August spring tides

August spring tides mean big bass from the banks and tope over slack

Big teeth!

A pb tope for Ian Wilkinson from Cornwall (he also had a pb bass on the same trip)

7lb 8oz bass for John Tisdale

My first John Dory on a live sandeel

Tom's first tope

8lb 12oz bass for Harry Venables

With some unsettled weather recently we have seen a few trips cancelled but a few die-hard anglers stuck with it and proved that the fish still bite when the wind is blowing. Two days over a neap tide produced 20 congers, 15 tope, 3 undulate rays, a very nice pollack for one of my youngest anglers and a colourful squid.

Nicolas Barlow with an 8lb summer pollack
Nicolas and his dad John with a lovely wreck caught tope

Andy with a squid caught on mackerel feathers

rays

The Purbecks have been producing some good rays lately with undulate rays hitting well into the double figures.

The Isle of Wight is producing some good fish on the spring tides with all three of these bass coming within two drifts.

Jamie with a 7lber
Followed by a 9.5lber

A very respectable 10lb bass for paul