Shingle Bank League competitions are organised by Malcolm Stote.  Contact Malcolm on 07894 902254 for more information.
On all competitions you sign-on at Cut Bridge between 18.30 and 19.00. 
1st Shingle Bank league Match.
      This was the 1st match of the 2026 club year for the club.  The weather was showery with light winds with a medium to large sea swell.  12 club members signed on and 10 weighed in fish consisting of bass, conger eel, dogfish, pouting and black bream.  All fish are weighed on the beach and returned as quickly as possible to the sea.  A total of 81 fish were weighed for a total weight of 99lbs 15-1/8oz.  The best fish of the evening was a conger eel weighing 5lb 6oz caught by Patrick Dalton.
Results:
1st Ben Daniel 22lbs 8-1/4oz, 2nd Malcolm Stote 19lbs 13-1/8oz, 3rd Chris Ellis 14lbs 14-5/8oz, 4th Patrick Dalton 11lbs 10-1/2oz, 5th Paul Watson 10lbs 15-1/4oz, 
6th Alan Mapes 5lb 11-5/8oz, 7th Derek Slack 4lb 12-1/2oz, 8th Martin Pink 3lb 15- 3/4oz, 9th John Tharme 3lb 6oz, 10th Brian Dawkins 2lb 12-3/8oz.

Shallow Boat Competitions are organised by Brian Ansell.  Contact Brian on 01590-672628.  
All Competitions are now fished on Saturday's or Sunday's weather wise.  
1st Shallow Boat Competition.
      On Saturday 13th December the club held its 1st Shallow Boat competition for the 2026 club year.  This was a changed day because the weather forecast for the Sunday was for very windy day so we changed to the Saturday which was a good move because we had light winds and sunshine.
      !0 club members signed on and al caught fish consisting of conger eel, dogfish, bull huss, pouting, thornback, small eyed and undulated rays and whiting.  All the fish are counted, measured and returned to the sea and points awarded.
Results:
1st Alan Martin 115 pts, 2nd Adrian Moody 107 pts, 3rd Charlie Nash 91 pts, 4th Ady Hulme 78 pts, 5th Denis Mapes 69 pts, 6th Barry Littlefair 62 pts, 7th Paul Watson 56 pts,
8th Alan Mapes 48 pts, 9th Neil Mitchener 35 pts, 10th Ryan Nash 30 pts.
Some good fish were caught on the day which were a bull huss 10 lbs 5 oz by Denis Mapes an undulated ray  of 12 lbs 9 oz by Adrian Moody and a small eyed ray of 5 lb 8 oz by Alan Martin.


30th Nov Small Boat Open.
      On Sunday the club it's annual Small Boat Open and for once the luck was on our side.  The weather was good even though the day before was wet and windy and the following Monday was also very wet and windy.   Although there was a swell the day was sunny and dry.  On this open the anglers can only bring back their heaviest fish from each of the chosen species which were cod, whiting, pouting and bass.   21  anglers signed on and 13 anglers caught which were whiting, pouting and bass.  Sadly  no cod were caught.
Results:
Bass.  1st Richard Pope 6lb 4.4oz, 2nd Alan Mapes 4lb 11.8oz, 3rd Jeff Semple 2lb 6oz.
Pouting.  1st Paul Watson 1lb 12.2oz, 2nd Steve Williams 1lb 3.8oz, 5rd Steve Barnes 1lb 0.8oz.
Whiting.  1st Alec Harmer 1lb 8.2oz, 2nd A.M. Morgan 1lb 2.6oz, 3rd Simon Nutland 0lb 15.4oz. 



      

Large Boat Competition are organised by Marc Duncan.  Contact Marc on 07810 876281.
All Large Boat competitions are fished on Sunday only. 
10th Large Boat Competition.  Report sent in by Marc Duncan.
      The club held its 10th and final 2025 Large Boat competition on Sunday 16th November from Poole aboard "Ocean Runner" skippered by Ryan Jones.  7 anglers ventured out with a breezy NE wind.  First mark was for pouting and bream with most anglers getting their 10 pouting quickly.  A couple of bream were caught and Marc Duncan had a couple of ballan wrasse.  Another stop on the way out towards the Banks in search of congers and dogfish saw John Wood land a conger and Robin Lane land a dogfish.  Once out on the banks 2 small eyed rays were caught by Marc and Robin and 4 blonde rays by Jane, Dave Wood and Malcolm Gerrish.  Robin and Jane also caught a smooth-hound each.  A few congers and dogfish were also caught and Jane topped up her score with bream.  Moving back inshore to the last mark another small smooth-hound and a few bream were caught.  Despite a cool NE breeze, a good day was had by all.
Results:
1st Robin Lane 146 points, 2nd Dave Wood 133 points, 3rd Jane Hopkins 91 points, 4th Marc Duncan 88 points and 5th John Wood 75 points.
Congratulations to all anglers who fished the competitions throughout the season and to Dave on being 2025 Large Boat Champion.

Recreational Boat Fishing Trips are organised by Marc Duncan 07810 876281.
Recreational fishing trip Saturday 3rd January.  Report sent in by Dave Price.
      The club's recreational fishing trips started early this  year with a trip on Saturday 3rd January from Poole aboard "Ocean Runner" skippered by Ryan Jones.  It was a very cold start with the temperature at zero degrees when we boarded via a rather slippery pontoon at Poole.  The temperature did pick up a few degrees as the sun came out later and stayed out for most of the day which made things a bit better.  There were predicted north westerly winds of 15 mph gusting up to 25 mph which was the case but as this was an inshore trip we were pretty well sheltered by Studland and the Poole/Bournemouth coast.
      According to the skipper, the water temperatures had only just started to lower and this has delayed the arrival of the whiting, so they were not around in the same numbers as they might usually be in early January.  This made for quite tough fishing.  We moved around 4 different marks during the day but never really found the fish in any numbers.
      In total we caught several pouting, some small congers, quite a few small dogfish, a single dab, one very impressive 7lb 2oz small eyed ray caught by Robin Lane and a few whiting, although the majority of the whiting were on the smaller side with only a few keepable sized fish, the best being a 2lb 3oz fish caught by Andy Southwick.
      Another cold spell may bring the whiting inshore more, so hopefully the  next recreational trips might have a bit more luck if we choose to target them.