Shingle Bank League competitions are organised by Malcolm Stote.  Contact Malcolm on 07894 902254 for more information.
On all competitions you sign-on at Cut Bridge between 18.30 and 19.00. 
6th Shingle Bank League Competition results sent in by Malcolm Stote.
      On Tuesday evening 12th May the club held its 2nd competition of the summer section.  The weather was good but chilly and 9 club members signed on.  3 weighed in fish consisting of dogfish and conger eel.  3 fish were caught and weighed for a total weight of 3 lb 13-1/8 oz.  Best fish of the evening was a dogfish weihing 1 lb 12-3/8 oz caught by Chris Ellis.  2nd best fish was also a dogfish weighing 1 lb 2-1/8 oz caught by Malcolm Stote.
Results:
1st  Chris Ellis 1 lb 12-3/8 oz,  2nd Malcolm Stote 1 lb 2-1/8 oz,  3rd Ben Daniels 0 lb 14-5/8 oz.
With a good tide it should have fished a lot better, but sadly there was a bitter cold wind.

5th Shingle Bank League Competition.  Results sent in by Malcolm Stote.
    On Thursday evening 27th April the club held its 1st competition of the summer section..  The weather building up to the competition was very windy but on the day of the competition the wind dropped and it turned out to be a perfect evening for fishing.
    11 club members signed on and all 11 weighed in fish consisting of pouting, conger eels, dogfish and smooth-hounds.  A total of 96 fish were caught, weighed, measured and returned as quickly as possible to the sea, for a total weight of 101lbs 11-3/4oz.  The 2 best fish of the competition were 1st a conger eel weighing 4lb 10oz caught by Rory Lancaster and 2nd a dogfish of 2lb 3oz caught by Pete Chamberlain.
Results.
1st Ben Daniel 16lbs 10oz, 2nd Pete Chamberlain 15lbs 7oz, 3rd Rory Lancaster 14lbs 8oz, 4th Derek Slack 12lbs 2-3/4oz, 5th Paul Watson 9lb 12oz, 6th Chris Ellis 7lb 15-1/2oz, 
7th Andy Hopkins 7lb 2-1/8oz, 8th Leigh Hatt 5lb 2oz, 9th Martin Pink 5lb, 10th John Tharme 4lb 6oz and 11th Pat Dalton 3lb 10oz. 

4th Shingle Bank League Competition results sent in by Malcolm Stote.
      On Thursday evening 26th March the club held its 4th shingle bank league competition.  The weather for the evening was good.  8 club members signed on and 6 weighed in fish consisting of black bream and dogfish.  A total of 18 fish were caught, weighed and released back into the sea as quickly as possible for a total weight of 19 lbs 11 oz.
      Two best fish of the evening were 1st a dogfish weighing 1 lb 12 1/8 oz caught by Paul Watson and 2nd also a dogfish weighing 1 lb 8 5/8 oz caught by Ben Daniels.
Results:
1st Ben Daniels 5 lb 5-7/8 oz,  2nd Paul Watson 4 lb 9-1/8 oz,  3rd Chris Ellis 4 lb 0-1/8 oz,  4th Steve Monckton 2 lb 7-7/8 oz,  5th Pat Dalton 2 lb 7-1/2 oz,  6th Martin Pink 0 lb 13 oz.

Results after the 1st Phase of the Shingle Bank League competitions (3 matches) Sent in by Malcolm Stote.
1st Ben Daniel 39lbs 2-1/8oz, 2nd Malcolm Stote 31lbs 10-7/8oz, 3rd Chris Ellis 29lbs 1-3/4oz, 4th Paul Watson 25lbs 8oz, 5th Derek Slack 22lbs 15-5/8oz, 6th Pat Dalton 20lbs 12-1/2oz, 7th Leigh Hatt 18lbs 1oz, 8th Martin Pink 18lbs 0-3/8oz, 9th Pete Chamberlain 15lbs 7oz, 10th Alan Mapes 9lb 6-7/8oz, 11th John Tharme 8lb 4-3/8oz and Brian Dawkins 4lb 10-3/8.

Shallow Boat Competitions are organised by Brian Ansell.  Contact Brian on 01590-672628.  
All Competitions are now fished on Saturday's or Sunday's weather wise.  
6th Shallow Boat Competition 24th May.
      On Sunday 24th May the club held its 6th Shallow Boat competition.  This was a changed date because the competition earlier in May had to be cancelled due to the weather.  On the day it was very hot with light winds and a gentle swell, the start of summer hopefully.
      9 club members signed on and all caught fish consisting of bass, black bream, bull huss, conger eel, dogfish, garfish, smooth-hound, wrasse and tope.  All the fish are measured and weighed and returned to the sea as quickly as possible.
Results:
1st Paul Watson 155 pts, 2nd Alan Mapes 145 pts, 3rd Ryan Nash 81 pts, 4th Ady Hulme 77 pts, 5th Charlie Nash 70 pts, 6th Neil Mitchener 69 pts, 7th Jack Nash 65 pts,
8th Daniel White 59 pts, 9th Paul Dibden 49 pts.  Every one had a good day's fishing and a total of 144 fish were caught and returned to the sea. 
2nd ShallowBoat Competition 26th April.
      On Sunday 26th April the club held a Shallow Boat competition this was an extra competition and the weather and tides were just right because we had to cancel a couple of compreitions earlier in the year due to bad weather.
      11 club members signed on and all 11 caught fish which included bass, black bream, bull huss, dogfish, plaice, conger eel and whiting.  On these competitions only fish which are big enough for the table are kept.  All the rest are measured and returned straight away back into the sea.
Results:
1st Adrian Hulme 117 pts, 2nd Ryan Nash 97 pts, 3rd Barry Littlefair 95 pts, 4th Alan Mapes 88 pts, 5th Denis Mapes 70 pts, 6th Adrian Moody 67 pts, 7th Charlie Nash 65 pts,
8th Neil Mitchener and Jack Nash 60 pts both with 14 fish each, 10th Alan Martin 60 pts and 8 fish, 11th Paul Watson 58 pts. 
1st Shallow Boat Competition.
      On Saturday 13th December the club held its 1st Shallow Boat competition for the 2026 club year.  This was a changed day because the weather forecast for the Sunday was for very windy day so we changed to the Saturday which was a good move because we had light winds and sunshine.
      !0 club members signed on and al caught fish consisting of conger eel, dogfish, bull huss, pouting, thornback, small eyed and undulated rays and whiting.  All the fish are counted, measured and returned to the sea and points awarded.
Results:
1st Alan Martin 115 pts, 2nd Adrian Moody 107 pts, 3rd Charlie Nash 91 pts, 4th Ady Hulme 78 pts, 5th Denis Mapes 69 pts, 6th Barry Littlefair 62 pts, 7th Paul Watson 56 pts,
8th Alan Mapes 48 pts, 9th Neil Mitchener 35 pts, 10th Ryan Nash 30 pts.
Some good fish were caught on the day which were a bull huss 10 lbs 5 oz by Denis Mapes an undulated ray  of 12 lbs 9 oz by Adrian Moody and a small eyed ray of 5 lb 8 oz by Alan Martin.





      

Large Boat Competition are organised by Marc Duncan.  Contact Marc on 07810 876281.
All Large Boat competitions are fished on Sunday only. 
2nd Large Boat Competition.  Report and photos sent in by Marc Duncan.
      The club held their 2nd large Boat competition on Sunday 23rd March from Poole aboard "Ocean Runner" skippered by Ryan Jones.  10 anglers ventured out with almost perfect weather conditions,  First mark was for pouting, dogfish and congers with Pete Chamberlain and Malcolm Gerrish having 3 congers each.  Dave Wood and Neil Pullman also managed to find a couple of 3 bearded rocklings with the best going to Neil of 1lb 1oz.  Next move saw more dogfish with Marc Duncan having 8 and John Wood 5.
      We then decided to drift for plaice where the only fish caught was a small thornback ray caught by Neil.  Final stop was for some early bream, where yet again Neil found a plaice and most anglers landed at least 1 bream.
      Despite it turning cool after lunch and the fishing hard work, a good day was had by all.
Results.
1st Neil Pullman 118 points, 2nd Dave Wood 80 points, 3rd Malcolm Gerrish 78 points, 4th Pete Chamberlain 73 points ant 5th Marc Duncan 57 points.   

Recreational Boat Fishing Trips are organised by Marc Duncan 07810 876281.
Mid-Week Recreational Mid-Channel Fishing Trip report and photos sent in by Marc Duncan.
      On Tuesday 12th May 10 club members ventured out aboard "Ocean Runner", skippered by Ryan Jones out of Poole for a  wrecking trip in the channel.  Off we set at 07-00 and reached the first wreck by 09-20.  Fishing with lures, we tried several wrecks moving a bit west each time in search of pollack, unfortunately with no luck but most anglers losing lures to the wrecks!!  We were catching large pouting and red gurnards on the lures.
      With a move to another wreck before slack water, Marc Duncan hooked into a cod.  We then moved off the wreck and drifted for red gurnard whilst we had lunch and a coffee.  Several gurnards were landed but then we were catching mackerel 3 at a time.
      When the tide turned, we then went back on some ​more wrecks drifting again for the pollack.  Alas we were unable to find any, but a move to the final wreck saw Jim McGreavy on the last 2 drifts landed 2 pollack.
      After speaking with Ryan, the final Mid ​Channel trip on the 28th June has been cancelled and the plan will be to fish for reef pollack and large bream.  There is currently a space available should anyone wish to come along.

Mid-Week Recreational Fishing Trip.  Report and Photos sent in by Marc Duncan.
      On Tuesday 27th April 7 club members joined Ben Wood aboard "Double 6" for a day out after bream and plaice in the bay.  With a very stiff wind blowing from the north, we kept fairly close in, first anchoring by the North Head buoy for a while3 but with no success.  Ben took us out toa deeper rocky mark where we started getting some fish initially doggies but the first bream was caught by Tony Knight, followed by Russell Latimer then Paul Ibberson-Groves with a nice male doggy.  The best fish went to Tony Methven with a smooth-hound.  At noon we moved out to the Dolphin Bank after plaice but after a couple of drifts and a spell at anchor there was no sign of them.  So, for the last hour we came back onto the deeper shingles mark again.  Here were doggies, small bream and a couple of small bull huss, then Paul had another nice bream and another good smooth-hound went to Anton Emblem.  A slow day but the sun was out and so were we despite the wind.
Recreational fishing trip Saturday 3rd January.  Report sent in by Dave Price.
      The club's recreational fishing trips started early this  year with a trip on Saturday 3rd January from Poole aboard "Ocean Runner" skippered by Ryan Jones.  It was a very cold start with the temperature at zero degrees when we boarded via a rather slippery pontoon at Poole.  The temperature did pick up a few degrees as the sun came out later and stayed out for most of the day which made things a bit better.  There were predicted north westerly winds of 15 mph gusting up to 25 mph which was the case but as this was an inshore trip we were pretty well sheltered by Studland and the Poole/Bournemouth coast.
      According to the skipper, the water temperatures had only just started to lower and this has delayed the arrival of the whiting, so they were not around in the same numbers as they might usually be in early January.  This made for quite tough fishing.  We moved around 4 different marks during the day but never really found the fish in any numbers.
      In total we caught several pouting, some small congers, quite a few small dogfish, a single dab, one very impressive 7lb 2oz small eyed ray caught by Robin Lane and a few whiting, although the majority of the whiting were on the smaller side with only a few keepable sized fish, the best being a 2lb 3oz fish caught by Andy Southwick.
      Another cold spell may bring the whiting inshore more, so hopefully the  next recreational trips might have a bit more luck if we choose to target them.