Recreational Boat Fishing Trips are organised by Robin Lane. Contact Robin on 0787 6471 901.
These trips are non-competitive and target various species when in season.
Week-End trips for 2025. Sun 25th May, Sun 27th Jul, Sun 24th Aug, Sat 13th Sept, Sun 5th Oct, Sat 18th Oct, Sat 6th Dec..
Mid-Week trips for 2025. Tues 29th Apr, Thurs 15th May, Tues 10th Jun, Wed 25th Jun, Thurs 3rd Jul, Thurs 10th Jul, Thurs 7th Aug, Wed 24th Sept, Wed 5th Nov, Tues 11th Nov, Thurs 20th Nov, Tues 16th Nov,
3rd Recreational Mid-Week Fishing Trip. Report sent in by Marc Duncan.
On Thursday 10th April the club held a recreational mid-week fishing trip aboard "Ocean Runner" skippered by Ryan Jones out of Poole. 10 club members set off primarily fishing for bream and plaice. First mark took us to Christchurch Ledge looking for bream. With the anchor down, lines went in and the first fish to be caught was a pollack for Robin Lane and a bull-huss for Garry Young. Marc Duncan had a ballan wrasse before Nelson Phillips landed another pollack. We then decided to do a couple of drifts for more pollack and Harry Gray landed one.
The next move was to Southbourne Ledge again looking for bream. Here we caught a couple of small eels, pouting and dogfish but no bream!! We up anchored and moved to the Patch again in search for bream. Finally, we had a few caught by Dave Price, Nelson, Mike Fox, Garry and the largest of 1lb 9oz by Marc. We had a couple of small whiting. Dave also managed to catch a small plaice!!
We then moved to the Bar for plaice with Robin landing one. Ryan decided to have a couple of final drifts inside the harbour looking for some plaice and Mike caught one. Whilst the fishing wasn't prolific, we still had 11 species on the boat, a good day out fishing albeit rather cold on one side of the boat and some great banter as ever.
2nd Mid-week Recreational Fishing Trip.
Report and photos sent in by Robin Lane.
On Wednesday 26th March eight members from the club boarded charter boat "Piscary" skippered by Matt Rowe. We started with a light wind and bright skies, ideal for our first species, plaice. Heading to the Wash just outside Poole Harbour we set about our task to catch plaice. With a slow drift we caught 15 over a two hour period with the best weight of 1lb 6oz. Matt then suggested we go to Dancing Ledge for our next species which was bream. On arrival Matt dropped anchor and the first fish on board was a ballan wrasse caught by Andy Hopkins. Then Matt moved the boat to deeper water where a few bream and smooth-hounds were found. Then, heavy, thick fog came in so we made a slow journey home.
1st Mid-Week Recreational Fishing Trip for 2025 and photos sent in by Robin Lane.
On Wednesday 22nd January the club held its 1st Mid-week recreational fishing trip aboard "Piscary" skippered by Matt Rowe out from Poole and the weather on the day was good.
Fish caught was Robin Lane a conger eel, Steve Batchelor a blonde ray, Tony Methven a blonde ray, Robert Taylor a brill weighing 1 lb 14 oz, Andy Richmond a bull huss weighing 9 lb 8 oz and Steve Batchelor a bull huss weighing 10 lbs 12 oz. Photos on recreational fishing trip photo gallery.