Maverick Martin

Martin on Madness. Jim you can join me if you like? room for one more, if you fancy it post here

Congratulations Mike and Clare with the best of luck and good fortune for the future

This is something we have saying for the last 6 or 7 years. Mackerel are a now rarity in our area and year on year becoming harder and harder to find in fact most of us, apart from a lazy line have given up.

Hope the walk goes well Graham

Madness is going out this coming Friday with Tony D And Phil T onboard Anyone else taking advantage of the light winds? If you are we will be monitoring Ch6

Don’t worry Greg we will take advantage of your gift of good weather 😂 hope your recovery isn’t too long even if it does put a damper on the weather

Martin you would be more than welcome out on Madness. keep an eye on the crew threads or message if you would like a message when I’m going out. Wind and tides look great for next week but I’ve not checked with the other half yet

That’s good news Greg, wishing you a speedy recovery

Madness ventured out again on Thursday with Terry B and Phil T onboard. We stayed very inshore along the beaches and had plenty of plaice mostly small but we had a dozen keepers between the 3 of us. We also had a smattering of small bream, gurnard wrasse and even a few mackerel. Lovely weather and company made for a good day out.

So Wednesday was a glorious day with a lot of sun interspersed with cloud along with a short burst or rain however the weather didn't dampen spirits. We had a great day out on the water with a few if not small fish including Baby snotties, smooth hounds, wrasse, doggies, gurnard et all but nothing of note. As per usual the company was great. Will see all those who are out on Thursday tomorrow 🙂 give us (Madness) a shout on ch6 over

Madness now has crew for Thursday

I have crew for Wednesday but looking to go out either Thursday or Friday as well anyone want a day out on madness?

We that is, Tony, Graham and myself are looking at Wednesday but that may obviously change

Midweek onwards looks good this coming week. Madness is planning on going out anyone else have any plans?

Great report Martin, I love your way with words its almost better than your fishing skills

Sun no wind flat seas and fish what more could we ask for? Arranged a trip out on Madness and press ganged Tony D and Graham N to crew with me. The weather men actually got there predictions spot on for a change and we we headed out on flat seas with sunny glimpses cruising all the way at about 20knots. After a little issue with Navionics playing up on the iPhone sending us past the mark we eventually anchored a bank in 90' of water. Turns out not to be Navionics fault but my new iPhone couldn't see the satellites so wasn't updating correctly (lesson Learned) Virtually zero tide running for a few hours but average sized Bream were caught from the off. Our club chair joined us on Y-Knot just as the tide was about to turn. We were not positioned quite right for the changing tide so re-anchored just as the tide began to run and bagged ourselves a better spot. Here we had a solitary Mackerel on the lazy line, several rays a nice Tope and more Bream The fresh Mackerel definitely upped our catch rate Thanks Tony and Graham for being such good sports and great company

main channel speed limits are relaxed from 00:01 on the first October. All other areas the speeds limits ie quiet areas 6knots other areas 10knots including from Brownsea bell bouy to 1400 metres south of the ferry

Congratulations Jim, I know how proud you must be. I've just come back of holiday and spent 10 glorious days with 3 of my grandchildren. Words cannot express the feeling you get when a 13, 16 and 18 year old grandchild enjoys spending time with you.

Well done on persevering and making the most of what sounds like a borderline day. On the golf point the world is full of t*ats, it seems all were put here to annoy us with most being successful 😬

I bet the pilot boat was doing more than the speed limit and even if he wasn’t speeding his wash would have nearly been as bad as my boat at 10 knots through the water

So just to confirm for the benefit of everyone, if a pan pan is called the coastguard will assume you are safe and request you attempt to find a friendly or commercial tow. In the event that the cg see you cannot secure a tow they may elevate the call to a mayday and task the lifeboat, the clue is in their name, they are there to protect life when in danger which is exactly what happened here. Well done bob on managing your situation as you did, text book actions.

Oh how I love being pretty much retired. Us semi or full on retirees can please ourselves (almost) what we do and when we do it. So happens that the weather man said Friday is going to be a good day, after pontificating for a moment or to and along with Mrs B's wise words of why don't you just man up and get out there a plan started to appear. Messaging back and forth with Mal (must learn to make phone calls as much easier) it was decided to go out on the 7:30 bridge and concentrate on inshore stuff. The first port of call was a bank just off of Ballard about a mile off where we were hoping to get a ray or two. The plan fell by the wayside as we were inundated with small to average 1lb Bream which was nice but frustrating that nothing else had a chance or look in. The moment baits hit the deck then rattle Bream were on the rag and squid baits. We decided to move approx 3 miles offshore to look for bigger stuff. The mark I suggested used to hold a larger stamp of Bream and so it did with fish up 1.75lb so not quite what we were looking for. The tide got up and the anchor tripped which caused a few moments one of which was one of my Kenzakit 6-12lb rode getting stuck in and crack the top 75mm broke off Shite. We took this opportunity to move again as Mal was becoming desperate for a Ray. Anyways we re-anchored to the 50/50ish banks with fish from the off. first drop and almost instantly was a Bas, I must have planted the bait on its head as I never even put the rod in the holder it was straight on. Only small maybe 1.5lb at best but a good start. Not as busy as the inshore mark but we had several rays of which only one was landed a blonde of probably 8/9lb but nice to see. I was into a good fish which was stripping line from my 20lb class Kenzaki and ABU 7000 synchro reel but unfortunately after a couple of mins it bit through the trace line (oh pooh) and so it continued. Al in all the weather was as good as the forecast if not better, the sun was out, the sky was blue and the fish were playing. Such a crack being out with Mal, I loved it, here's to the next time IMG_0022[1].MOV IMG_0026[1].MOV

Apologies from me as I'm on anniversary duties

Not a lot of good asking me Graham as I rarely get out myself although I hear it’s hit and miss. It Is large tides at the moment so I will be fishing inshore today unless it’s very flat which I doubt. Good luck if you do venture out

Love it Graham. Good to see youngsters enjoying themselves