Maverick Martin

Nice report and great work if you can get it Tom Indiscretion? you! Martin

Steve nothing has changed on the forum. What has changed is your forum status. Did you pay this years membership that was due at the AGM in April? Your not marked on the spreadsheet as paid up so your status was changed about 2 months ago. This means you are unable to view the members only section If you have paid or you feel we have made an error please let Bob F and myself know so we can investigate further. If you have forgot to pay you will have to rejoin. This can be done in the usual ways Martin

Love the reports and echo what Dave (Pirky) says you are great ambassadeurs for our club and very entertaining in your posts Thanks Martin

Paul no problem the photos fit perfectly on my screen set at 1440 by 900 but also checked at 1280 by 1024 and they still fit perfectly Martin

It looks like this is where the PBSBAC kayak section takes off! Can't wait for part 2 Martin

Well done George a truly magnificent fish Martin

Busy time of year for me both socially and work but if the dates your looking at fit in then yes I would be interested Martin

Well done on the sale and good luck with your search for a replacement Martin

Paul if they paid their membership via paypal it will take a few days to filter through that they are members. They will though need to register on the forum seperately. As yet they are not registered on the forum, we do not do that for them (although can if help is needed) their membership will be made up on here to club members when confirmation comes through from Bob F or Paul D Hope that makes sense? Martin

The Metropolitan police, the best money can buy Heard this on Jack FM today and fell about in stitches, it's the simple things Martin

Adam Could we postpone this comp. Ben (kayak rep) has suggested another date but I have forgot what it was He will post here later Martin

Tomo have a good one.....steady on the beer Martin

Hi Steve and welcome to our clubs website ATB Martin

Certainly looks that way

Andrew welcome to the club and you have email Martin

Happy Birthday Stuart you now have the key to the door Martin

Pout we caught loads of them BTW I am having plaice steaks tonight Martin

Up at 5am on Sunday to get to the boat and leave Rockley by 6am so we thought! Got up ok loaded the boat with enough gear and food for the two day trip. Turned the key and.........................nothing. Tried the battery pack but this has been on the boat for about 3 months without recharging so not enough in that either. Luckily I had two fully charged batteries but they are in the garage so a dash home and back, install the replacement batteries and hey presto the engine burst into life. Next problem the AIS wasn't working and neither was the external satellite aerial so no fix on the gps. Luckily the plotter I have has an internal satellite receiver so after investigating the menu and working out how to use this instead of the external receiver then we were away. The original plan was to go straight to the shambles and fish inshore on day one but it was so nice Dean and I decided to go offshore and wreck hop our way down the English Channel. The fishing wasn't blistering but we managed 3 ling to 17lb pollock to 12lb with two many to count pout along with loads of mackerel. There were so many mackerel but of a very small average size. We then made our way inshore for a drift or two on the mussel beds to the west of the shambles. Here I had just the one cod around 3 or 4 lb's Off into Weymouth at around 5pm to get ready for the evening. Day 2 saw us leaving Weymouth on an oily flat sea. We had decided to fish the shambles today. Dean had a small Brill on our first drift. On about drift three I had a knock, started to reel in and could feel it was a reasonable fish weight wise but it didn't put up much of a fight until that is it left the bottom then it went ballistic stripping line on two reasonable runs. I am now thinking it must be a turbot. Dean gets the net ready whilst waiting for the fish to appear from the depths. It's a bl**dy humungous plaice shouts Dean and sure enough it was. When aboard it pulled the scales down to 6lb 11oz WOW The largest plaice I have seen for many a long year. Not a lot happened for us after that. We had a move to some broken ground a couple of miles south and had bream, bullhuss adn the inevitable dogs. We then decided to try St albans for bass but no luck there so trundled our way home. I had a cracking couple of days made all the better by that one plaice Will post a picture of the plaice later Martin

Mike we will coming by kimmeridge around that time so give us a shout on ch8 and we can look out for each other Martin

Damn just checked with my diary manager and she says were in Crete that week But on the plus side I will be with Tony with lots of flowing red liquid Martin

Hi greg Shame your not able to make it as I know you were really looking forward to fishing our end this summer Any news on how the repairs are coming along? Martin

I believe it's Tesco vouchers, bargain Who's going this year and which days? I will be going probably mid week but will depend on workload at the time Martin

Early Sunday morn

We hope to also be there along with about 18 other boats as part of the WSF meet. They are listening on VHF CH8. Charlie for this meet could we listen to CH8? might help us be part of the other meet Martin