Update 21.06.09

There has been quite a bit going on since last post, but nothing spectacular. The potting side of my business has certainly improved now we have a closed area locally. We are catching more small Lobsters ( which are going back) and the Crabs have not got the claws missing and various shell injuries that they had a year ago.


Fishing has been very slow so far with me having to move boat position 5 or 6 times a trip to find fish.


There have been the usual mix of pout, conger, wrasse, and dogfish. It was not until last week I managed to find Black Bream.


Thanks to Tony Rose fron Yeovil who booked the boat for today but did not turn up at 0800 this morning
My crew member, Richard and I managed to go out to do a bit ourselves. We went out to drift a local wreck and had about half a dozen Pollock and a fair few pout before the Divers arrived and we had to move. So off we went to a piece of rough ground and managed to catch some of the Cod that are plentiful East side of Portland Bill but not our side. So thanks to the divers who also provided a helicopter display when two of them were airlifted to the re-compression chamber.

We had an other no show last week that takes some believing.
I was phoned by the customer that they were going to be a bit late, bearing in mind it was a 1300 hrs start. 1330 had another phone call saying that they were nearly there. 1415 I gave up and was not in a very good mood as in my book it is utter bad manners to be late. So once again I went out with my crew. 1430 another call to say they could not find me. After giving them a piece of my mind we returned back to port as they said they had come from the midlands for this trip. They said they were on the pier where the divers go from. When I got back , guess what no sign. After a phone call trying to decide where they were, much to my amazement they were on SWANAGE Pier. So Mr Hodder full marks for that.

Bookings are coming in quite fast now so we will be able to do a bit more fishing ourselves and are thinking of having one day a week when we take individuals due to the number of enquiries for one or two places.

Things have been quiet for a while now as the wind is putting paid to quite a few trips. This is a shame, as you book a while in advance and look forward to going out. The fact that I also lose income does not come into it.

Watch this space