One of the heaviest stingray ever to be recorded by a shore angler within the UK has been caught by a Southampton angler.

Steve Harder has landed a string of specimen fish from local beaches, including a 69lb stingray last year.

But he has now caught an amazing 71lb 6oz fish on a large ragworm bait.

Another huge stingray, this time 62lb 5oz, was beached by Gosport angler Dan Taylor.

Some cracking summer cod are starting to show over the mid-channel wrecks.

Stephen Lawrence went afloat on the Lymington based boat ‘Last Laugh’ and during a hectic session he used an orange sidewinder to tempt some beauties.

Tony South romped to victory during the Lymington & District SFC open shore competition fished between Hordle and Hurst Castle .

He landed a pollack on his very first cast followed by two hefty undulate rays together weighing 22lb.

South collected £180 during the event which was supported by Loni’s Angling Centre.

Other species to figure included small-eyed-rays, smoothhound, dogfish, black bream and conger.

Others: 2nd Darren Cramer 10lb 9oz, 3rd Chris Ellis 8lb 2oz, 4th Darren Perrett 5lb 13oz, 5th Mike Brown 5lb 12oz, 6th Ian Dancey 5lb 4.5oz

A £500 top prize is on offer when Loni’s Angling Centre stage their bream only shore competition fished along the Milford Shingle Bank on July 9 from 10am to 2pm.

Competitors are only allowed to return their two heaviest bream to the scales and the winner will be the angler with the heaviest combined weight of two fish. Tickets are £15 and full details from 01425-616323.

AROUND THE CLUBS

LYMINGTON & DISTRICT SFC: A good variety of species including dogfish, thorneback rays, wrasse, smoothhound, whiting, spotted rays and black bream were recorded during a shallow boat competition.

The best specimen was a 2lb 9oz black bream recorded by Ian Farmer.

Results: 1st Phil Morgan 27lb 1oz, 2nd Barry Littlefair 14lb 11oz, 3rd Robert Miness 14lb 4oz, 4th Ian Farmer 7lb 1oz.

CHRISTCHURCH & DISTRICT FC: Members struggled during a shore competition fish at Branksome Chine with Steve Kent winning with a 3lb 13oz smoothhound.

Others: 2nd Ian Lockyer 1lb 6oz, 3rd Robin Thorne 8oz.

SANDOWN & LAKE AC: Thorneback and spotted rays figured during the weekend match held on the local pier.

Ollie Grimaldi won the seniors section with 5lb 15oz while the junior section was won by Ben Wheeler with 6lb 5oz.

Others: 2nd Simon Dillon 5lb 11oz, 3rd Tony Carter 3lb 11oz, 4th Robin Stevens 15oz.