great white

Happy Birthday Brian Have a good one mate

Happy Birthday Ian Hope you had a great day

There is an open ground car park on the quay down towards the lifting bridge, and the Thistle Hotel used to allow parking behind at a charge. Not sure what the height restrictions are though, or how big your van is. The other option may be to call the Poole Quay Marina and see what they advise there visitors. Where are you sleeping? or is it an overnight charter?

That one is part of the group about 11 miles out Colin.

Thanks mate. 65 in may

Had an invite to join Ben on his boat Julie Anne. 0700 saw us leaving Cobbs at low water. This always makes it easier getting under the bridge. Lol Dave and Chris were also heading out. Its always good to know friends are about. After a couple of recent whiting trips all boats were going to try for something else. Off we go heading SE. Tide assisted. Anchor down and the usual suspects show up. Strap congers. Whiting.doggies. After 90 minutes of that we started planning a move to target larger fish. Sod it if there are this many eels about. Lets go to a wreck and look for some bigger ones. As it turns out that was a good plan. After a couple of drops of the anchor, we got into a good position. Lines down and five minutes later I am struggling with a proper eel in the tide. No time to weigh it as my other rod was doubled over. Ben was also getting a bite. We soon dropped to one rod each and action continues. By the time the tide eased we were knackered. We repositioned for the ebb. Ben cooked up a great lunch as we took a break. We dragged baits as we swing on the tide. A couple of keeper whiting. Then we each had a spurdog.11.5 and 14.5 lb For the last hour the boat sat uptide of the wreck and the congers were feeding, they were getting larger and close to specimen size. So lets get the scales back out. The first we weighed was 40 lb and was a complete pain to keep in the weighing bag. Sod that lets put the bag and scales away. Clean up and carry on Time for lines up approached and my whiting bait was being attacked. Of course the last one was the biggest of the day and needed weighing. 44lb It made us late for the lifting bridge but we didnt care after such a day. Slip her back alive to swim home, anchor up and off we go for Cobbs Thanks Ben Really enjoyed my first trip on your boat mate. Pictures to follow Charlie

Just doing a spot of bait digging at work

Homeward bound after a great days whiting bash.

Hi Guys Anyone planning to go out this weekend? Forecast looks good Better plan something before Wendy wants me to start gardening🤣

Thanks guys It was the only way I could afford that sort of upgrade, whilst dreaming of offshore wrecking and trips down to Alderney. But it did soak up every spare £ and available hour for 20 months. Swapping from a very solid 23ft boat that cruised at 12 knots, to a boat designed and built to go much further afield and cruise at 18-20knots. It fills our requirements very well. But I would love to get back to Great White's fuel consumption. Lol

Hi All I remembered an easier way and put all of the images in a new Album on the gallery I added them in order, but they seem to have gone on the gallery in reverse for some reason so if admin could help I would appreciate it. Good to have a look at these pictures after so many years. Boy have my Family and a lot of friends had some fun on her since she launched Nov 2007.