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So after launching, the tractor takes the trailer back up the beach, do crews go with trailor to lock up or are the trailor left unattended? Is there water to wash down the boat and flush engine afterwards?

Can anyone tell me what are the rules? I want to make up some rig before hand. In our comp we used a max of 2 hooks 2 rods with pennel counting as one. When I fished the Poole-Burnham match I remembered they commented we have 'strange' rules, because pennel is clearly 2 hooks but we count them as one.

I needed one of them last year, a member (Mac I think) very kindly send me one on the post. At the time it was suggested a cheap alternative was a similar cone used over a ball joint in a car, pick them up next to nothing from scrappy.

Brilliant tip Gordon.

Hard luck Fred, there's always a next time.

Beaulie is next, isn't it? I seem to remember it had lots of fishing tackles (for a boat jumble, anyway.)

Avoid the height adjustable one. As Adam said, once they start to slip and that's it.

Thanks again, Rich. Was only there for a couple of hours, but My Owen enjoyed it very much. We even managed to catch a brown trout on a stormy, not huge, but around 2 lb, great fun.

Small chip probably ok, anything larger than a finger nail will cause vibration on high rev (unless you have similar chips on all 3 blades..... )

Rich, I'll see you down the river after lunch. Not planning to do much fishing, just popping in to say hello and maybe wetting a lure or two.

What? France not paying their fine? Surely not?! French are such homourable people, not to mention a finding member of the European Union.......

So the small Orkney is an open boat? The cuddy is an option from the start I take it?!

Yes Paul that would be nice, but maybe we shall wait a month or so for the temp to rise a bit.

Just take it out (I presume you've a trailer) every couple of week to check, if bad then you know it's no good without antifouling, but if it's good then maybe you only need to take it out every 3-4 weeks.

Not sure if I have it correct, but if you look at the attached drawing. One on the left is the harbour as it is now, and the one on the right is after it'd been dredged. The blue bit is the new depth created by dredging. The red line is low water mark. The green line is high water mark. The dredged area has no affect on the tidal flow thru the harbour entrance, as it is 'dead' water, it always sits there regardless of high or low water. The only water moving in and out is the top layer, from high to low water, this amount of water is always the same regardless. There might be an effect if they dredge poole entrance as it will dictate the amount of water flowing thru, i.e., from x million gallons per minute to x+y millions gallons per minute.

What I'm really interested to know is that what the open boat brigate has to say? How does an open dory perform? How do you fish, mostly drifting like a bass boat or anchor like a conventional fishing boat?

It was bl**dy cold out there today, I started to clean my boat and gave up after 10 mins......

Adam, I have sorted out crew, a couple of my friends will join me.

I think he has the boat in water but planned to go without antifoul and take it out once a month to clean it. SpNOam is from Milford Haven/Anglesey (somewhere North Wales I think), no sure how quickly the green slime grow up there, but down here if you leave you rig down there long enough it will come up slimy on a warm day

I'm easy, I can do most Tues and Sundays.

Welcome, now you know why we call Mike mad.....

The first rule of a good seafood restuarant is fresh seaford. That bass delivered this morning which was caught yesterday isn't fresh!!! Why would the lobster and crab not fresh and frozen? Both will happily live in a walk in chiller, in a large washing up bowl with wet newspaper as duvet for a few days. I love seafood, I have been to a few over the years but for one reason or another I no longer go there. Roman Post near Kings Worthy was good, so was the one (can't remember the one) in Romsey on the west side of Broadland. La Gonda in Salisbury used to be brilliant, there eels in creamy sauce was fantastic, but it went down hill when it changed chef. Just a hint on the oysters. If anyone want to try them raw but is not too keen on the slimy texture on your tongue, try blanching the oysters first. shell oyster like usual except you take it of both the shell. drop it in a pot of boiling water for a few seconds, it loses the slim but not the fresh taste inside, just ask either lemon juice or a few drops of tobasco.

Mike, you need to moniter the forum more frequently......

Dave, I do like the look of either the Trio or Hunter, small and light. How slow is the strikeliner? I don't plan on very big outboard anyway, just something to push me along around 15k would be nice. I plan to spend no more than half of what I get for Sweet Honey. Martin, the sheltie would be my number choice as I had one before but it's a little on the large side. Isn't the cadat built by Shetland in the 90's? Alun, would love to go out in your boat when you have time. You are lucky you live by the sea, It takes me 2 hours from leaving home to finally set off from the slip, not to mention all the washing down afterward, rather then it being an enjoyment, it becames a chores .

I am hoping to put Sweet Honey on Boatandoutboards soon. I plan to buy a much smaller boat once she is sold, so in the ad I will take a P/X on a small fishing boat. The question is 'Which small boat should I consider? I want a 13-16' fishing boat, light, so that it will seat on an unbraked trailer, easily launched and retrieve with just one man (me), reasonable deck space. I have looked at Boat and Outboards, I've narrowed it down to the following: Shetland-sheltie, fast fisher, dolphin/cadat, 536; Pilot; CJR; Seahog/trooper; Dory; Orkney 440 and Dejon 14. I like those Shetland boat, I used to have a sheltie variant, it was light and handled the sea well. It never slams, it cuts thru the wakes cleanly. The sheltie being the upper limit (over really as it's 17'6"), but the rest is well under. I understand the Pilot, CJR, Seahogs and dory are all Catherdral hull (Tri-hull?). I have heard of people commenting they slam a bit. What is the ride really like? How would a open boat like a Dory or Boston Whaler typed boat handle? Do you get wet/soaked? Orkney and Dejon 14 are displacement hull, slower but fairly stable both on the run and anchored. Bearing in mind, I want to fish the inshore water around Soton and IOW, maybe venture out to the X'church ledge for the bream in extremely good weather. The boat doesn't have to be children friendly, as the kids didn't really like boating/fishing that much, the few times I took them out on Sweet Honey, they asked within 30 mins of setting off from Lymington:"When are we going home?" For me fishing in a small boat is just a way to relax and get away from everything else. I used to anchored just off Hamble and fished for a few hours. Never caught much, a few bass, small smut, plenty of crabs, but I enjoyed it.