Adam F

When does this offer Egg-spire?

dur dum, dur dum, dur dum......

I would drift - more comfotable and covers a greater area - the chum trail stays with you. I'm not willing to kill 2-300 mackeral just for chum. I'll give James and Trevor a call. Still need crew on JV - although might nick one off WM if I cant get anyone

Weather for sat seems to be holding. Need to start firming up crews, and more importantly chum, which could take a bit of sorting? Anyone got any ideas? Plan B is mid channel wrecking.

New bow rail then? Or can it be bent back?

Looking at Sat for this trip guys. So who fancies it? 1) Adam JV - 2 crew places available

Bad news Charlie, sorry mate. However this doesn't sound like the damage we have heard of late, they wouldn't have been trying to steal it, so I'd suspect a collision that wasn't reported whilst on your mooring? Twice this year I've had to swerve to avoid yachts coming out of PYC who appear to have been out if control and have ended up grounded in the shallows not far from where Alfresco moors. Do you have CCTV covering the approach to the Marina?

Catch List: 1. 3lb 13oz - Rob Francis (Joint Venture) 2. 6oz-Nigel Allen. (court jester)-returned 3. 2lb 11oz - Toby Randle Toby 4. 1lb 6oz - Dan Redrupp - Aqus - returned

Agree with Martin - leave as is. Next year we wll give it some more thought.

Looking at the forecast this looks OK at the moment. - not great but do-able. F3/4 Westerlies all day. I'll take a final look on Sat but at the moment the comp is on. Gutted I cant make it - have fun those who can!

This Sunday is our annual Bass comp. Format is best specimen, trophy for both biggest Bass and best Bass catch and release. All other usual comp rules apply. At the moment the forecast is looking windy but with a reasonable weather window on Sunday until 4pm. However with 3 days still to go I'm going to keep and eye on this and make a call hopefully on Friday afternoon. With the Spring tides and the areas we tend to fish for bass I really want a half decent forecast. The back-up date will be the 28th Aug if need be. Book in here please: 1)

Its an age old argument, one that has many pros and cons each way. However I think that if your using the boat for long range stuff you very quickly recover the extra servicing costs. Comparing JV to WM I use about

Yes but on outdrives? Goes to show how much more efficiant they are even when running a pair of them.

Yeah - sorry for the fishy story Tom and Charlie - just couldnt resist it after all the Tuna talk etc!!

Yep - Ive just logged it now. A once in a lifetime moment!?!

Yep - Sunfish (Mola Mola) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_sunfish Seems they are very rare and that this one was just a baby! Aparently they run to 3500lb!! http://oceansunfish.org/ Makes interesting reading.

A very interesting morning out on JV today... and a new club record to boot! Ive been exploring local bass marks to avoid having to steam miles and miles and my recent activities have seen a small amount of success on Peveril Ledge. A decent attack was needed so I assembled a crack team of bass experts...OK well Rob F and Charlie A - and with a plan more cunning than a fox we met at a grey and damp marina at first light - 6am to have a short morning session - everything looked perfect. Baits were easy and within 10 mins I had a livewell on JV full of bristling mackeral. The plan was to fish the last of the flood and the start of the ebb - I was expecting a decent tide with some nice turbulent water - which I had on Thurs and managed a couple of fish.... however this never really got going and we fished a frustratingly slow 3 hours of pathetic flood and very slow ebb.... ... with little to show by 10am I was grateful for the banter to keep the mood light, a coolbox full of baitfish and a couple of small pollock were all we had taken and I was begining to think of heading home when Rob and Charlie spotted some strange fins poking out of the water about 30' away.... DOLPHINS - was the first shout, but these wernt moving....TOPE shouts Rob....??!?! What the hell were these things? With all the talk of Pelagic Game fish and Tuna our minds were on overdrive and I shouted at the guys to get the lines in. Without a second thought I gunned the engine back towards the fish - they were right in the slop of a new strong ebb tide race - not a great place to be - but sure as eggs are eggs - their they still were - almost 'boiling' on the surface... Now - I'd love to tell you that Rob reacted quick as a flash as Charlie stood and watched - he whipped off the leads on the two bottom rods and lip hooked a pair of lively joeys - signalaling though the wheelhouse door he dropped them astearn and run them some 30 yds back whilst I began a slow troll over the tailing fish. To be honest we werent expecting anything and still thought we hadnt really seen what we had - but bugger me - not 2 mins into the troll Robs rod nealy goes over the side. 'its in the bottom' I shout - we all seemed to agree but on picking up the rod all hell broke loose and an amazing 25 min scrap ensued. The fish stayed deep but what a strange fight - very jagged - was how rob described it.... we still had no idea what we had hooked and to be honest all 3 of us where just as excited! Finally the beast broke the surface - 'what the %$&~ is THAT!!' we all shouted - with a dip of the net, this weird beast lay on the deck.... Quickly weighed she went 12lb 6oz - we slipped her back in and she swam away strongly. WOW!! --------- However I cant tell you that and the above was true apart from the trolling bit - we did spot the fish tailing in the rough water, but with a bit of careful boat handling Rob managed to net one as I came alongside!! Awesome to see such a rare fish in our waters. We handled her very carefully - quickly weighed her in a wet sling - all of us paused for a quick photo and then we slipped her back. So all in all - a slow day with a magic twist!!

Paul, I didnt have one listed on my records, but thats not to say they are correct. If the database has this one listed then this is my oversight. Sorry George. Still a nice catch and a memorable one at that.

Short video here chaps:

Sorry for the poor quality - some numpty (me!) took the video upside down and had to use a convertor to flip it - thus loosing all the quality! Anyway here are the highlights from this year's trip to Cherbourg, mid channel wrecking en-route, JV and Wight Magic....

Cant keep a good man down! Following on from his double figure bass this week, young George Fox has claimed yet another club record with a 1lb 3oz John Dory reported today. We didnt have a record for John Dory until this, so it is a new record. Well done George!

Nice report, looks great fun, and well done!

Carteret has a marina now Tom, a lovely modern one, I'd guess it berths around 200 boats. It has a tidal cill ensuring water always but only access for around 6 hours over HW. I'm quite keen on taking JV out there next year for a week, it's a lovely place.

What are thoughts on best tides? From that I can look at dates. However I'll go when the weather works, even if that means a weekday.

Well done George!! Cracking fish. Love Carteret - was there with the family a couple of weeks ago.