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March 24
With the wind from the N/W and big tides today we went into Christchurch bay looking for early Bream but by lunch time all we had to show for our efforts were a number of dogfish so it was time for a move out to deeper water,after anchoring a gully on the back of the dolphin bank we soon started catching small conger eels with the best one going about 30lb.
Aug 6th
The weather was sunny and calm, on a trip to an inshore wreck with a group from Esso in Southampton. Lots of fish including some decent sized undulate rays.
Top fish and personal best for Graham was a good sized conger of 54lb.
30th July
Summer has finaly arrived one of my last trips found us fishing a few different marks on the rips with a group of lads put together by Carl from Poingdestre's angling centre.
After
starting the day fishing for pollock, which produced a number of
smallish fish, we dropped
the anchor over slack and found that the tope and blond rays keen
to take our baits. When the tide started to run we moved to
the brittlestar's and rounded the day off with a dozen or so cod, a
good
day out with a
great bunch
of lads.
The weather
on the 21st was more like it should be at this time of year so we spent
the first part of the day fishing a wreck south
of the island with a group of anglers from Poingdestre's angling centre
in Southampton the wreck produced a number of nice pollock and Bass, the
afternoon found us anchored on a group of banks fishing for blond ray
the best fish landed was a nice fish of 19lb 4oz for Mick.
A trip on the 20th saw us fishing a mark a few miles south of the Needles which produced this nice ray for Jon from the Isle of Wight.
18th July Our last trip saw us in Christchurch bay on a Bass and Bream trip with Allan's group from Southampton. After a couple of stops we managed to find some sizeable bream and a couple of nice Bass, withTom again taking the best fish which went 7lb 4oz.
12th July
After another unsettled week we again fished the solent with a group of anglers from southampton the top angler on the day was Tom with this nice thornback a couple of Bass and some smoothhounds.
Coopervisions
first trip aboard the new Voyager turned out to be a good one we headed
to St. Catherine's point to try for the Tope we found the fish were in
a feeding mood with everyone catching a number of tope all the fish were
in the
20lb-40lb bracket.
With the weather still bad we where forced up the solent for the latest coopervision trip the lads all managed a few smoothhounds with the best fish being caught by Jim Baldwin at 17lb.