John E Ashford

Nice one Ken, great piccies, shame about the weather.

Hi Conkers Deep, everyone will be buying red n yellow large shads now. Ace report.

Happy Birthday Brother.

Good luck in the Milford Haven Small Boat species hunt competition. I'm looking forward to the report n piccies.

Crackin box of fish Clem, well done. Come July, Whitby Boat Fishing Festival, and we are out with Paul n Trot-On, so we do fancy our chances of getting into the prizes. As you've said, Paul is a top skipper and over many years we have never been disappointed with our catches when out with him. If your looking in Paul "Keep your rod up".

Ace reporting Ken, great piccies. Your boat fishing skills are increasing as your moving around, varying styles adapted in new waters. Do you have a favourite endrig that never fails when out of a new port.

When on holiday I can down loads of brown bottles and wake up feeling great. But when I've got to be up in the morning for work, I have the most painfull headache/hangover.

Penn 535GS is a good all round workhorse reel, I mostly use mine for Uptiding. If the price is right then it's well worth having in your tackle box.

As a jelly worm has no weigh, with a long snood, the rig will spin in the air when casting. When it's in the water the current will also swish the rig about the main line. If you feel that jellies, in your situation fishing from the shore, will catch fish I suggest you add weight on the line at the front of the jelly, ie split shot. If you are fishing from a boat, using jelley worms, an uptide or down tide boom should be used, taking your time while letting out line. This will allow the jellied rig to move away from the main line with the current.

Hi squibs, I also feel the right to fish the new walls would be welcome. When I done the outline of the new marina the thought of a beach massing on its north wall was in mind. But I do wonder what will happen to the sandy areas south of Gorleston, as the drift is diverted. I hope this was taken into consideration, with modeling, to foresee any changes. Maybe some deep water, sandless gullies, closer inshore, we'll just have to wait and see.

As the Great Yarmouth New Marina is well on it's way, will we be able to fish from it's walls ? Yes - No ? Permit or free access, with limitations !!! It looks good to fish from, what are your thoughts. Do you know anyone in authority that can give us some answers.

Hi Ken, we travelled down early Saturday morning (208 miles x 2) & slept over night on the boat, bunk beds for all. Fish n chips in town and a couple of pints in the Sailors Return. Here we had some great cracc with a number of WSF members, from Yeovil and Wolverhampton. They had a fishing tackle auction with all proceeds going to the RNLI, I’m now the proud owner of my second WSF `T` Shirt. (Sorry AN)

Wrecking out of Weymouth Well what can I say, this was a trip that came top of my list of Charter Boat Fishing, and June 2008 will be in my memory for a long time. We headed out of Weymouth at 8am and was informed by our skipper that ETA was 10.30am So with end tackle set up, mugs of tea devoured, the crew got its head down. With the sound of the twin diesel engines droning in my ears, the thoughts of a big fish box, filled with lunkers, were running through my mind. After what felt like ages, the sound changed as the slowing and running down of those engines filled the air with anticipation, the call came to get into position, as the first wreck was approaching. End rigs were soon heading to the seabed, the feeling was high, But we were soon engulfed with silence, nothing, not even a tickle. A call came from the skipper, “OK we’ve drifted over wreck lets all get our lines back into boat and we’ll move onto the next wreck”. Disappointment was felt all round, the thoughts of a fishless day, were creeping into some of our minds. Come on lads positive thinking, but the next stop was going to turn the day round. 15 minutes later our rigs were heading for wreck number two. Fish on came the call, then again fish on, daft as it sounds we were all holding tension nodding rods. Smiles and groans as we all did not want to loose what was banging our rods. One at a time the skipper’s mate netted those well hard worked fish. Into the fish box were 6 prime 7 to 8lb Cod. The boat was repositioned for the second drift and again big fish were brought on board, but this time with some good Pollack. Our fish on the day was going to weigh an average of 7lb. We visited several wrecks and all produced good Cod and Pollack, I managed to land my PB for Pollack, a 15lb specimen. Was I delighted I was ecstatic. One of those fishing moments, that will stay with me for a long time. Coming up to 2pm the skipper told us the tide would change and the fishing would drop off, it sure did. We looked at what the last three hours had brought us and we were all chuffed, we could not believe what we had achieved. Time to tidy up, filleting to do, boat to clean up, but first a well earned mug of tea and some snap. Comments were flying, excitement; couple of lost lunkers, why do we always remember those lost ones. Refreshed we all started our chores as the boat was turned and started the long haul home. This was a trip we’ll be talking about for ages, the Desford SAS had accomplished its mission. Bring on our next trip Out of Whitby for the Boat Fishing Festival in July we are ready for it. Watch this Space.

Good Luck Ken, we are starting off at 1.30am for a session on Pat Carlins boat Channel Chieftain V, Weymouth.

Your just a young babe (46), just wait till your an olde moaning git like me and many more on AN. Any way HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pumphypete for your kids sake I hope you have many more.

WOW you guys have done some fantastic work, something to be proud of. Can't wait to see what she looks like when finished.

Glenn tell the lads to clear out those tiddlers, as we are well up for that £5000 prize. Can't wait to get up there in July, we've got a top crew lined up, for the Summer 2008 Whitby Boat Fishing Festival.

Ace Ken, great to see you pulling them in. Did you eat the Ray or return it ?

£36, What's your Paypal email Norm B. No post to pay as I'll pick it up when I'm out with Pat @ Weymouth begining of June.

Craking Ken, some good Ling At least you got out, the sea looks good, it'll still take time to get you up to full speed, just carry on with the recovery regime. Great photos, thanks for sharing them with us, I bet you can't wait to get onboard again.

I hope we're not highjacking Ken's post, Norrie, that Mary has a good reputation, if she says your going to catch a Blue Shark, she'll use all her skills to get you one. Don't forget the

I hope Ken has good reason to crack a bottle tomorrow. We're down that way in June, out with Pat, maybe we'll have good reason to crack open a Bokkle of Newkie. (Norri BTW, Got another couple of bottles here still) Leave one back of the Sailors bar, I'll find a good reason to crack it.

Hi Lid It's not as difficult as it's made out to be. you don't need to know coding HTML etc. A visual editor is all you need, now some on here will have their own prefrence, and no doubt they'll all be good. I started with Coffee Cup Visual, I find it so easy that I've stuck with it. As you've already got the server and web name, next you need to be able to upload your files to your server. This you need a FTP software, File Transfer Protocol, there's free one's available on the net. Uploading files is easy and once you've mastered it your web site will evolve into a powerful internet medium. Good Luck.

I hope you have a craking day Ken. Looking forward to the piccies n report. Norm B if your having problems with the Moet, PM me your Paypal details and I'll pay for the P&P.

A likkle late but Happy Birthday Elton.