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Well done you lads up in the Solent Although I expect Steve was a bit outside.

If you look closely , you will see we were watching the rugby on Bens phone app.

Not exactly all action on Saturday

Belated Happy Birthday Ian Hope that the summer storms ease off soon, they were quite some floods in Auckland recently. Glad to see the fishing remains good, ours is pretty rubbish. Oh for a few kingfish and snapper Tight lines Charlie

Belated Happy Birthday Brian Hope that you were able to enjoy it.

Happy Birthday Martin I hope that you are having a fantastic day, well away from any work.

At least it worked in the end. 😁

Hi,everyone. Having attended the club's visit to the R.N.L.I. headquarters on Monday, I ended up having a mini break, worms it seemed were more scarce than hens teeth at that point so the prospect of a fishing spell looked a bit grim, however, the promise of some on Wednesday led me to encourage Frank to set up a couple of flounder set-ups, I got some local "expert" advice as to where to fish, don't want to give any secrets away but I went to the bottom of a big hill near a prickly foliage bush where there is a lot of nature behind 😂 we duly set up rods for the afternoon, lent on the wall like the norm, a pleasent afternoon around 22 degrees c. Or gas mark 2, I think it was sat in the front of the motor home watching the rod tips from there, that seemed a sensible place to be! Well it soon got even better when the resident cook (the wife ) cooked up a hot meal for us both. We stuck it out till dark and I don't think any of the other anglers had caught more flounders than us. Our total was ZERO! 😂. Now come Thurs mid day I got hearsay of a flounder finding mission in a boat for friday,so I was pleased to take up the challenge. Being picked up at baiter (thanks Mike) off to get the skipper (Allan) and aim for Cobbs. The next safety briefing I think will start , shut the side door on the van properly Allan! Luckily the glasses in the coat side pocket survived the ejection ! 😋 dodging the ice on pontoon off we set,on the obstacle race, apparently you can see the sunken boats at low water! 🤔 well we just crept under broken bridges due to Allan's skill and impeccable timing . Soon we were drowning worms and the action started, Yes Mike was on the ball with the kettle 😋 the wind was light and we were slow drifting which made it feel very pleasent, fantastic to be out on a boat. The fish started to turn up, trouble is they looked very silvery, like beautiful bass! Dreaming of what Sunday lunch could be the reality was the bass were heading back to the harbour floor! Are well, nothing wrong with a leg of lamb! After drifting and searching we tied up for the finarlie , with little time left hey presto , my rod twitching to then reveal THE POOLE HARBOUR FLOUNDER !😂. At one pound eight oz. My P.B.👍 with the pending big comp coming up I made sure Allan saw where I put it, but it seems the little rascal went and moved ! Flounders really getting scarce it seems. Many thanks Allan and Mike for a fantastic day out with you both aboard Fisheagle . The coffee, the food ,( especially the pork pie and cherry cake😂 ) the weather, what more could you ask for ? o.K. More Flounders! Good health and tight lines all👍. Colin.

Well what fun Colin and I have had today, I offered to get some pictures on but had hell of a time getting connected through whats app. For some reason his phone is using one number to call and another for whats app???? Very strange Answers on a post card please.

Thanks for the report. Good to read something at the end of a weekend.

Anyone thinking of braving the big tides and cold weather to go out this weekend. Thur, Sat or Sun Alfresco has not been out for a while, so am thinking of going, to give her a spin. But it would be good to think others are about just in case. I would not be going far on those tides, and have space for crew if anyone is interested. Charlie

Belated Happy Birthday mate Hope you had a good one.

I think someone turned the AC down to far on Sunday Jim

Wow that is hell of a boat. would not like to feed all those horses, or get it dirty

It cannot be hard, if I do it mate. I save the pictures from my camera or more often phone, to my pc or laptop and have them on view as icons on teh desktop. then go on this website, even easier if you split the screen to see pictures and the website. when you reply to a conversation there is a box at the bottom that says "Drag files here to attach, or choose files" I go to where the pictures are and simply click on them and drag image to that box. From there just type in a reply, when you get to a bit where you want a picture, move the mouse to the image below and double click Hope it works

Not a sign of life, we were in the cabin by the heater. Lol

Well what fun we had. Meeting up with Kev just after 7, on an icy pontoon in minus 6. Thankfully Kev had the kettle and the heater on so that's a good start. We were joined by Dave and blindfolded I was taken to the "secret spot". where we drank our coffee, put the traces on and baited up. we were soon joined by the rest of the fleet, so the spots not that secret Lines in at 8 and lets start feeding a pile of worms to crabs. We all huddled in the cabin, enjoying the warmth from the heater and crispy bacon roll. Not a sign of any fish, and the sky had clouded over Then the snow started and just got heavier and heavier. 20221211_092134.mp4 The highlight of the day was definitely not the fishing, it was the fillet steak lunch Great job Kev thanks mate We stuck with it, catching only crabs, the snow stopped but it still looked very wintery At 3 it was time to call it a day and start the trip back to Cobbs, it was good to see Jerry carrying a bucket with a fish for the scales. well done J2 for getting an elusive flounder of 1lb. w Nice one champ. It might not sound as if we enjoyed it, but that is not the case. I had a nice time fishing with two good mates. Enjoyed lots of drinks , nice food and banter onboard. Finishing off having a couple of beers with more mates at the bar. Thanks all Charlie

We have a few Parkstone Bays at Parkstone Yacht Club Including a couple ashore at the moment should you want to compare hulls. They all look like Brian's on in the picture, so if yours is one then it has been changed a lot. Most of them were made in Mitchells boatyard I believe and originally had Mercedes diesel engines

Nice fish, we seem to have stopped getting pictures.

A shorter warp on the buoy does help to stop the buoy from getting right under the bow. i let it off the bow and reverse away so I can see the warp and buoy from where it attaches to my large springing cleat. Both methods work safely in my opinion

Madness - Martin - Terry - Dean Loobie 1V Jerry-J2 +an other tbc Reel Bizzy Kev, Dave , Charlie Ragdoll - Adrian + a volunteer Kingfisher - Chris W, Steve S & Nigel A. My Babby - Norman and Brian

How sad, it used to save us when the weather did this. Now I am not sure it's worth the bait.

That should go, I had a 60 on mine

Thanks Guys I did not know if Graham was still doing this.

Even the original Photo would have been bad enough.