Needles Area Catch Report

[richi]

Woke up at 4am to hardly a breath of wind and decided to head to Keyhaven.Rigged up including the sail for the first time and launched into the darkness

 

paddled up towards Hurst Castle and noticed someone calling me from the shingle bank--couldn't recognise who it was then on the VHF I hear richi richi richi this is SpeciMan---He'd camped out on the beach like he said.I waited for SpeciMan to ready himself and we made our way to the Needles together.We made really good speed and reached the Needles in around an hour

 

paddled through the needles and anchored a short distance off on the south side in 70 ft of water

 

SpeciMan was the first one to get a bite

 

but it turned out to be a doggie that got off at the surface

 

about half an hour after I got a P.B. starry smoothound

 

soon after conditions were getting a bit rough for our liking so we headed back through the needles and tried our luck at a mark off Totland bay

 

we didn't stay there long-----too much tidal pull.Decided to paddle back towards Keyhaven and we tried for a while for a flattie with no joy

 

returned as the sun was dropping,roughly 15 miles covered,no Cod but thoroughly content

 

Would like to say a big thankyou to SpeciMan for his excellent guidance and company

[SpeciMan]

Nice one Richi thanks for putting the report up and coming along today. When I put the tent up on the shingle bank last night in at least a force 6 I thought I'd have zero chance of fishing the Needles today. Fortunately I wore ear plugs got some sleep and after seeing you paddle right past me on a still morning I knew that I'd be heading down there after all.

 

There was quite a swell out there today!

 

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[Mark Crame]

In a word, brilliant! Great report and pics chaps.

[Neil]

Great report and some topping pictures. It looks a wee bit on the bumpy side though..

 

 

Neil.

[Moonyaker]

Great stuff guys, cracking photos!

[darnsarf]

Well done chaps! Cracking day out by the looks of things.

[Starvinmarvin]

Great report chaps, nice to see you managed to get the sail up as well Richi, superb photo's Mr Speciman, Richi looking as relaxed as ever

 

SM

[GB]

Fantastic report guys, really enjoy these needles reports. Must get down there myself.

 

 

GB

[s2vto]

Great report!

 

done a lot of fishing off charter boat around hurst castle and needles, appreciate the distance you covered

[Zzippy]

Great report!

 

done a lot of fishing off charter boat around hurst castle and needles, appreciate the distance you covered

Well done lads

Glad you both got out and tried your chossen mark.Excellent pics