Adam F

Duncan, Stainless Peter made me one of the quality stainless steel jobbies last year and I also havent managed to source net for it yet. I have tried trawl netting but it makes the whole unit so damn heavy.... Anyway - in the meantime I have bought a cheap Shakespeare job, and whilst it isnt anywhere near as strong as the SS one, it is light, smaller and more compact - therfore I have decided to keep this one and not bother with the SS one. If you want it you are welcome for the price I paid......you can have it with the fender I promised! Then all you need is some netting! Adam

Ill have 6. Ill also do a bit of searching to see if I can better than for you. Adam

1226.6 ....didnt know penguins had that much blood!!

I simply booked mine through East Dorset Adult Learning on the web. Worth bringing up at the next club meeting - Martin and I were discussing a large scale course and as the club has so much excess cash it would be a great idea (last comment made tounge firmly in cheek before the comments start!! )

Terry, although you have the Bigfoot so a slightly larger prop than mine - a new one would be about 60-70 quid I think. Prop Rev. have done a few repairs for me and never charged over

Take them off and try them, see if difference. They may work they may not - it depends on the boat. Yes you will loose top end speed, but it may make the boat plane quicker and hold the sea better - it did on Tara.

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Peter, A great tip from another Warrior owner....why not register on the site? Adam

Welcome Tim - see you at a meeting some time. Adam

Same on mine Dave - Its just a normal trait of the steering system, about an 1" movement?

I would be interested - have been thinking of it for a while.

....Thats a funny name for a boat - I can see Solent Coastguard not seeing the funnyside!!!

Did anyone watch that show on Sat night....spell check the nation...or something similar. It had a great section where it showed that Bristol University had proved that it doesnt matter if the word is spelt wrong, as long as the first and last letters are correct - the human brain will still read the word correctly! 'Poole Bay Samll Baot Anlging Culb is baesd in Poole, Dosret and caetrs for mebmers with small baots who wish to fish in the aera'

BW hasnt been near the water for over 3 weeks now, so would like to get out this weekend....whats the weather looking like? Anyone else going out? What / where is worth going....as you can tell my finger has well and truely slipped of the pulse recently! Adam

Not too sure but I think he is an Aquafish 23, blue hull and white topsides...moors up the river. I have seen he out quite a few times (if it is this boat) It always makes me laugh when I see these adverts....'30 knots - 25 knot cruise'....'fastest boat in the fleet - 40 knots' etc, etc..... Not that I have been on loads of charter boats, but enough to know that none of them ever use this speed. I think the best Ive ever seen/got is on the modern cats about 18 knots cruising. Im not knocking the skippers at all, as economical fuel issues etc are more important, but if you arnt/wont use the speed, then why advertise it! Adam

Rich - Id love to buy a jar next time we meet.....Mmmmmmmm honey!!

Coddy, I was a CAC member for 6 years and from what I can remember the rules were such: Club waters end at the bottom of the Clay Pool - this is for both bank and boat, for coarse and sea trout / salmon (you need a licence for the last two) downstream from here the bank is the only place you need a licence or day ticket until you get the the run which is then the beach and therfore free to all. I have fished for 4 years from the boat spinning for mullet below the clay pool and have never been asked for a ticket. PJ may be able to comment more accuratly as he was a member until last season. For a definitive answer Loni's or Davis tackle should know. Adam

I take it that the speed limit is now dropped in the harbour?

Well done mate - congratulations! Another year well fished - you cant argue with results like that.....now go win the Warrior! Adam

Paul, Yes we spend a few days at Burgau - great beach and lovely beach side bar. I was tempted to have a go at the mullet, but didnt take any gear and didnt fancy wasting money on cheap tackle over there. The charter was 400 euros for the day - 67 each, so about the same as the UK, but when you consider he has to pay the same for diesel as the road users do, it makes it cheap in comparison. His english was OK and he moved three times to put us on fish - so I couldnt complain - we took our own lunch, but he did provide it for 8 euros each. Finally - youre right, flying from Hurn is the way to go - and cheap also if you book ahead - we have already put down for next year! Bob - yep, fabulous courses. I didnt take my sticks as no one else in the group played, but you were spoily for choice. We stayed about 2 miles from the Beuna Vista Golf Resort and Pennina was only 1/2 hour alway. Quite dear for a round though, between 50-90 euros. The snorkelling experiances this year in both Spain and the Algarve has also prompted me to take my PADI over the winter to enable us to scuba dive when on holiday. One of the guys we went with did, and it was very reasonable for a days diving - 30/40 euros.

Best fish of the day - Red Snapper 4lb

Just returned from a week in the Algarve, Lagos to be precise. Never been before, and was very impressed....not a single 'brit-abroad'...lovely! We hired a superb brand new villa for the week, and basically the 8 of us just ate and drank to our hearts content, and had a great laugh in the process. Didnt manage a fishing rod in the case, but did take the snorkelling gear which got used most days - colder than the Med, as in the Atlantic, but just as good vis and lots to sea. Biggest result was that I mananged to find at least half a dozen scallops each trip - all of wich were eagerly consumed that night - the last night saw us gather a few fresh mussels, a dozen fat scallops and we bought a kilo of fresh jumbo tiger prawns - for our own Fruit de Mer!! I also hunted down the local charter boat and promptly booked a trip for Weds, and as the others all wanted to try we charted the whole boat - a 38' Aquastar originally from Liverpool - called The Pescamar - Jacko was our skipper. The plan was to go blue water game fishing as he had taken two white marlin and a few dorado the day before - but as the other 5 were all fishing virgins we opted to just do a bit of inshore bottom fishing. We fished 3 hook patternosters with pieces of prawn for bait - tackle was a little dissapointing - 20lb class solid class rods with cheap fixed spools - but after a while it just added to the experiance - they hadnt even heard of braid when I mentioned it to them! Bites came to everyone, every cast for the whole day - and as others have experinaced, the Portugese keep everything the local law deems sizable - unfortunalty this isnt very big - a black bream has to be just 12cms. We protested and put most of the fish back, but still ended up with 3 builders buckets full of fish - we took a few for the BBQ, the rest went to the skipper and crew. Red Snapper, Permit, four types of bream, gurnard, bass, scorpian fish, mackerel, scad, herring and about six types of wrasse kept us busy - plus 3 or 4 fish Ive never seen or heard of! The snapper and permit brushed with olive oil and pepper and salt was some of the best tasting fish I have ever had! To finish it off the five non fishers were all 'hooked' and wanted to try back at home! Finally - we had 7 days of clear blue skies and 29-31 degs everyday - from the looks of things I didnt miss much - good to be back though - and just in time for the cod! Adam

....and you started the thread! Some people!

Speak for yourself Martin....

Over that way - somehwere inbetween St Catherines Point and Portland Bill = Club Waters!.... Ring me and Ill tell ya!