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Just checked my lure box, some of my jelly worm and shads as well as 2 mackeral stormies had mushied and stuck together. Is it age or the warm weather? They were fine on the Ripps trip so must be the last few weeks. Can we prevent this or not?

A danger to themselver evidently. I'm sure we all have friends/relatives like Rob, the luckier few of us have more than 1.......

What's the method and rig? Drifting? lumi beads? rattler? Or plain old simple big lump of bloody macheral?

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Alun, does the few days rule apply to all sole or just the dover sole? Personally I prefer them as fresh as possible. How do you skin a dover sole? I start at the tail, use a knife to scrape at the back fin and the membrane/skin comes off after a few strokes, take hold of it and pull upward.

When we species hunt, how much of our catch die as a consequence of being reeled up? We return most if not all fish, barring a couple for the pot. I can't see it does any harm to the fish number.

The Warrior with no names went out yesterday bassing. He first tried just off hurst castle, but there was a queue of 1/2 a dozon boats forming, so he went off to Atherfield round the back of the island. He caught 15 bass, biggest 7 1/2lb. It was caught on a pirk to feathers. Some were caught on mackerals and rapala lures(?).

Bit silly: Forgot to disconnect the breakaway brake cable from the tow bar and attempted to drive off after unhitching the trailer, at least the breakaway worked as it intended.... Major silly/dangerous: forgot to strap the boat down to the trailer and drove 50 miles home.....

I have no idea, they all laid down flat frozen at the moment, will put back in a bag/box. How many do you want? Either in weigh or number of cuttle?

Mike has a Tohatsu 60 2 strokes automixing. Very light in weigh and lively.

Jack too late. They already sells wrasse, pouts and poor cods in the fish markets. And the fishman tells me they sell pretty well. While ling is not so well received even at 50p a lb, I can't understand it, I think ling tastes as nice, if not better than cod.

James, you new daugther wants a nice slow cruise up river......

Glad to be of service. I'm not sure it's a good idea to launch a boat with the leg down. I always trim up my outboard as the skeg might hit the slipway and break.

Anyone let me know..... please......

Just bought 3 bags off the fishman. Rich is having one bag and I'm keeping one. Lots in a bag, will spit them up if you don'r want too many. 80p/lb, price I got them for.

Do you know for sure how much your boat weigh? Most family car will tow 1400+ some will tow up to 1600 might even be 1800 for a large estate, like volve. The site I use for car info is Parkers guild Select the manufacturer, then model, you read all about the car, drivability, comfort etc etc. On the very last page, the model breaks down further to each trim level, and you can read about it's technical data like weigh and torque and horsepower. for example Vectra 2.0 SRi It can tow 1200kg braked trailer. Power Output: 134 bhp Valves: 16 Torque: 188 Nm Torque: 138 lb/ft It has 134 bhp, this has little to do with towing, generally ignored (by me anyway). Torque is 188Nm, Newton metre or 138 lb/foot. This is how much turning power, ie ability to carry the weigh/tow. In a petrol engine car, peak torque is at high rev whereas in a diesel peak torque is way down the range, usually around 2000. For comparision, I had a passat 1.9 tdi, 115bhp, torque is 285Nm, I sometime has trouble pulling the boat + trailer (about 1200kg) up Lymington slip. To overcome this, I have to either rope it up or skew the car, so that I'm pulling up and across the slip and not straight up. Also, if you empty the boat first it weighs less, ie take unused petrol out, fishing tackles, icebox, food and drinks etc etc. I now have a 95 Toyota surf, it pulls without any problems. I would be surprise if the Vectra will pull your boat out of Lymington as it's one of the steeper slipway I have encountered. Best way to find out is give it a go, do it when there are others about, if you have problems you can ask them for help. Give me a shout if you want some help, I should be down this Sunday for the monthly comp.

Adam uses an Astra to tow Blue Warrior, but BW is only about 1000kg inc the trailer. A vectre (old shape) can legally tow up to 1400kg and 1500 or 1600kg for the new shape. Is it a petrol or diesel? A 2.0l petrol has 133nm of torque while the diesel has over 230nm. The petrol might struggles a little on most slip as your boat is quite big. A diesel has a better chance to cope with most slips. As Duncan says, use a long piece of rope to tow the trailer up the slip this way, your car is on the top and it's only pulling the trailer and not trailer plus the car together (but make sure you have someone to slam on the hand brake.

There has been many talk about flying for bass, but I don't think anyone been out yet (or they had been very quiet about it). People fly fish for all sorts, mullet, pollock, .......

Employees of the government/people in authority learning peope skills?! You don't ask for much do you...... If there is ever an oxymoron this is one of them. . i.e, I will let you decide whose the moron.....

Might be talking out of my arse (again). I have wondered very often if Nightshot in most camcorder work in this sort of situation or not. I can 'see' the garden at night and the picture quality is good. The rnage is good too, I can even look into next door's garden which is about 100+ yards away if I wanted to.

The easiest way to describe it, is to think of it as a Paternoster fish ledger style. You can have as many dropper loop in the line as you like, and one hook at the end. I only have 1 loop and one hook at the end cos I use them for club comps. Billy's version has a bead and a queins, I went a litttle crazy and put half a dozen beads and flashy bits on it.

Pretty much as Duncan said. Do a long detour if you must. Last year I was in Freshwater bay, the sea got really rough and I decided to come in, but because it was blowing sw, I couldn't travel nw as the quickest way back to Lymington. I had to go w/wsw further away from the Solent before turning the boat round and get the wind behind us to come in. Here is an article about broaching, which I thought was really good. All about broaching

Just want to broaden my limited fishing knowledge. What fish feed better on slack water? and what fish feed better on flood or on the ebb?

I'm getting to the ago when I should start having midlife crisis, have lots of affairs, going clubing every night, dye my hair in trendy colour, and wear the 'in' clothes.

Is it Freshwater or Brook Ledges? I had a look at the chart and Brooks definitely looks more interesting than Freshwater Bay, might even try Atherfield further down when I get a chance to get out.