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British Records
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Specimen Fish
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2013 HALL of FAME
Boat Fishing (GB)
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2013 HALL of FAME
Beach and Shore (GB)
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2013 HALL of FAME
Overseas
Barracuda
9kg
Roy Hebburn
Cuba
Dolphinfish
7kg
Roy Hebburn
Cuba
Wahoo
10kg
Roy Hebburn
Cuba
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Boat Species 2014
Mick Doody - 6
Jim Grant - 6
Roy Hebburn - 4
Peter Thatcher - 4
Brian Collett - 3
Nigel Cross - 3
Farooq Shah - 3
Bob Jenkins - 2
Peter Talbot - 2
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To see the base data chart of the species hunt click HERE
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Boat Comp Species 2014
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Boat Angler of the Year 2013
Peter Talbot - 18
Mick Doody - 4.5
Jim Grant - 4.5
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To see the base data chart of the Boat Angler Of The Year HERE
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How trophies are awarded
2 Boat Angler of the Year (BAOTY) points per club member present for angler catching the biggest fish
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1 BOATY point per club member present for the angler(s) catching the most species
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BAOTY points for Club Competitions depend solely on competition positions (overall and in boat)
one BAOTY point for each competitor beaten in each case.
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Only the BEST FIVE trips/comps for each member count towards Boat Angler of the Year.
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One (1) species competition point is awarded for each species caught during the year
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If members take charter boat spaces on an "individuals basis" or enter competitions, as long as at least two club members are
present and a report is promptly submitted to the fish recorder, the trip will count towards the "Annual Species Hunt" and the "Boat Angler of
the Year"
competitions.
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To make it easy to record trips we often use a prepared Trip Record Sheet which anybody is welcome to
download and print for their own use. All and any fish caught during the year by a currently PAID-UP member are eligible for most of the other
annual trophies (Cod Cup, Tope Tankard etc.).
Please report any such to the fish recorder promptly. If the report is delayed too long it may become impossible to verify and therefore not be
allowable.
For comservation reasons GCSAC Boat competitions are points based (see Competition Score Sheet with no
minimum size limit.
Boats and positions are drawn on the morning of the competition before the boats set off.
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All members - Please send in a report of your fishing trip (Boat or Shore) preferably by email.
Your webmaster doesn't mind doing a bit of reformatting but isn't much of a typits.
(Reports are filed in fishing date order - latest at the top)
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Cancelled due to horrid windy weather
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Monday 2nd December - Eastbourne - Deep Blue (Steve Bradshaw)
A small improvement
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Our first trip on the boat
We concentrated hard and there was plenty of worms, cuttle and squid for bait but it took a long time before the one and only
codling turned up.
Smaller baits produced lots of whiting, pout and poorcod while the big cuttle/squid baits were torn at by whiting and caught only
one cod, one conger and a few pout and dogfish.
Biggest fish was Chris Goddard's conger (twice as big as the codling) and there was a 3-way tie for most species
(four each for Mick, Jim and Roy).
Nice boat and it takes about the same time to get to as Dover but those of us who stayed overnight at Eastbourne after fishing at
Dover would not recommend the drive across (2 hours at 30 mies aan hour).
[Report by Jim]
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Sunday 1st December - Dover - Jolly Fisherman (Paul Alexander)
A distinct lack of cod
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Back at Dover again. Fishing the cod grounds near Dungeness. Weather great (for December), calm and not too cold.
Fishing was lousy, not just for us though, none of the 12 boats in the area caught cod.
We did see a seal but that is not usually a good sign (probably laughing at us)!.
All we got was a lot dogfish, a few pout and a couple of little congers. Even the whiting were not about (one tiny one turned up).
Biggest fish fell to Paul davies with a 15lb conger and Mick Doody was the only one to manage three species.
Very disappointing.
[Report by Jim]
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Wednesday 20th November - Dover - Jolly Fisherman (Paul Alexander)
Target - BIG cod off Dungeness
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The conditions were ideal (apart from the rain and the northwest wind)
We anchored and dropped down big baits (squid and cuttle)
We waited. We caught dogfish. We caught whiting. Two of us caught cod and one big cod was lost.
Biggest fish was my 12lb cod and five of us had two species each.
[Report by Jim]
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Sat/Sun November 16/17 - Weymouth -
Tiger Lily (Chris Caines)
More practice needed (especially for bass)
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The weather forecast was good the tides were excellent
SATURDAY
We had the word that there were bass to be caught on the race so after an hour of bottom fishing we went off to try our luck.
WE WERE HOPELESS at it and just did not seem to be connecting with anything except the bottom. Other boats (commercials and charter boats) only feet
away were hauling them in while we just lost lures. Ten of us managed only half a dozen bass while Paul Whitall's crew off five had a hundred between them
(at times we were close enough to see them netting the larger ones and putting the small ones back).
except the bottom. Between us we managed to catch only half a dozen.
When the tide started abating we went off and anchored for a while for the whiting.
Our final stop was inn the bay for the squid but it was not quite dark enough and we went back in without catching any.
During the day we caught half a dozen bass (up to 3lb) , a few dogfish, a small bullhuss, a goby, a couple of mackerel, lots of nice big whiting,
a ballan wrasse, a few poorcod, and a blonde ray of 10.5lb.
Biggest fish was the Peter Thatcher's ray and three of us got four species each. Ricky had the biggest bass.
SUNDAY
Straight out to the race this time.
We were slightly better than yesterday but only after lots of advice from Chris, watching the other boats carefully, and a demonstration from Aaron
(3 fish in 3 drifts before he missed one).
We perservered and toward the end some of us (particularly Peter Thatcher) seemed to be getting it.
On the previous day one of the boats had found a shoal of herring so we went off to find them, but guess what, they had all gone away and all we
found there was a shoal of joeys.
We anchored for a while then we tried under the Bill for the squid but failing there we went off to thebay again and as it got darker had half a
dozen big squid on the jigs.
Species caught: Abour 20 bass, lots of dogfish, a lod of joey mackerel, a couple of poorcod and pout, a sand goby, a goldsinny wrasse, and a lot
of whiting.
Biggest fish was one of Peter's bass and Phil managed to get 8 species (mostly when the rest of us were jigging the squid
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Cancelled due to MORE bad weather
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Nasty windy weather - so it did not happen
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Saturday October 19th - Dungeness - Fair Chance (Gerry Oiler)
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We steamed away from a landscape that reminded us of America's redneck country of isolated wooden houses ,abandoned vehicles and the barking dogs
that lived within them.
Dogfish and pouting were about with very hungry whiting in abundance. Equally hungry were the gulls ,who would snatch at the whiting being reeled in
and drop them onto our heads including the weights.
Gavin caught one cod, Brian caught two, Brian's biggest being 15 1/2 pounds. Only a few cod caught but they are certainly coming in now.
This also being based on the reports earlier this week, the biggest being 24lb.
We were all surprised that Phil managed to catch anything next to the cabin with everyone's spare rods in his face and Mick rubbing up against him
every 5 minutes to change one.
Interesting day with history lessons from Gerry the skipper and also interesting to learn in this day and age that the boat is fully booked for
next year.
Biggest fish was Brians 15.5 pound cod and most species caught was was Brian, Mick Jim and Gavin.
[Report by Phil)
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Cancelled due to lack of a GOOD weather forecaast (quite a lost of wind)
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Sat/Sun October 12-13 - Weymouth -
Tiger Lily (Chris Caines)
Two days against the odds
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![[Farooq Bream]](images 2013/Farooq Bream.jpg)
The forecast for the weekend was terrible.
On Thursday and Friday Chris Caines actually gave us the option of cancelling but against his advice we decided to go even though it was
likely that we would spend two days tucked up under the cliffs hiding from the weather.
By Friday afternoon it looked like the only chance of getting out any distance was going to be on Sunday afternoon and that is basically
what happened.
![[Chris Smalleyed Ray]](images 2013/Chris Smalleyed.jpg)
SATURDAY
8 O'clock saw us heading out to go round Portland Bill to the bay where we were protected from the north wind (we did stop at the Bill for few
mackerel).
We actually had a great day, The weather was not as bad as we expected and we caught quite a lot of fish the sun even came out and the wind
went westerly to help us home.
We caught lots of bream, two cod, a couple of red gurnard lots and lots of dogfish, a pollock which must have have lost its way to its rocky home,
a poorcod, a handfull of pout, one smalleyed ray(9lb 6oz) a thornback raya couple of scad and the smallest tope I have ever seen.
Peter Thatcher caught the biggest fish (12lb conger)
Chris Goddard had the most species (8) Which included both of the rays.
SUNDAY
Wind north-easterly to start with but forecast to go round to the EAST so we kept to the East side.
Not such a nice day, not rough but colder, the big jackets were onn most of the day.
![[Linda Red Mullet]](images 2013/Linda Red Mullet.jpg)
We fished up a few launce and mackerel on the sand and then drifted for the turbot and brill. We unpacked our ragworms and drifted for plaice
and in between we anchored for bream and other species.
Not quite as many fish as the previous day but an interesting selection.
There was a bucket of bream, a brace of brill, a handfull of bullhuss, dozens of dogfish, one red gurnard, a couple of dozen launce,
some mackerel, about a dozen plaice, a red (striped) mullet, plenty of pout, acouple of scad and a trio of turbot.
Mick Doody had the biggest fish which was either his bullhuss of 4lb 4oz or his big plaice (which must have been about the same weight).
Four shared the most species (7) - Mick Doody, Chris Goddard, Jim Grant and Roy Hebburn.
Nicest fish though must be Linda Talmadge's 1lb 4oz red mullet which really put a smile on her face (see picture).
Well we pushed our luck a bit but this time it paid off and we got 2 days fishingagainst the odds.
Big thanks to Chris (and Aaron).
[Report by Jim]
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Sunday 6th October - Littlehampton - Lynander (Dick Legget) and Jenifers Pride (Steve Edwards)
The second of our 2013 Club Competitions.
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Thirteen members and one guest fished the competition
Both boats fished the same area but Steve and Dickie both had slightly different game plans so while one was targetting plaice
Lots of fish were caught the other was after mini-species and then one was fishing the rocks while the other was anchored over sand and so on.
Lots of fish were caught. The seven anglers Jenifers Pride caught 141 fish while the Lynander seven had 175 fish (15 species) on there sheet.
Simon Harding had the biggest fish on Jenifers Pride with his 4lb 13oz cod but it was dwarfed by one of Linda Talmadges bullhuss (9lb 8oz) on Lynander.
The list of species and the boat(s) on whichb they were caught - with the boat(s) in brackets
bream (JP, L), bullhuss (L), cod (JP), dogfish (JP, L), goby (L) red gurnard (JP), tub gurnard (JP, L), mackerel (JP, L), plaice (JP, L),
poorcod(JP, L), pout (JP, L), blonde ray(JP), spotted ray (JP), thornback ray (JP, L), tope (L), scad (JP, L), smoothhound (JP, L), ballan wrasse (JP),
Corkwing wrasse (JP, L) and goldsinny wrasse (JP)
The points could not be much closer:
Joint winners Paul Davies (Lynander) and Linda Talmadge (Lynander) 273 points.
Third - Jim Grant (Jenifers Pride) 270 points
Just out of the prize money in joint fourth - Mick Doody (Jenifers Pride) 268 points.
[Report by Jim)
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Saturday 5th October - Hayling - Sportsmans Knight
A BADSAC trip
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We only had 7 anglers on board this BADSAC trip with only Brian Collett and myself from both BADSAC and GCSAC.
It was predominantly a Bass trip with only moderate sucess. A total of 31 Bass were caught fishing on several banks off Selsey Bill.
On flat water we continued to drift but fished mainly for flatties wth mixed sucess, a couple of Brill were caught (one to Brian), three Plaice,
I managed a Turbot to add to my species list before we changed location for the ebb tide on another bank.
As we were still just on flat water most people continued fishing for flatties for a little longer resulting in Brian also adding a
Turbot to his species list.
To think of the number of trips we have been on this year specifically for Turbot and Brill, without sucess, it beggers belief!
This bank did not however produce the Bass so we returned to our previous location which proved better.
In addition a couple of Ballan Wrasse and a couple of the inevitable Dogfish were also hauled in.
All in all not by any means an exceptional day but a good time was had by all.
[Report by Bob Jenkins]
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Saturday October 4th - Poole -
True Blue (Steve Porter)
True Blue SPECIES HUNT final.
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This was a free trip as I qualified to fish the event back in August (26th) and Steve as provided it at a very reasonable 5.00 per person it was a cheap day's
fishing.
As it was a species hunt, 1 point per fish plus 5 points per species, light tackle was the order of the day.
I actually started out too heavy and if I fish another True Blue species hunt I will leave the 12/20 rod at home and cut down on lead and trace sizes.
We drifted along parallel to the beach for plaice etc. fished Poole Patch at slack water, anchored for rays and finished up drigting for bass
in the "swash".
It was An excellent day's fishing and I am definitely up for another species hunt next year.
The weather was great with little wind and tiny waves and quite a bit of sun.
We managed to catch over 20 species between us which was close the boats record daily species count. Steve was EVERYWHERE nettingg fish, keeping score and
making pots of tea and still finding time to handle the boat.
The fishing highlight (or DOWNLIGHT!) for me was hooking a large bass as we drifted using small scad for bait.
It really put up a fight, diving under the boat and then making several more runs and dives. I was just getting it toward the net for the third time
when the hook pulled out. I thought it was about 6lb but Steve reckoned it was 7 or 8lb (difficult to tell in the water). I should have used a bigger treble and
maybe the 6/12 rod instead of the 12/20 and not been in quite such a hurry.
How did I do?
I won three packs of "Savage" sandeel lures with a pack of extra heads and a £30.00 "True Blue" voucher for coming third with 77 points (31 fish, 9 species).
Gary Rook had "Savage" lures and a £40.00 "True Blue" voucher as runner-up with 91 points (36 fish, 11 species).
Matt Todd was the outright winner and collected a "Penn" reel, "Savage" lures and a £50.00 "True Blue" voucher.
[Report by Jim]
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Target turbot and bass
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Eight of us headed out full of breakfast and expectation.
It was damp and foggy
We had no problem catching mackerel for baits then we dragged bits of mackerel over the banks and very soon Warren Slatter had the first turbot aboard.
Unfortunately it was not only too small to keep but was the only one we saw. We caught mackerel, they were huge, they were voracious, they took the turbot
baits on the drop and on the bottom and on the way up, they were a ********** nuisance.
So after perservering until the tide changed we went after bass. We only got a couple but it was quality rather than quantity. Roy had a nice one about
5lb but Warren again proved the star by boating a specimen of 8lb.
There were also 9 other species:
One little cod one dab, several small tub gurnards, a few launce, lots of mackerel (mostly between 1 and 2lbs), one plaice, lots of weevers, and a pout
Biggest fish was Warren's bass and four of us had five species each.
[Report by Jim]
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Saturday September 21st - Eastney - Sportsmans Knight (Peter Kilshaw )
This was a BADSAC trip on Sportsmans's Knight out of Hayling.
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Trip proved a little better than some, fishing mainly for Bass with some people trying for flatfish around high tide.
Brian Collett and I were the only GCSAC members on board, with 4 Bass falling to me and the last one of the day to Brian.
Other fish caught 1 Plaice, 1 Turbot and several decent size Mackrell (best seen this year), total Bass 27.
The weather blew up with the afternoon tide and eventually it was decided to call it a day earlier than normal for safety reasons.
In summary could have been better but I have known worse.
[Report by Bob Jenkins]
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Now there were 3
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Roy Hebburn joined us for our second day so most of the GCSAC committee were aboard.
The weather had deteriorated. wee got damp and a little bit drizzly with a lot more wind (no problem for Supanova).
This time e tried for it was plaice (which we caught) and then bass (which we also caught) but it much was harder than the previous day.
A couple of good bass turned up on the boat (one was over 5lb) and Roy got a plaice which turned the scales to 4lb 10oz. There were also
a couple of bream caught and some pout
Biggest fish for us three was Roy's plaice and I had most species (4).
[Report by Jim]
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Just 2 of us (Mick Doody and Jim Grant)
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To get over the disappointment of the Minehead cancellation we booked, as individuals, a couple of days with Lyle.
Excellent weather (the good forecast was one of our reasons for booking)
The targets were in order, plaice (which we caught), bream (which we did not) and bass (which we also caught)
None of the fish were huge but there were plaice and bass to about 4lb and we alsoi had dogfish nbream and mackerel.
Brilliant day, lots of sun, not much wind, lots of tea, good fishing.
None of the fish were weighed but Mick had the most species (5)
[Report by Jim]
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3 do not go fishing - Re-scheduled to Sun-Tue and then cancelled due to HORRENDOUS weather forecast.
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Mon-Fri 9-13th September - Weymouth -
W.I.B.A.C.
WEYMOUTH INTERNATIONAL BOAT ANGLING CHALLENGE 2013
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![[Mystery fish]](images 2013/Mystery fish.jpg)
Another end to the annual 5 day challenge attended this year by approx 80 anglers.
Various fish caught throughout the week by anglers from UK , France , Belgium , Sweden and Holland.
No prizes for Gavin or I with me finishing mid table and Gavin not too far behind.
On the final day, the overall winner on my boat Top Cat 3 caught a monster 12lb 8oz turbot which was a competition record and added £500 to his total prize money for the week, knocking on for £5k!
Gavin's and my additions to this year's CCSAC listings are as follows:
Gavin-3lb 10oz black bream, 2no.conger and a garfish
Me - red band fish, 4no.conger, herring and garfish
Gavin also picked up another fish (see photo).Not sure what is was. [* Note from fish recorder - It appears from the photo to be a particularly fine specimen of
Tattus Plasticus Imaginaria, one of the fish species which lurks in brightly lit coastal areas and occasionally takes money from unwary holidaymakers
and drunken anglers who pick it up and do not drop it quickly enough)]
Excuse the camera shake, I was distracted by the people standing behind him and I'd been away from the Mrs for a week.
I understand that the date for next years WIBAC is now planned for 13th to 17th October 2014 due to the World and European championships
taking place in Weymouth over 2 separate weeks in September.
I would recommend entering the Wibac next year, if you can make it. It will improve your angling skills and you will learn something new if
nothing else.
[Report by Phil}
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FRIDAY 13th (need I say more)
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Out of Hayling on Malaki. Brian Collet and myself the only GCSAC members on board.
Arrived at the dock at 7.30 to leave at 8.00 to find it windier than expected but not too excessive. I have certainly known much worse.
Could not catch any Mackrel for bait, but did catch a Scad to add to my species list.
Other than that I had a Tub Gurnard and Brian eventually a solitary Mackrel and we both had plenty of weed.
An absolutely rubbish day not to be repeated if possible!!.
As far as we could tell the same problem bas had by other boats we saw, Trio and Great White.
[Report by Bob Jenkins]
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Warren Slatter
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I had been reading the reports of good Turbot fishing on the banks off Beachy Head and with a window on the weather available,
i booked a trip with Dave Elliott on Ocean Warrior.
The weather was forecast fine and it turned out that way all day. We headed straight out to the banks where mackerel were in good supply
and after 15 minutes we started drifting with fillets.
I hadn't got to the bottom when the guy next to me was straight in to a fish and 30 seconds later i was in. The first drift produced 4 Turbot
all around the 5lb mark. This continued each drift for the next hour until the tide started to drop away by which time there was approx 20 Turbot
in the fish box.
Slack tide gave some time to replenish our mackerel supplies for the flood. Fishing was slower on the flood but steady with some nice Brill
being caught (best fish 7.5lb). The Turbot were not feeding as agressivley as they were on the Ebb with lots of fish not being hooked.
By the end the boat had about 35 Turbot to 6lb and 6 Brill.
Some big mackerel were being caught on the smaller fillets that were fished and the biggest weighed 2.25lbs.
A lovely day out with the weather playing to the forecast.
Other species caught were Pouting, Red Gurnard and Weaver Fish.
My species were mackerel and Turbot.
[Report by Warren}
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A slow day
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Lets just say itt was tnot the best day we have had with Steve.
A late start (10 0'clock) because of the tide, and problems getting bait then because Tropicana is not open on Mondays (or Sundays or R
or Wednesdays or early in the morning). Roy had to go via Hayling to get some and got held up by a traffic problem on the A3 so we did not get away
until 10:20.
We tried for mackerel with no success. We tried for rays with no sccess. We drifted for plaice and got a few though nothing big.
we anchored in the bay for red mullet and failed to catch any. We finally finished up drifting for the plaice again.
At least it didn't rain hard for very long although we had a bit of drizzle and one good soaking shower.
Between us we had a couple of bream several dogfish, one tub gurnard, about a dozen plaice, one scad and a four ballan wrasse.
The biggest fish was a 2lb ballan for Roy and Linda had the most species (4)
[Report by Jim}
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Warren Slatter
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Just myself from the club on a 12hr wrecking trip.
3hrs steam to the 1st wreck and straight away we were into Pollack in 12-15lb range with one Ling 22lb (live mackerel).
After the bites slowed up we moved onto two more wrecks however achieved only minimal success with 2 more Pollack being caught.
The afternoon saw us back on the first wreck anchoring for Ling and Congers. The boat had several ling over 20lb and 1 conger to about 30lb.
Then long steam home.
Overall a nice day out.
My species count was two--Pollack and Mackeral.
[Report by Warren}
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Sat/Sun August 31st/September 3rd - Weymouth -
Tiger Lily (Chris Caines
The Barnes Brothers Competition - Tony Barnes memorial Trophy
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Two days in nice warm Sunny Weymouth (no really IT WAS). There was no rain and most of the time you did not even need a jacket or jumper even when
Tiger Lily was under way.
SATURDAY
We met up with the Barnes team on the quayside bright and early (well early anyway). As we had suspected they had been down and practised
(on Flamer with Colin Penny) for a few days, though, to be fair some of us had a bit of practice recently too (Poole).
On the Barnes team were the
four brothers, Colin, Dave, Dick and Les with Ricky representing the next generation.
Guildford fielded Mick Doody, Chris Goddard, Jim Grant, Roy Hebburn and Peter Thatcher.
Plenty of banter back and forth as we loaded up and headed out to sea.
The first stop was for Red Band Fish where we were treated to a demonstration of how to do it. Some off them had caught 10 and were trying for other
species before we really got off the mark. Then we went off the Bill for mackerel.
A few drifts soon produced plenty of mackerel and most people got 10 or close to it.
Then it was drifting for flatties and rays, anchoring for other stuff, drifting for plaice and back inshore for the wrasse and mini-species.
![[Chris Turbot]](images 2013/Chris Turbot.jpg)
I think we caught up a bit out to sea on the flatties and rays, it was close with the plaice and we lost ground again on the wrasses.
On the way in Chris computed the scores (on a piece of paper) and when we got in we found that Barnes were just 19 points ahead of Guildford.
During the day, between us all, we had caught a few bream, one brill (5.5lb) a couple of red gurnard, lots of mackerel, a dozen or so nice plaice
(up to 4.5lb), a few poorcod, some pout, a blonde ray, lots of red band fish, some scad, three turbot (biggest 9.5lb), quite a few ballan wrasse,
a baillions wrasse, half a dozen cuckoo wrasse, a dozen goldssinny wrasse.
Amongst the Guiildford members the biggest fish was Chris's 9.5lb turbot and Mick had the most species (11).
SUNDAY
This time we went for the mackerel first
No problem there, ten each in short order. Chris came out and said "OK - If everybody has their 10 we can go and fish for something else now"
to which the reply was "Actually we have been fishing for something else for some time".
![[Stumpy Undulate]](images 2013/Stumpy Undulate.jpg)
Then it was wrasse fishing, Flatties and rays again on the drift and at anchor, back to plaice.
Our final couple of stops was to drift just off the rocks at Portland for pout, pollack, and wrasses again.
The days species list contained half a dozen bream, several bullhuss, a small conger, a few dogfish, lots of plaice,
a handfull of pollack, a couple of pout, a number of blonde rays, two lesser weevers, a few goldsinny wrasse, a baillions wrasse,
dozens of ballan wrasse, a trio of cuckoo wrasse and several goldsinny wrasse. The biggest fish of the day was Les Barnes' 12lb undulate ray
which had lost most of its tail (so we nicknamed it "Stumpy". Les also had what must be the "fish of the day" (a 6lb plaice).
Biggest fish for Guildford was Mick's little conger and he also had most species (11)
Once we had tied up Chris announced the final results.
The day went to Guildford at the end and, as the difference was over 60 points, Guildford overtook Barnes and retained the trophy for another year.
Chris also awarded Mick a T-shirt for top Guildford rod of the day and Dick Barnes a smock for the best Barnes rod of the day.
The date for next year (2014) has already been set (Sat/Sun 1st/2nd of September) and TOP CAT has already been booked. Chris Caines is going to
take part, as an angler this time, probably fishing one day for each team (Skipper turned Angler!) which should be interesting. I don't suppose any
new traces will be designed or tactics planned for that until at least the middle of September this year.
[Report by Jim]
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Fri August 26th - Poole -
True Blue (Steve Porter)
True Blue SPECIES HUNT heat (particularly sole and maybe triggers) - winner to fish the final in October
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It all started with Gavin Thomson and Phil Evans spotting that there were 5 spaces available at short notice and booking 2 of them.
Not all club members are that keen on species hunting so Phil emailed the few that he thought might be interested.
I (Jim Grant) was the first to call in to the skipper to claim a spot.
Now there were going to be three GCSAC members on board.
Initially Mick Doody was not keen but the thought of us going without him (and a very good weather forecast) changed his mind and he claimed a space
Now there were four.
Then Richard Warner decided to come along as well.
We now had five.
We went down in two cars and, arriving within a couple of minutes of each other just after 11 o'clock a.m for a 1 p.m. start. We had just parked,
when we we surprised to see Bob Nye (and a couple of friends (Neil and Pat) getting out of another car, and they soon let on that they had also booked
onto the boat.
So now there were SIX members of GCSAC.
We moved from mark to mark around the bay (both on the drift and anchor) looking for our species.
There were quieter times but when it was busy Steve had to work hard recording the fish as they were called out, checking some species and
driving the boat.
The scoring system was simple - 1 point per fish and 5 points per species.
It shortly became apparent that Gavin and Matt were leading closely followed by Phil but then they seemed to slow down a bit and as the afternoon
went on it became a closer competition with the order of the first five altering almost fish by fish. It was getting quite dark and there were 20
species caught already when Mick caught the smallest undulate ray I have ever seen, Phil lifted in a bass of about 1lb and the last species recorded was
the first and and only sole of the day which earnt Richarda rare and valuable bass lure presented by the skipper.
Steve announced that competition would finish at 10 p.m. (we could carry on fishing while he added the scores up no more fish would count.
10 0'clock Steve doing sums and we still fished on.
THE RESULT
FIRST - Matt - 106 points
JOINT SECOND - Mick Doody, Phil Evans and myself (Jim Grant) - 101 points
Then it got complicated. Matt had already qualified for the final so it should have devolved to the runner-up BUT there were three of us.
Steve asked if any of us had caught a fish while he was calculating and as I was the only one who had I am the one who will fish in October.
He did say that if more that one of us had "tied" after the whistle it would have been decided on a "fish off" (first to catch wins).
A truly excellent trip - Thanks Steve for the tea and coffee, afternoon cream tea, driving, scoring, driving the boat and arranging the
weather which was also excellent.
There were 23 species caught.
The fishy cast (In order of first appearance) - goby (one of which was caught before the start so did not count in the competition) mackerel,
Small-eyed ray, dogfish, pout, goldsinny wrasse, rock cook wrasse, ballan wrasse, pollack, blenny, corkwing wrasse, bailions wrasse, poorcod,
plaice, tub gurnard, smoothhound, bream, dragonet, dab, scad, undulate ray, bass and sole.
Biggest fish was Phil's (7lb) small-eyed ray and Mick caught the most species (14).
[Report by Jim]
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Warren Slatter fishing as an individual
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Forecast was for a force 3 dropping away to nothing in the afternoon, what greeted me at the dockside was
at least a force 5/6 which made the plan for bassing in the morning very difficult.
Whether it was the wind or tide only one small bass was boated up until lunch time.
At this time it was decided to anchor for an hour or so and right on que the sun came out and the wind started to drop.
Then commenced what I call the mad hour. As soon as the baits went down we were into Conger, Tope and Pollack,
Paul was rushing around the boat with the gaff and landing net as at any one time there were at least two people with bent rods.
The highlight of this period was Paul bringing on board a 70lb conger, 25lb tope and 7lb Pollack, quite a sight to see these 3 fish on the deck together.
We then went back to drifting for bass and the fish came steadily mostly within the 2-4lb range with one codling thrown
in for good measure.
By this time summer had returned and the wind had dropped to nothing as forecast.
I caught Pollack and mackerel.
[Report by Warren]
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A couple of surprises
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![[Don Bass]](images 2013/Don Bass.jpg)
Six members met up with Steve at the "Dinky Doo" cafe (well recomended) in Littlehampton with plenty of time for a breakfast before driving round
to the marina for our 9 o'clock start.
Not a promising start to the day in that it was raining (and some people had left foul weather gear at home), the wind was easterly, apparently the
mackerel were getting hard to find and the only fish being caught were plaice.
Well it turned out a little bit differently
The rain stopped. At the second try we found enough msckerel for bait for the day. We caught a few fish at anchor. The wind got up a bit. We only
gor a few small plaice on the drift before we had to anchor again. The wind dropped a bit. The sun came out. We caught more fish. We actually ended up with
15 different species.
We had bass, tompot blenny, bream, dogfish, tub gurnard, Mackerel, plaice, small-eyed ray, spotted ray, thornback ray, tope, ballan wrasse
and goldsinny wrasse.
The biggest fish was a magniicent bass of 10lb for Don Beadle. Mick and Roy shared most species with 8 each.
Not bad for an unpromising day.
[Report by Jim}
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Weymouth Conger Festival
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Over the last few years several of us have got together to fish this competition. It started with two or three of us joining an existing party
and the number of GCSAC members has slowly increased to 5. The way it works is - The ones fishing (on Tiger Lily) immediately book up again for the
next year and then as people dropped out for one reason or another they have been replaced. This year the crew consisted of
Mike Burke (who is the one who has been fishing this competition on Tiger Lily more years than any of the rest of us), five club members (Mick Doody,
Chris Goddard, Jim Grant, Roy Hebburn and Peter Thatcher) with two others (Ben Stickland and his mate Matthew Mizen).
How it works -
To make sure as few eels as possible are killed, the skipper of each boat allocates and records points for each eel based on HIS estmate of
the weight (if the skipper tends to estimat high or low it is the same for all the anglers on his boat. Only the largest eels caught are brought
to shore for official weighing. There is a CASH prize for the biggest eeel each day and a further prize for the biggest over the three days.
There are more prizes (and trophies) for the anglers who score best on the points system (biggest eeel on each boat, best aggregate etc).
Now on to the action -
Day 1 (Wednesday)
Fairly rough and we went out a long way (West) but the wind was with us going out and coming back so it was quite comfortable.
Anchoring to the wrecks was tricky and we had to re-anchor several times as the swell and the bounced the anchor out (downside of cat).
We did get a few eels but nothing huge best was one of Mick at 55lb.
Ben caught a 10lb turbot which was an excellent bycatch and a few smallish ling were also taken.
Day 2 (Thursday)
A bit less tide but still fairly rough and this time it was into the wind all the way out so it seemed a long haul.
There were the same problems anchoring and re-anchoring.
We did get a few eels but nothing huge. There were a couple in the forties but Mike Burke had the best one one (45lb).
Day 3 (Friday)
With a bit less tide again we went East for a change. More tide was balanced against slightly shallower water so still a similat story to the other
two days except that it was colder and drizzled on and off most of the day. To add to the fun we had fog, a few squalls of heavy (p...ing down) rain
acccompanied by howling wind and then on the way back even a bit of sunshine. We still did not find the big eel (Matt had one of 42lb) but our conger
baits were also taken by bullhuss and tope.
How we did overall -.
Mick and Peter Thatcher were both awarded "boat" prizes (biggest eel and best
aggregate over the 3 days) and Mick also came sixth in the competition
Mick Doody 6th 215.48 points
Peter Thatcher 12th 189.29 points
Jim Grant 28th 142.86 points
Chris Goddard 50th 80.95 points
and Peter won a boat trip in the raffle.
Its a great competition and we all enjoyed it immensely
Next Year (20th competition year)
The competition will be held 18th to 20th of August (more details from Weymouth Angling or
any Weymouth Charter Boat Skipper.
The organisers are hoping to have more competitors, more big eels and better weather
Chris Caines is retiring at the end of this so the eight of us who fished with him have already already booked Dave Gibson's boat, Meerkat, for
next year and we have also got a probable reserve in Chris Caines crewman Aaron.
A lot of other boats have also got crews for next year already so if anybody else wants to have a go in 2014 they will need to contact a
Weymouth skipper ASAP.
[Report by Jim Grant]
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Wednesday AUGUST 14th - Dungeness - Fair Chance
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As for the previous two months this trip proved reasonably sucessful, apart from the excellent weather and sunburn.
A good number of Plaice were caught (our target species) and a few reasonable Dabs. We fished further along the bank this time catching a
better size fish but in fewer numbers than previously. (Best Plaice about 2.5lb).
There was nothing spectacular to report, Brian Collett and myself were the only GCSAC members on board this being a BADSAC trip.
In addition to my 2.5lb Plaice (also caught by others on board) we had Dabs and a few Mackrell with Brian also catching both Greater and Lesser Weaver.
Others had Grey, Red and Tub Gurnrad (all three to one lucky person), A Turbot and a Spotted Ray.
My bad luck story (the ones that got away) I had both Grey and Red Gurnard whih decided to come off on the surface, I was gutted as you may imagine,
two species i still do not have this year!!
[Report by Bob Jenkins]
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Just two members (Mick Doody and me) on this individuals day together with two "Thursday reglars" (Harry and Wayne) making just four on the boat.
8:30 start at the MARINA. Yes the boat has moved over to the other side of the river. Parking ilyis easy, its free and closer to the boat.
Really good weather - Flat calm for the morning and a little (southerly) breeze in the afternoon.
Plenty of mackerel about but not much in the way of other fish apart from pesky pout, small bream and a few tope.
Skipper Steve put a rod out himself and brought up a very nice spotted ray which must be counted the BEST fish of the day.
Harry and Wayne had a couple of bream of barbeque size and a load of mackerel to take home. Mick managed to catch a tub gurnard for his species list.
The biggest fish was my tope of about I had the most species (4).
It was a good day out on the sea, but, hopefully, there will be a few more good fish on the next trip.
[Report by Jim}
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Just myself from the club on board, plan was to drift for bass while the tide slacked off and then go looking for bream and trigger
fish on a new mark.
We had 3 drifts for bass and caught 2 eight pounders. The skipper noticed that a private boat was connecting
with some nice rays so it was decided to anchor for 40mins before the breaming session.
6 Blonde Rays were caught up to 20lb on that session. The bream fishing was steady in the afternoon with fish up to 2.5lb.
We then moved very close in shore for Andy's trigger fish, however only bream and mackerel were caught with myself landing a 15lb Undulate Ray, which was returned.
Asking the skipper to stop off for fresh mackerel on the way home resulted in a lot of Pollack on feathers to 2lb.
Lovely days fishing, weather a bit ropey in the morning turning to a lovely summers day.
Species caught by myself--mackerel-Pollack-bream-undulate ray
[Report by Warren Slatter]
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10 of us set of for a day of general fishing on the kelp beds.
After a quick couple of drifts for mackerel near the Nab tower. We did not stay very long at all because The Nab is being demolished and we were
shouted at by a man who seemed to be a bit excited about something. Whether it was general abuse or a warning that there was a danger from their work
we could not hear but we did see them drop a great big piece of canvas (about 3ft wide and 40ft long) into the sea. It was a good job it sank
immediately, otherwise it could have ended up round some vessel's prop.
We arrived at the kelp bed for the last of the flood tide and tried a variety of fishing baits and methods. Some tactics produced fish, mostly
poorcod and pout but with a few other species as well. Nothing exciting over the slack and the first half of the ebb only produced four or five tope. We moved offshore to the banks as
the tide eased but the fishing was pretty dire out there too.
A final move, back to a different part of the kelp, saved the day, In the last hour we had five double figure undulate rays (biggest 12lb).
Tally for the day was 14 species:
One toppot blenny, four bream, a dozen mackerel, five double figurev undulate rays, a little pollack, lots of poorcod, lots of pout, one spotted ray,
two thornbacks, s couple of scad, four tope, a ballan wrasse and a goldsinny wrasse.
Top man was Phil Evans with his 20lb tope and a total of 8 species.
[Report by Jim]
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Brian and Bob go species hunting (report in two parts)
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PART 1
Brian Collett and I were the only GCSAC members on board.
The trip was intended as a species trip with the specific intention of trying for Conger (which did not obligue), Bull Huss, all types of Wrasse
and anything else that came along.
We started on a mark not far out of Hayling but only found a couple of Wrasse and the dreaded Pout.
We then moved on to our main mark for the day which was in mid channel (only a 100yds or so from a container ship at one point).
This proved fruitful for the Bull Huss with both Brian and I catching good specimens, the best being a 14.5lb fish to me on Pout fillet.
It was not the best fighter however that was a smaller 12lb fish.
Nothing would entice out and Conger.
We eventually retired to a smaller wreck nearer to shore but their was no Conger there either, nor anything else for that matter.
We then traveled back to near our original mark again for the Wrasse. This time with much more success. Brian and I both had Ballan (only 2lb)
and Corkwing Wrasse and a number of others, some of which may be quite scarce.
The skipper has photos and is having them checked for a second expert opinion before we can give a list.
There were certainly a number of species (probably not all wrasse) that I have not seen before.
More details to follow.
PART 2
I have now had confirmation of the Wrase caught by Brian Collett and myself on our trip on Malaki on 1st August.
We both had Ballan, Corkwing and Gold Sinney, in addition Brian had a Ballions. (He gats all the luck)!!
[Report by Bob Jenkins]
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We got to the cafe to find that the weather was worse than the forecast so (like the crews of all the other Littlehampton boats) went home again.
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Six have a smashing time.
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The sharking six (Mick Doody, Phil Evans, Jim Grant, Ricky Nethersole, Dai Richards, And Gavin Thomson) met up in Ilfracombe on Thursday
evening (Dai drove down all the way from Aberdeen).
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DAY 1 Friday
The forecast was favourable and we had instructions to meet the boat at 6.00 am. It was a beautiful morning with a splenddid sunrise over the harbour.
![[Sunrise Harbour]](images 2013/Sunrise Harbour.jpg)
![[Sunrise Harbour]](images 2013/Sunrise.jpg)
The pub was only able to provide cereal thst early in the morning so no "Full English" for us but we did take the makings (Bread, Sausages etc) in a
coolbox. Dave and Malcolm (who got up VERY EARLY to bring Aly Kat down from Minehead) were soon there with the boat and we loaded the huge amounts
of shark bait (frozen mackerel), food, lots and lots of bottled water, ice and far too much tackle (heavy rods and reels for sharking, lighter rods
and reels for other stuff and all the associated bits and pieces). *Note to self - cut down the tackle next year (if it won't go in one box or you
cannot lift the box there is too much of it).
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![[Phil Blue Shark]](images 2013/Phil Blue Shark.jpg)
Then it was off to the deep water, way past Lundy, on the edge of the Gulf stream.
In the three hours it took to get out to the deep water, Dave set the oven going for breakfast, we set up the shark rods,
set up bottom rods for haddock etc. and chopped a load of mackerel which Malcolm converted into rubby-dubby by adding bran and fish oil and
giving it a good treading with his wellies.
We each took turns of twenty minutes on the shark rods.
It was Phil who had the first run and after just over quarter of an hour the (blue) shark was dragged in the door. It actually became reasonably docile and allowed
itself to be measured without too much trouble and the conversion chart gave it as 149lbs (nearly double the existingg club record) and the best to
date for ALY KAT.
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![[Gavin Blue Shark]](images 2013/Gavin Blue Shark.jpg)
The very next 20 minute session produced one for Gavin.
Unlike Phil's, which had gone deeper when it took, this one shot off across the surface
and stayed near the surface after it was hooked, running round the front of the boat and back again.
Even when it came alongside after 20 minutes it did not give up.
It had another couple of runs and then somehow, when it was being pulled aboard, resisted by curling its body round the edge of the doorway and
finaly when it was aboard it jumped around on the deck.
When it quietened down it was photoed and meaaseured and worked out to be 110 lbs.
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![[Dai Blue Shark]](images 2013/Dai Blue Shark.jpg)
A little later Dai took another quarter of an hour of to bring the total up to three with another lively one of 81lb
(which also just beat the old record).
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![[Gavin John Dory]](images 2013/Gavin John Dory.jpg)
While all this was going on those, not at the time involved, fished the bottom for other species. The usual stuff turned up plus grey
gurnards and haddock which we do not often get.
Mick caught a grey gurnard (1lb 1oz) which equalled the club record but Gavin found a JOHN DORY
of 2lb 14oz which truly smashes the previous record of just 8oz.
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Them we headed back against the wind and sea (about 3 hours of slamming) cannot say that was the best bit of the day.
The complete list for the day was - lots of grey and a few red and tub gurnards, lots of dogfish and haddock, pout, poorcod,
one small ling and, of course, the john dory and the three blue sharks (not a huge number of blues but we will take quality over quantity every time!).
Obviously Phil's shark was the biggest and Gavin managed 7 out of the ten species caught.
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DAY 2 Saturday
As the weather was not great for being a long way offshore this was decided to be a porbeagle attempt.
We drifted out from the north Devon coast and motored in again for six hours without a sniff of a porgy (its a waiting game).
While we were waiting for the shark we did get a few mackerel some poor cod and one red gurnard.
We finished up by drifting a small wreck for a few pollack.
Not much else apart from another bumpy ride back. We looked at the reef on the way home but there was too much sea to make that attractive.
Best fish of the day was a pollack for Gavin (6lb) and he also managed all four species.
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![[Jim Tope]](images 2013/Jim Tope.jpg)
DAY 3 Sunday
The wind had ibncreased overnight so we only went as far as Lundy for some tope, out in the channel until the flow got too much and then in by the
island for species until the tide slackened again.
![[Mick Tope]](images 2013/Mick Tope.jpg)
Only half a dozen tope (up to 25lb) but there were some nice huss there (up to 12lb).
We did get 12 species in total:
Lots of bullhuss, one small cod, dabs, dogfish, pollack, poorcod, pout, plaice, mackerel, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse and tope.
Gavin had the biggest tope and Mick managed ten species.
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Day 4 Monday
A much calmer day so back to sharking offshore.
Very disappointing - The same area as Friday but no sign of shark and the other fish had had also disappeared all tht was on the ground was
tiny tiny whiting, dogfish and a few little grey gurnards.
We did see a beam trawler working the area and maybe he had been back and forth all the previous couple of daya and nights.
Maybe our rubby dubby could not compete with the discards and overspill from the trawl (who knows!). We did see a couple of "shark" fins near the
bottles which aused a bit of excitement but they turned out to be a sunfish (Opah) working their way up the slick. We also saw two large pods of
(common?) dolphins and a fair sized whale surfaced quite close to the boat but we could not identify it.
dubby were two sunfish (Opah) working up the slick.
We gave up after 5 hours and tried a couple of wrecks but only got a couple of pollack and ling before we got busy tidying up (boat and tackle boxes)
as we headed back to Ilfracombe. A day with more interest than fish but enjoyable notheless.
We did catch dogfish, grey gurnards, ling, pollack, pout, whiting, and one cuckoo wrasse.
Biggest club fish was my 10lb pollack (though Malcolm dragged up a much bigger ling on a pirk) and Phil had the most species (6).
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Over the four days (5 nights) We equalled one club record (grey gurnard), nearly doubled another (Blue shark) and smashed a third to bits (John Dory)
caught 20 different species of fish, had some excellent meals out and even managed to force down a couple of beers.
A great time was had by all and there could well be competition for places on next years sharking trip so members had better save up their deposits
and put them by ready for JANUARY if they want to be on it.
And another big thank you to Dave and Malcolm who did us proud (very early mornings and long days working hard).
*Note - Photos by Dave Roberts.
[Report by Jim]
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Wednesday July 17th - Dungeness - Fair Chance
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On a BADSAC trip, mainly for plaice and Dabs, on Fair Chance out of Dungeness.
A fairly good days fishing in super sunshine. Brian Collett and I with the other BADSAC members fished the French Banks in the middle of
the channel we had fished in June but they did not fish quite so well this time.(Better luck next month).
This is not to say that between us all we did not have quite o lot of fish.
Plaice were a little sparce (too many too small) up to about 2lb,but we had dabs up to 1lb 6ozs. Also whiting, small cod, pout, dog fish, a tub gurnard and a wearver fish. Personally my first ever (to my knowledge) Poor Cod.
[Report by Bob Jenkins]
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Peter and myself Mick went to Littlehampton on Jenifers Pride.
Weather was good and with only 2 others on the boat we headed for the mussel beds for the plaice.
On the first drift I managed 13 plaice, peter managed a few and after sorting out the other 2 anglers we all had plenty of plaice.
We then made our way to a rock where we had bream and lots of pout dogs and one gar fish.
Biggest fish was a tie 2Ib 9oz bream for Peter and a plaice same weight for me.
Most species Mick with 4
[Report by Mick Doody}
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Monday July 8th - Eastney - Sportsmans Knight (Peter Kilshaw )
Day best summed up as rubbish!
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Day best summed up as rubbish!
Wonderful weather but few fish (not even by the professional boys on their boats, who tried umpteen banks)
This was a BADSAC trip only Brian Collet and myself from GCSAC on board.
There were a moderate number of Mackeral caught but only 6 Bass (one by Brian), an Undulate Ray 13.5lbs, a small Turbot, a Red Gurnard
and 2 Tub Gurnard by myself all day.
Not one to repeat in a hurry.
We hope for a better time out of Dungeness next Wednesday.
[Report by Bob]
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The 20 mph stiff Northeasterly put an end to any hope of getting out to the wrecks.
The two of us and three other anglers agreed with the Dave to try for a Plaice and Bream on an inshore bank.
A steady stream of Plaice, Bream and Dabs with 2 bonus Red Gurnards were caught throughout the day.
Farooq Shah had the largest fish with a Plaice of 2.5 lbs and Tabish Aiman with the most species at 4. No Dogfish or Pout all day...
Dave was in an especially good mood as it was his birthday.
[Report by Tabish]
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This was an expedition with ten club members targetting the bass on inshore marks.
Different people had looked at different forecasts. Some said that it might be cold and windy others that it would be hot with a cooling breeze.
In the event both were absolutely right, those who fished up at the bow said it was cold and wore thir jackets all day while those of us at the
back with a bit more shelter took off our sweatshirts and jumpers and slapped on the sunscreen.
Bait was easy - Out to the clear water and tiny and tiny feathers and shrimp rigs caught plenty of launce and a couple of weevers (carefully
unhooked and dropped back into the water. Then it was on with larger mackerel feathers and flashers which produced launce more launce than
mackerel.
An hour at anchor only produced one blonde ray and a few dogs and then it was off to drifting marks and inshore wrecks for bass.
More than twenty marks were drifted before it was time to go home and we only had eight bass between us (I blame the East wind).
Biggest fish was Roy's Bass of 6lb 10oz and Dave Ball had the most species (7).
[Report by Jim]
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What a fine day, flat sea, almost windless and sunshine (it does still exist).
Brian Collet and I left Hayling on Malaki (a boat we have fished on several times) under the care and attention of the owner and skipper Barry Handley
with the express intention of fishing for Rays. He did not dissapoint.
We managed to find a few Mackerel on the way out for bait and headed for a point off Bognor.
We actually fished five different marks during the day off Bognor and Selsey and had a selection of fish as follows:-
Brian
Black Bream, Dogfish, Mackerel, Pollack, Red Gurnard, Spotted Ray, Thornback Rays of 11.5 lbs and a fine specimen of 14.25 lbs
an Undulate Ray of 9.5lbs and a Tope (we did not weigh) I wonder why?
Bob
Black Bream, Mackerel, Spotted Ray, Thornback Ray, an Undulate Ray of 13.5lbs and a Tope, (which again we did not weigh).
Nothing massive, no great quantities of any species, but all in all a pleasant days fishing.
[Report by Bob]
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Second day of the BCC Members Championship.
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For congers we did only slightly better, one for Mick and two each for Jim and Roy so at the end of the competition we had only managed to get eight between us.
There were loads of ling again as well as huge whiting (up to about 2.5lb)
Roy and Mick both got eels of 38lb so shared the points for the biggest and Roy got seven species. Included in Roys count was a red gurnard
and when it came over the side the rest of the guys on the boat could not understand his obvious excitement until the great rivalry for the species
trophy was explained to them. Roy then caught what was probably the biggest pout of the competition (3lb 8oz) which broke our (GCSAC) club record
by a clear 7 ounces.
It was all great fun and we enjoyed a couple of great meals.
A big thank you to the three skippers who took us out (they were all brilliant) and its a pity Plymouth is so very far from Guildford.
There was a bit of a problem with the cunning plan for embarking and disembarking from the boats but I am sure the BCC will get it sorted out
for next year (when we hope to do a lot better).
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![[Jason Weller Cup]](images 2013/Jason Weller Cup.jpg)
Two of our members, George Weller and his son Jason, were unable to fish the competition this year due to work commitments.
I think they deserve a picture here because they not only turned up to to the AGM so that Jason could be presented with
the cup for the "Largest Qualifying Eel By An Associate Member" of 2012 but did so in style with BCC blazers. Certainly the best dressed members of GCSAC present.
I suppose not unexpected as George is a founder member of the BCC.
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Looking forward to Brixham (BCC Affiliated Clubs Championship) where we will have eight of us in four teams, including the
Weller team, fishing and we will be hoping to do a lot better.
[Report by Jim]
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First day of the BCC Members Championship.
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This is an individuals event but there are also prizes for 4-man Teams as well as loads of chances to get your name on the silverware.
Unfortunately the four of us failed miserably, only managing to catch 3 eels between the four of us, one for Mick and two for Peter and none for Roy and myself.
We did however catch numbers of Ling (up to 22.5lb) and a whiting. Biggest fish was Peter's conger and Mick managed to find six species
[Report by Jim]
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Friday 28th June - Hayling - Valkyrie
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We managed to avoid most of the rain which I gather fell in most places on Sunday with only a small shower.
It was dull for most of the time with the sun making an appearance for some of the time.
Brian Collett and I were the only GCSAC members on board.
Brian started the day by upsetting me with a 23lb Ling on the first drop, however he peaked to soon and only has one Bass for the rest of the day
to add to his species list.
As for myself not much different only managing 2 Ling (biggest 12lb) and 2 Pollack (biggest 11lb) to add to my species list.
[Report by Bob]
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Wednesday 26th June - Portsmouth - Sportsmans Knight
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I was the only GCSAC member on board so fish caught will not count for species records but it was a good day 6 Bass and 7 Pollack, and even a
small Mackrel which went as bait.
[Report by Bob]
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EXCELLENT
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Six members aboard so plenty of room
SENSIBLE starting time - 9 of the clock,
Nice weather - Sunny, NO rain, became overcast as the day went on so no-one got burnt.
Managed to catch enough mackerel for bait (well that nice Mr Edwards (the skipper did) even though they were not exactly plentiful.
Steve went where there was enough tide to keep the fish feeding but not enough to make it hard work.
Enough bream around so that everyone had a few (and some quite a lot).
A couple of Rays and a couple of small congers plus a few other species to keep the interest up.
I lost count of the cups of tea Steve made us.
To summarise
We had Bream to 3lb 9oz, a handful of dogfish, enough mackerel, a nice thornback, a big undulate, four colourful cuckoos, one poorcod and
about a dozen pout.
Linda Talmadge had the biggest bream, the biggest fish was Mick Doody's 12lb 14oz undulate ray, and the most species was shared at 6 each for Mick
and Jim Grant.
A great day's fishing - and a big "Well done" for Steve.
[Report by Jim}
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CANCELLED - Nasty case of wind.
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Scheduled as a specialist trip to target large Blonde Rays we hastily had a rethink following Sunday's experience and decided to target the Bass on the
wrecks with live sand eels.
Only problem was that the launce and sand eel were nowhere near as prolific as Sunday but we caught just sufficient to start along with half a dozen
mackerel.
The weather was ideal and in stark contrast to the previous day when worsening weather caused an early curtailment of the trip, our only issue was
insufficient sunscreen!
Whilst the Bass were almost certainly present on the numerous wrecks that we fished they were not playing our game! Paul, the skipper persisted,
and we eventually found a wreck that produced numerous Cod to supplement the Pollack and Pout we had taken.
Ironically it was not until the end of our day just off the harbour that we found some Bass by drifting a mackerel fillet across some rough ground
in quite murky water. 3 were taken and the best was a very nice fish of 6lb 12oz to Gavin Thomson, the heaviest of the day.
5 anglers shared the most number of species on 7 each; Gavin Thomson, Mick Doody, Dave Ball, Phil Evans and Roy Hebburn.
A very interesting and pleasant day, with thanks to skipper Paul for keeping us at it!
[Report by Roy}
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Sunday 16th June Dungeness - Fair Chance
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Only myself and Brian Collett from GCSAC on board all others BISLEY only.
A great day, fine weather and plenty of fish.
Fishing a mid channel mark drifting for Dabs and Plaice.
We both had the same 5 species to add to (start) our species records with the club.
Cod, Dabs, Plaice, Whiting and Pout.
No fish of any great size my largest Plaice was 2lb. One Bisley member also caught a Turbot.
[Report by Bob]
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What had been a poor forecast improved considerably and apart from being a bit bumpy going out the weather and sea improved considerably through the day.
Given the tide we decided to target big Blonde Rays which skipper Paul was convinced were present so
mackerel feathers went on to supplement the bait. Could we catch any - no! Huge numbers of Launce were high in the water and it was difficult to get through them.
Feathering near the bottom just produced lots of sand eels! Only 3 mackerel were caught when we hunkered down for the Rays.
3 hours later and with only Doggies and Pout to show for our efforts we concluded the late cold spring had wrought another victim.
We had to try something else and declining the opportunity to go wrecking we fished a piece of rough ground off Calais jigging with shads and pirks.
What a bonanza we had with the Cod! They were prolific with everyone catching
sufficient to take home for family and friends.
Phil Evans had the biggest at 13lbs and Roy Hebburn had most species on 7. A really good day.
[Report by Roy}
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Poole (PCBA) species competition.
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Four of us (Phil, Mick, Jim, and Roy) went down to Poole for the competition.
Trevor looked after us all day and it was a great day out.
I would like to report that we came back covered in glory but not to be.
Still we managed to catch thirteen species between us and so came somewhere in the middle of the field.
[Report by Jim}
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8 GCSAC members set off in high expectation for a 3 day wrecking trip out of Hayling Island aboard Valkyrie skippered by Glen Cairns.
The weather forecast for the 3 days was excellent and proved to be so.
Our two night stopover accommodation in France was above a local restaurant which was adequate but the food was superb.
The Calvados sorbet and Sea food were to die for!
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Unfortunately the fishing proved to be somewhat disappointing. Either the Congers haven't woken up yet from the cold spring or the wrecks have
been pillaged by the French.
There was however one tremendous highlight in the form of a 10lb 3oz Brill caught by Peter Talbot drifting a flapper.
It was huge and if it had been in tip top Autumn condition it could have gone 15lb. In Glen's opinion it was bigger than his boat record of 13lb 5oz.
This is a new Club record.
The consolation was that the Pollack proved to be very reliable and were excellent sport.
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Day1:
4 Cod come on board, the biggest being 8lb. Everyone caught Pollack and most caught Mackerel and Pout as well.
7 anglers had 3 species and the two biggest Pollack guestimated at 15lb fell to Alan Whittaker and Peter Talbot.
Day 2:
Everyone had Pollack, Pout and Mackerel. 3 conger were caught, and the largest by a long way was one of 25lb to John Barnes. 3 Red Gurnard and the
Brill were caught in addition.
Peter Talbot and Alan Whittaker shared most species on 5 with the biggest going to John for his Conger.
Day 3 saw everyone catching Pollack again and most had Pout. A sole Ling of about 12lb fell to John Barnes. Two small Cod came aboard,
a lonely Red Gurnard and a few Mackerel for tea.
Mick Doody, Alan Whittaker and Peter Talbot shared the most species on 3 each with the biggest being shared by Alan's 15lb Conger and a weighed
15lb Pollack to Peter Talbot.
Glen visited all the 'hot' marks and tried everything, but it was not to be. Good fun however with excellent memories of food and the Brill!
[Report by Roy]
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At last we got a decent forecast for a trip at Littlehampton.
The weather was actually very nice and still when we set off.
Mr Legget's cunning plan of was to go out to the Kingmere and get a few bream and other fish while the tide was running.
We actually caught bream and other species.
Then Dickie's plan was to drift on the slack and catch plaice.
We drifted the slack and caught plaice.
Then again, just according to plan, it was back on the Kingmere for more bream on the anchor,
Its nice when a plan comes together.
We caught lots of bream (to over 3lbs), a few dabs, a couple of dogfish, a tub gurnard, a few mackerel, loads of plaice, some pout,
an undulate ray and a ballan wrasse.
Biggest fish was Roy Hebburn's undulate ray (11lb 6oz) and Phil evans had the most species (7)
[Report by Jim]
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A full complement of 10 members aboard.
It was nice and calm when we started out.
We were still in Langstone (not far from the pontoon) when Glenn had us feathering for mackerel, which caught at least on of us (me) totally
unprepared so I didn't quite manage to catch even one, although the guys who had been a bit quicker off the mark soon feathered up enough for bait as
well as a few little bass (which went back to grow bigger).
Now to the real business of the day.
We tried a couple of marks for tope and smoothhounds with limited success, there were fish there but not in numbers although Dave found a good thornback.
As the day wore on the wind freshened and was quite cold at tims. It was never uncomfortable on the boat but I for one thought that it might
have been a bit less steady if we had gone out to the wrecks.
To finish off the day we spent an hour or so bream fishing, which was reasonably successful and Matt managed to pick up a couple of bullhuss.
Between us we had bass (undersize), bullhuss, bream (up to about 2lb) dogfish, garfish, mackerel, smoothhounds, tope (to 32lb), wrasse, and a thornback ray (11lb).
Biggest fish was Dave Ball's 32lb tope and Phil Evans got the points for most species (6).
Another good day AND Glenn has installed a hot water drinks boiler so tea and coffee is now unlimited on a serve yourself basis on the boat.
[Report by Jim]
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CANCELLED - Still too much weather.
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Too much wind and sea - so CANCELLED.
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Jim has a day out.
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The forecast for Bank holiday monday was excellent so I checked availability on the deepsea directory and as fortune has it there was a space on Starfish
The weather was great. The sea was flat. The coffee was excellent. Fish were caught.
Mackerel on Dene Tail were elusive to start with (5 caught).
Out on the grounds, both those of us that had bought peelers and those of us who relied on dave's hardbacks caught smoothhounds.
Then off to Utopia for tope where more hounds (up to 18lb) and once we had feathered up a few more mackerel (plenty there) tope (up to 30lb).
Great day!
[Report by Jim]
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Doody Enterprises Staff Fishing Trip.
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Five of Mick's guys plus another five to make up the numbers were hoping to go for cod, pollack, ling and conger on the diustant wrecks, but
due to the weather forecast it was not going to be possible so the trip was changed to an inshore event,
It was cold and windy.
Glenn's initial thought that the anchorage would be a good start for mackerel around one of the anchored ships but then changed his mind
so stopped off at to Dene Tail on the way. There, in one drift, we caught more than enough mackerel for bait.
Then it was off to Sandown Bay to get away from the worst of the wind and waves.
Wind against tide and a snaggy bottom made fishing difficult for the first couple of hours and few fish were caught.
As soon as practical we moved and anchored a little further offshore (three or four times), but our options were limited by the wind which was being
indicated on one of the weather buoys at speeds of over thirty knots (the forecast was the mid twenties at worst).
Between us we had dogfish, garfish, mackerel, pout, and smoothhounds. Biggest fish on the boat was Phil's 9lb smoothhound and the biggest
for a GCSAC member was Jim's one of just about half that size. Jim also had the most species (6).
[Report by Jim]
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Four other club members joined Mick to introduce one of his friends (Mike) to sea fishing. Trip was booked last summer in the e
expectation that we would have the excitement to be had at the peak of the black bream season but the weather (and the sea) had been so cold that only
the first few bream had only just started to show up.
It started off more like February than May so everyone was well muffled up against the cold and wind. We started uut near the Kingmere
fishing at anchor for the plaice. The plaice were not suicidal but everyone caught a few some of which were quite sizeable (up to around two and
a half pounds) and there were quite a few dabs among them as well although most of them were far too small to keep. Roy put down a mackerel bait on
his plaice gear and was surprised by a tremendous tug and dogged fight which ended with him boating a thornback ray of 8lb 13oz.
Tthe tide turned and the sun came out maaking it warmer and as the tde got away got away we tried a rocky bit for for a bass or two but thst only
produced a mackerel.
Our last couple of hour were spent bream fishing during most of the thick jackets and wooly hats were shed. We got a few bream, one of which was
about three pounds.
During the day we had bream, dabs, dogfish, aa mackerel, pout, plaice and the one thornback
Of the club members Roy was the most successful, not only getting the biggest fish but also the most species (6)
[Report by Jim)
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Sunday 28th April - Littlehampton - Lynander (Dick Legget) and Jenifers Pride (Steve Edwards)
The first of our 2013 Club Competitions.
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We were originally oversubscribed by one but after a few changes we ended up with 15 competitors fishing (one of which was a guest
on his first sea fishing trip.
Fishing was not easy, thr bream had just arrived and only just over a dozen were caught all but one being taken on Jenifers Pride.
Aboard Lynander they found more pout and wrasse and both boats had a number of plaice and dabs. Ones and twos of other species turned up giving a
final species roll-call of: tompot blenny, bream, dab, dogfish, mackerel, plaice, pout, smoothhound, undulate ray, ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse,
corkwing wrasse and goldsinny wrasse. The biggest fish was the 10lb 12oz undulate ray caught by Roy Hebburn on Lynander while the biggest on
Jenifers Pride was a 3lb 9oz ballan wrasse boated by Mick Doody.
When the scores were added the final results were very extremely close:
First - Phil Evans (Lynander) 153 points
Second - Gavin Thomson (Jenifers Pride) 152 points
Third - Mick doody (Jenifers Pride) 133 points
Just out of the prize money in joint fourth - Simon Harding and Roy Hebburn
[Report by Jim)
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The first wrecking trip for the club this year. The first trip with Zac at the helm.
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At seven o'clock with ten members aboard and we headed out to the banks to try for a few mackerel.
The north side of the bank produced a few mackerel for bait, as did the south side but we only ended up with a dozen or so.
The next stop was a small wreck well inside french waters where we were soon into good sized pollack on sidewinders and storms of various colours.
After a few drifts that just produced pollack and the occasional pout the activity seemed to stir the ling into action as well so we tried using
baits. The ling proved to be unfussy, as besides artificials, they took fresh and frozen mackerel as well as cuttle and squid.
Not wanting to take too much from one wreck we then went off to a larger one a few miles away where we had more pollack and ling and lost a lot of
lures bravely trying for cod (unsuccessfully).
The fourth stop was just a couple of drifts over another wreck which also had pollack and ling and then we headed back toward Hayling.
Some of us opted to just gut their fish on the way in, others also removed their heads as well, and some actually filleted theirs.
A great trip. Well done Zac!. A flat sea, little wind, a bit of sun and everybody had ling (up to 22lb) and most had pollack (up to 15lb)
to take home.
Biggest fish was a Nigel Cross's ling of 22lb and Roy Hebburn and Mick Doody shared the honours for most species with 4 each.
[Report by Jim]
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Sunday 14th April - Littlehampton - Jenifers Pride (Steve Edwards)
Cancelled due to weather.
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The second day in Weymouth for Mick and Jim.
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An excellent day despite it being a bit breezy with a lumpy sea. No rain and nobody seasick. No messing about, straight out to a wreck
a couple
of hours away. We drifted with our lures and caught pollack and the occasional pout then we went to another wreck and caught a few more pollack.
Nobody on the boat blanked so everybody had pollack to take home.
Today it was Mick's turn for the biggest (13lb) pollack and we both had pout as well as pollack.
The tea and coffee kept coming all day made loads of tea and coffee during the day and also filleted all the pollack for us on the way home.
[Report by Jim]
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The first of two days in Weymouth for Mick and Jim.
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We started out for the banks to fish for turbot but one of the party (Ollie) was seasick and rapidly lost interest and breakfast.
The rest of us dragged our bits of mackerel up and down the banks for a while. We had no success and Ollie remained uninterested.
For a change we then dragged worms back and forth over the mussel beds. We caught nothing and Ollie was still seasick (but uncomplaining).
Then we went back to dragging mackerel over the banks again. We caught a dogfish (Ollie did not care).
Lyle then suggested a trip out to a wreck about an hour away. We were all (except one) keen.
Off we went and drifted artificials back and forth across the wreck for a couple of hours. Now things improved. We caught about fifteen nice pollack
several of which were in double figures which saved the day. Well called Lyle! because the boats that persevered with the turbot and plaice all day did
very poorly indeed. There was loads of tea and coffee during the day and Lyle also filleted the pollack for us on the way home.
Between the two of us Guildford members, I had the most species (pollack and dogfish) and the biggest fish (13lb).
Also Ollie perked up considerably as we reached calmer water approaching the harbour.
[Report by Jim]
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Just one of those days when the sea was flat, the sun was out, the kettle seemed always to be on for tea but not a lot of fish about.
A couple of days before the trip Steve (alias "Bumble") had asked if we were absolutely sure that we still wanted to go, because the water was still so cold and
murky and there were few fish about. In our wisdom we decided do it anyway.
Outside the Nab Steve made us all tea and coffeee and Roy soon found our first ray, a very nice (10lb) smalleyed, rapidly followed by a dogfish for Peter.
After this promising start we perservered for a while for no more fish at allso a move was indicated.
At The Overfalls before we even had tea Gavin went quiet and serious and we soon realised thet he had managed to attract a
little blonde. We noted that this was quickly followed by another dogfish for Peter.
Monitoring communications with other charted boats indicated that we were doing slightly BETTER than average but we still decided on another move.
It would have been the Spoil Grounds but Steve's preferred mark there was being occupied by a dredger so we stopped off at a little wreck for
another cup of tea and a few pout.
As well as the two rays, between us, we caught dogfish, pout and whiting. The biggest was Roy's small-eyed ray. Matt, Roy and Gavin all had three species.
[Report by Jim]
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CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
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Again 10 of us were hoping to get to the wrecks but apparently the wrecks are still not producing (due the the east wind), so it was plaice fishing for us
It was quite cold and the sun only shone sporadically but no rain and the wind was not strong, just cold, but at least the plentiful tea helped keep the
cold out a bit.
Drifting the banks produced lots of plaice some of which were quite fat for the time of year as well as dabs and small whiting.
By the end of the day everybody had caught at least half a dozen plaice each but most were too small or too thin to keep. We also had about the
same number of whiting but even fewer of them were sizeable. There were also about ten little dabs (mostly caught by Roy) and one little codling
(about 1lb) and one dogfish.
Biggest fish was Ricky Nethersole's plaice (3lb 1oz) but Roy Hebburn had the mosts species (4).
[Report by Jim]
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A full complement of club members were hoping to go out to the wrecks for some pollack but the skipper had tried it the day before without
notable success, and the weather forecast was far from ideal. The night before it was decided that we would go inshore for the thornbacks.
Weather was a bit cold and the stiffish easterly breeze made it seem colder.
We started out in the deeper water and were catching a few thornbacks as well as the usual dogfish and whiting and then the anchor pulled out.
A couple of tries at re-anchoring and then off to the Goodwin sands.
The Goodwins were not producing, so when the tide turned we went back to where we started, and were joined by several other boats.
Even when the tide was just about right there were few fish about (that easterly wind again!)
We all enjoyed the day and agreed that it would have been pretty cold and nasty if we had tried the wrecks for pollack.
Between us we caught half a dozen thornback rays, a few whiting, a couple of pout and loads of (mostly small) dogfish.
Biggest fish was Phil Evans's 5lb 15oz thornback and Mick Doody, Phil and Gavin Thomson shared the honours of the most species with four each.
[Report by Jim]
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CANCELLED - Weather
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Three members, Mick Doody, Roy Hebburn and Peter Thatcher joined a Valkyrie singles mid-channel wrecking trip.
Weather was perfect. Slightly damp, but a light northerly helped ease our way out to 50 mile distant wrecks and whilst drifting the breeze
dropped completely.
At about 4pm the breeze reappeared but this time from the south, easing our way back in.
Excellent Pollack fishing was experienced by all 12 anglers and 5 different wrecks were drifted to ensure plenty of fish were left on each wreck.
The fish were nearly all in double figures and in excellent condition.
Each member caught Pollack and Pout with the biggest Pollack weighing in at 17lbs to Roy Hebburn.
[Report by Roy]
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The drive to Dover was quick taking about 1Hr 20mins at 70 mph motorway all the way to the boat !
Weather was good and sea was calm .
We started fishing on the goodwin sands for rays and cod , no rays but simon managed to catch a codling of 3lb
lots of whiting dogs and pout .
We moved several times but no sizable fish . The tea came thick and fast and there is plenty of room to fish on the catamaran,
The biggest fish caught was by Simon Harding with his 3lb codling and he had the most species at 4 .
Every one had just whiting dogs and pout.
Very enjoyable days fishing.
[Report by Mick)
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Friday 3rd January - Littlehampton - Lynander (Dick Legget)
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Three members (suffering fishing withdrawal symtoms) and a couple of guests chartered Lynander for a day's whiting and cod fishing.
A very nice day compared with what we had had for the preceding weeks.
We found plenty of whiting with quite a lot of good sized ones and the pout and dogfish were also coming in thick and fast but only one
codling turned up so our guests had a nice fish to take home. Ther were also two of the very smallest size congers boated.
Club members Mick, Jim and Peter all caught four species each and the biggest fish (which was at least twice the size of either of the congers)
was a whiting that weighed in at 3lb 7oz.
[Report by Jim)
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