great white

Trev You have a PM Sounds like we had better dust off some big kit

My two penneth Good luck to anyone who hooks one, if your luck is in it may be on suitable tackle to land it. I expect that it would be an Accidental catch rather than targetted. Maybe a livebait fished on tope tackle. I once had a full day on a game boat in the Indian Ocean, lovely boat, lovely weather but boreing fishing. Basically just sat around while the crew tried to get a hook up. The usual is often described as hours of boredom followed by short periods of excitement. Not my cup of tea really Charlie

Well I have just discovered that ccurrently the UK has no Bluefin quota and so it is illegal to target them which means that from now on I will be mainly fishing for Bass when using 9" plugs or livebaits on downriggers... As a recreational Sea Angler on a non registered private boat how are you affected by quota's?

Great fish George well done mate I bet Mum and Dad were as excited as you. It may take a few years to beat that one or you may do it today. Great to read that it swam away strong, it must have a charmed life to grow that big in French waters. Charlie

Its busy for me as well mid summer But you know you can count us in if we can get the time off, to combine with the weather. After all Dan wants round two Charlie

Great White was semi displacement at 23 ft and with 60hp shaft driven she had a max speed of 16 knots in reality loaded up and a little grubby underneath, 13-14 knots cruising revs about 12 knots, which gets you there eventually we had a great time fishing on her, and caught some great fish but rarely went more than 15 miles. We also limited drift fishing due to the slow return on big tides. She was a nice boat, a little slow but very good on fuel, we hardly ever had to add more than 25l drum a trip and never used more than 50l Charlie

Hi Andrew welcome to the Club Because the tides around Poole are a little "special" with a double high tide between lows, it is not just a mathamatical equation to work out the Slack periods. Most of us look at the LW times and work from there LW Thursday for Poole 15.15, and the tide is fairly small so the flow should not be too strong. It would be really usefull for you to get a tidal atlas for the area, these are based on HW times at Dover. a rough guide is Slack in the channel is the HW Dover and HW+6 hrs Dover Thursday HW Dover is 10.09 and 22.23 slack in the channel will be about 10.00 and 1600 I can not advise on what weather you should go in. [Obviously the calmer the better] as I do not know your experiance. The decision is yours alone, my advice would be not to push your limits If you think it is not good enough, do not go. ref the wrecks On the drift you need clear water and that is probably a little further off at anchor the vis does not matter and the closer ones can do well. The good news is that the numbers on the wrecksite are fairly accurate so with patience you should find them. If new to this pick a good big one that stands well above the seabed. If its just the wrecking experiance you are after look at the huge Aeolian Sky Its more than 10 miles away but not far offshore, let the ebb tide push you there and the flood tide push you home. Look it up on the site, but just in case its invaded by divers look at a couple more in teh area as well. I expect that others will add more info PM me if you need more help. AS I said earlier, Do not push your limits If in doubt do not go. Charlie

Hi Graham We have the larger boat as the boys and I love to fish the wrecks and she makes an excellent boat to go away on for fishing and family trips. If it was just me and just fishing my boat would be smaller and I would charter offshore or join friends. Its about matching the engine to the boat, without the need to push the engine really hard all the time. Shaft drive is simpler and easier to fix and lighter on maintenance costs Stern drives are complicated, expensive to maintain but far more effiecient Ours is a D4 Volvo on a DPH drive with duo props. 260 horses to give just under 32 knots WOT, but a thousand revs down still gives about 20knots. Sure we burn some fuel, but with friends onboard and everyone chipping in it is manageable. Charlie

Sounds great mate I am sure that calmer seas would have made it easier with less effort involved, it was lumpy enough where we were yesterday morning. Look forward to joining you in 2012. and to hearing which lumps you fished Nice pictures mate and good fishing Biggest bream of the year I believe Is the gurnard off to be smoked? Charlie

Well done Stuie Excellent trip by the sound of it.

A true Peter classic Few words and straight to the point

Weather depending we were hoping to head out to the deeper tope marks to look for a few. That would put us in radio range if you need backup. I have a space available if you want it. Charlie

Good luck mate I hope that it goes well and you get a PB. For those that have not followed this on the WSF site that is an impressive fish and probably is the reason why Tom a self proclaimed light line fan is using "Proper big game kit" I hope that you have loads of fun Charlie

We may go out on Sunday and try to find out

Nice one mate Great pictures really show the differance in sea state between the race and the shambles. Some good fish as well Charlie

Heard that there were three landed aty Weymouth recently only small fish, but its a start. Charlie

Have a good Birthday Alan I am sure your head will be a little fuzzy in the morning Charlie

Awsome fish mate and a cracking photo, nice one Dean what a highlight for a trip that started badly Charlie

Yes Martin good idea are you going today or Sunday? Charlie

We hope to be down that way on Sunday as well we will listen chn 6 Have a good one.

Usually tesco points vouchers, but it could be differant this year

Happy Birthday Dan Hope that you wet a line and have a great Birthday Charlie

We hope to be heading west inshore. Tight lines Graham, good tides for the toothy ones Charlie

Hi Lofty I usually use a two hook rig for bream , unless its really snaggy then I simplify to a drilled bullet and flowing trace. Hook size about 1 or 2 but avoid very fine wire as they could straighten on big fish. I find luminous beads by the hook help, and use squid heads for bait. keep the bodies for ray bait or chop up and use as groundbait Rays I use mackeral fillets whole or cut in half lengthwise for bigger Macs. Trace of choice would be a flowing trace about 4ft long and at least 60-lb mono. Tight lines Charlie

Thanks Matt