07/09/2026
Ok regarding customers asking us at Chopsea charters to do 4hr bass trip's, the answer is NO our bass trip's are all day 8hrs or longer as it takes atleast an hour to get to the good areas depending on state of tide and sea conditions.
And we also got to consider the comfort in those areas as at times not for the faint hearted hence why we only take 6 people even though we're licensed for 10.
Then we have the challenge of getting 6 people big enough bass each for them to take that are the legal size.
Now if they do get the quota thats allowed at 3 each per person big enough to keep is a bit of a challenge with 6 people.
Yes people fish for bass in poole harbour and there's only a hand full of people I know that are good enough to get the big ones and they been fishing constantly for many many years and some dedicated to it, poole harbour is a bass nursery and 100,s of small bass not legal to take home.
But it does produce some big ones if your expert enough to hook them as others do.
But we definitely wouldn't be able to get 6 legal size bass in 4hrs for customers to take home.
Thats why we go offshore all day for them as its 80% better chance of smiles all round.
So please stop calling for 4hr bass trips as we dont do them.
All day 8hrs only
And most dates booked up until November unless there is a group of 6 that want a mid week date.
All the best malcolm and chrissy π π¦