Thought we were going to have a nice smooth day out in the sun ~~~~ WRONG.
The sun was ok but smooth not. Headed west and soon bagged up with Mackeral. Further west and had a few drifts around Durleston no takes only water over the top. A few drifts off Pevril with nowt and an ever increasing sea. Down to Bourne mouth Scad and a Gurnard. decided we had enough of being thrown about and headed into Brownsea for a few drifts on the bit of flood.Weed Weed and more Weed. Nice chat with Jim then more Weed. HOME.
Carl 4 Mackeral. 1 Gurnard (Red). 4 Scad.
Aaron 4 Mackeral. 3 Scad.
Sorry but not very productive. Off on Hollybobs now, bye bye.
Fished the ledge and enjoyed the sun till lunchtime 
The conditions weren't too bad compared to recent outings and managed to try all sorts of lures with my new spinning rod i got on sat 
The run was manic with all the boats around for the RNLI fun day but managed to weave my way home without collision before low tide.
Apart from half a dozen mackeral didn't get anything else. In my six trip boating career all I have ever caught is mackeral, l was looking forward to something different for tea. Maybe next time...
Chris
Dean and I probably only fished for abour 2.5 hours the rest of the day was spent playing and socialising alongside Serenity
Scores on the doors for us are very poor
Martin
4 mackerel
Dean
4 Mackerel
1 Scad
I did have a play in Durlston bay but used a slither of macky caught Pollock and had a Bass follow but of course not caught on lure so these don't count but still a bit of fun 
Martin
Thanks to all who fished - a good turn out - must have been the poo weather we've been having!
I'll sort the scores this week when they are all in.
Sorry for the lack of reply to Q's as to the comp on or not. Ive not been able to get online since Friday and guessed with a good forecast you'd all be out anyway.
Rgds
Adam
Well I managed to get Bobi out of bed and we got out for a few hours. We managed a few fish but nothing special. We will be glad to be using bait next time out.
Bobi 4 Mackerel
2 Pollack
Colin 4 Mackerel
4 Pollack
1 Red Gurnard
Off to the Cheeta yard in the morning for a trial, lets hope it's rough 
Hi all
Got up early, for me anyway, and set off in Lady C for the first time fishing in 2 months!
Tried out by Sandbanks first thing but nothing, then round to Peveril again nothing.
Thanks to Carl on Overdraft found our mackerel of the year!!!!! 
Out to the Sadles and Bill was into more mackerel and a Red Gurnard
I caught a larger Red Gurnard but it was not on a lure so doesn't count.
As said by others, went close inshore for shelter but found nothing so went into the harbour and bill managed the smallest Bream I have seen for years.
So score for Lady C was;
Bill 4+ mackerel, 1 Red Gurnard and 1 Bream = 21 points
Dave 3 mackerel
Was well pleased with the results of repairs on the boat, got 20kts and revs up so just need the weather now.
Dave
Was well pleased with the results of repairs on the boat, got 20kts and revs up so just need the weather now
Good news Dave.
Was the bream on a lure? ( feathers i suspect)
the reason i ask is that i'd love to get one on Fly ( talk about making it difficult for oneself 
)
PJ
First stop - Brownsea Castle - just to see what was about - straight into Mackerel, which very quickly dispersed once boats started to appear. Then small Pollock.
Saw Jim - without his "mummy" - then we went out to the end of the swash to look for Scad and or Gurnards - couldn't even get more mackerel.
Then off to Swanage Bay / Peverel Ledge nothing happening - so set off around Anvil Point - met Jim coming back - close in to the cliffs nice and calm but no fish caught - so decided on a longer drift from Dancing Ledge - changed our minds and went round to Chapmans Pool.
Finally - Pollack & Wrasse.
Gave up for a while to fish with bait - caught a couple of nice Blonde Rays and dropped a very big eel.
Back to Swanage Bay to find some Pout - failed - so back to Brownsea Castle
more pollock, pout, poor cod and wrasse.
final tally
Neal, 4 Mackerel, 4 pollock, 3 wrasse, 3 pout, 1 poor cod although not sure if it counts.
John Young, 4 Mackerel, 4 Pollock, 1 Wrasse
Neal
Well we were out early and armed with a couple of new marks set off hoping that the wind would ease.
we stopped for bait which was plentiful and we all loaded up 4 macs each but nether wreck produced anything more than a solitary pout to Alun and three poor cod to me.
I am afraid that is when we reverted to bait, had several congers lots of medium size tope
We had a busy day but scores were poor
Alun 4 macs and 1 pout
Me 4 macs and thre [do they count] poor cod
Will 4 macs
Craig 4 Macs
Having read that so many others also gave up and reverted to bait fishing can I ask that the format of this comp be looked at before next year.
Well done to the winner whoever it is
Charlie
So far, it's looking like Neal's in front ( again ).
But guess what ? - I think I'm quite high up the scores ( well at least not bottom ).
I took a picture of almost everything that steve and myself caught, so I'll count up tonight and perhaps someone can help me work out my points.
Chuffed to bits ! !
Jim
I'll echo Charlie's comments about this comp.\format; we struggled with it last year as well !
Lure comp is OK .... but would be better as a specimen comp .. to target a decent bass, mackerel or gar inshore ... or pollack or pout offshore [ etc.]
As a species comp.......bait targets more of the species on the 'List' .... which, Charlie, doesn't have Poor cod or 'others'.
Alun.
Second attempt at typing in a report - I fell asleep at my laptop keyboard last night, before I could hit the send button!! suffice to say I was knackered!!
Day started by falling off the side deck when on the swinging mooring. but fortunately only got one leg wet due to a strategically placed rubber dinghy. Richard C and myself loaded up the gear and were off by 0830 in the warm sun and zero wind - pity it turned out to be one of those very wet wind against tide jobs later on...
Stopped off at the castle for a few points - Richard trying out the flycasting, as it was so calm - but nothing tempted on the rather large pike fly / sinking line. Though looked most elegant way of fishing.
Then we headed off down the the Piers for the mackerel, and they were mostly ones or twos per drop, but died off before we could each get our quota. Still with plenty of bait in the livewell (pic) off we went to the ledge to join in the bass drifting -with the hope of a bit of settled water in close, and some plugging. The water looked remarkaby clear and not much weed so we were hopeful at least for a few hours
We had about half an hour before the ebb started, which changed the smooth water into a washing machine in the rapidly increasing wind. Even the live baits produced nothing - and many casts were done.
So in the end we anchored up for some lunch and bait fishing, and gave the bream and pout a bashing - no big fish but at least there ws some sport.
Then we headed back towards the pier when the swell was getting uncomfortable, and Richard had one last go for mackerel on the fly - but the drift speed and wind direction made casting a tad difficult. However Richard had more success with 3 Gurnards on the feathers. Then it was a few mackerel, but they were very scattered and hard to find, before we called it a day.
Final tally
Paul - 4 Pollack, 4 mackerel, 25litres of fuel
Richard - 4 Pollack, 4 mackerel, 3 Gurnard
An enjoyable day, but very hard work, conditions taking the edge off what could have been....
Paul
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Right, Here's our Fish
Jim - 6 Mackerel, 3 Pollack, 2 Pout and 1 Bass
Steve - 8 Mackerel, 3 Pollack,
Can someone verify that the fish in these photos are pout please.
Jim
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And This ?
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This is the size Mackerel we were catching.
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