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  • 11/10/2014 Fishing Report by Malcolm Collins on Just Mary (Christchurch, Dorset)

    11 Oct 2014 by Malcolm Collins

    Report on-board Just Mary

    Hi All ! Recent weekends trips have proved what a difference some Gales can do to the fishing ! A good day with Paul Cox and his mates from Bristol and Reading way produced catches of Conger Eels on Scad and Mackerel flappers caught on the way out to our mark. We also had some other typical Summer fish like Gurnards and Black Bream. Then a good blow.....Gales and heavy seas to keep the fleet at home and tied up. Then a weekend with a party celebrating their mate Bob Crow's birthday. We had four seasons in one day ! Left the Quay in bright Springlike Sunshine and flat seas, got to the open Sea and the rain belted down harder and harder as we crossed the Bay and passed Matt Rowe on 'Piscary' on Poole Rocks.....then visibility zero and intense Thunder and Lightning right above us followed by hailstones.....wow ! Tried for Mackerel on the Sadler, two drifts.....nothing.....so on to our first mark. Anchor in and Bingo ! Straight into Channel Whiting ! More of those at a steady pace during the day and a Conger and followed by a Bass ! Nice ! Fish coming in at a nice steady pace. Lads did well as they were all hire rods and my traces and my baiting up and showing them how it was done. Weather cleared, we could see 'Piscary' again about two miles inshore of us but no other Poole Charter boats, guess only a handful of us Skippers had ventured out. Sea was flat and Sun shone brightly, lovely ! Species then followed, Dogfish, small Smoothound, Pouting and more Channel Whiting coughing up Sprats ! Then wind got up again from the South West, tide turned so wind over tide and conditions less than ideal. Last hour bit slow but job done, never know after a blow just what the fishing will be like. Coloured water and fish feeding by scent alone so we use a little trick to help them find our baits and it worked ! A good day was had by all.....it says so on my Facebook page !.....'Onamission Charters'.....Cheers lads and Happy Birthday to Bob ! See you again sometime !
    Thanks, Malc, Onamission Charters, 'Just Mary', Poole.

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