thanks dave sorry the hear you have been layed off work hope you find some work soon as god starting to sound like a kiwi now (soon as ) . yes i can't wait to get out there but i have a few things to buy for the boat yet ie safey gear life jackets flares and i have a garmin gps plotter coming from the states the 3210 and the little black box that go's with it so i can plug my transducer in to it the boats and outboard are both 2008 so i don't have to worry about serviceing for another 2 years and theres only 60hrs on the engine anyway but one thing i learnt with this great fishing club is never go to sea without all your safey gear 
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mark b
Top man Mark we all look forward to reading your reports and seeing the photos
Martin
Hi Mark, Glad to hear all is well with you and your family. Hope your string gets pulled a few times mate. Nice boat. All the best. Billy 
thanks billy have you heard from rich atall hes last posting was in december where has he gone and how are things in sunny weymouth mate are the family keeping well ? .
mark b
Haven,t heard from Rich for ages mate, think he was going part shares in a boat last I heard. Family are well, how about yours? Sam is the new Junior EFSA England boat champion so we are quite proud of him at the moment. Weymouth aint so sunny of late my friend, pretty crappy at the moment. WIND, WIND and more WIND. Still managing to fish 4 times a month in the comps, but , not having a boat anymore makes the Poole comps difficult. Still a great site though with plenty of interesting threads. Good one from Adam with his diving piccies.
What are you doing for a job mate? I have a fair bit of work at the moment but some are struggling. Send some piccies over Bud. Billy
Hey Mark!!! Great to hear from you.
Missing you buddy. 
When are ya coming back?
I need someone to buy a round. 
Say hello to Dot.
We'll be over for Xmas dinner...and Snapper would sound good on the menu.
Send me a PM with your address. I will Google Earth and see your house.
Lucky blighter!!!!
hi bob how are you mate who said anythink about coming back 
we have only just got here . we have just got in from a walk along the beach at caster bay and i must say i wished i had taken the boat for a spin today its been flat clam and sunny allday' as we were walking along we saw there was a big boil of water and seagulls everywere' just about 100 meters from us 'ganets were diveing and there were kahawai jumping out the water caseing the smaller fish pilchards i think i can't belive that there is so much action and it so close to the beach and the bloke next to me on the beach said that the snapper will be chasing the smaller kahawai and its still winter here roll on the summer 
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sorry typeing error i put 58 knots when it was 48 knot sorry i don.t read what i write sometime and my spelling is bad .
mark
Just wait until the summer and the kingfish chase the kahawai Mark
even off the shore the Kiwi's use about 2-3lb ones for kingy bait.
apparently once the water gets to 19 degrees the big snapper and kingfish get going.
when we were in the bay of islands at Christmas my mate Steve had a 16lb snapper it nearly spooled him about 5 times.
Charlie