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Someone doesn’t look very happy with their Christmas present🎄🎄😂

@momo1510748 @HappyHooker1157 Thank you 🤩

Happy birthday to my gorgeous @captaingrumpy04 🥳🥳 You are the sun in my day The wind in my sky The waves in my ocean The beat in my heart My whole world my everything,love you so much ❤️❤️ PS not too many embarrassing photo’s this year 😜😘😘

@AlexPag21070389 @HappyHooker1157 Thanks Alex

@HappyHooker1157 @captaingrumpy04 Happy birthday Grumpy! This is a lovely post Annie ❤️

@HappyHooker1157 I am never going to go into a restaurant on February 29th ever again😂😂

Happy #leapday2024 ❤️ 20 years ago I took this amazing man out to a restaurant,got down on one knee with a ring and asked him to marry me……. Best thing I have ever done 😉I was so nervous though,couldn’t eat all day was starving when I got to restaurant 🤣 @captaingrumpy04

@MsBecksR Hope you are OK, sending our love and support, we know life isn’t easy for you at the moment but we are here if you need us. Ian,Annie& Bosun x

Time to think about my life, I can’t go on being consumed with other peoples life’s, I will always care and yes I will feel guilty but I’m not happy, that reflects at the moment, the best moments are with my CB, he is anxious when I am, time to put him first he is my no1 🤎❤️

@deantheconger So sorry for your loss, we were devastated when we lost our jack Russel a few years back.

My little mate, a bright little star who was loved by everyone he met died today. A loyal friend who loved everyone. We will miss him forever. I love you my friend dearest boy xxx

I am getting very worried, I think Bosun is turning vegetarian, a few hours later I discovered why it’s best not to give a jack russell puppy too much raw cabbage💨💨🤢🤢

@bradlerob @HappyHooker1157 As I said in my reply, we cannot physically catch more fish in the limited time we have on the water, there is no shortage of bass here.the EU trawlers hammer the SW and take no notice of size limits or quotas, rod and line boats are not the problem.

@captaingrumpy04 @HappyHooker1157 Fair play to you Ian - we all have to make a living. But the more of these really big fish there are, the more fish you’ll be able to catch in the future. The fishing may be good where you are, but there are hardly any bass over 65cm left down here in the SW.

Have a little read.....it explains why we can’t catch Bass in February and March 🎣 It gives the fish a chance to breed and us a chance to have a rest we’re not getting any younger @captaingrumpy04 🤪😂😂😂

@bradlerob @HappyHooker1157 Because if we we put all the large fish back we would be out of business, we have to catch 2500 kilos of bass just to pay the boat expenses. There is no shortage of bass of all sizes out on the grounds but there is a limit as to how many 2 people can physically catch in a season.

@HappyHooker1157 @captaingrumpy04 Those two bass you’re holding Annie are prime breeding fish. They produce far more and bigger eggs than smaller mature fish. Why not put the really big ones back?

@MikeDonohue1 They live in the woods around our cottage, they turn up every day for food, we started with 1 tame deer 15 years ago, we now have over 30, my wife has given names to over half of them.

@captaingrumpy04 What a wonderful event. Hope it happens daily.

I am being watched, I think Stanley the stag wants his breakfast😁

Conservation groups are making mugs out of all of us. This is the industrial logging operation being carried out on the “National Trusts” Brownsea Island. The pile of logs on Poole Quay has been appearing, and disappearing for months.#shocking #Hypocrisy

@JulieMerch68 She is.

@captaingrumpy04 Is she part of Stan’s harem Annie? 🥰🦌🐾xx

One very pregnant deer scrounging for a carrot.

@stellywelly55 She will😂

@captaingrumpy04 Bet she's gonna get one, too!

Good afternoon 👋 Fishing News have done a lovely article about me and ⁦⁦⁦@captaingrumpy04⁩ on our sustainable rod and line fishery 🐟🎣😊😁 dropbox.com/s/zqukvcked2y5…

One of our little 4 legged friends has popped in for a few grapes.

@bricklandsfish Hi Karen, there are no legal wild bass available in the uk until the 1st of April, if you are caught with illegal bass you could be in trouble with the fisheries. Whoever supplied you with this fish, if it is genuine wild bass, has committed an offence.

@SouthernIFCA @DorsetWildlife @MSCintheUK @MSCecolabel There was a flock of over 300 feeding on the mudbank west of the Wareham channel about a week ago. We have never seen so many in one place.

#ETPSpeciesWeek Focus on: Avocet Recognisable by the up-curved beak avocets migrate south to join us for winter. #PooleHarbour hosts 20% of the UK's wintering population! A common place to find them is Wych & Middlebere channels @ mid-tide feeding on small crustaceans & worms.

@alexthepage We have never seen mixed pods before, they all seemed quite happy swimming together.

On our way back in from a day’s commercial rod and line bass fishing we bumped into these beauties. 3 different types of dolphins in one pod, it more than made up for a very cold and dismal days fishing.