Afishionado

Thinking about it Bob what do you want to catch eating crabs or bait? For recreational use what about a drop net fished from the boat at dead water times. Baited with whatever you'll get hermits, whelks, crabs, all sorts. I used an old cycle wheel with a baggy net so on the retrieve is sorta had sides. the weight was supplied by setting the meshed up net into four equaly spaced dollops of wet cement. Bit Heath Robinson but it worked. Sash weights work too but have them spaced evenly. Mad Mike

Oh very good Coddy Mind you I think Bollards was one of the more gentle things the guy at the helm said. Mad Mike

"We had to stay out for 48hrs fishing dear. They wouldn't let us out of the car park" I dunno Paul I don't think Helen and Carol would let us get away with that one Mad Mike

A very profenial job Adam, nice one. Or should that be nice pair? Oh please yourself! Mad Mike

BBC News Item Printable version Cargo vessel in yacht collision Two sailors had to be treated for shock after a 88-metre (289ft) cargo vessel collided with four moored yachts. It is believed the ship was moving berths in Poole Harbour, Dorset, when the incident happened on Wednesday. No-one was injured in the collision at 2030 BST but two yachts were badly damaged. The two treated for shock were from a German yacht crew. A coastguard spokesman said: "The vessel appeared not to take a turn properly, for some reason."

Any Idea which day? Mad Mike

No you dont need a licence. The areas fished by commercial fishermen are deemed by custom to be 'theirs' and they can get pretty shitty with anyone potting in 'their' area. However officialy it's an open sea. What you will find is that if left more than a few hours your pot will be stolen. I used to fish a couple of pots years ago when I used to go out night fishing. I would drop on the way out and pick up on the way back. One idea is to fish the pots with a small float that only shows at low water. By doing this you reduce the window of opertunity for others to trash your pot. All in all I found it a bit of a waste of time. However if you make slightly smaller pots with a fine mesh and fish them closer inshore in the Old Harry area there are some cracking prawns. Same thing applies to that little area in Portland near the old navy base where there is a section of Mulberry harbour in about 16ft of water. Mad Mike

Hi Allen, dive in and enjoy mate, the waters fine. Mad mike

Do you want to book Slack Alice? Or are you bringing your own virgin? Mad Mike

And talking about the maiden voyage I do hope you are going to keep to the tradition of sacrificing a virgin on the slipway. This practice has fallen out of favour these days as the supply of fresh virgins is not what it was. However I do have an idea about creating an artificial substitute . This would involve the services of Slack Alice from the chip shop in Barrack Road . The only problen is Slack Alice wants

All we need now is a John Boy and we'll have the bloody Waltons Mad Mike

Crewed for Paul D on Neo. Very exciting start to the day when Paul decided to play 'chicken' with a swan. (is that mixing metaphors or fowl language?). Poor bloody thing had just taken off, traveling at 20mph or so when Paul comes hurtling round a bend in the riverstraight at it Ha thought the swan "I'll turn left ". At the same time Paul thinks "Ha I'll turn right", and I think "INCOMEING!!!! ". How that blooming bird missed us I'll never know. Any way back to the fishing. We went out in a freshening SW wind and fished the Ledge. The wind freshened even more and our world was full of ups and downs. Paul kept getting knocks but no fish and as I had a smaller hook I took his advice and tried a squid strip. The result was almost instantanious, and up came a nice bream. And basicly that was it for the day as it became a bit too rough as the tide turned against the wind. So, Mad Mike ............ 1 bream Mad Mike

If space is avaliable can you put me down Bloody hell mate !!!! Being put down is a bit of a drastic step. Have a cup of tea and think about it first. Life has a lot to offer even to fishermen Mad Mike Can I answer you after I'd spent a day on a boat with you? I may ask to be put down too....... Meeee Yooooow........ You bitch I'll pull your hair out I'll have you know that I've been insulted by far better people than you Mad Mike

If space is avaliable can you put me down Bloody hell mate !!!! Being put down is a bit of a drastic step. Have a cup of tea and think about it first. Life has a lot to offer even to fishermen Mad Mike

Fancy a fishing trip out of Lymington? Yes please Sweet Money........ Reminds me of the days long ago when if one had 'thrupence' (three pennys) sweet money you could by half the bloody shop! You wait Kam mate, as soon as you are ready to launch there will be six weeks of unrelenting wind and rain. It always happens. When yo can't go out the sun shines and when you can it thistledowns. Mad Mike PS I've just re read this on the web page (with bigger print) and can now see she is called 'Sweet Honey' . so don't read the bit about long ago 'cos it's all rubbish now! MOTHER! get me glasses will you

HAS SHE/IT GOT A NAME AND WHEN IS THE MAIDEN VOYAGE? Ooops bloody caps lock

Retro fit Kam. They are sorta like a spring loaded diaphrm you fill with grease. The idea is that they keep a gentle posative pressure within the hub so as to stope water seeping in when you launch. Mad Mike PS how's the boat coming on?

Something to do with female pheremones maybe? Has anybody seen his tackle? Any way isn't the amount of tackle one has dependant on the size of ones bag? Should there be any dispute photographic evidence would be acceptable AHHHHHHHHHHHHHG MY EYES!!! Mad Mike PS Ooops sorry I meant of course MY EYE!!

friend Printable version Police boat crew fight yacht fire Sgt Hack tackled the fire on board the Lovely Lady The crew of a police motor launch helped to extinguish a fire that broke out on board a yacht. The crew of the Alarm were on patrol when they heard an emergency broadcast from a yacht moored off Mitchell's boat yard in Poole Harbour, Dorset. Sgt Andy Hack, Pc Jason Cartridge and Pc Dave Williams tackled the fire on the Lovely Lady on Thursday. Crews from two local lifeboats joined the fight against the fire, which is not being treated as suspicious. Pc Dave Williams said: "Fortunately we were on patrol nearby when we picked up the call on the emergency radio channel and we were able to tackle the blaze very quickly. "This is a good example of how the emergency services, effectively co-ordinated by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency, can work efficiently together." Mad Mike

True, I covet the ability to spell and until I can I will go to covert Mad Mike

DO NOT COVERT THY NEIGHBOURS OX.........unless of course you'r playing Scrabble. Mad Mike

IMO yes they will hold. Newboy is right in saying that the top bolts will take the weight and are in 'tension' , and the bottom fixings will be in 'compression' therefore will have to cope with only about 25% of the fixing strength required. However if you want to be belt, bracers and jockstrap then use S/S 10 or 12mm studding with dome head nuts on the outside and nylock on the inside. The studding comes in 1M lengths so you cut off what you need. Beware of overtightening and crushing the two skins together. Mad Mike

Paul there is a type of building/engineering plastic plug that acts as the back stop for fitting things to an inaccesable void. They are made out of plastic and look like an ordinary wall plug. If you are in no hurry I will bring one over next time we meet. The ones I have are huge, they may do but I need to know the width of the interior void. If mine are too large getting smaller ones is simple. By using them you can safely use S/S self tappers (must be 316 grade S/S or A4) because they will coil up into a bunch that locks against the back of the void. Mad Mike

Check out # 2487593636 but do it quick there's only 22 hrs to go. It looks good value. Mad Mike