forks. I suppose the answer would be for everyone to get off their backsides and dig their own bait when needed rather than just pop to the shop and buy more than we need (I can't see me doing that too often, i'd probably give up fishing first!!). so, it's down to supply and demand. If WE demand it, they will supply it.

Agree with the advice above. I struggled to catch anything decent till I went out with the grand master, his son and the chef .... their tactics were alien to me but i have adapted my tactics and rigs and seem to do pretty good now. I'm still rubbish on Poole patch tho!!

you'll need to be quick

i couldnt see the text jim, my eyes aint what they used to be, i thought small fry was fairly chuck in and outable, having said that, ive looked at westports before i bought my raider and they do look like very nice boats.

New Pilot more expensive than 7 year old Small fry. Jim thee must be some logic there somewhere

gutted!!!

what a month when a club record can only achieve 4th place!!! well done everyone concerned.

I went out ... motored over to Christchurch Ledge at about 20 knotts, limped back at 8 knotts at times. Waves breaking over the top of us and our fuel supply rapidly running out!! 70 litres of fuel and a pretty grotty trip with nothing to report apart from mackerel ..... hundreds of em!!!

1) Court Jester - Neal, Jim, Dave 2) Alfresco 3 Kingfisher 4) Frisky Fox 5) Mistress Graham + 2 non members