Slightly later start from Cobbs but the same start as Wight Magic, slip and slide down the pontoons.
Out to the mark that produced a cod last week but nothing this week.
Lost count of the doggies, 8 whiting for the table.
A blonde ray the smallest I,d ever caught, the weight was heavier!!
Later Stu caught a smaller one I think the hook was heavier, ray the size of a saucer!
Stu got a lively starry smoothound about 6-7lb that had us thinking he was into a cod.
Not a brilliant fishing day, very lively at times then long spells of nothing.
Cracking day to be out though! 
Thanks Stu for the top bacon and egg butties and endless supply of cuppa.s.
Chris
Same as others really.
First comp I've fished this year.... A cracking day, everything went to plan.... Apart from the fishing 
Such a nice day to be afloat. Bacon and egg baps, loads of cups of tea. In t shirts by lunchtime, but hoards of doggies. I moved us twice but to no avail, more dogs. We had two whiting on the boat but they never really got going.
More disappointing winter cod fishing. I'll have one more try and then concentrate on shooting till Spring!
Thanks Stu for the top bacon and egg butties and endless supply of cuppa.s.
Yeah thanks stu... Never seen someone make so many cups of tea and coffee! And thanks to Chris for putting up with me again! 
Jon
Same story on Manta Ray, even with a charter skipper on board, we still couldn't use this to our advantage !
I Had what looked like a cod until a conger surfaced 
plus a few whiting but no mr cod today.
We had good whiting action around slack water ending up with around 10 fish in total.plus 2 doggies and that was it.
Still was a great day to be out and plenty of pizza and sausage rolls plus coffee on tap, plus good company, so made a really enjoyable day. Will be repeating the trip in 2 weeks time, so hoping the fish play ball next time.
Thanks for the trip Al.
is it to late to enter the comp ??? think i could be in with a chance lol
So no cod for anyone?
I heard that there was one caught. Will await the post .....
Adam. Will you be shooting ''fish in a barrel'' derek. 
No cod for Court Jester - but an interesting day with a variety of fish caught.
A few decent whiting, 3 bass around 3.5lb, 4 Blonde Rays - biggest 21.5lb, a few dogfish but not in plague proportions.
Just before slack water Mike Fox hooked something big whilst dropping his bait - the fish took line on his Avet Reel set on full drag - and just kept going, he had it on for a good 5 minutes but couldn't stop it. Whatever it was finally shook the hooks. We speculated as to what it could have been, but couldn't think of anything that should have been in the area.
Asd I called lines up to go home - "Dogfish" Dave Wilson hit the same beast again also taking the bait in mid mid-water. He was fishing with his 4.5metre Tubertini Atlantic, which earlier had pulled up the large Blonde Ray effortlessly.
Whatever it was this time spooled 300metre of braid straight off his reel with full drag - with the backing as well amost gone his line parted at the top of the snood.
So fortunately he recovered his brand new braid.
But we were none the wiser as to what was taking the baits - big Shark maybe?
But no weed, no cod unfortunately, but what glorious weather.
Neal
Shark! Has been known at this time of year - were you on \ near the Swanage Spoils Neal?
Nige will be out there before you can say "gunna need a bigger boat"!
Rob
Nige will be out there before you can say "gunna need a bigger boat.
Already planning it........Hmmmmm.......might even be a Tuna?
Already planning it........Hmmmmm.......might even be a Tuna?
a multi-pack in a carrier bag perhaps!!!!
Sam saw a grey shape follow one of his whiting to the boat yesterday
He thought that it looked like a tope, but I doubt that a tope would spool two reels in a day.
Sounds like you had a shark around the boat.
Well we had a plan and were fairly determined to stick to it, especially as Sam was onboard and always tells me off for changing my plans to often.
Due to the tides we decided to go out early and fish mostly on the gentler flood tide in only 80ft of water.
0800 had us at anchor on the chosen spot and some big baits going down.
During the first hour of the flood we were picking red weed off the line and wondering if we were in the right place.
But the weed started to improve and we were getting some fish so we stayed.
Most of the fish were LSD and whiting until Ben had a better one nodding away.
This proved to be a Thornback of about 7lb or so [returned without weighing LOL]
Will was in the cabin cooking breakfast when a gentle bite persisted on his rod.
Fish on and even better a COD
It was weighed at 9lb 10 and placed on ice in the cooler. another large cuttle bait deployed and back to the Galley. 
the whiting numbers rose for a while but no more proper fish
We fished on for an hour after our comp 7 hrs finished to enjoy the weather and land a few more whiting then had a nice run home on a calm sea.
Our day went wrong as we turned within the Yacht Haven to approach our winter berth. The drive unit stuck in fdw gear, which gives us constant 4 knots ahead and even after turning the engine off nothing we could do to prevent hitting a Yacht on its berth.
A very loud [and expensive ] crash saw two boats [mine and the yacht] damaged
Not a good thing as the Marina Manager trying to tell one of my own customers that my boat damaged his.
Still no one was hurt and no one was to blame either, so I will try to get her sorted ASAP, and hope that at least Will's fish stands a chance of winning.
Charlie