Afishionado

Happy birthday mate Mad Mike

BUMMER! Last time I looked the forcast (earlier in the week) said 5 to 10mph NE. Sod it there is nowhere with sheltered water on an Easterly round our neck of the woods is there. It'll come whistling down the solent and realy whizz round our headlands. Begger! Do carp take rag worm? Looks like Poole Harbour for me then! Mad Mike

but why not keep some of the macky alive and drift peveril ledge for a big spikey??!! D'you know I might just do that.Use the Portland rig as in Daves drawing? and have the lead just bouncing over te rocks or well clear say 4 or 5 ft above? Mad Mike

I am going out tomorrow from Poole which will be the first time for three weeks. So I have no idea where or even if the mackerel are shoaling in the Poole /Swanage area. Any clues anybody? Secondly Whitehouse grounds? What do you recon. Or is it best to go east and fish the Dolphin banks? Any sugestions more than welcome please. Either PM me or here. Oh and Dave (Codfather) I hear you want a chat. Your wish is my command Oh Glorious One Mad Mike

The shark fishing/sight seeing industry is a summer cash crop down in the annex, people will still go to the beaches, surf, swim, scuba dive just as they do all over the world where sharks abound. A shark of the size they allege would not even know it had been hooked on a 10lb trace let alone break water in it's haste to get away. A wind up for sure, I expect we will be getting Nessie stories any day now, it is the silly season for news. Mad Mike

I would happily wager that the fish was a Basking Shark and not a Mako or any of the toothed variety. I spent a long time down in Corwall in my early teens and the huge Baskers were a common summer sight (late 1950's). All this hype is typical media borrocks. Every man and his dog that sees a Basker shouts GREAT WHITE or MAKO at the same time some other man and dog shout GLOBAL WARMING fish from the tropics. The Cornish play this up for the tourist industry and good luck to them. Mad Mike

Brand new Land Rover lost to mud Rescue teams failed to pull the vehicle free of the mud A brand new 4x4 vehicle was lost to the sea after being sucked into quicksand on a Somerset beach. The Land Rover had been driven on to the mudflats at Berrow Beach, before sinking into the ground on Tuesday. Local rescue teams tried to pull it free, but were instead sucked into the mud themselves. The rescue truck was eventually pulled out, but the Land Rover could not be freed from the sand and had to be abandoned to the incoming tide. Mad Mike

WELCOME AND DO JOIN IN ON THE WEB SITE. By the way I might know a relative of yours called i29nail, of course he is smaller than you only being a 29 Mad Mike

Happy birthday mate. Is it true that you make those posh Cap Ferret boats? Mad Mike

I echo Adams points except that Rockly's slip is quite a good one with a pontoon next to it for ladies and crumblies like me to get in the boat from. Rockly also has trailer and boat storage facilities. However they are ajacent to (over the railway tracks) a large council housing estate which is crime central. If leaving anything it must be firmly secured, locked and alarmed. They aint cheap either albeit less than Cobbs. There is a slip next to Cobbs called Davis's they also have a slip and are a bit cheaper than Cobbs. There is also a SMALL slip off Lake Rd Hamworthy which is free but is gated off so it will only accept dinghys and the like. Mad Mike

Thing is Sam, a man who feels he needs things like that usualy has a small willey to make up for. Mad Mike

I'll say it again ........WHY? In anything but a flat calm it would range from uncomfortable to bloody dangerous at those speeds. How much of the beauty of ones surroundings would one take in and savour? What's the point of all that speed? Or am I the one who has missed the point? M<ad Mike

825 hp Why? Mad Mike

Quote......... one of the Valentine Tanks. So called because they all sank on Feb 14th . Mad Mike

OMG we are gonna get all the armless jokes to go with legless! Any road up your very welcome mate, dive in and have some fun not to mention fishing. Mad Mike

What a nice bunch of blokes we have in the club Mad Mike

perhaps were just c**p anglers Betcha you can't catch carp either. Mad Mike

A/ I've got a 4hp aux' Long shaft Yammy if you want to borrow it for a while. It'll be slow but 3 gazzilion miles per tankful? B/ What's gone? Is a rebuild possible? Mad Mike

Find a friend to borrow some off........ Sorta like a Loan Shark Mad Mike

Is it this one on Boats and Outboards? Faeton 730 Sport Ref: F103944 A lot of cabin/cockpit and not a lot of deck, but I bet it flies. Mad Mike

Quote...... 4.3 mercruiser inboard, any ideas on performance, fuel consumption, Don't know the boat but I can tell you fuel consumption will be horrific. That's why boats with these big American lumps in them seem (or should be) very cheap. Mad Mike

Quote.........It was a wierd thing seeing water flow the wrong way down the plughole Coriolis effect......... A guaranteed conversation stopper at any dinner party A certain unarguable reason why a bloke misses the bowl when having a pee. Just try it lads, the next time you get the caustic "Can't you bloody aim straight" from the dear lady wife, just respond "Damned Coriolis effect agin' m'dear" and see where it gets you. Mad Mike

Quote.......Also, why clockwise water flow? It is called the coriolis effect whereby a body moving in a rotating frame of reference experiences the Coriolis force acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation; on Earth the Coriolis effect deflects moving bodies to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere. Which means in simple terms that in the Northern hemisphere the bath drains with a clockwise twist as it goes out of the plughole and anti-clockwise in Australia. Creatures in the Northen hemishere utilise clockwise as a natural direction ie the spiral of a snails shell and the flow of water in a circular tank. It's 'tother way round in the Southern hemisphere. Me and Steven Hawkins, were like 'that' mate, we are Mad Mike PS Don't ask what if you get your mackerel from Sidney Harbour then? That's just being bloody minded

Quote..........I know a few true romanys Well said, I don't like the use of Gypsies or Romanys when it is applied to a bunch of Irish tinkers. True Romanys are seldom seen and their passage round the country leaves no footprint. The cackers on the other hand are parasites, and despoilers. The crime of the so called Human Rights act is that it protects these scavengers more than it does the law abiding citizen. Mad Mike

OMG! You'll have Paul D after you mate, he is one of their four supporters and takes his 25% very seriously. Mad Mike