Maverick Martin

Guys thanks for clearing out your pm's Please do it regularly to save us the cost of either upgrading our package or cropping your pm's from the data base Good housekeeping saves money Martin

Kam Nothing to stop you sharing a good fish on here with us by posting in catch reports Martin

Correct - with the proviso they are still limited to 2 anglers You of course mean 12 anglers Paul Martin

There is nowhere in Poole where boats can be launched at reasonable cost. Baiter is the only half decent public slipway. We could of course use Cobbs but who wants to pay

This bylaw has been around for years but not fully enforced so why now? Well look at what sea anglers have been trying to achieve against the wishes of commercial fishermen, we were unsuccessful. In return I think commercials have had words in ears, in turn those ears have had words with ssfc who can do nothing other than enforce the bylaw they introduced even though it was ill thought out. Who's winning now! In the end no one will win as money talks and when all the fish are caught and theres nomore money to be earned by commercials or those that supply RSA's no one will care pessimistic view? nope - realist? maybe Has anybody had a proper answer as to why angling craft over 12 metres with a licence for 12 anglers were originally included in that bylaw? or indeed why a private craft over 12 metres with 2 or 3 anglers aboard is included? Certainly takes some working out and what makes my blood boil even more is its' another blatant waste of my hard earned taxes Martin

Duncan if thats the case they must like looking stupid in front of joe public At this rate they may need more staff just to read the emails Martin

Thanks Charlie Alec asked me to post this but I totally forgot. BTW mines been ordered for days Martin

Well done to Mr Salter indeed but it falls on deaf ears. You could also write to Jonathon Shaw as I have

worked for me

That's good news welcome back into the fold, look forward to reading your fishy stories Martin

Prize table First prize for the best % specimen overall is

My guess would be "CRAZY"

Fred Sounds a fun day, I just love your write ups and nick names....priceless Martin BTW I take it this is a catch report but I'll leave it in the jokes section cause it's so funny

Andy What a cracking day, very well done. Bit of a cheek though letting the rest of us work whilst you skive off and scoup up the fishies Martin

Quotas are not the best way to manage fish we all know that but at the moment its all there is. Back a system of quotas with penalties for discards, limit days at sea, be more specific on what equipment can be dragged for what species, limit areas allowed to be trawled, police any rules vigorously then watch fishermen alter their practices. Whilst we have a lets be nice to commercial fishermen policy rather than lets preserve fish stock policy we are stuck with what there is. Personally with mindsets as they are I cannot see things altering until its to late

I heard an interview on radio 4 this morning where John Humphries ripped into fisheries minister Mr Shaw about the state of fish stocks and his plans to combat discards. John showed a good understanding of fisheries and made Mr Shaw look rather silly to say the least. All Mr Shaw could come up with was allow fishermen to take more fish (cod). This he says would alleviate the bye catches/discard problem and preserve stocks? Who the hell has brain washed him, since when can you keep more fish and preserve stocks at the same time.....muppet. I have a better solution Mr Shaw, let commercial fishermen take all the cod then we wont have to worry about discards ever again...sorted oh and bye the bye you would be out of a job because there wont be anything left to manage That seems to be the mentality we are up against. Ministers ignore scientists, anglers, greenpeace and even other government and EU departments and side with fishermen...WHY!....probably because we are to placid and commercials are vocal and well organised, this needs to change. Vote with your feet boys its all they understand Martin

Duncan Go to our home page and click on their advert. I believe you can only get it mail order or at shows Martin

Simon Happy Birthday Martin

Well done Rob As sponsors of this site Salt X would be pleased to here of this use for their product. With that in mind I sent them the link to this thread yesterday Martin

It sometimes does it when offshore in 150' plus but soon finds itself again so not to much of a problem

Mini feathers/shrimp rigs Martin

My raymarine DS600 is fitted in the proper tube with cooking oil and it works a treat through all speed ranges up to 30 knots. It does ocasionally go silly at slower speeds which is just when you realy need it Not sure what causes it but I guess turbulence from underwater structures? Martin

Well done Charlie & Co. Was good to see you all on the boat today and thanks to Mrs C for showing Dean and I around the boat.....she (the boat that is) looks fantastic and (me being very diplomatic or in other words creeping ) Mrs C looks ok too Look forward to fishing along side you all very soon Martin

Well done Adam & Gordon, Nice when a plan eventually comes together Nice cod as well Martin

One of our club members needs a crew space on a fellow members boat so that he can enter the Open competition on 2nd December. Is anybody willing to give him a ride? Please post here or pm me and thanks in advance Martin