fudd

if you picture it in your mind a bass feeding in a fast tide will know how fast it has to paddle its tail to maintian a stationary position enabaling it to ambush any passing prey, during this waiting time for prey to float past it will be looking at everything else and assessing it as it floats by so if something suddenley speeds by it at a much faster rate of knots it only has two options eat or carry on waiting and as it is already using vast ammounts of energy maintaining its strike possition it will probably take the later of the two, as for the cloudy water problem if the bass is on the sea bed it will not nessercerely be feeding there but using the stired up sand to hide its self from fish/prey floating higher up this makes sense to me as looking up thru the water everything creates a black silouet against the sky (this is why so many lures designed for drift fishing are black) so try bringing your bait off the bottom a few turns when the water is murky it may bring a few more fish to the net

good point elton, after all it must have been a very active mind that decided to whip the arse feathers out of his beloved pet bird and stick them onto a hook ! i wonder if the bloke who actually invented the fly was of sound mind in reflection? we are a strange breed us anglers those of us that do think out of the box and try something against the grain are so reluctant to share our successes its almost as if there was only one fish left in the sea! i have been on boat trips were blokes have seen others around them struggle all day and not offer any advice or share there tactics understandable in a compition but not among a group of friends on a jolly. so come on tell us all if your doing something new and different instead of being the shy smarmy bloke with all the fish you could be a fammed hero. ps; steve now you have improved your technique is that offer still open to join you LOL

my mate chunky caught it on worm and squid it was hooked fairly in the mouth which is strange for a plankton eater after a quick wieghing 47lbs was returned to float off down the channel we saw at least 5 more that day all of which were bigger than this one, the biggest the skipper estimated at around 65lb does anyone know how big they actually grow??

cheers anyway guys still a few days to go keep my fingers crossed toerag-the five blokes who let me down i fish with on a regular basis so deposits are never used,but 1 by 1 they left messages on my phone over the last 3 days maybe thinking if i drop out its only one space to fill,but as a collective im in the doo do now

hi all i need to fill 5 spaces this saturday on a wrecking trip from torquay after being let down by a bunch of lads today sh*:S the trip is mid-channel and costs £40 each main target will be cod pollack and some big conger and ling if anyone is up for it please pm me many thanks fudd

i cant belive that the ludricus fine of fishing inside the designated zone (in this case 12miles)is a mere £5000 is this meagre sum going to deter any of these companies I THINK NOT as for interfearing with satalite systems and the like did they really think defra wouldnt be watching with all the bad press over the past 5 years defra is just icthing to prove itself to the public , in this case i have no sympathy with the skippers or their bosses TUFF LUCK

john i will try and get a lite line day with kevin later in the year probably on an individual basis coz it will more than likely be mid week lat me know if your interested and wot spiecies you want to target ,blonde rays on 8lb line seems fun to me .difficult but not impossible

well said , we just struck unlucky that day,you cant always bag up ,but with good company good weather and good skipper it was better than mowing the lawn

john when you off to CI??

great pics john,how did you resist any of the great sun shaded bandit?? or were you the official photographer AGAIN still havnt seen any of your tope from utopia as for the pic of the stingray wot was paul really fishing for this time???

most south coast wrecks are the home to pollack over the winter period best time is mid december to early april for these ,the cod move onto inshore reefs to get lucky

if he exclusively targets tope and doesnt catch many how on earth did he manage to go out and buy a trawler??? think on my friend next you will be telling me all farmers are skint!!

try here phil if your looking to buy one http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/php/bro...ory_id=4&page=2

good god peter sounds like first nite at rehab welcome ROBERT

a mate of mine just came back today from 2 days in CI with kevin(dallora) they were cut short by 1 day due to weather closing in so they fished the banks yesterday morning then went back for there gear and fished the wrecks on the way home untill it got too lumpy they did fish the same bit of ground as we should be fishing on sat and had quite a few cod and pollock to 18lb also a 24lb ling so with a bit of luck should produce the goods for us fingers crossed