Similar tale to others for us on Joint Venture......
...a bumpy trip over to the Island; no fog and the mist soon dispersed.
Lots and lots of boats already there.... our mark turned out to be close to Alfresco and Dawn Raider with Yelo in waving distance.
Expecting a stream of bites from the start, I'd brought lots of extra squid but the baits kept coming back almost untouched !! No dogs, no pout just the odd whelk on our baits [ which I kept.... and made a starter with as the count went into double figures over the next few hours !!]
With the change of the tide, a freshening SE at a good Force 4, pushed us beam on .....with a rocking \ rolling workout and no bites, we had to make move....... off to my inshore mark for a last hour fishing the flood.
As with the last time I was out on JV, this move paid off.... a bit. One cod, this time to Ian..... a plump 10 lber
Think I'll be giving the Car Park a miss now.
Alun.
What a day that was
a run out into a lumpy sea in fog
One of the crew ill as soon as the anchor went down, but to his credit he did not want us to stop fishing.
We sat waiting for hours for just a few bits and pieces and a couple of very small congers, constantly changing baits and removing weed
We counted over 70 boats in view at one point, so the scent trail was well spread
Eventually we tried a move in an attempt to get a bit calmer for the sake of Stu, but I parked at the dogs home. They enjoyed the fourth box of squid of the day, and were about as popular as the red weed.
By 4 It was time to head in early for everyones sake
Not the best trip ever, well done to the other boats that found some cod. We really felt for the lads on the smaller boats yesterday in that weather.
Lets hope for some calmer weather soon
Charlie 
We really felt for the lads on the smaller boats yesterday in that weather.
It was nasty but not sure much better on something bigger!!!!
Not sure I am ever going to bother with the Car Park again!
Rob
We had a day to forget.
Had a horrid trip out, went under the 7.30 bridge from Cobbs and nearly turned back once we got out past the chain ferry, pea soup and lumpy.
I just about managed to keep up with a Red (arvor I think) and another boat from Cobbs (a small QS I think) and we agreed that if we could keep them in sight we would continue.
Once we got towards the needles the pea soup vanished and a blast of sunshine was waiting.
We tried an inshore mark well past the car park to start with. Missed a hooping bite (god knows how!) and then had a good plump bass of around 5lb came off the hook within a foot of the net.
We decided to move over to join the fleet at slack tide to see what the fuss was about, i'd never fished the spoils before. As soon as the tide turned my partner for the day started to feed the fish and we had to go back in for his sake. 
I fish the area S of the Needles as my home ground and I have never seen anything like the number of boats out there as there was yesterday. I guess it's amazing what a bit of cod fever plus the first weekend weather window can do.
All I can say is roll on summer and back to some peace and quiet out there....
I just about managed to keep up with a Red (arvor I think) and another boat from Cobbs (a small QS I think) and we agreed that if we could keep them in sight we would continue.
The red arvor was probably Neal on "Court Jester" and the QS might have been Craig on "Abode 2" both club members boats so you were in good company. We use ch6 for comms and I'm sure if you called up either one they would of acknowledged and kept an eye out for you after all thats what the club is all about.
We were near the spoils and like many others had a very slow day. A few congers to Dean, pout and dogs with just one cod of 17lb 1oz to Charlie A
Shame about your mate but never mind there's always next week 
The red arvor was probably Neal on "Court Jester" and the QS might have been Craig on "Abode 2" both club members boats so you were in good company. We use ch6 for comms and I'm sure if you called up either one they would of acknowledged and kept an eye out for you after all thats what the club is all about.
I nearly did but being a bit of a newbie I didn't want to slow down anyone else's day.
Shame about your mate but never mind there's always next week
I'm actually tempted to go out tomorrow and use up the rest of the squid but I think the FPO would do her nut if I spent any more money on petrol 
Hi all my first catch report :- First i have to say, best thing i have done is join pbsbac,What i have learnt from you guys in the last few months has set me on my way to some great fishing.With special thanks to mike and his patient nature haha....
Sundays cod comp... left mudeford quay at 7.15 am a little foggy and in a Alaska 500 a little lumpy.Headed off to a mark that mike had given me.For most of the morning we were pestered by dog fish and pout to the extent that we were running low on bait.At around 12.30 my cousin pulled in a cod 14lb 3oz "NICE" even though i was a little green with envy!! About an hour later a rod bender for me but turned out to be a conger of around 20 -25lb.
Then the end of the day was here and all our bait had gone. we needed to head in to make it back in daylight. But as we fishermen do said one more drop 10 mins so i stipped off the bait that was left on my double hook rig and added it to my single hook rig , Within minutes a screaming run which produced a 25lb 2oz cod
"FANTASTIC"
Martin
Nigel has sent me a photo of your fish to my phone for me to upload on the site however I can't get the piccy from my phone to the pc.
Could you email me a copy please
The other Martin
Without going over everything that has been said regarding the crossing and that horrible fog, the best part of our day was feeding dog fish to the extent that we had to reduce our bait size down for the fear of running out, Jackie and I managed two skinny Cod one 6lb 8oz and one 8lb 1oz.
PB Bass 7lb 7 oz which turned a poor day into a great day for me.
Very interesting to read the last two posts
Bait running out , reduced size of baits and then success
Currently we are using baits far bigger than we would have only a few years ago, and some hook rigs that are so big that they prevent doggies and such taking them [Nigle you know what I mean]
But are we doing the right thing?
We can not be doing too much wrong, as it worked a few days ago , but it does raise an interesting point.
Well done to all that caught Cod [Oh yes and PB Bass Craig 
] especially the three over the magic 20lb mark.
Charlie
Martin
Nigel has sent me a photo of your fish to my phone for me to upload on the site however I can't get the piccy from my phone to the pc.
Could you email me a copy please
The other Martin
have emailed pic to you many thanks !
Well done all those that fished yesterday, and more so for those that caught cod at the Needles car park and elsewhere.
I persevered with 4/0 pennels on 100lb trace trying to catch a fat whiting or two with a chance of a bonus cod, but had neither. Managed a stack of doggies, and a few fat pout, and connected with most of the bites I seemed to have. Interestingly, whipping two squid side by side on the pennel later on in the day presented too fat a bait for doggies to swallow, or tear apart readily. Not sure it released so much smell though...
One whiting of 1.5lb or so was also seen on board, plus a couple of conger in the 25-35lb bracket. Did anyone get into the whiting...anywhere?
Interesting sea state for neap tides and a SSE 3-4 (and I think it never got more than that), which is not uncommon at this time of year. Comments above did made me think which boats did find it comfortable or even tolerable? It might be useful information for anyone considering a change!
Mike
I did not enter the comp as I felt the conditions earlier in the week was condusive for my boat, however the pull of the sea made me stick the nose of the boat out of the harbour to see what conditions were like.
As it seemed ok close in I carried on and dropped the hook down at X-Ray. As I was on my own I did check in via the radio to a club boat just to say I was out here. Well seems the LSD were out in force as I too had only doggies and condtions were not too bad but by 2.30pm I had enough of rock and roll and so headed back.
What a great ride it was surfing down the waves at 18kts and slow up to 10kts gong up hill again. 
Saw some boats out closer to home but not sure how they did.
Glad everyone stayed safe.
Dave
Very interesting to read the last two posts
Bait running out , reduced size of baits and then success
Currently we are using baits far bigger than we would have only a few years ago, and some hook rigs that are so big that they prevent doggies and such taking them [Nigle you know what I mean]
But are we doing the right thing?
We can not be doing too much wrong, as it worked a few days ago , but it does raise an interesting point.
Well done to all that caught Cod [Oh yes and PB Bass Craig
Charlie
I can onlly comment on a few years ago (sadly) but I used to outfish the rest of the boat with a single piece of cuttle mantle about 2"x 3/4" .
Especially effective just downtide from PJ's 16 squid baits....
One suggestion was that with really large squid pennels you risk loosing the bottom, another was that you can drop a small bait back to find fish a lot more easily.
Anyhow, the one undisputable fact is that you have to be out there with some bait in the water to catch!......