QUALITY cod have been taken by anglers heading out from Poole on both charter and small private boats with both Geoff Warburton and Daniel Elvin getting a taste of the action.

Geoff Warburton bagged his first cod, weighing 27lb, while fishing from the Poole-based boat Silver Spray skippered by Andy Cummings. A large squid bait did the business.

Not to be outdone, Daniel Elvin went slightly better when landing a huge cod that thumped the scales to 30-10 while fishing from his own small boat Fair Lady.

Elvin, a self-employed electrician from Bournemouth, again used squid to tempt the specimen from a mark near Old Harry Rock.

AVERAGE ACTION

THE action was average during the annual Lymington Open Flounder Competition held in three zones around the Lymington and Pennington sea wall. The contest attracted 120 competitors with England international Darren Phillips winning the event.

Phillips, a dangerous goods safety adviser, was pegged in the blue zone where he bagged a trio of flatties weighing 3lb 5oz to carry off the £250 top prize.

Lyndsey Bennett from Lymington collected the £100 runners-up prize after bagging a brace of flatties from the yellow zone weighing 2-15. Alan Mapes was third with a brace of flatties weighing 2-9 caught from the red section.

Junior member Michael Dawkins was fourth with a solitary flounder weighing 2-3 which was the day's heaviest. He was followed by Ray Sands and Richard Horwood with 1-12, Colin Taylor (1-12), Chris Tsoulli (1-10), Mark Dibden (1-9) and then Steve Hayne and Paul Davis with 1-8.

FISK FIRST AND SECOND

STEAMER Point was the setting for the Neptune League bonus competition where silver eels, pout and rockling supplied limited action.

Brian Fisk, representing Bournemouth and District SAA, won the event with 2-11 which included the night's heaviest fish, a 1-7 silver eel.

Keeping it in the family, Brian's son Jeffery was second with 1-8 followed by Andrew Carr representing Christchurch Knobs with 1-7.

NIGEL'S FLOUNDER

ON the freelance front, some quality flounders have been recorded with Nigel Baker beaching a superb specimen from the Gerry's Point section of Poole harbour that tipped the scales to 4-1.

Baker, a 43-year-old steel fabricator from Southbourne, used a large ragworm bait presented on a size 1 Aberdeen rig to tempt the specimen during a flooding tide. The same session also produced two other smaller flounders that were returned alive.

BISHOP'S TROPHY

THE Brian Cutler Memorial Trophy competition, fished for the best flounder caught within Poole harbour, attracted 13 Bournemouth and District SAA members with 11 fish being returned to the scales.

Steve Bishop won the event with a 2-9 flattie boat. Derek Mitchell (2-6) was runner-up.