Boat match no 6, Menai Straits, 17/10/10.

We saw four regulars and the return of Goldilocks, albeit with a new skipper and crew for the sixth match of this years boat league, which was fished in the Menai Straits.

The crew of Goldilocks were there to get the feel of the matches and suss out a few marks so didn’t take part in the match, but knew there were plenty of us on hand with advice if they needed it.

We were all on the water and away before 9am.

We got off to a good start, with a Tub Gurnard on the first drop for brother Ad who had a very good day after missing the last boat match.

We continued to add species steadily through the day, although a Codling was hard to come by after they have been so abundant here in recent weeks, and we struggled for a while to get a Dog after Adam had gone all Greenpeace and let mine get off at the side of the boat earlier in the day.

There were plenty of decent Ballan Wrasse, with all four boats finding them over the specimen weight of 02-04-00lbs. ( Extra points!!! )

The minis were there in numbers and we soon had our Pout and Poor Cod.

I managed to pick up a bonus Conger, which took the heaviest fish prize and is a new pb for me and my first double figure fish at 10-04-04lbs. Too much time spent scratching in shore matches!

We were all back at the slip for 5pm and it soon became clear we were just in the lead.

After weighing and counting the fish, O2B@C were the winners with 12 species and 1 specimen for 59 points.
Bass Hunter were second with 11 and 1 for 55 points, with Lady M third with 9 and 1 for 48 points and Hannah Lou fourth with 38 points from 6 species and 1 specimen.

The heaviest fish was my Conger of 10-04-04lbs.


The flatfish pool went to a Dab on Bass Hunter which was the only flattie caught.

Lewis Brownson took the junior prize. His catch included this specimen Wrasse of nearly 3lb!

Well done Kev. And your crewmen of course

big thanks to the guys yesterday from goldilocks for your help and for letting us get a feel for the matches, great day , will definately be a regular next year, dan you didn't get the cork marks, but i'm sure we'll be out again soon, or we can enter the last match? thanks guys

malc1 wrote:

big thanks to the guys yesterday from goldilocks for your help and for letting us get a feel for the matches, great day , will definately be a regular next year, dan you didn't get the cork marks, but i'm sure we'll be out again soon, or we can enter the last match? thanks guys

No probs Malc, it's nice to see a few new faces and i'm glad you had a good day, shame the fishing wasn't great but there was a bit of variety. Your more than welcome to fish the next match both of you can fish as a guest. The next match was supposed to be 31st oct but the Mersey open's on the same day so I think we'r going to have to re-schedule it so i'll keep you posted.
There's no rush for them Cork marks i'll get them off you before we go next year. Cheers

cheers dan , yea that would be good,pay our dues in next time, and replace those shrimp rigs,look forward to that. :

Firstly i would just like to say a big welcome to the new lads and some new fresh faces to the club hopefully on Goldilocks . Was nice to see ya lads. And secondly how much my galley bitches have missed me on board . Dan, Kev u better start pulling your weight nxt match!!!!!

nice one is that adam from 02b@c?, defo joining the club in jan m8,dunno who our bitch will be though, suppose me and si will take it in turns , thanks for the great reception we got

[quote="malc1"]nice one is that adam from 02b@c?,

Ye thats me Malc. . Look forward to seeing u guys again nxt match. Any more info needed then just ask .

nice 1

Seems to me o,t,b,a,c has 3 bitches aboard,maybe you should change the name to [o 3 bitcges at c] or [the beverly sisters]

frank,what u like!

Frank wrote:

Seems to me o,t,b,a,c has 3 bitches aboard,maybe you should change the name to [o 3 bitcges at c] or [the beverly sisters]

Busty, Dusty and Rusty. Ill leave you to work out whose who

anything decided on the last boat match, us beginners on goldilocks are looking forward to sponging sum more info of you lads , anyone going to the wirral on sunday?

malc1 wrote:

anything decided on the last boat match, us beginners on goldilocks are looking forward to sponging sum more info of you lads , anyone going to the wirral on sunday?

Hya Malc there's 3 or 4 boats fishing the Merrsey including ourselves so the match is off at the moment but if the Mersey match is called off because of the weather we were going to have our club match in the straits. We should know whats what by thus/fri so i'll keep you posted.
If you fancy tagging along to the mersey give us a shout, we'r booking in on the day like the others.

hi dan m8, i'll speak to si on the mersey thing, think one of the lads off lady m has given him all the info, if we fancy it i'll get some more info off you , if thats ok

malc1 wrote:

hi dan m8, i'll speak to si on the mersey thing, think one of the lads off lady m has given him all the info, if we fancy it i'll get some more info off you , if thats ok

Ye thats fine mate, i don't really know much about it myself but i'll be speaking to bob off Basshunter later on in the week so i should have a bit more info then.

We'r going to have cancell the club match on sun because it looks like the mersey open will be going ahead so we'll re-schedule it in a few weeks time. I'll keep you posted.

no worries dan, think we,re gonna go in the straits, good luck on the mersey,

malc1 wrote:

no worries dan, think we,re gonna go in the straits, good luck on the mersey,

Cheers, have a good day tommorow