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28/04/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
28 Apr 2012 by Aaron Smith
April - Weather putting a hold on the last 6 trips enabling us to get out to the wrecks once again.
Big tides this next weekend and a few reefs offshore to fish dependent on weather.
Tight lines Aaron -
15/04/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
15 Apr 2012 by Aaron Smith
This last week has seen us concentrating on a few inshore marks with the larger tides and with dolphines makeing a show says only one thing, FISH!
Fishing at anchor is producing planty of Dogs, Huss, Dabs, Whiting, Pouts with Thornback ray, Spotty ray, Blonde ray, Codling, Coalies all making an apperence.
The many reefs around the North of the Island are showing plenty of Pollack, Coalies and wrasse to the 4-5lb mark with many to be had around 2/3lb.
Still a few spaces left for this upcoming weekend with a few available on a wrecking trip for Cod and Pollack. -
01/04/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
1 Apr 2012 by Aaron Smith
Well with plenty of action these past 2 weeks on Spurdogs the weather has finally put an end to it all with gale force winds of up to 70mph, thus not allowing us to get out for our first wrecking trips of the year this week.
With the first Tope being caught on a neighboring boat this last weekend whilst we concentrated on Spurdog, With every drop producing sizes ranging from 4-16lb with the odd Huss thrown in certainly made a good day.
Mackeral are starting to make an apperence with water temperature increasing slowly.
Tight lines Aaron -
24/03/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
24 Mar 2012 by Aaron Smith
Well the weather this last week has allowed us to head off around 20-30miles to fish some rough ground and leave the other boats fishing the shallow waters.
With the expectations of fishing into a wreck for Congers soon to be put on hold by the amount of marks on the sounder over the rough groung, which from the bottom to 30meters up could only be one thing SPURDOGS!
Thick shoals of spurdogs which surrounded the our area of fishing ment Congers had no chance.
With an average of 15-20 Spurdogs per angler over a 2 hour slack water and with no Dogfish and flat calm seas it has been pretty much fishing heaven.
Wrecking trips for 2012 are being very popular with only a few dates left. -
12/02/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
12 Feb 2012 by Aaron Smith
12th Febuary
A short 6hour trip and Coiles and Congers were on the cards with good banter and a big pot on Chilli!
Unfortunatly we couldnt manage to boat any Coiles as it was a rather large tide but once the tide eased we moved from hitting Dogs, Dabs and whitting on every other drop to anchor into a shallow wreck to try our luck, within 10 minutes of the anchor going down we had the first Conger on the boat all be it was only 12lb.
In the next hour we manged another two ells and droped the same.
The day finished off with a fair amount of Dogs, Whtting, Dabs, Pollack and 3 Congers, best fish of the day was a Conger just shy of the 30lb region ( pictured mark with his PB Conger)
Still time to get some Conger trips out to the wrecks in St, Goerges channel with Special winter rates.
Tight lines Aaron -
10/02/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
10 Feb 2012 by Aaron Smith
Well the winter has been hard with more wind then we have ever seen, only being able to get out on a few trips this year so far and producing plenty of Coalies, Whitting, Dogs, Codlings and a few Huss thrown in.
SPRING TOPEING in april still has a few dates left for small tides.
WRECKING, with last year being such a productive time out in St.Goerges channel for Cod and Pollack the dates a being filled quickly.
There are a still a few dates left so get them booked to avoid being dissapointed.
WITH BAD BOYS BEING THE ONLY WRECKING BOAT OFF HOLYHEAD we have many wrecks that we fish all too ourselves.
Tight lines
Aaron -
01/11/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
1 Nov 2011 by Aaron Smith
October being a harsh month on weather only allowing is to sail on a few occasions but producing a large amount of Whitting, Dogs and Huss with a few Dabs, Rays and Codling fishing is being hectic all day.
* Pictured is the first squid to be caught off Holyhead weighing in at 2.2lb -
22/10/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
22 Oct 2011 by Aaron Smith
2011 Fishing,
This year has proved to be one of the best years in a fair while, with Cod numbers increasing trip by trip on the offshore wrecks and reefs in and around St Goerges Channel and setting a new boat record of 281 Cod 6-14lb and 102 Pollack 2-12lb on just one trip makes 2012 a year to look forward too and with our boats being the only wrecking boats off Holyhead we have them all to our selvs.
The inshore fishing has been very good at anchor producing plenty of Rays, Codling, Gurnard, Whitting, Dogs, Huss, Dabs and the usual other suspects, The inshore Tope arrived mid August around Trearddur bay and early September for Holyhead bay with 19 Tope over 40lb with the largest been 70lb 2oz on the scales.
The inshore reef fishing started very well around april with plenty of Pollack, Cod, Wrasse and Mackeral but sadly became patchy around mid august.
Holyhead Deeps has fished exceptional for tope this year with record numbers coming aboard but sadly not as many Spurdogs as recent years, with all commercial fishing banned the Spurdogs should be making a come back.
The Congers on the many wrecks off Holyhead are feeding with a good amount being caught, unfortunatley with weather has not allowed us to venture off too the 10-15mile wrecks which produced some very nice fish through the summer.
PICTURED a lovely inshore Tope weighing 55lb 6oz from a recent trip.
Winter Rates,
Wrecks for Conger 10-15 miles - £350 10hr
Inshore Whitting, Huss, Strap Conger, Dogs and the usuals - £200 6hr / £250 8hr
The diary is filling up fast with only a number a weekends left,
Wrecking trips for Cod/Pollack on medium tides
Holyhead Deeps Tope / Spurdog / Huss on small tides
Inshore general trips for Smooth-hound / Rays / Turbot / Codling / Pollack / Wrasse and many other species on the larger tides.
Tight lines for the winter and fingers crossed the weather is kind too us all. -
03/08/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
3 Aug 2011 by Aaron Smith
Its been a while since my last post but as the phone is off the hook and the boat off the berth fishing this year has seen some of the best sport in years.
The Cod and Pollack are averaging 6-10lb off the channel wrecks.
The Tope are about in big numbers in Holyhead Deeps.
Plenty of Bull Huss, Whiting, Dabs, Dogs, Gurnards, Codling, Spotty, Thorny, and Blonde rays are coming off the inshore banks.
The inshore reef fishing has gone a bit quiet with only a few Pollack and Mackeral appering but still plenty of Wrasse to 5lb and Codling from 2-6lb showing.
Congratulations to a group of lads from Teighnmouth with there success of weather over a 5 day trip allowing us to get out every day which is a first, and to adding a new speices to CBUK ( once approved ) of a 6oz Tadpole fish.
Some great fish were caught on there days out including Blonde rays to 18lb 12oz, Cod 12lb, Pollack 13lb, Tope 30lb and a species count of 28 over the 5 days but with only 3 being inshore days !
Smoth-hounds are still around with an average of 10-15 in a couple of hours.
There are still a few days available for midweek tope trips through august and september.
2012 Diary is open with already many weekend dates taken for Coding onthe wrecks and the june Smoth-hound run so hurry up and get booking to aviod dissapointment.
Tight lines Guys! -
16/07/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
16 Jul 2011 by Aaron Smith
Its been a couple of weeks till my last report but with fishing so much its hard to keep up to date.
The inshore reefs are producing plenty of Pollack, Coalies,Codling, Ballens, Cuckoos and Mackeral whislt the slighty deeper reefs around 4-5miles off are seing plenty of Pollack and Cod from 3lb to 12lb.
Manage a couple of days out to Holyhead deeps this past weekend with different results both days, one producing only a couple of Tope and Spurdog to the next day being crazy with Tope, Spurdog and Huss and during slack water ATEMPTING to catch Whitting and Mackeral for bait was a total mess becuase of the amount of Tope attacking the fiss on the feathers.
The inshore banks and mud troughs are fishing well for Spotty,Thornback and blonde rays and plenty of the usual suspects from Dogs, Dabs, Whitting, Codling, Huss, Red gurnard, Tub gurnard, Grey gurnard and a odd Plaice.
Big tides and mixed weather this weekend but we did manage yesterdays trip for Cod and Pollack with very good results up to 8lb but todays weather was not the best but we fished locally in the Holyhead bay which produced the normal suspects.
