Graham Nash

Ha Ha .... there wont be any room to anchor!

Oops .... after reading up on that one i started thinking .... "I dont remember that???" No wonder, mine is the 750s, not the 7000!! http://www8.garmin.com/uk/gpsmap750/

Andrew, from what I know you just register on the appropriate thread (on this forum) and go fish when you are ready. We are all friends here so it's done on trust. Rules state there must be 2 people on board (I dont think the dog counts as the 2nd person ). I have been toying with taking my dogs out with me regularly, I did take one of mine out once (the picture is on the home page) but he stood up looking over the side the whole of the time so I worried that he might go for a swim, which isnt too bad in the harbour but not so good while anchored in 100ft of water in a running tide. I must try again some time. Good luck. Graham

I bought a Garmin 7000 with a randome (for radar) and one of the V2 vision cards. It's amazing! http://www8.garmin.com/buzz/gpsmap7000/

whatever happens i WILL NOT be fishing in Poole Bay!!

Mike, the main reason we stayed this end was because the forecast had said it would blow up mid dayish and i HAD to be back by 4.30 at the latest so I didn't think it would be sensible going to the Island and have to take it easy just in case it made me late. The extra fuel was a slight concern too. I WONT be fishing Poole on Sunday tho', thats for sure.

well done Nigel, thats a long hard couple of days but i'm sure your last weeks catches kept a smile on your face :-)

Well, after all the recent reports of monster fish being caught it was my intention to see if I could become a statistic, but alas the forecast was somewhat lumpier than we had hoped (and we were running a little late) so we stayed over towards what I believe to be the 50/50's. What a waste of a day off!! I was so excited when we arived at our spot that I threw one mackerel bait in on one of my light weight traces from Poole Harbour last sunday while I set up my main rod. Once my main rod was in the water complete with pennel rig and squid bait i noticed my first rod was nodding ..... I left it a few seconds then lifted into something heavy for a couple of seconds ..... then gone . I left it out for a few more minutes before reeling it in to check my bait, but not only had the bait gone but the hook too!! That was as exciting as it got for me today, my mate had 3 doggies and i had absolutely naffink!! Oh well, hopefully I'm saving my luck for Sunday

1.) Ian Jones - JV 2.) Bob F - JV 3.) Alun J - JV 4.) Martin B Awol 5.) Dean B Awol 6.) RobF - JoJo - with non member 7. Alfie and Stuie on Dream Drifter [defending Champion 2010] bring it on 8 Graham + non member Little sal.

That would be great Charlie .... but just in case

I would like to bump this thread as with the favourable forecast for the latter part of the week and the weekend I can see there are likely to be a few boats out there. Graham.

I have booked Thursday off too Charlie, unfortunately my crew cant be available till about 10 so we wont get an early one in. Will be heading East to see if I can get some fish for my dog

Hi Thomas ..... see if you can get grandad out on one of the kayaks

Happy Birthday Terry.

I have recently had my dog tested for allergies (as she was scratching so much that she actually scratched her nipples off!!) Anyway the outcome is that as well as allergies to just about every type of pollen, the only meat she can eat is white fish and raw egg. So my request is that anyone very local to Poole who catches one of the deep water species that is unable to be returned due to deep hooking or blown swim bladder give me a call before returning their catch for the seagulls. I stress I dont want you to kill an otherwise healthy fish, just the ones that won't survive anyway. Pout, Pollock and Cod are the obvious ones but maybe there are others?? I say very local to Poole because I live and work in Poole so would be able to collect very quickly in most cases. Many thanks. Graham 07710 911921

Another beauty. Well done you lot for having jobs that enables you to go fishing when the rest of us are working I have yet to find the car park myself Lofty but I believe its a few miles the other side of The Needles.

You look knackered Nigel!! Best get back to work for a rest!

Fantastic Nigel ..... beats work eh?

My crew today was much too late for us to sign in for the comp but we did get out and hid round in Swanage for a few hours. Plenty of wrasse up to a couple of pounds and a few doggies. Headed to Poole patch for the last hour or so (to use up the last of our bait) and had more of the same but with the added bonus of a small conger too. No cod, nothing decent but was great to be out again at last.

my sentiments exactly Nigel ....

every now and then Martin gets a quantity given to him. Last time it was 10mm and there were 2 HUGE reels of it. I dont think there is any guarantees as to when it might show up but if you can it is worth waiting for as its good stuff.

I think we NEED a break in this weather

I intend on being there too Tony ..... woo hooo, lets do it

Im not even gonna mention Windguru!

there would have been two of us taking the credit then Dave