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Glenn needs publicity for his own mickey mouse forum Karl. Unfortunately you and others fell for it. http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/in...?topic=15479.60 Alan

I think Glenn needs to spend more time on his own Mickey Mouse Forum that is WSA instead of posting bogus posts on here. Alan

I think youve had a sniff of the barmaids apron Glenn New leader 65lb ling Alan

According to the blackboard in the photo the answer to the Poincare conjecture is Rij>0 A million bucks for coming up with Rij>0 My alsation could come up with a better answer than that and I don't even have one. Alan

Nice well detailed report Karl. I'd love to go on one of these long trips myself, but work keeps getting in the way every time. Top angling, good company, beer, good food, bed. Sounds an excellent combination to me Alan

I'd just nearly solved the Poincare conjecture myself http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-is-unfair.html Alan

It used to be said of the 'Sun' newspaper, that tits bought it and tits sold it, and the only 2 things that were accurate were the date and the price. And then comes the dail mail... Alan

Romantic sleigh ride; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ8RKrsY7jQ Alan

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...-sold-kilo.html Alan

What do we make of these proposals; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics...-your-bike.html Quote; 'To encourage jobless people living in council houses to move out of unemployment black spots to homes in other areas, perhaps hundreds of miles away.' Alan

Well they dont carry cash do they? http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...money-till.html Alan

Hope you had a memorable day. We certainly did until the Easterly wind pushed us along at 1.7kn. Alan

There is some terrific sport to be had boat fishing from Hartlepool at the moment. I had a spin out with Dave Bruce on his swiftcat today and had a great morning session shad fishing for cod. Nothing massive with the sweep winning fish of 12lb for Dave who found us a nice shoal of cod just off a wreck. We ended up with 20 stone of beautifully marked cod between 5 of us before the wind picked up and ended the day at 3.p.m. One of Skinningroves finest Foo; Pool cue Billy; Dave Bruce; A smile from the winner Alan

A pet retriever in China has been dyed by its owner to resemble a tiger Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...l#ixzz0rtvYEKmv I wonder what another dog would make of it? Alan

Well done Paul. Thats a nice fish. Alan

I wouldnt mind trying either method, but bait has always been a slack water thing to me if I am honest. A pirk and muppet man until I found shads and redgills. Maybe you should come and show us how its done Barry - consider that an invite. Dave Bruce (the boats new owner) is a big bait fisherman and has had ling up to 42lb. The lad in the photo is his mate Andrew, who has had ling up to 28lb - off the wreck we fished yesterday. We will be night wreck fishing soon - on the drift with bait. The plan is to suss a safe route out through the marker dans in daylight, then follow the plot trail at night. Alan

We fished a very big wreck yesterday that just wouldnt stop producing. So we stayed on it for over 4 hours. The first cod of the day was a plump 6lber which coughed up 2 silver spratts without interrogation. For giving me this information it was allowed its freedom. This fishing trip was by special invite only and the release of the first fish of the day was greeted by howls of derision and disgusted looks from the other anglers The cats new owner had never fished with shads before, so I gave him a super kenzaki braid rod and sealine reel and rigged him with a tubi boom and bright silver shad. He then proceeded to kick my arse all day and showed a real knack for the technique. He ended the day with the biggest 3 fish (biggest over 13lb) and a converted shad man, though at the end of the day his silly grin was getting the better of me. I didnt take any pics myself and I dont personally post pics of big catches or fish with blood on them. All fish under about 20in were released. This was the stamp of fish caught, nothing massive; Alan

Paul, the tide directional changes at different depths you refer to is called the 'Ekman spiral' and I guarantee the more anyone tries to understand the subject the more baffled they will become. I first noticed a curious thing on a video of a diver who was descending his 'shot line'. I would have expected the line to bow from the buoy to the seabed away in the direction of the tide. The video showed the line spiraling like an unwound spring. I asked a commercial diver about it and he said to google the word 'katina' but I have never found out any more about what he meant. I dont know how the word is spelt though. I have a couple of hundred 'ground' marks myself which have fished well in the past, some of which were handed down to me, though most are my own. Some are marks on gulleys, shelves and reef ledges or structures such as the saddles on the 'ecofisk pipeline'. Most are redundant now though, as we have a navionics platinum card which gives realtime images of the seabed in 3D as we travel across it. It is like watching some kind of video game. Mike Freeman was a 'commercial jigger' and his average catch was over 70 stone of gutted cod per trip. This was sold at the quayside, so I know the weights to be accurate. All taken from wrecks - none from ground. Commercial diver Andrew Jacksons dive partner Carl Racey has put some very detailed information on the website 'wrecksite.eu' run by Jan Lettens . I have been researching JB's wreck marks with many other individuals to find wrecks that lay across the tide rather than in line with it, and it is the divers that hold this knowledge, not the skippers. We fished such a wreck yesterday and never moved off it for over 4 hours. Alan

Could be worse; Alan

I am not sure why Mike was not allowed to join the WCSA when 3 weeks previously he was told by JW it would be a formality and it was seen as protectionism by some. My boat would have filled a niche (a USP) which was and still remains unfilled - the wreck marks which remain unplundered between 20-80 miles from Whitby. This would have been done in daylight hours between 12-16 hours in trip length. I was never interested in entering the cat into the 10 hour festivals and planned only to fish about 75 days in total per year, though Mike had agreed 110. So it would have brought a new dimension to Whitby and been no threat to any of the existing charter boats. I had a big publicity stunt planned which would have put Whitby in the Sun newspaper. I placed a £50,000 bet with Rupert Adams of William Hill bookmakers that our boat would be the first in the UK to catch a great white shark The plan was to catch a shark, any shark then publish the story that due to global warming there had been great whites seen off Whitbys coast and we had been fishing for them and not the one we had caught. The film crews and media would have descended into Whitby in hordes and I was going to tell them that we had used Bothams tea cakes in the chum mix Everybody in Whitby would have benefitted. The WCSA is run by skippers though, and not businessmen and they would not think to place such a bet themselves. The recent catch of the 2 porbeagles would have generated world wide attention in similar circumstances. Instead, it never even got into our local paper. Alan

Knowledge is accumulative. It is easily possible for any person to know more about physics than Issac Newton ever did by studying what he wrote, and what people wrote after him. To say that a skipper is the most important part of the boat is total nonsense. Previous skippers have left us their accumulative knowledge and detailed legacy which can be exploited. A 12 year old could fly a modern plane. Not because they are skilled, but because the planes can fly themselves due to the input of previous pilots and modern technology. Alan

Yep, spot on Barry. I have all John Brennan's wreck marks as well as Mikes, + my own. Over 1100 in total which are programmed into our Raymarine E120's. It is just a question of which one you visit first, and the tide/wind quickly sort that out on the day. We plan the day as a 'bus route' - we like to come back with the wind on our stern, so it is quite a simple procedure. It is easy to drift wrecks using high tech gear. Lady Penelopes chauffeur 'Parker' could do it. Using vectors and plot trails, there is no more skill in the job than riding a moped. Thats another reality check Alan

I am in 100% agreement Paul, Whitby is a great fishing port but in the swings and roundabouts I would only put it on par with Hartlepool. Neither port would be the nr1 charter port in the UK - in my opinion. I hate the lock situation in Hartlepool. Whitby juts 20 miles out further East than Hartlepool, so it is further to travel to any decent fishing grounds. With a fast boat though it is no big deal. There is a misconception that I moved my cat out of Whitby because I fell out with my skipper Mike. Not so, I could have got another skipper easily enough and bigcod actually recomended one. The reality is my insurance company insisted I moved it, so it was gone overnight. The mooring I was given had a boat sunk on it, I was told and another one badly damaged. The rubber rubbing strake on one of the mooring pillars was 12in short of the water on some low tides. This meant the mooring line could become trapped underneath it. When the tide rose again it could pull the bow under. Also, I had to go and shorten/lengthen the moorings twice a day on biggish tides or she would float on top of the pilings and get damaged. The harbour office were unable to offer a pontoon mooring, even though I was promised one. I thought it best to inform my insurer, who told me either move it or risk the loss myself. It didnt matter to me where she was berthed as she was coded for 60 miles anyway. It is nice to have an adult discussion about such things on a big forum like this. I am afraid I have given up on WSA due to the pathetic moderation. Alan

Had some great days with Stu on the original 'sea trek'. I think you posted a video a few years ago. Can you post it up again Carl? Alan

With respect, I think you are comparing apples with oranges there Carl. Chieftain is a COP cat1 multi day angling specialist. Famous is a COP cat2 single day specialist. Famous will kick the pants off any Whitby boat on a 10 hour trip. But I reckon my old swiftcat could dust anything in the UK Inc Famous. Nostalgia aint what it used to be though Carl. I still reckon your Stu was the best ever twin engined 'tupperware' boat skipper I ever fished with. I still dont know how he did it. He would fly past a wreck at 20kn and stop the boat dead, turn the boat and shout DROP! Thirty seconds later all hell broke loose with rods buckled everywhere. Amazing, and he did it time after time. Alan