Southsea Blocks 26/4/11

[maghouse]

The return of the deadly duo

Myself & John hit the water with a vengeance - looking for some juicy plaice !

Fished the blocks up and down for about 6 hours - sunny but windy with wind against tide made some uncomfortable fishing getting swamped a few times ...

Still the fishing - bugger all - not even a bite between us

Anyway some photos ...

FIGHT !



The legend that is Gullyworm



The bloke who taught him everything !



What more do you need ...



The infamous blocks !



FF image !



Catch of the day !!!

[richi]

Unlucky Maghouse,looked like fun though.What was that ugly fish you caught with the dexter? ;D

[yd]

that is unlucky, I would have thought something would be around by now

[Purple]

Does anyone know what the history of the blocks is ? - why they are there ? - did a search but blanked

[freeliner]

Try this under the heading 'Other human features' - as it refers to protection for Horse Sand Fort I thought it would pre-date possibly both World wars.

www.kayarchy.co.uk/html/02technique/005seakayaknavigation/003chartwork.htm

Wikipedia suggests otherwise, though

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_Sand_Fort

and it fits with the references to booms rather than blocks for anti-submarine defence during WW1 described here

www.palmerstonforts.org.uk/pdf/HsandFort.pdf

[Purple]

cheers