Comp Sunday 13th

I have just had a look and a few positions could still change for the three trophys for this series.

Go for it and may the best man win

Charlie

Huummm forgot about this last comp and as I am desperate to get out fishing will enter

Anyone else fishing it?

Martin

I will - although need to get Gordon or Paul J ( or anyone else ! ) to crew.

Oh dear just had a call from Peter and the comp is now off Cancelled until further notice due to inclement weather again

Martin

?? The Metoffice is giving the same forecast for tomorrow as today? And the wind is in the North.....4-5?? Oh well, Safety officer's call I guess.

BW will still be going out for a few hours, give me a call if you are out. Gordon went today and said it was like a mirror all day.

AF

Dean and I will be out playing tomorrow from about 8am till 3pmish

Will have to suck and see with the weather as there are differing views on the weather sites as usual. Accuweather and Beeb are giving 5/6 northerly whilst some of the other sites are giving 3/4 northerly

We'll see in the morning, will shout you Adam

Martin

The wind is so unpredictable, the forecast changed from bad to good and then good to bad, and now back again.

Pete called me while we were out fishing yesterday

The forecast was all over the place so a safety first call was the only answer.

Fishing yesterday was very slow, but the weather was nice.

If you are out today have a safe one and tight lines

Charlie

A good decision to call it off today. The wiind really picked up mid morning.

Well here we go again

lets have another try at finishing the series of comps and maybe get out to look how the marks are fishing ready for the 27th

The forecast that I have been hoping for for the openm seems to be forecast for this Sunday so lets hope its right and we can all get out.

please remember to call Peter or I

Hope to see you all afloat.

As another note, when we were out on Saturday one of the Charter skippers from lymington was having a moan about "those idiots on the VHF are from that Poole small Boat Club"

He was openly accusing us of fishing close together and always using 25 watts of power and drowning out other VHF users.

I pointed out to him fairly bluntly that although I was chatting to Frank, it is a chat channel and the two botts were at least 7 miles apart. He went quiet.

It may be a good time to remind ourselves that we can be a bit more private by turning the power setting down when we are close together.

I am sure the VHF and mobiles will be buzzing on the 27th, lets not be a pain to other boats or give away to much to the charter boys

Charlie

Charlie

On the point of watt (excuse the pun) power to use. I frequently hear charter boats that fish the IOW grounds and beyond who have stated on the radio they can see each other, They then carry on chatting, these guys must be on full power for me to pick them up 14/15 miles away so who are the idiots.

I always (well almost) try to use low power on first calling then switch to full/high power if no response is heard. I think some of the so-called professionals are not so courteous in their use of radio as they would like others to be. Most of us so called idiots are more professional than the professionals in the use of radio.

Gripes aside we should all try and use low power whenever possible. And obviously don

You are spot on Martin

He was probably talking to other charter boats within 1 watt range [Needles area] and I heard him on the Banks south of Old Harry. I wonder watt setting his radio was on????

Probably why I heard nothing after I responded

I expect they both turned their power down to carry on the moaning.

Charlie

there are also a few sailing boats that are out Sunday's and using 06 all the time - something Bear was one. As they were commenting on how close they were getting to things (and each other) you have to assume that they could have got away with 1W - especially with their aerials!

see my reply in Charlie's other post re. the Sunday comp!