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Very nice picture, Adam. Now, I know I'm a bit inept but, where are the others? (as in 'just a few piccies')

Sun fish are not a new phenomenon in Poole Bay. We used to see them fairly regularly, together with basking shark, 30 years ago.

Thanx for HBM, Coddy. Will try them when I come down at the weekend.

Anybody know where I can source a plastic 25ltr quicksilver fuel tank for a Warrior 165. I want a spare for those longer trips. I have tried online but to no avail. An alternative would be 65 or 95ltr but, do they fit?

I think you need to rein yourself in a little, this could get out of hand.

You big girls blouse Wait 'till the killer sprats start shoaling. They can strip a horse down to bone in 30 seconds. Mad Mike I can see me getting through a lot of bait when they do arrive. Does one use a scratching rig with the horse or just the harness?

To quote somebody, somewhere, Kam, 'Quite frankley my dear, I don't give a damn'.

Slime I can live with. Big b----y teeth I draw a line at!

Thanks for that, mate. However, at the moment I have one rule on the boat. No congers to come over the gunwhales!

They go from the compensator to the cross beam and then the cables from there to the drums are apparently sealed. I did not fit it so cannot guarantee it until I have been using it for some time. Will report further.

Just a little note on the brake bowden cables. The ones on my Warrior trailer have been changed for stainless steel rods which dispense with the cable maintenance.

On my Micro-plus, I mounted the transducer as shoot-thru-hull, i.e. fixed to the inside of the hull, and it worked fine. I used an empty plastic bottle to cut a collar that fitted around the transducer, placed the transducer in it and filled with araldite to cover the head. Move it around a bit to get rid of air bubbles and wait for it to dry. Obviously, being quite dense, this takes a little time. You will, of course, still have to cut the floor to access the inner hull. On my Warrior, I have used a transom mount transducer which is much easier to fit and this has proved equaly as effective. Hope this advise from one still learning is helpful.

O/k. Now I'm gaining in confidence, I think I'm ready to try wreck fishing for some pollock etc. Only trouble is, I don't know where the reliable, relatively local ones are! Anybody care to PM me some co-ordinates and approximate distances so I can have a try. When I get there, are shads the thing to try?

A very nice piece about the Burnham match in this month's BFM. Well done Adam for producing a professional bit of copy. And a very good placement for M. Burt Enterprises on page 46. This shows the the club in a very favourable light and will hopefully have a beneficial effect on membership.

Wow, so easy! I've just told my wife that next time I go to Poole I'm going to try and get crabs. She wasn't impressed!

Rats, I didn't realise they were edible and that one was a grut bigun. The next one won't get away. Does one just boil them the same as the edibles?

O/k, where was everybody on Sunday. I was out on the water at 07.15 and seemed to have the bay to myself. I kept giving shouts on the radio and answer came there none. Eventually I managed to contact two other boats and went and joined Pal-o-Mine for a brief sorty at Ballard but, like the rest of the day, all to no avail. Virtually everybody I spoke to had blanked with not even mackerel making an appearance. On my fishfinder, the larder seemed bare. I desperation, I returned to the castle to ambush that big ol' bad bass again but the only thing at home was the biggest spider crab you have every seen. If anybody was out there and I missed them, I don't want to know that you had a bag full as this would demoralise me completely. If you were somewhere else, that's o/k. Congrats to the winners. I will be back!

In which case, I shall be competing. See you all afloat.

Can I still enter even though my crew won't be a club member? Terry

Although I can't fish for the 48hrs comp, I will be out on the water on Sunday so hope to see some of you out on the pond.Good luck to those who are competing

2 x sandeels and 3 x shads please.

Another useful little mod on stingray are 22mm plastic pipe brackets screwed to the strengthening ribs in the hull sides to carry 4 or 5 rigged rods horizontally in transit. On the opposite side are 15mm fittings for a mop and the rods that support the canopy.

Thanks for all the kind plaudits. Answering the questions; Sam, Pete said he would have liked a picture as I slid the fish back into the water, and the camera was just behind me. I had to restrain him from going in after it! Alan, we live in Carterton and I work in Witney; we're neighbours. Charlie, do I need to contact you separately to register Pete's fish and note it is a PB for him? Martin, on our day out, I seem to remember you saying that bass fishing in the harbour was verboten and any caught had to be returned. If I'm wrong, don't for the Lords sake tell Pete! Although he did have the grace to agree with me afterwards.

Well, I couldn't contain myself any longer and, as I can't get down tomorrow for the match (wife returning from Rome) I decided to travel down today to try the new Warrior, 'Stingray'. Despite a cruddy met, the day surpassed all expectations and a good time was had by all (well, Pete and myself) We had a good launch from Baiter, I remembered to put the plug in, and we decided to put our nose outside the harbour to see how the new acquisition handled. I have to say, I'm not disappointed at all with the Warrior 165. In rough and uncomfortable seas, she handled extremely well and we didn't have a moments disquiet. Made our way towards Bournemouth and hit straight into the mackerel. As we didn't think we would be playing outside for long, we made hay and took a few for eating and some more for freezing for bait and then headed back to the harbour. Drifted in front of the castle and took a few wrasse and assorted bits and bobs. Then tied up to a bouy to have a belated lunch. Pete decided to put out my big rod (running ledger, 6-0 hook) with a whole mackerel for bait which had had an couple of fillets removed. Had no idea what to expect, possibly a conger. When the rod slammed over, something on the end was not happy. Unlike Peter when I netted a bass of 10lb 3oz for him, a PB. We unhooked and weighed it in the net, and returned it to the water relatively unharmed. After a near perfect recovery at Baiter, we drove home to Oxfordshire feeling very pleased with ourselves. Roll on some decent weather. Good luck to everyone tomorrow; with the met report, I think you may need it.

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