Code Red

[i_sail]

My mate recently slipped through Portland Bill inshore as tide was right. Picked up pot and hugh fat rope. Anchored to bed, tide race coming straight for him. Radio antenna come loose from VHF......s**t.....luckily mobile worked, called coastguard.

Tried engaging gears, etc, nothing worked. Luckily he's got some b****cks and managed to jump in the drink and cut himself free. Some rag/sticks passing by thought he was in for a jolly!! Managed to get the hell out of there went ashore soon after for some vino (plenty of it).

The moral of the story is fit ropecutters. But please help by voting - AMBASSADOR OR SPURS.............the trail continues.

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[Talbot]

It is about time that legislation forced the fishermen to mark their pots correctly. In the days before GPS, they were much more visible cause the fishermen wernt able to go directly to a waypoint, and thus had to search for them. Placing of some of the pots in solent area is diabolically stupid - right in the busiest section of the solent, and seem to be getting more numerous - however do the poor lobbies get old enough to have families? I suppose they will be happy when they have totally overfished yet another species to the edge of extinction. This rant has nothing to do with the fact that I can no longer enjoy Lobster Thermidor due to a diet problem (really, honestly). But this is a serious problem that appears to be getting worse.

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[longjohnsilver]

Lobsters

Strangely there definitely seems to be more lobbies than ever this year, been diving for 20+ years and never seen so many, actually had 5 on one dive (and no, before anyone asks I don't pinch them from pots!) and quite a few dives with 3, much more than previous years.

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