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  • 03/09/2011 Fishing Report by Paul Smith on Rapid Fisher (Poole, Dorset)

    3 Sep 2011 by Paul Smith

    Report on-board Rapid Fisher

    Although the forecast was for clear skies & light winds the weather gods obviously didn't listen to the met office!!!! Rapid Fisher left the harbour with 9 hardy souls on board looking for that "something special".

    After about an hour we had only managed to get a dozen mackerel so rather than waste more time we threw the hook in at our chosen spot. After a couple of demonstrations by yours truly & Alex (skipper of Predator II) on how to mount the perfect bait all lines were lowered into the water. After 10 minutes a tell tale nod was seen on one of the rods. Keen to show his best Robson Green impression, Baggy, struck into the fish far too early resulting in nothing more than spoiling a free dinner for Mr Ray!!!

    After several more missed bites and the mackerel running low we headed to another mark. Alex changed all the rigs over to small hooks & showed everyone how to bait the worm onto the hook. A few small wrasse were caught but we decided to try and drift between the piers for some plaice.

    After arriving at the chosen spot Alex managed to get a rod in the water bait with a nice juicy ragworm. It wasn't long before the cry of "net" was heard and a nice trigger fish came to the surface. After a quick picture the fish was returned and the hook rebaited. Again a cry for the net was shouted and sure enough Alex had another trigger!

    After rebaiting everyones hooks more crys for the net were heard around the boat and after 10 hectic minutes a total of 6 trigger fish was boated. All fish were returned after a quick photo. Pictured here is Alex with the biggest of the day.

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