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Daniel has been known to use that tactic, much to the annoyance of his bigger brother. Last November Sam stood out in the pouring rain following a bite for ten minutes before returning to the cabin soaked. his return woke Daniel who then looked up to see his rod bouncing, another ten mins and one 23lb cod later 1 very happy sleepy lad and a grumpy wet one. The joys of taking kids fishing Charlie

Nice one James Did you have both the rays? Charlie

Thanks Martin Looks like you cleaned up on the comp well done in that weather Thanks Bob Please let Robert know he is probably leading the juniors, but Sam and Dan are keen to change that with the next round. about time they had to compete a bit they have become lazy this season. Charlie

Bob can you confirme that you and robert caught 4 mullet each. well done your scores beat ours in poole harbour. Martin I could not open your attachement, so can you add yours and deans tally to this tpic. I will get the attachment at work tomorrow. Charlie

Hi went out with the boys today plenty of fish but all seemed to be the same species wherever we went. went out yesterday with the boys and my brother to a new Mark and had rays and plenty of small bass and other bits but of course today we could not get even close to that area due to the forecast. best fish today was a Scad of 1lb to Sam which is a new Club record Paul can you update the website. look forward to recveing all the score sheets Good news for James is that we seemed to have plenty of anglers out Thanks for turning out on a grotty forecast so that we can count this comp towards the BFM comp where James is doing so well. Charlie

Hi Adam I hope that it is not as expensive as it sounds. It is very difficult to guess what could be wrong, if I can be of assistance call me. Tight lines on Tara Charlie

It looks as if the stopper is just to stop all your warp going through the alderney ring. I use a small buoy attached to the end of my warp. so that if I get an emergancy I can let it all go, leave the anchor down and drift or motor away. because the stopper catches in the ring I can come back to lift the anchor later. This can be usefull if you are playing a very big fish or if someone fell overboard. The alderney rings need to be attached by rope/Shackle to your lifting buoy and threaded on to the warp and chain prior to attaching the anchor. I hope that helps Charlie

Great White will be out there somewhere hopefully the weather will suit the boys for crew. If its to rough for the kids, do you fancy crewing again Bob? We will keep the bait inside this time. Charlie. We need 12 to fish to give James a great chance to get into the final fish off for the BFM prize. So please enter even if you are only out pleasure fishing with the family. all you have to do is let me know what is caught so that I can send in the results within 7 days. Saying that I am sure we are not just going to let you win James. and it may get busy on Xray [wherever that is????] Tight lines all Charlie

Bob, I do not know the uptider but Sam and Daniel both have 30lb ugly stick gold boat rods they seem very good and strong, although the rings are on the cheap side. I don't think you would get one of those doing what your last one did. the old ugly sticks were marketed as the strongest rods available. Charlie

Tip 2 When called out of the sea [at Shoreham] by the police for skinny dipping and being slightly under the influance. Do not try and pat the nice mans dog on the head. The thing nearly took my bloody hand off. But as I had nothing on, I was lucky he aimed at my hand. Yes it was a cold night . and alsations may not have good eyesight in the dark. but I would not risk it again. Charlie

Try a good motor factors to see if they have an equivilent we use new forest 01202 691111 to get a lot of the filters for the various engines at the Yacht Club. A big saving on the volvo/Bukh/Yanmar/perkins spares. I use them for the filters on my boat instead of Perkins. Charlie

have a good look at the show I bought my colour lowrance [5000c] at the London show and the discounted price included the south coast cartridge[ About

Thanks Paul Charlie

Adam for info, my pump is attached by a jubilee clip to a reinforced pipe about 3 mtrs long that is then fixed around the inside of the tanks top. The end of the hose is bunged up and 6mm holes are drilled into it facing down into the tank. a discharge overboard is fitted like yours 3/4 way up the tank, with a strainer To use tha tank at rest the pump is simply put overboard and fresh sea water is pumped through the tank. when underway the pump is lifted back onboard and put into the tank to recycle and re-oxigenate the water in the tank while the boat is underway. The system works well enough to keep about a dozen mackeral or 100 eels alive all day without any problem. To be honest if I have less bait or am on a short trip I do not bother with the pump I simply top the tank up by buckets occasionally to refresh the water and keep it cool. You must however try not to get any blood in the tank [from bleeding fish after unhooking] remove all dead fish asap do not leave obstructions like the net in the tank when in use. I am sure your design will prove worth the effort, I just wish I had a better source of live eels. Charlie

It dawned on me that the old junior ones on my boat would struggle to keep Sam or Daniel afloat if me and Wendy needed the only 2 adult ones that are left onboard. I have just bought 2 Auto Jackets [Adult 150n] with three year warrenty from Pete Trew at Quay West Chandelery. @

Adam you ought to send it in to the magazines. Photo's like that with young ladies with a nice fish and a big smile always seem to get in for some reason. well done Racheal Charlie

Hi Adam Well done allways nice to get among the Blondes. We had a day of mixed fortunes most of it was on the drift for Bass with a short anchor out near your tope mark for a ray. No luck with the ray but we had 7 bass, including a new PB for Daniel of 4lb 2oz. Nice to be afloat again on somthing smaller than the condor ferry. But it got a bit choppy at the end so we were not surprised to see you join us at old Harry. Tight lines Charlie

Best of luck on the trail away, I have a weeks regatta starting Sunday, so am hoping to get out on GW with the boys on Sat. During the holiday they have read up on wreck fishing and want a go, but I suspect it will clash with divers. so we will be on a reef or Sandbank west of Swanage instead. Tight lines all Charlie

Hi Mike, Being a spectator does not sound to dangerous. But as some of the lads in the SBS are built like brick outhouses and can get a bit grumpy when they have not slept for a couple of nights I decided to take the sensible approach & keep out of the way. We have to spin some yarns on the forum when the summer weather is this good Regards Charlie

Divers!!! who mentioned that word on our website The sky probably has its fair share and more Its dived by a lot of weymouth and Poole dive boats and RIBs from everywhere that have been launched at Swanage. As for Club records????? I hooked an SBS Diver off of Warbarrow during a night excercise, but did not stay on the upper deck long enough to see if it was a big one. so he probably would not count By the time they came out of the water the tackle was stowed in the engine room for safe keeping, and I was watching TV in the crew room. Charlie

Depends how much juice you need Corrals by the Poole lifting bridge or the pump at the Chandelery in Salterns Marina, If its only a couple of drums I may be able to help you out at work, but you will need to supply the drums. I may be able to help with short term berthing as well if you need it. while you get ready for your journey. Charlie

Adam the smaller blue plastic drums are used to transport chain Check your contacts through work for chain suppliers and you should be able to find them they must be about 30ltrs and have a plastic lid so make a self contained storage unit for all the bits when not in use. as for the overflow, use a bigger bore skin fitting than the inlet and about 3/4 up the tank and you should not get a problem. You may also be able to make it so that this drains into your outboard well or overboard if the warriors freeboard is low enough. As you can see I am now back from France so if you want to check the tank on GW give me a call. Charlie

I think Ow Much was out the other week and saw a boat burning out in the bay the crew had been taken off and all they could do was watch the boat burn until it sank Shame to see that, even if it wasn't a fishing boat Charlie

Looking at the picture it is a fuel filter/water trap and with that amount of rust an imediate change is needed before it splits and dumps all your fuel into the bilge. the water inside looks to have rusted it almost through. That would be pricey but more importantly potentially lethal 1. because of the danger of fire/explosion in your bilge 2. putting all your fuel to bilge will soon stop your engine, with a ruptured in line filter you can not get it running again without a lot of ingenuity and a few tools. and while doing this you are stood on a slippery deck up to your ankles in petrol. It happened to Ow Much with his Diesel filter and he had a long tow back to Poole by the RNLI We use solar panals on our nav lights at work they keep a lights 12v battery charged as long as it has a light cell to turn off the lamp in the daytime. They can struggle in the winter with short daylight and a lot of dark rainy days. But to trickle charge to compensate for a short run of a bilge pump they would be adequate. Your original question a bilge pump switch panel has 3 poitions Auto, Off and Manual[On] You feed this switch from the battery and run a three core cable to the area of the float switch and pump Pos and neg then go to the pump from the switch in the manual position the positive from the auto position goes through the vacant third core to the float switch, then from the float switch to the pos input to the pump[ shared with manual above pos] That way when the flost switch closes the pos gets to the pump and as it is connected already to a negative it runs until the float switch opens again. The off poition is as expected not connected, it is usually the centre of a three way rocker switch. On my boat the wires for the float and pump are connected by a Choc Block to the wire from the switch panal, this is then fastened to the engine water inlet pipework to keep it out of the bilge The above is from memory and I may have got it wrong and the switch should be on the neg side but I am sure someone will say if I have, and I am not sure if it makes any differance anyway. I hope that helps Charlie

Yes I sneaked out after work See the report Ref Mill Pond Charlie