Large Boat Competition are organised by Marc Duncan. Contact Marc on 0781 0876 281.
All Large Boat competitions are fished on Sunday only. Dates for 2025.
13th Jul, 31st Aug, 7th Sept, 12th Oct, 16th Nov, 14th Dec 2026..
6th Large Boat Competition. Report and photos sent in by Marc Duncan.
The club held the 6th Large Boat competition which took place on Sunday 13th July from Poole aboard "Ocean Runner" skippered by Ryan Jones. With slack water later on in the day we decided to do some inshore marks for pout, bream, scad and wrasse etc before we pushed out further to deeper water in search of blonde rays and tope. First couple of marks produced bream and pout and Robin Lane caught a scad. A few mackerel were also caught. Marc Duncan and Roy Evans also had a couple of ballan wrasse.
We then went out for the larger fish but unfortunately, we only had a few congers landed by Dave Wood and a couple of bream. Once the tide turned, we moved back inshore for dogfish, and had a slow drift due to the anchor not taking. Jane Hopkins managed to catch a plaice. Another move took us further inshore where Jane, Pete Chamberlain and John Wood had plenty of bream whilst Marc and Robin had several congers each. Marc also had a small blonde ray weighing 6lb 7oz and Pete a nice mackerel of 1lb 5oz.
Results.
1st Marc Duncan 148 pts, 2nd Robin Lane 136 pts, 3rd Dave Wood 103 pts,4th Jane Hopkins 77 pts, 5th Glynn Barker 49 pts, 6th John Wood 39 pts.
5th Large Boat Competition. Report and Photos sent in by Marc Duncan.
The club held its 5th Large Boat competition on Sunday 15th June from Mudeford aboard Blue Strike Charters skippered by Dan James. Initially we ventured out to the banks in search of bass. First drift saw Glynn Barker catch one. A few more drifts saw Marc Duncan hook into a decent fish which he only managed to get to the surface before it broke his line.
We then moved to deeper water for tope. Pete Chamberlain caught 2 with the largest weighing 12lbs 3oz, and more tope were caught by Marc, Dave Wood and Roland Blomfield. With the wind freshening we moved to the Ledge in search of bream and pouting. Roy Evans had 4 bream with Dave catching a treble shot of pouting. We then had a drift for pollack but were unsuccessful.
Final drifts saw us off Southbourne for plaice and gurnard. Roland managed to land 2 plaice and a tub gurnard with Jane also having a plaice.
Results:
1st Roland Blomfield 86 pts, 2nd Pete Chamberlain 83 pts, 3rd Jane Hopkins 58 pts, 4th Dave Wood 46 pts, 5th Roy Evans 35 pts, 6th Marc Duncan 28 pts.
4th Large Boat Competition 11th May Results and Photos sent in by Marc Duncan.
The club held its 4th Large Boat competition which took place on Sunday 11th May aboard "Ocean Runner" skippered by Ryan Jones. With decision to go' not taken until Saturday lunch time due to easterly winds, we ventured out to the entrance of the harbour in search of bass. After several drifts most anglers had managed to catch and release their 10.
With the last of the flood tide, we then moved further out to the sand for dogfish and congers. Dave Wood caught a nice red gurnard of 15oz and we had a couple of doggies and congers. With the tide having turned and starting to run we had a couple of moves around the Patch in search of pouting, bream and congers. Pete Chamberlain and John Wood managed to find 5 congers each with the rest of us catching a few bream and Dave Wood a small ballan wrasse. Final move saw us on another spot on the Patch and Marc Duncan catching a pollack of 2lb 4oz.
Results.
1st Pete Chamberlain 251 pts, 2nd Dave Wood 219 pts, 3rd Jane Hopkins 208 pts, 4th Marc Duncan 203 pts, 5th John Wood 195 pts, 6th Malcolm Gerrish 179 pts.
Next Large Boat competition is Sunday 15th June aboard "Blue Strike Charters" from Mudeford.