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Not saying the trawlers are not to blame, but leisure anglers do their fair share of damage too if they hammer the grounds day in day out.

Fish can't reproduce if there are too few older/ bigger fish to spawn. I was on a week's holiday in Alderney last June. Over the week I counted over 12 charter boats. Say each boat keeps 5 fish every day, on a 4 days trip, that makes 20, multiply that by number of boat, you do the maths.

Happy birthday to Charlie and Dave.

A bit more info would help a lot.😁

Happy birthday, tiddler becomes older tiddler.

Yes, those lobsters can't be consumed safely.

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Happy birthday Martin.

Large wheelhouse, Jim can use that to grow tomatoes in the summer.

Open=close, got it. :P

I don't understand, surely if the bridge is open then travel time will be shorter, why allowing extra time?

Cos not, I'm a real man, don't need no hand warmer ;) The missus uses it in the winter and it's lovely and warm, last almost a whole day on one refill. Must admit IF I'd used it, not saying I have, it's like having a piping hot cup of tea in your hands.  However, getting it to light up in the first place does need practice, but flame stays lit all day.

Best hand warmer is Zippo lighter fuel/petrol hand warmer, however u need to replace the steel wool burning part quite regularly, depending on use. Most convenient is those chemical one use one, not cheap on the long run. Or you can use the boil again poppertype. Very cheap and can be picked up at pound shop or home bargain and reuse a number of time.

There will be a comp on 22/23 March 2018, cost I'd £200 for both days, £1000 for most Pollock's over 2 days, £500 for the heaviest Pollock on both days. Anglers can enter individually or as up to a group of 4. https://m.facebook.com/events/653127981743479?view=permalink&id=653127985076812

I use mist x in my car, it works very well but does need reapplying every week or every other week depending how misty it gets. Not sure if salty air has any negative effect on it tho

How deep is the tank? Can u reach it with a pair of chopsticks if u are any good with them

Congratulations to the happy couple

When I use a vac packer for Pollock, I'll cling film the fish, freeze it, and vac it next day. No problems with moisture.

We were going for the conger comp on Weds the 2nd, but the forecast wasn't going to be any good, so Glenn just changed that to a wreck anchoring day to Tuesday. I wasn't keen going for the congers as I didn't feel like hauling congers from the depth, so I only packed a 12lb for the breams and pollocks which I know can be good on these sort of trips, + a 6lb rod with shimano bait caster loaded with 12lb braid when the tide isn't to fierce. As the wind was coming from the west we headed out sse towards France. After 2 1/2 hours of steaming we arrived at our chosen wreck, a quick drift when the skipper see which way to anchor, some anglers drifted with plastic and picked up a single pollock which was about 5lb. Congers pretty much from the word go, nothing big, averaging about 25-30lbs. We only had a small box of squids so down with baited feather for some pouts for the conger bait. Mackerels were plenty and those who got down to the bottom without any hits managed to picked up bread as well as pouts. Lots of breams but all around the 1 1/2 to 2 lbs, unlike a few weeks ago when they were all good size. I fished with my small outfit pretty much all day long, using a single hook with a 6' flowing trace. Could I catch a bream? no, everyone on board were catching, 2, sometimes 3 breams on the baited feathers and other who used single set up like mine were catching. Did managed a few hook ups on congers, which the 12lb braid duly parted. During the day, I managed a tope which were about 10lb, a bullhuss around 12-13lb, mackerels, pouts, a colourful cuckoo wrasse, scads, 4 pollockes (2 were huge, weighted the largest one back home a tad under 7kgs (gutted) on the luggage scale (which only had kg) so prob best part of a kg on top, one other slightly smaller, one around 10, the last about 5-6lbs). It wasn't a bad day, we caught about 32 breams between the 5 (well 4, I couldn't catch a cold on dec morning) of us, over 40 congers, largest about 40lbs.

http://news.sky.com/story/sky-ocean-rescue-spanish-fishermen-find-new-way-to-clear-oceans-of-plastic-10959255

The wrecking has been a bit of hit and miss between the iow and France. The breams are there on anchor, we were using 1/4 mackerel and picked up a good numbers of Pollock's as well, not to mention lings as well , but they were hard work to bring up with their months open.

I'm sure we can find several ways of nailing that to/near the transom

How about this one?

Is this just fishing fleet? What about chartered boats or visiting private boats?

I was over there from Monday to Wednesday for a short break, I saw Steve Porter, Clem with wild frontier and Ivan with Topcat were there. Spoke to a few of the anglers, most they could managed were around low teens per day per day.