Rob

Yes Alun - once a teacher always a teacher!!! Thanks.

Thanks to you Paul - it was your phone call presence I'm sure!!!

We had a cracker on JoJo today - we were up earlier than the tide! Doh! We were at teh slip approx 7:20 and there was not much water - a little wait and a wander and some photography and the water made an apperance! Charlie A got some good pics of the rocks that are marked with a red buoy in the way in to Mudeford - quite scary but good to meet them first hand in waders rather the being introduced to them via my prop!!!! No wonder AJ always says to me stick to the fishign boats on your way out! Well we gathered bait quickly and started fishing - no more than 30 seconds and BANG - big fish on a very very light spinning rod - I felt under gunned! First bass of the day 7lb exactly to me! Through out the day we caught fish of varying sizes - my biggest weighed release was 1lb 6oz (should have weighed the released fish earlier)! Charlie had a keeper of 3lb 6oz. After lunch we restocked with bait fish and and after another drift I suggested deeper water I had a call from Paul Jennings and off went a bait runner - I am sure it had smoke coming from it like in Jaws!!! Anyway - Charlie lifted in to a solid fish and it gave a cracking pull back - I had to let Paul go and get down to the business of bringing in lines and helping as the fish moved deepely round the boat. Up came a beautiful bar of silver - 8lb 6oz of angry and perfect Bass - and the best bit is we had the pleasure of admiring her for 15 mins whilst she recoverd and then swam away in to the depths! So we had a good 7+ fish and probably the same number of missed runs. We packed up as the tide started to change and push our drift back to front at 14:30. A great day with some nice fish. Question is - should I lend Charlie a rod again or keep them all to myself? I am sure Charlie will add some pics. Rob Result: 7lb 0oz - Rob Francis 1lb 60z - Rob Francis - RELEASED 3lb 6oz - Charlie Annear 8lb 6oz - Charlie Annear - RELEASED

Plenty of room

Pressures on Otter !!

If your reel is in need of service see Dave Lynes - Reel Service - he is a sponsor of the club and his details should be on the top of this page. Rob

1) Adam - JV - Ben & Craig crewing 2) TW - Otter - Crew TBC 3) Tomo- Just Purfick- Full 4) Wight Magic [but need crew] 5] Charlie -Alfresco + Crew TBC [rude not to at least try] No serious threat to the bass stocks. 6] Imagine - Paul F borrowing AlunJ's bass marks, but not his luck 7) Colin and Bobi (we are refitting our kitchen but will sneak out if we can) 8. Serenity - Tony & Lorraine 9) Frisky Fox - Maybe 10) JoJo - Rob & CharlieA

Does anyone know what the difference between a Mercury and a Mercury "Saltwater" is? I assume a Mercury is designed for USA Freshwater use and they do something to it to make it Marinised. And that a Mariner is the already marinised version of a mercury for the European market. Because most Mercury's over here are Saltwaters as we have little freshwater to use them on. Does anyone have a non Saltwater Mercury? If so were you told why it was not a Saltwater one and do you have to maintain it differently? Rob

Indeed - make notes of what they said exactly while it is fresh in your maind - then pass on to your insurance! Who is this marina giving such poor service?

Duncan is at Rockley (there are a few pontoons there).

Jim - what are you doing - gonna buy another garden ornament?

You might find a flush \ hose attachment on the engine - there is on my Yam - however this only flushes the block on one side of the thermostat!! Therefore, investigate your engine and speak to you local service agent. HTH Rob

For anyone else looking! http://www.piplers.co.uk/3362/Kru-SPORT-PR...-on-Test--.html

Nigel - this is the day before the club Cod comp - might limit the brownie points people coudl get for a weekend! Rob

Nuff said

Ah the Solid-C debate raises it's head again! I think they a awful - so light, yet strong and cheap, truely awful!!! Not sure why I have 6!! Rob

Brian - ever thought about being a full time Gillie - oh, I think you might be already!!! Rob

Can we keep it to club members and perhpas sons\daughters please? Thanks Nige for taking on the organising. Rob

Rob with Shogun out of Lyminton is offering

Results with prizes won - thanks to all our sponsors!

Would members be interested in jumping on a Charter boat for a days fising - perhaps winter codding etc? I thought that with 10 \ 12 up it could be a good laugh and there are some skippers in teh club who never get to fish together and this could be the opportunity. Just an idea, thoughts please? Maybe we could get two boats if enough interest and have a mini comp - maybe for some Xmas booze or similar? I am just posting and idea, maybe someone fancies organising it if enough interest? I am all out of organising brain power at the mo. Rob

Hi all, do we have a Coastliner close to Poole \ Bournemouth on a trailer? A guy at work is wanting a new traile for one and would like to measure one on dry land. His boat is in the water and after servicing the trailer reaslised that wood has been used in its construction!!!!! (amazing what you can hide with Hammerite). Hence the new trailer - though he can't now get his boat out the water until new trailer made to spec. Thanks all Rob

All, When I recieved the club scales from Adam I thought it wise to check them as with a specimen comp weight is vital as an ounce out of a 6lb fish can make an awful lot of difference to a result (an ounce on a 40lb conger is more acceptable). I found that the club scales were accurate after 10lb but before that they weren't great - so we opted to use a nice set of digital scales from Neal Sturt. If people are interested in testing their scale with some calibrated weights I might be abel to help and borrow some from work. These weights have been proffesionally calibrated. Let me know and we could do something at a club evening. Though unlikely to have a draw we did this year, we had a tie at 9th with 90.63% on 2 different species! Rob

All, If I bring a PC to the meeting on Thursday could you bring photos from the Open on memoery cards \ usb stickes etc please? I need them in full resolution not resized small and emailed. BFM are interested in seeing what we have got and they could well feature in the report for the mag (Nov issue out in October). Cheers Rob

Nice one Adam - thanks for taking them. Also, thanks for your help at the weigh-in, much appreciated. See you Thursday. Rob