1st Mark Bessant Conger 52lb 130.00%
2nd Daniel Chapman Conger 40lb 100.00%
3rd= Charlie Chapman Black Bream 3lb 6oz 96.43%
3rd= Dave Mayne Bream Black 3lb 6oz 96.43%
5th Robert Fuller(jnr) Pouting 2lb 12oz 91.67%
6th Clive Tyler Bream Black 3lb 85.71%
7th Paul Dore Conger 33lb 82.50%
8th Bob Fuller Bream Black 2lb 12oz 78.57%
9th Ryan Bessant(jnr) LS Dogfish 2lb 4oz 75.00%
10th Carl Hurren Bream Black 2lb 8oz 71.43%
11th Gordon Moore LS Dogfish 2lb 2oz 70.83%
12th Adam Franklin Pollack 10lb 62.50%
13th Dominic Taylor Tope 7lb 15.56%
Nice one mate............no comments about the conger cuddling or the jig around the deck.
Well done buddy..............Nippers on form .....again!!! 
Rich
Well done Mark, nice fish. Nice to see Ryan mentioned as well. Seen the piccie Rich, thought you had found a new dating site. Regards, BB 
So i came last then! 
Some great fish there. Well done all.
Anyone fish overnight at all?
Mike
Thanks Paul, for organising the event and results
And Thanks to Paul Frey's very generous loan of a boat, we managed not only to get out and have a good trip but also get on the results sheet.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to enter and I hope you enjoyed your fishing as much as we did 
Charlie
Not for any other reason than I can't stand the pressure 
I don't enter the comps'. But some times it leaves me wondering how I would have got on if I had.
Therefore I wonder if somone would kindly work out for me where I would have been placed with the two rays I caught on Sunday.
First was an Undulate that was caught uptiding on a fresh mackerel head, she was about 18lb as far as I gould measure and I am going on the lower side. The next from the same spot about 2 hours later but on the flood not the ebb was a clonking great Thornback well heavier than the Undulate and weighing somewhat over 20lb. This was caught downtiding with a large mackerel fillet. Both fish fought well but the Thornback was a beast to bring in. Making it's way uptide and stripping line off the reel like mad, it did this three times in all leaving me slightly shattered but happy 
Both fish were returned. Unfortunately no proper pictures but we got som on the mobile phones camera and Mark is going to try to extract them so I can get them on my PC.
Mad Mike
Not for any other reason than I can't stand the pressureTherefore I wonder if somone would kindly work out for me where I would have been placed with the two rays I caught on Sunday.
First was an Undulate that was caught uptiding on a fresh mackerel head, she was about 18lb as far as I gould measure and I am going on the lower side. The next from the same spot about 2 hours later but on the flood not the ebb was a clonking great Thornback well heavier than the Undulate and weighing somewhat over 20lb. This was caught downtiding with a large mackerel fillet. Both fish fought well but the Thornback was a beast to bring in. Making it's way uptide and stripping line off the reel like mad, it did this three times in all leaving me slightly shattered but happy
Both fish were returned. Unfortunately no proper pictures but we got som on the mobile phones camera and Mark is going to try to extract them so I can get them on my PC.
Mad Mike
1st & 18lb 4oz would have got you 2nd.............but as you can only weigh in 1 fish of each species you would have been disqualified so all's well..........honours even etc - you get the message (either fish could have been the winner)
Brilliant Mike ! Worth registering them both officially I suspect.
Was it anywhere near the spot you told me?
Saw you coming back in on Sunday on the approaches to the chain ferry, but you seemed a little preoccupied. That broken down Sunseeker was in an interesting place, eh?
Mike
Brilliant Mike ! Worth registering them both officially I suspect.
Was it anywhere near the spot you told me?
Saw you coming back in on Sunday on the approaches to the chain ferry, but you seemed a little preoccupied. That broken down Sunseeker was in an interesting place, eh?
Mike
Sorry we missed you Mike. We were a bit aghast at the sight of a yacht tacking out across the bows of the ferry about 10 foot from the edge of it!! The bloke must have been balmy!! Then having slipped round the back of Bramblebush Bay ourselves we were confronted with three stationary boats playing blind mans buff with a towing line. Mind you with 115 horses on yer bum one has the comforting feeling that you can always stop or go whenever one wants.
Fish wise, yes in that vacinity. We started the day feathering for mackerel that were very few and far apart, but by chugging along at 1 or 2 knts feathering as we went it gave me and Mark a chance to really keep an eye on the bottom read out from the sonar. We were further out than I usualy go in that area about 75ft. when Mark spotted a nice convex undulation only about 5 ft high with a little hollow on either side. So we pulled in our lines and after a bit of buggering around we found the area again and anchored up on the highest bit so we would fish into the dip on either side whichever the way the tide ran. Loads of LSD's, a few Bream, and Rays.
Mad Mike
Brilliant Mike ! Worth registering them both officially I suspect.
Well done mate, a couple of beauties. U should of entered the comp, a bit of friendly compitition would of done you the world of good .
I'm not sure if they will let the fish be recorded as they wernt weighed. The fish recorder wouldn't accept my cod brace in December as the weights were only guess weights as i never had scales on board.
Quote.....The fish recorder wouldn't accept my cod brace in December as the weights were only guess weights as i never had scales on board.
That is not logical! 
The whole thing is done on an honour system any way!
So how does one prove the fish were weighed, by making up a set of lb & oz? Most of us can judge a weight in round lb's by holding it up, so ok say I had a fish that I reckoned weighed 8lb but no scales yet I report a fish of 7lb 14oz or 8lb 3oz either are a best guess yet a blatant lie (to me only) because I had no scales. Is the club saying that they would therefore have to accept what I claimed because I said I weighed them.
What a bloody stupid rule if one is going to apply an honour system.
Be honest and say this is what I think the fish weighed give or take a 8 or 10 oz. Or tell a blatant lie that I had scales aboard and make up a set of lb and oz?
Realy someone please think about the logic of this.
The two rays I caught were considerably larger than the large one on the clubs home page and I am happy that I caught them. If someone wants to be churlish and not write them up in a book that's up to them.
This childish attitude about mines bigger than yours is probably the main thing that puts me off competitions. I wish I had not bothered
Madder than usual Mike
rGeat fish Mike and very worthy winners either would have been.
Unfortunatly only weighed fish can be registered but a notable catch
it must have tested your back mate.
I think you should purchase some scales
If you are out, all you have to do for the remaining comps is register that you are going out [ which you do anyway on the forum usually], fish within the rules ie max two rods or two hooks and record your catch [ which again you also do].
Fishing times are any 7 hr period between 0600 and 1800 so are very flexible
No dig intended at anyone but,I find it hard to believe that we struggle at times to get 10 anglers fishing a comp when we know so many Members were afloat
This weekend has proved from yours and Mikes catches that you do not need to have a fully kitted offshore angling boat or go dozens of miles to compete. you just have to be confident,enter, carry some scales and go for it
Tight lines
Charlie
It is logical. If we were to accept guess weights of fish it would be meaningless as people are not very good at guessing weights.
We have always had to have fish weighed and we still do have to have fish weighed and the "honour" system still makes sense as you are honestly weighing your fish.
Are you seriously proposing we have all the members guessing their fish weights ?
If so then propose it at a club meeting.
Mike I was typing while you entered your last post so it was not a reply
However I would disagree about the weighing
I have seen to many guessed weights miles out to accept that any of us would get even close to correct weights evey time
While I have weighed enough eels to get Dans about right on sat, I would have put the bream at 4lb not 3lb 6 oz and the undulate at about 10
I have seen profesional skippers over 10 lbs out on eels and rays well out
So I would not like to see the need to weigh fish taken out, except for sharks for teh sfaety of the angler and the fish
The reason we fish on trust is so they can be weighed and returned
Charlie