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Hi Paul Half an agricultural machine, nahh, just crushed by a two ton bucket, dam faulty mirco switch. Chris Clark

Hi Paul It looks like we will have to agree to disagree on this one but I can only say again that I have never written a Sussex report for the Sea Angler Magazine but as I said in my previous post I do write the coastal reports for the Anglers Mail which I think is what your gripe related too. As far as writing the Dorset Coastal reports for the Sea Angler magazine, yes I do live on the Hampshire/Dorset border but probably fish along the Dorset coastline more than most others anglers, particularly now that I have been forced into early retirement through the accident I suffered a few years ago. As a matter on interest I was born slap in the middle of Dorset where I started my angling career, thence I know the coastline like the back on my hand. Forgetting that, with modern communications it is now far easier to write coastal reports, I get several emails every day from skippers or individuals who have landed a decent fish, only yesterday I received a pic of an 11-year-old with a 3-10 plaice caught from the Swash Channel in Poole harbour. Again as I said in my previous post we do sometimes get it wrong, that is a fact of life and we will never please everybody but it is not through the want of trying. Chris Clark

Hi Spasor. You have made some interesting remarks relating to the fishing the Worthing area, some of which are not true. Firstly I have never written any reports in the Sea Angler magazine covering Sussex, the only reports I write for Sea Angler cover Dorset. Secondly I have never been European Champion, yes I have been a World Champion many moons ago and I refute the suggestion that I ever said to you that you were jealous of me. As far as a nice little earner is concerned, anybody who writes for the Angling press will tell you that they pay very little and with a quarterly phone bill of around £400, it not exactly profitable, I have also never been sacked from any magazine as you suggested. The facts, I do write the coastal reports for the Anglers Mail for the south coast, I call over 20 tackle shops every week to try an get the reports as accurate as possible, but from the time I make the phone calls to the time the article are published can be a couple of weeks, in angling a lot can change during that period thence the coastal reports are only a guide. I am also increasingly using club match results as a guide, these are often a very good barometer as to what is happening on the beaches. It is also true that I use Prime Angling for my Information for the Worthing area, Mike Perfect who owns the shop is a very good angler as well as been a genuine type of chap, if the fishing is crap he will tell me just that. On occasions dogfish are caught particularly when the water is coloured, infact, some have already been caught this year, just check out the match results. Suicidal mullet, yes they show form Shoreham beaches during September to harbour ragworm, as far as the bass are concerned some very good bass are caught from this area with doubles recorded every, the first fish should show shortly at Gorning with the peeler moult. I do remember your gripe with the Anglers Mail, but I NEVER suggested to you that you were jealous, I just gave you the facts as I have above, writting coastal reports week in week out is not an easy task, yes sometimes we get it wrong, but they are there for a guide and as far as I am concern I take a great deal of time and care to make them as accurate as possible. Chris Clark

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