Photo Gallery

Adult Boat Gallery

Welcome to the Adult Boat Photo Gallery

Below are photographs of our members who have fished from a boat during the years, any of our members are welcome to send in their photographs to be published together with a short description of the picture, before we can publish we must have your permission to do so.

This is only open to all members of Gosport and District Angling Club

Sent your photos through the clubs boat Whatsapp group requesting to put on the website

P.B. Blonde Ray

Pictured is John Seymour holding up a nice Blonde Ray caught on "Sea Mist" during the Species Hunt on July 14th 2024, the fish was caught east of the Nab and was 710mm across the wings and weighed in at 16lbs 2oz personel Best.

The fish was measured, weighed and returned to the sea alive

Well done John

P.B.Blonde Ray

Pictured is Paul Farrugia holding up a nice Blonde Ray caught on "Sea Mist" during the Species Hunt on July 14th 2024, the fish was caught east of the Nab and was 670mm across the wings and weighed in at 15lbs 2oz personel Best.

The fish was measured, weighed and returned to the sea alive

Well done Paul

P.B Smoothound and Angling Trust Specimen

Pictured is Jack Kendall holding up a P.B Smoothound and an Angling Trust Specimen.

The fish was caught during competition 6 held on June 23rd 2024, he was in the west solent area on a Blue Sky and no wind day, it was his first fish of the day and weighed in at 19lbs 8oz.

The competition was won by Jack and he also took the heaviest fish, the fish was returned to the sea alive after this photo was taken.

Well done Jack

Permission was given to publish

43.1lbs Tope

Picture is Charlie Hickman holding up a very nice tope of 43.1 lbs, the fish was caught on his boat "Lady Sue" on Saturday 19th May 2024, fishing east of the Nab .

The fish was photographed and returned to the sea alive.

Well Done Charlie and thanks for your picture

Permission was given to publish

Paul Farrugia

Pictured is Paul holding up his PB Tope measuring 147Cm, the fish was caught during Competition 5 18th May 2024 on board "Sea Mist" East of the Nab, the fishes estimated weight was 32Lbs, shortly after this photo was taken the fish was returned to the sea alive

Permission granted to publish

Steve McMaster

Pictured is Steve holding up his PB Tope measuring 142Cm, the fish was caught during Competition 5 18th May 2024 on board "Cyder Daze" East of the Nab, the fishes estimated weight was 31Lbs, shortly after this photo was taken the fish was returned to the sea alive

Permission granted to publish

Competition 4: April 28th (2024)

Pictured is Paul Carby holding up an Undulate Ray onboard "Sea Horse" of 54Cm in length, calculated weight was 3.050Kgs (6Lbs 12oz)

The fish was measured, (Leaches Removed) and photograhed and returned to the sea alive

Well done Paul

Competition 4: April 28th 2024

Pictured is John Seymour holding up his first Smoothound of 2024 on board "Sea Mist".

The fish was 98 Cm in length, calculated weight was 5.120 Kgs (11Lbs 5oz)

The fish was measured and photographed and returned to the sea alive.

Well done John

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Easter Break Solent Dangle

Video supplied by Jack Kendall

Thanks Jack

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Near Miss with Car Transporter

Whilst fishing out of any boat channel, we were interupted from fishing by a car transporter no more than 75 feet from us, From the video you can just see the spot on the horizon that's us!, Skipper Mark Carby was ready to cut the anchor line as the boat went right over the anchor line.

Thanks Jack for the video

Mark's First Smoothound of 2024

Pictured is Mark Carby displaying his first Smoothound of 2024, this was caught on "Seamist" during competition 1 (Jan 6th 2024) in the Culver spit Area.

The fish was returned safely to the sea alive

The Calculated weight was 8lbs 10 oz (3920Grms)

Well done Mark

Brace of Channel Whiting

Pictured is Mark Carby displaying a brace of Channel Whiting, these were caught on "Seamist" during competition 1 (Jan 6th 2024) in the Culver spit Area.

Well done Mark

P.B. Bullhuss

Pictured isJack Kendall (our new boat match officer) on board Cider Daze during the first Boat Competition of 2024 (January 6th) fishing in the Culver spit area when he bagged his personal best Bull huss.

This fish also took the heaviest fish and jack also came first in the competition.

The calculated weight of the fish was 9lbs 10 oz (4370Grms)

Well done Jack

Blonde Ray

Picured here is Chris Seymour

He was delighted to haul this 15lbs 8oz (7038grms) Blonde Ray in off Culver I.O.W. during Boat Competition No. 6 (3rd Oct 2021)

The fish was safely returned to the sea alive

Well done Chris

Permission from Chris was given to publish

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Short Video Setting off BoatCompetition 3

This short video was all the members leaving the slipway to fish Hayling Bay

Sunday May 1st 2022

We need more footage in the future to publish on the website

Tope

Picture is Andy Deacon, fishing i believe in the Eastern approaches area.

Holding up a nice size Tope, he believes around the forty pound mark.

The fish was returned to the sea alive to fight another day.

Well done Andy

Permission from Andy was given to publish

Pictured is John Seymour on board "Valletta" 22nd May 2022 holding his first tope of the year.

The fish weighed around 12lbs not as big as Andy's, after the photo was taken the fish was returned alive to live another day

Permission given by John Seymour to Publish

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Short Video

Short video of the landing of the tope

Undulate Ray

Ricky Christmas holding up a nice Undulate Ray caught in Sandown Bay in June 2022.

The Fish was weight in on board "Breakin" and was 14lbs (6.350 Kgs)

The fish was returned to the sea alive, Nice one Rick

Permission given by Ricky Christmas to Publish

Undulate Ray

Pictured is Paul Farrugia holding up his very first Undulate Ray, the fish was caught during Competition No. 8 (Species Hunt) on Sunday August 14th 2022.

The fish weighed in at 4150grms (9lbs 2.4ozs) with a wing span of 61cm, the fish had 2 leaches attached which were removed and the fish was returned back to the sea alive.

Well done Paul

Permission was granted by Paul to publish.

Undulate Ray

Pictured is Brett King holding up his very first Undulate Ray.

The Fish weighed in at 4309grms (9lbs 8ozs).

After the photo was taken it was returned to the sea alive.

Well done Brett

Permission was granted by Brett to publish

My First Smoothound of 2023

Pictured is John Seymour holding up a nice size Smoothound (103 Cm) caught east of the Nab during the Boat Competition 4 on April 16th, the calculated weight was around 12lbs.

The fish took the heaviest bag at the end of the competition, after this photo was taken the fish was returned safely to the sea alive

Competition 4 (4minute Drive from the harbour to the club)

Very short video of the trip of Valletta from the harbour mouth to outside the club, all of 4 minutes.

Speed recorded was 42Kts (48.33 MPH)

Thanks to Jack K for sending it to me, permission was given to publish

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Team Valletta(Sea Angling Classic 2023

Team Photo

This Photo was taken on the first day before we set off from the Marina

from left to right

Steve Mc Master, Captain John Seymour, Paul Farrugia an Jack Kendall

Day 2 start

Day 2 Start seconds after the go go go signal over the radio.

This was taken on the marshalls boat

Tope 128Cm

Picture is Paul Farrugia holding up the Teams largest tope caught during the competition.

The tope was measured at 128Cm , which converted using our measuring system is estimated to be 23.5Lbs, the fish was promply returned to the sea alive.

Well done Paul

Tope 125Cm

Picture is John Seymour holding up the second largest tope caught during the competition.

The tope was measured at 125Cm , which converted using our measuring system is estimated to be 22.27Lbs, the fish was promply returned to the sea alive.

Well done John

Tope 116cm

Picture is Jack Kendall holding up the third largest tope caught during the competition.

The tope was measured at 116Cm , which converted using our measuring system is estimated to be 18.3Lbs, the fish was promply returned to the sea alive.

Well done Jack

Specimen Bass

Picture here is Rowly Weston out fishing Boat Competition 8 (Sunday 20th August 2023)

Holding up a specimen size Bass of 12lbs 6ozs (5613Grms).

This fish will be registered with the Angling Trust Specimen Awards Scheme

Well Done Rowly

Specimen Bullhuss

Pictured is John Seymour on board "Seamist" during Competition 9 on October 8th 2023.

John is displaying the largest of 2 Bullhuss, this fish of 108Cm with a calculated weight of 6800Grms (14lbs 15.8oz).

After the fish was measured and pictured it was returned to the sea alive.

The other Bullhuss caught was 96Cm (10lbs 10oz) but was not of specimen size.

The fish details have now been forwarded to the Angling Trust Specimen Scheme

Well Done John

Specimen Bullhuss

Competition 9 Winner Paul Farrugia pictured with the largest of 2 specimen Bullhuss capture on board "Seamist" on October 8th 2023.

The Bullhus was 109Cm long with a calulated weight of 6970Grms (15lbs 5 oz)

After the fish was measured and photographed it was return to the sea alive.

The other specimen Bullhuss was 105Cm, calculated weight of 6290Grms

(13lbs 13oz)

Both the fish details have now been forwarded to the Angling Trust Specimen Award Scheme.

Well Done Paul

Competition 9(2023) Photographs

Members who fished boat Competition 9 (October 8th 2023) have sent me some of their photographs that were taken during this competition.

Thankyou to these members for their submissions

Short Video of Competition 9 (2023)

Footage taken during competion 9 (Rover) thank you to all who contributed

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Specimen Golden Grey Mullet

Picture is Rick Jones holding a specimen Golden Grey mullet

The fish came in at 0.908 Grams which is equal to our current Boat record which has stood for some time.

The fish was returned to the sea alive.

Well Done Rick

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