Adam F

You going again this year or waiting until 2027?

Nice report - thanks for writing it up. Really must get Kodiak over for a trip - she has never been before, and it's been years since Ive been....

Its worth paying to use Ospray Quay IMO. It shaves a good 30 mins of steaming off the trip out and is a cracking slip, it's not crazy expensive, loads of parking and space and a good pub / cafe (the Ship that Rocks) in the marina at the end of the day. It's about 30 mins to the Shambles from Portland Harbour and very fishable in a small trailer boat. Adam

No. Self draining deck on the 175.

Rob and Reuben throwing lures to bass feeding on baitfish by Old Harry under the setting evening sun

Shame the fishing didn't match the weather... I was surprised how early the May water has arrived this year - presumably the unseasonal amount of sunshine has been a factor? The water at Ballard was much much clearer - you could see the bottom in 12' of water. It was good to be out regardless.

Thanks for posting up the report and pics Ian - I don’t seem to be able to find much time anymore to be on here! Anyway it’s good to be back, good to be back fishing after a year off and exciting to have a new toy to play with. JV was great and suited our needs at the time but a floating caravan / fishing boat isn’t needed anymore and the Cheetah is a pure hardcore fast offshore fishing weapon. I really need to learn that when I think ‘ that needs a few weekends work’ it’s usually 6 months! See you all out on the water soon. Adam

Great to be back out for our regular Tues eve trips!

Thanks Gents. Even managed a few hours working on the re-fit on my birthday. Yes, as Rob said, the classic 'only needs a few jobs' has turned into 4 months of every spare leisure hour. Still she will be Franklin standard when finished - hope to launch mid April. I'll see if I can get around to a mini write up on here... but keen to get back fishing after a year off.

Garmin GPSMap 7015 x 2 and GSD24 Black box Transciever. £900 each for the 15” touch screens and £200 for the GSD24 or near offer. All in as new condition.

Wishing you well Trev - best of luck with the new one!

Well done chaps - enjoy the next few days and keep the reports coming. Nice Brill Steve!

Have a great time gents - bloody gutted I'm not able to come - it's been 4 years since my last trip. I get my 2nd jab tomorrow - so too late. I look forward to hearing the daily catch updates....

JV has a 400L tank so enough to get over fish and get back for a 2/3 day trip. Add in a few Jerry cans for good measure. Id only took to do it this way on an exceptional forecast I might add!

We’ve been down today on a 1.2m tide and had up to 2.6 knots tide so pretty much ideal. I wouldn’t want more than that. We we’re chatting onboard today about the possibility of going to Alderney and no going ashore just staying onboard and being self sufficient for a couple of days?

Yes Weymouth is a great plan B - less of a window needed, stay onboard and still some great fishing options. That will be the plan for JV

Might be worth looking at accommodation now - you can imagine their being quite an influx after lock-down easing?....

Sunset over the bay

The Blue Boys are back....

I'll need to book time off work so are we saying 3rd July onward for a trip? I'll book the week off and go when / if a 3 day window allows? It's been years since we did a proper PBSBAC convoy over to Alderney so would be good to get a few boats together - it's the furthest most of us will get this year for a holiday!

Team JV are keen to come over, we’ve not been for 3 years. As weekends start to book up would it be an idea to look at dates and tides?

Tigerfish - Steve, TBA Fisheagle subject to weather. Crew TBA. Flat White, Dan +? Madness - Dean - Martin Serenity -Tony + 1 ( any volunteers?) JV - Adam - Ian - Rob - Alun tbc

With a warm and settled evening forecast On Tues, I took Rob and a friend Pete done to Barton to fish all night for sole. Conditions were perfect - good sized tide, calm, slightly overcast and warm. We settled in at 8pm for the last 2 hours of the flood as it got dark. We had some cracking worm baits.... Pete struck early with a decent 35cm sole, and I was quickly into a little Smoothound. But that was pretty much it. The slack arrived for an hour and we swung around into the ebb. With hope raised again as Pete added another 28cm sole to the bag and another smoothound. After that it was hours on end of nothing at all. We called it a night at 1am and turned in for a few hours kip at anchor. We tried for an hour at first light on the start of the flood but nothing. Steamed back to Poole and we’re tied up ready for a day at work by 7am. A lot of effort for meagre returns. I think I’ll give Southbourne a try next time.

I’ll take the Bruce 7.5kg anchor please. I’m away at the moment but will sort collection when I’m back.

Re. Bleeding. I watched this on several charter boats and used to adopt it as standard. I always used to carry some poultry shears to deal with tough gills on big fish. But - I no longer do (commercials don’t either?) and I still get pristine white, clear fillets. The concept that the blood taints the flesh doesn’t seem to be the case? Not saying I’m right, just my findings.