Sam

Hi Guys as most of you are aware i agreed to run the junior competition for this year after becoming a dad for the first time myself. i have been playing around with a few ideas of how to run it this year and with a little help from my dad i have come up with a few ideas. the first one which is an old idea revamped which me and daniel used to love when we fished them is to bring back a species competition, running from the 1st may through to the 31st August. each fish will have a different point value i.e. the harder the fish to target the higher the point will be for example a bass could be worth 5 points where as a dogfish could only be worth 1 point. is this something that children and parents would be interested in taking part in? if so can i have an idea of who would like to enter this type of competition. another option is to run the same set up as last year with the biggest specimen taking the top prize, personally i believe that a species hunt is very enjoyable for children as it is always changing leaderboard [ very much like football and rugby] the final idea i have had if not many people are interested in a full competition set up or there is a lack of interest, dad has agreed to use alfresco to take some juniors and a guardian out for a days fishing, if we could get a couple more people with boats onboard we could take a good sized group of juniors fishing for a day and turn it into a competition with prizes, a good date would be the clubs bream competition i am after as much feedback as possible and any names who would be interested in any of these ideas. tight lines sam

Thomas Boyle Kate Osborne Tamzin Osborne Luke Davies Ellie Davies Ebony Davies Ellie Witheford Sam Annear 2lb 3oz Spotted Ray - 39% Specimen 15oz Mackerel - 45% Specimen 10lb Tope - 22 % Specimen Jacob Givans 5lb 1oz Pollack - 31% Specimen 1lb 12oz Black Bream - 50% Specimen 11lb 2oz Undulate Ray - 79.46% Specimen 8lb 5oz Starry Smoothhound - 55% Specimen 1lb 1oz mackerel - 53% Specimen 1lb 0oz plaice - 22% Specimen 7lb 13 oz tope 13 lb 7.5 oz blonde ray Monty Randle Darcy Randle Bradley Toms Jack Allen mackerel 1lb 4oz Lewis Allen bass 5lb 9oz jayden wald- small eyed ray 10lb 2oz first trip out for jayden on the boat fishing all day. headed out for the day with the intention of trying to catch something more than a mackeral. and we had that fish for him a nice small eyed ray of 10lb 2oz. it was a slow day with mackeral and gurnard to follow. but the weather was beautiful and cant complain sam

i know a late entry but he has his first fishing trip on alfresco tomorrow so will hopefully have something up tomorrow Thomas Boyle Kate Osborne Tamzin Osborne Luke Davies Ellie Davies Ebony Davies Ellie Witheford Sam Annear 2lb 3oz Spotted Ray - 39% Specimen 15oz Mackerel - 45% Specimen 10lb Tope - 22 % Specimen Jacob Givans 5lb 1oz Pollack - 31% Specimen 1lb 12oz Black Bream - 50% Specimen 11lb 2oz Undulate Ray - 79.46% Specimen 8lb 5oz Starry Smoothhound - 55% Specimen 1lb 1oz mackerel - 53% Specimen 1lb 0oz plaice - 22% Specimen 7lb 13 oz tope 13 lb 7.5 oz blonde ray Monty Randle Darcy Randle Bradley Toms Jack Allen mackerel 1lb 4oz Lewis Allen bass 5lb 9oz jayden wald

the conger finally went back to fight another day, after trying to eat my hand on the way back in, good but hard day thanks rob and charlie for organising a top competition again tight lines chappers

i bet ben feels a bit silly now

i just tried begging for a day off, but they didnt seem to understand the reason lol o well hopefully next time sam

cheers for the birthday messages guys. have been stuck on ship but will be making up for it this weekend sam

sorry to hear about the trip bit of a shame about the weather, but good call as i have been out here all week and i would have called you all mad if you went specially with the weather kicking up properly tonight, even we are going into hide behind the breakwater. unfortunately you re- scheduled date is another none fishable weekend for me due to crap routines down in plymouth, to make it better if you make it, it will be my birthday stuck at home with the boat away, tight lines chappers

hi all enjoy your trip and gutted that i am stuck down plymouth, i hope you have more fun at sea than i am having, 28 hours awake and still counting, and not a fishing rod in view. dad and daniel my phone will be off the hook all weekend see you all on the other side with fishy tales tight lines chappers

Try this one Martin, but I am not sure what size it is. I had to log on as Sam just to get this far?? http://www.pbsbac.co.uk/photoalbum/albums/...al_P1030639.JPG Thanks Charlie

might be able to bend it out, but not sure until we try it. because its such a strong rail i would have thought its going to have to be cut and re-welded sam

alfresco is looking at saturday cant do sunday as driving back to sunny scotland so hopefully weather is good saturday cant deal with another phone call from daniel sam

adam we believe it must have been a bigger craft, as the rails are well and truly bent in, but not a scratch on the hull, more likely a big steel craft, or could have been a big gin palace with a high risen bow. but someone pretty low not to report it to anyone, will be very hard to track anyone down, and for there sake i hope dad doesn't find but wasn't helped with the dissapointing bass turn out i even tried my hand at carp fishing today, and anyone who knows me means it been crap fishing for me to go coarse fishing chappers

some nice photos rob dad might be interested in the ones of the yacht club, dont think they have many arial shots sam

hi all is anyone out next week, who needs crew. i borrowed the boat today but its hard work taking my mates who are novices and hoping for a couple of proper trips whilst im back, happy to cook, clean, and pay my way just want to go fishing sam

adam i am off till the 22nd from work, so if your short of crew in the week would be well up for it sam

count me in i couldnt bere the thought of dan having two before i have even seen one sam

happy birthday al have a good day sam

just watched it as well why cant i find girls like that who like fishing sam

lovely fish martin not much smaller than my biggest turbot lol nice one sam

quality, if you put that in google he has his own webpage sam

Enjoy the week and very jealous. but sadly up in sunny scotland for the month, leave some fish for august for me tight lines chappers

lets go get it

allun you do realize that gurnard has just beat the club record by 1 oz sam

thanks for all the messages guys i got well and truly picked on, they made me where white overalls when they all had black on as you can imagine i didnt stand a chance had a good night out and feeling a bit under the weather today sam