South Coast Southern sea league match, lee on solent

[ajs1967]

Any body know the results from last night?

 

[Allthegearnoidea73]

Yep

 

[ajs1967]

Great to sea a few fish coming out ?

 

[Tatunka joe]

24”lb tis a cracking bag ???

 

[ouchthathurt]

12lb smooth hound in a match? That will do me!

 

[Mr Fish]

Yep

Are the fish weighed and returned mate? Never quite sure how heaviest bag comps work these days.

 

[Tatunka joe]

Hounds and rays are tony

 

[Mr Fish]

Hounds and rays are tony

Fair one. Never used to like seeing the Sea Angler reports raving over 40lb bags of small fish and they’re all weighed at the end and dumped back dead. Or they used to be.

As long as nothing that’s wanted for the pot is returned it’s all good

 

[Tatunka joe]

On our match’s everything’s returned unless you want it for bait or food even on rovers you can still fish by yourself your given a playing card to show fish on scales as proof system seems to work if your gonna cheat your a sad individual IMO

 

[Mr Fish]

On our match’s everything’s returned unless you want it for bait or food even on rovers you can still fish by yourself your given a playing card to show fish on scales as proof system seems to work if your gonna cheat your a sad individual IMO

Agreed, that’s the best way.

Ours are all best specimen hunts but after checking your scales the club trusts you to weigh the fish, photograph it and that’s accepted.
As you say, pretty bloody sad if someone tries to cheat their mates.

I shudder now at the days when we used to take dead 20lb eels or 10lb hounds back to the scales, seems crazy now but wasn’t that long ago, maybe a decade.
Only one fish, but even so. No excuse in hindsight, but that was the norm then.

 

[Glenn]

Are the fish weighed and returned mate? Never quite sure how heaviest bag comps work these days.

Length to weight chart used. Measure and return. All fish returned. No weigh in.

 

[ajs1967]

Agreed, that’s the best way.

Ours are all best specimen hunts but after checking your scales the club trusts you to weigh the fish, photograph it and that’s accepted.
As you say, pretty bloody sad if someone tries to cheat their mates.

I shudder now at the days when we used to take dead 20lb eels or 10lb hounds back to the scales, seems crazy now but wasn’t that long ago, maybe a decade.
Only one fish, but even so. No excuse in hindsight, but that was the norm then.

Makes me cringe seeing Bill fish hanging from cranes, thankfully we are starting to take conservation seriosly.

 

[Mr Fish]

Length to weight chart used. Measure and return. All fish returned. No weigh in.

That’s perfect, nothing wrong with that.

Although I admit I never got my head around lengths but it sounds nice and quick and easy for fish welfare