All about the club.
The clubhouse, completed in 1993,is located off Bath Road car park, Lymington. It provides a congenial place to socialise with fellow anglers and offers the opportunity for members to improve their knowledge and skill at the regular tackle talks and demonstrations held there.
The aims of Lymington & District Sea Fishing Club are to promote shore fishing and boat fishing for all anglers, in a safe and friendly environment and to encourage conservation of fish stocks. New members, in particular juniors, are always welcome. A membership application form is available to download from the web site. The club is also on facebook. A monthly newsletter is sent out to all members.
SHORE FISHING.
Numerous competitions are held throughout the year at various beaches along the Hampshire and Dorset coast. As well as the monthly competitions, there are also several leagues: for example, The Shingle Bank League and the Win-Sum League. There are also one open shore competition during the year.
BOAT FISHING.
Boat fishing is divided into two sections: large boats {or charter boat} fishing and shallow boats {privately-owned craft}. The large boat section has something for everyone and for all levels of skill and competitiveness.
- Monthly large boat competitions out of Lymington: semi-competitive, fished to minimum size limits. from April - December.
- Match Boat League competitions out of Lymington, Poole and Weymouth: highly competitive and based on species, with no size limits. Fished from April - September.
- Recreational boat trips out of Lymington, Poole and Weymouth, on weekdays and weekends. Friendly atmosphere, no pressure. Fished January - December.
- The Shallow {or small} boat section is fished from privately owned boats, which stay within a designated area, with competitions running throughout the year.
- In addition, a Small Boat Open to privately owned boats is held in the autumn.
Officers of the Club 25/26.
Club Vice-Presidents: Miss. S. Moody, Mr. R. Davies, Mr. C. Clark, Mr. R. Saunders and Mr.. A, S. Harmer.
Honorary Life Members: Mr. R. Bayzand, Mrs. G. Moody. Miss. S. Moody. Mr. A. D. Smith and Mr. R. Lane.
Officers of the Club.
Chairman: Mr. Alec S. Harmer. 01590-674045. Vice-Chairman: Mr. Roland Blomfield. 01590-683363.
Hon. Secretary: Mrs. Alison Day. 07929 876939
Membership Secretary: Mr. Brian Ansell. 01590-672628. Hon. Treasurer: Mr. Alec Harmer. 01590-674045.
Hon. Auditors: Mr. Colin Saunders & Mrs. Alison Day. Docket Steward. Mr. Robert Flicos. 01590-676785.
Large Boat Commodore. Mr.. Marc Duncan. 07810 876281 Large Boat Vice Commodore. Mr.. Richard Day. 07989 282245
Shallow Boat Commodore. Mr.. Brian Ansell 01590-672628.
Boat Compound Commodore: Mr.. Adrian Moody. . Clerk of Scales. Mr. Steve Monckton.
Shingle Bank Secretary. Mr. Malcolm Stote 07894 902254.
Shore Secretary. Mr. Roland Blomfield. 01590-683363. Win-Sum League Secretary. Mr. Colin Saunders.
Hon. Cup Custodian. Mr. Colin Saunders. . Publicity Officer. Mr. Brian Ansell. 01590-672628.
Junior Representative. Vacant.
Newsletter Editor. Mr. Brian Ansell. 01590-672628. Bar Steward and Hall Booking Officer. Mr. Terry Kempton.
Committee Members:
Mrs. Summer Monckton
Mr. Chris Ellis. 07790 231350. Mr. Alan Martin. . Mr. Nelson Phillips.
Mr. Pete Drodge. 07812 663842. Mr. Martin Bobbett. Mr. George Fox.
All the Club Competitions for 2026.
Club Subscription's.
Adults. £25.00 per year. Half year from June to November (or less) £12.50.
Plus a joining fee of £12.50 at any time of the Year.
Juniors. Under the age of 13 years of age get FREE MEMBERSHIP.
Juniors. Juniors from the age of 13 until 17 years of age £15.00 per year. Half year from June to November (or less) £7.50.
Plus joining fee of £7.50 at any time of the year.
Angling Trust Rays and Tope.
Lymington & District Sea Fishing Club.
I’m writing to let you know about a new project we’ve just launched, Rays of Tope, and to ask for Lymington & District Sea Angling Club’s help as a valued Angling Trust member club.
About the project Rays of Tope is a new research collaboration recently awarded funding through Natural England's Species Recovery Programme. Led by the University of Plymouth, in partnership with the Angling Trust, The Shark Trust, Natural England, and the IFCAs (Southern, Sussex, Devon & Severn, Cornwall, and the Association of IFCAs), the project runs from July 2026 to March 2029. Its aim is to further our understanding of Tope (Galeorhinus galeus) and Undulate Ray (Raja undulata) in English waters, by improving science on their distribution, migration, and reproductive habitats, and using that evidence to inform national fisheries management, with a particular focus on identifying and protecting reproductive and nursery grounds.
Why we're contacting you Our first activity is to bring together existing datasets on Tope and Undulate Ray distribution and seasonality, combining sources such as British record fish claims, the Sea Angling Diary, Species Hunt records and ICES data, to build the first genuinely national picture of hotspots and seasonal timing for both species. Club records held across the Network are a really valuable piece of that picture, and this evidence will directly inform where and when we focus acoustic and satellite tagging effort over the following two field seasons, so access to your records would be extremely useful. As an example of how valuable the data can be, previously the Angling Trust has used Sea Angling Diary data to support anglers perception that undulate rays have declined following commercial TAC increases, ultimately leading to the MMO rejecting the TAC increase in 2024.
How you can help Historical club records of Tope and Undulate Ray catches, whether shore or boat based. All records are welcome, but the further back in time you're able to go, the better, as this helps us demonstrate how populations and distributions have changed over time. - Where possible, capture date, location, weight/length, and sex where recorded. - Any guidance on data completeness, format, or caveats we should bear in mind when using the records. - Contacts within your networks, other clubs, skippers, anglers, or individuals, who might hold useful records or historic knowledge, or who you think would be interested in getting involved. - Whether you or anyone in your network would like to be more directly involved in the project going forward. We'd credit contributing clubs as a data source in project outputs, handle any data shared in line with GDPR and our project's data-sharing protocol, and would be glad to share relevant findings back with you and your members as the project progresses. I'd welcome the chance to discuss this further by phone or email, and can send our full project summary if that's useful. Thank you for considering this, I look forward to hearing from you.
Best Wishes, Hannah Rudd Head of Marine Mobile: 07855963128 Website | Facebook | X | Instagram I usually work Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You may occasionally receive an email from me outside these hours, there is no expectation for you to respond outside of your own working hours.
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The Club's Link Page
Christchurch Angling Centre is owned by Tom Bagnall who sponsors some of the boat and shore competitions. Tom participates in many club activities, is also a very good angler and on some occasions makes a very good cup of tea. www.christchurchanglingcentre.co.uk
Angling Trust is where you can get the latest news on all aspects of angling and the latest news about covid-19 regarding angling. www.anglingtrust.net
Lymington Harbour Commissioners a good site for local tides and weather reports. www.lymingtonharbour.co.uk
Loni's a good friendly shop and Garry is very helpful. www.loni's.co.uk
Fish of the Month 25/2026
Shore. Adult. Peter Chamberlain with a dogfish weighing 2lb 3oz. Junior. Mia Samber with a whiting weighing 9oz.
Catch and release record broken for the shore by Paul Watson with a thornback ray weighing 4lb 6oz.
Catch and release record adult for the shore Paul Watson with a pouting weighing 11oz.
Catch and release record junior for the shore Mia Samber with a whiting weighing 9oz.
Boats. Adult. Neil Pullman with a 3 bearded rockling weighing 1lb 1oz.
Catch and release record for the boats Neil Pullman with a 3 bearded rockling weighing 1lb 1oz.
February 2026 Report sent in by Robert Flicos.
Shore. Adult. Keith Warren with a dogfish weighing 2lb 6oz. Junior. Mia Samber with a dogfish weighing 1lb 4oz.
Adult shore club catch and release record broken by Keith Warren with his dogfish of 2lb 6oz.
New junior catch and release record shore Mia Samber with her pouting of 11oz.
Boat. Adult. Chris Rogers with a bull huss weighing 10lbs 8oz.
January 2026.
Shore. Adult. Chris Ellis with a dogfish weighing 1lb 11oz.
Boats. Adult. Robin Lane with a small eyed ray weighing 7lb 2oz.
December 2025.
Shore. Adult. Paul Watson with a small eyed ray weighing 7lb 12-1/8oz. Junior. Seth Hopkins with a bass weighing 2lb 8oz.
Catch and Release record broken for the shore by Ben Daniel and Alan Mapes both with a dogfish of 2lb 1oz.
Boats. Adult. Denis Mapes with a bull huss weighing 10lbs 5oz.
New Catch and Release record for the boats was Ryan Nash with a pouting weighing 2lb 3oz.
Shore Competitions Results 2025/26.
7th Club Shore Competition results sent in by Roland Blomfield.
On Sunday 7th June the club held its 7th Club Shore competition at Lepe Deepwater. This was a changed venue from Double Dykes because of the wind. The weather at Lepe was a strong south-westerly with a flat sea and warm.
11 club members signed on and 5 weighed in fish consisting of dogfish, bass and smooth-hound. 7 fish in total were caught, weighed and released back into the sea as quickly as possible for a total weight of 14 lbs 7 1/4 oz. Under size fish count the points on these competitions which on the day was only bass. Best round fish of the day was a smooth-hound weighing 3 lb 2 oz caught by Steve Monckton.
Results:
1st Steve Monckton 5 lb 3/8 oz and 65 pts, 2nd Martin Pink 3 lb 13 ox and 60 pts, 3rd Malcolm Stote 2 lb 15 oz and 45 pts, 4th Charlie Nash 1 lb 10.8 oz and 40 pts, 5th Bruce Samber 1 lb 1 oz and 35 pts. Summer Monckton and Ton Short undersize fish both 15 pts each. Roland Blomfield, Pete Tomkins, Shane and Barry Samber and guest angler William Short (jnr) all no fish but get 5 pts each.
6th Club Shore Competition results sent in by Roland Blomfield.
On Saturday evening 9th May the club held its 6th Club Shore competition at Solent Road, Southbourne. With a light north-easterly wind, a flat sea and warm weather conditions 13 club members signed on. 4 weighed in fish consisting of dogfish and sole for a total weight of 4 lb 14-1/8 oz. On these competitions undersize fish count for points which were bass and conger eel. All the fish are weighed on the beach, measured and returned to the sea as quickly as possible.
Best round fish of the evening was a dogfish weighing 1 lb 14 oz caught by Steve Monckton. Best flat fish was a sole weighing 0 lb 7 oz caught by Shane Samber.
Results:
1st Steve Monckton 1 lb 14 oz and 55 points, 2nd Paul Watson 1 lb 6-1/8 oz and 50 points, 3rd Pete Tomkins 1 lb 3 oz and 45 points, 4th Shane Samber 0 lb 7 oz and 40 points.
Simon Stockley, Martin Pink, Bruce Samber and Derek Slack all caught undersize fish for 15 points each. Mia Samber (Jnr), Roland Blomfield, Summer Monckton, Barry Samber and Pat Dalton had no fish and 5 points each.
Shingle Bank League Results 2025/6.
On all competitions you sign-on at Cut Bridge between 18.30 and 19.00.
7th Shingle Bank league competition results sent in by Malcolm Stote.
On Thursday evening the club held its 7th Shingle Bank League competition. It was a very hot evening with a slight easterly breeze and thundery. It was also very slow fishing wise. 5 club members signed on and 3 weighed in fish consisting of bass and bream. 4 fish were caught for a total weight of 6 lb 5-5/8 oz.
Best fish of the evening was a bass weighing 3 lb caught by Chris Ellis.
Results:
1st Chris Ellis 3 lb 12-5/8 oz, 2nd Malcolm Stote 2 lb 1 oz, 3rd Pete Chamberlain 0 lb 8 oz.
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.
Win-Sum League Results 2026.
4th Win-Sum League Competition results sent in by Colin Saunders.
On Wednesday evening 10th June the club held its 4th Win-Sum League competition at Goatie Beach, Eling. It was a chilly evening but dry and 12 club members signed on and 11 weighed in fish.
Results:
Zone1. 1st Malcolm Stote 289 pts, 2nd Chris Ellis 283 pts, 3rd Paul Watson 172 pts, 4th Tom Short 146 pts, 5th Garry Mann 137 pts, 6th Martib Pink 676 pts.
Zone 2. 1st Colin Saunders 127 pts, 2nd Steve Monckton 117 pts, 3rd Andy Hopkins 110 pts, 4th Robin Lane 96 pts, 5th Pete Chamberlain 23 pts, 6th Marc Duncan BLANKED.
Largest round fish was an eel of 48cm caught by Chris Ellis. Largest flat fish was a flounder of 28cm caught by Garry Mann. Smallest fish was a bass of 11cm caught by Malcolm Stote
3 Mann Team Results:
1st Team 1. Tom Short, Chris Ellis and Garry Mann 429 pts, 2nd Team 4. Paul Watson, Steve Monckton and Colin Saunders 299 pts,
3rd Team 2. Glenn Short, Brian Dawkins and Malcolm Stote 289 pts, 4th Team 3. Robin Lane, Martin Pink and Pete Chamberlain 163 pts.
3rd Win-Sum League Competition results by Colin Saunders.
On Wednesday evening 27th may the club held its 3rd Win-Sum League competition in which 10 club members signed on and the venue was the Shingle Bank on a very warm and calm evening.
Results.
Zone 1. 1st Malcolm Stote 165 points, 2nd Paul Watson 124 points, 3rd Pete Chamberlain 111 points, 4th Garry Mann 62 points.
Zone 2. 1st Chris Ellis 190 points, 2nd Martin Pink 186 points, 3rd Andy Hopkins 156 points, 4th Glenn Short 46 points, 5th Steve Monckton 36 points, 6th Marc Duncan35 points.
Best round fish of 97 cm was a smooth-hound caught by Chris Ellis. Smallest fish of 23 cm was a black bream caught by Martin Pink.
3 Man Team Reaults.
1st Team 3. Robin Lane, Martin Pink and Pete Chamberlain 297 points, 2nd Team 1. Tom Short, Chris Ellis and Garry Mann 252 points,
3rd Team 2. Glenn Short, Brian Dawkins and Malcolm Stote 211 points, 4th Team 4. Paul Watson, Steve Monckton and Colin Saunders 160 points.
2nd Win-Sum League Competition report sent in by Colin Saunders.
On Wednesday evening 15th April the club held its 2nd match of the Win-Sum League competitions at Hordle Cliff. In dry conditions 10 club members signed on and braved a very brisk south-westerly wind and the fishing was even tougher than the first with only 2 members catching fish.
Results:
Zone 1. 1st Andy Hopkins 1 fish a turbot of 18cm. Zone 2. 1st Pete Chamberlain 1 fish a bass of 28cm.
Largest round fish of the evening was a bass of 28cm caught by Pete Chamberlain. Largest flat fish of the evening was a turbot of 18cm caught by Andy Hopkins.
Smallest fish of the evening was a turbot of 18cm caught by Andy Hopkins.
3-man Team results:
1st team No 3 with 10 points, team no 1 nil, team no 2 nil and team no 4 nil
Shallow Boat Results 2024/5.
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 Results 2025-6.
All Large Boat competitions are fished on Sunday only.
Wessex Champ of Champions 2026 report and photos sent in by Marc Duncan.
The Champ of Champions took place on Saturday 13th June out from Poole, using charter boats "Ocean Runner", "Silver Spray" and "Piscary". Martin Bobbett, MalcolmGerrish, Dave Wood, Paul Hollyoake and Marc Duncan represented the club at the competition., with the aim to catch as many species as possible. Fish caught ranged from brill, red gurnard, red mullet, rays, dogfish, bream and mini-species.
Well done to all anglers who fished on the day and to Martin who came 3rd with Paul and Malcolm also in the top 10.
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.
The Vernon Everitt Match Boat League for 2026.
These are species-based boat competitions with no size limits Please contact Richard Day 0798 9282 245.
1st Vernon Everett Match League.
On Saturday 11th April the club held the first match of the Vernon Everett Match League aboard 'Piscary' and 'Silver Spray' out from Poole. We left the harbour at 8a.m. with 18 club members. The weather was not favourable and all the anglers wrapped up to combat the elements. Despite the conditions being challenging, a respectable 17 species were caught across all the anglers. A good day at sea despite the forecast and a lot of laughs and enjoyment aboard both boats.
Top 3 anglers on each boat.
'Piscary' 1st Chris Rogers 150 points, joint 2nd Gary Young, Russ Latimer and Mike Fox all with 135 points.
'Silver Spray' 1st Dave Cogger170 points, 2nd Garth Croft 165 points, 3rd John Bellamy 140 points.
2nd Vernon Everett Match League.
On Saturday 2nd May the club held its second match of the Vernon Everett Match League aboard 'Piscary' and a late stand-in 'Strongbow' who offered to help the club at the last minute when another boat was unable to participate. The 16 club members had a productive day that led to 19 species across the 2 boats. Alively day filled with fish and laughs at sea.
Top 3 on each boat.
'Piscary' 1st Dave Cogger 307 points, 2nd Chris Ellis 300 points, 3rd Chris Rogers 284 points.
'Strongbow' 1stJohn Bellamy 375 points, 2nd George Fox 344 points, 3rd Richard Day 292 points.
Recreational Boat Fishing Trips Results 2025/26.
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.
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