Latest Fishing Reports: Wales
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14/01/2013
Fishing Report by Gareth williams
on Spindrift New Dawn (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
14 Jan 2013 by Gareth williams
Report on-board Spindrift New Dawn
what an excellent start to the year with an abundance of congers on a local wreck in the bay .with the first trip a 5hr night trip 26 congers up to 60lbs second night trip 23 congers up to 40lbs third trip 5 congers up to 20lbs with huss 12lbs dogs whiting and big pouting .so 54 conger caught and [ returned ] in 3 trips and countless lost on the surface which we estimate some of them over 60lb. It is difficult to give a weight on the surface with a torch at night.This picture has 3 conger caught all at the same time.
Let's hope 2013 will be a good year with the weather for us all./Skipper Gareth williams
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12/2012
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Dec 2012 by Gethyn Owen
Report on-board My Way 2
Extracts from our year review, please find the full report and photographs by copying and pasting the following link into your browswe http://www.goangling.co.uk/review-2012.htm
During the second week in March we had some pretty mixed fortunes with the weather in Holyhead; both sunshine and rain in equal amounts and the winds not quite knowing what they should be doing. Once again, the more settled weather early 2012 fell on spring tides with both days just under 33ft in height. Not a terrible thing, but owing to the big tidal strengths around our area of operation it restricts our movements to inshore work.
We were rewarded each day with a great early season mixed bag, including dogfish, bull huss, coalfish, whiting, codling, and a fair amount of thornbacks making it aboard My Way, all though smallish average size between 3 and 6lb but still first rays for the majority of captors. Surprise catch in the shallow waters was a nice 16lb conger eel.
Further excitement was heard on the deck one trip when some plump coalfish came aboard; a few of the anglers then stopped everything … for sushi. One of the lads had brought along a top quality sushi making kit, rice vegetables, dips, etc. – we simply had to provide the fish. I then watched as in a very professional manner aboard a slightly rocking boat he eagerly prepared a sushi meal.
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With the tides dropping for the following day, we decided that a trip off to Holyhead Deep was called for and then try for the hounds later in the afternoon. Our day started drifting for small wrasse, pollack, codling and coalie for an hour. As the tide dropped we made our way off to a mark offshore, which would see us anchored in around 180ft of water, with the drop off laying the baits around 220ft.
Roy was first into a fish, a nice spurdog just short of double figures; we won’t mention how the skipper knocked it off with the net though J. For the next 3 hours, all 7 anglers were treated to a big fish bonanza and from 200ft of water, they certainly felt it afterwards. Every 5 minutes there was call of net as double figure spurdog were accompanied by double figure bull huss!
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June saw My Way sail with great regularity. I wouldn’t say that the weather has been the best, far from it to be honest. But we managed to work around most of what the wind gods had being throwing at us taking each day as it comes.
This scenario helped out by some great crews, for example where our intended marks have been off to Holyhead Deep and the wind has blown, we have simply loaded up with a selection of rigs and baits including quality fresh peeler crab and enjoyed a species hunt inshore along with some great small shark action inshore.
Fortunately we have seen some very good double figure smoothhounds aboard My Way once again in 2012; sadly only 2 have topped the magical 20lb mark this year.
But with many anglers reaching personal bests averaging 15lb and a few with 18 and 19lb fish it has again been a successful period for us.
please find the full report and photographs by copying and pasting the following link into your browswe http://www.goangling.co.uk/review-2012.htm View Boats Page
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12/2012
Fishing Report by David Axtell
on Seren y Mor (Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan)
Dec 2012 by David Axtell
Report on-board Seren y Mor
Fishing for the month has been steady with large numbers of Whiting to 2lb 8oz and plenty of Dabs showing all within 15 minutes steaming of the marina. Again the weather has hit us hard with strong winds for the last fortnight but a few decent Cod have been caught in the last couple of days. Hopefully if the weather allows January should be a good month. Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year to all who have supported us throughout 2012
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21/12/2012
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
21 Dec 2012 by David Hancock
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Firstly may I take this opportunity to wish our Anglers a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year .
On Monday this week Savash Cafer from Chislehurst landed our best Cod so far this inshore season, a cracker of 23 lb 4 oz, part of a 7 Cod catch, well done. Our second 20 lb + Cod in the last few weeks.
As the sprats turn up the cod will gorge and get bigger, it`s gonna be good !
We looking forward to getting out to the offshore wrecks over the next few weeks for big hauls of Pollock and Cod.
Phone for availability and Individuals spaces.
Keep it tight,
Dave.
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09/12/2012
Fishing Report by Gwyn Andrews
on Goldilocks (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
9 Dec 2012 by Gwyn Andrews
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A cracking week of tides with some really good fishing topped by this 18lb 3oz beaut caught by Paul Reddington of Liverpool.Best day was 28 cod to 4 anglers.No rays now but nice sized whiting and dabs.
Cant wait for the next set of tides wed 19th. View Boats Page
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28/11/2012
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
28 Nov 2012 by David Hancock
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The Cod fishing season has been great so far with plenty of double figure fish and a new PB for Gary from Essex with a cracker of 21 lb 8 oz (see pic), well done !
All that`s needed bait wise is Cuttle and Squid for the deeper water and Lugworm for the codling inshore.
December will throw up some huge lunkers as the Cod feast on the Herring in the water.
There`s still plenty of Skate about and more will be moving inshore over the next month or so, along with Bass and whiting.
Remember, 4 or more on a weekday and I`ll go !
Weekend costs are the same as weekdays, the price of diesel don`t change !!
Because we steam Hard and Fast you get more fishing time at the best marks.
Dave.
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11/2012
Fishing Report by Gwyn Andrews
on Goldilocks (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
Nov 2012 by Gwyn Andrews
Report on-board Goldilocks
Well the Mersey has taken off this month.The cod are of a decent size with several fish around double figures.best was a 15lb er to one of the small boats.the best on goldilocks to date is 11lb 4oz .There is a 20 pounder in the river somewhere.[watch this space].There are also plenty of decent whiting,dabs and a few thornbacks to 10lb.All in all the river is healthy and producing some good fishing.
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11/2012
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Nov 2012 by Gethyn Owen
Report on-board My Way 2
Never let the weather spoil a fun day afloat - 24th November 2012
For a change, I’ll start this brief report by whinging about the weather ....
What a week this has been for the UK, wind and rain of biblical proportions, anymore and I think Anglesey would be in danger of floating away! Anyway, Thurs / Fri of this week and everything appeared to be settling down for this weekend. Light winds and the odd drop of rain, hopes were high for a nice spot of fishing this weekend, with possible time in the deeps but mainly a few congers whetting all appetites.
Quick check on the weather last night and winds still forecast to be light … let’s go fishing! This morning though, the weather god had other plans. Light winds to start and then north easterlies coming up from mid-day, we weren’t due in until 6pm, but by 3 it was 20 mph and by 6pm the winds were forecast to gust 30mph!
After a brief chat we decided to just go for half a day inshore and get back to base around 2.30pm before the main winds started to increase with the flooding tide. So as we set sail, rigs were prepped for the onslaught of whiting, dogfish and dabs.
After the first half hour of fishing all anglers having caught well, with a few decent whiting being retained for a feed we decided to add a little spice to the remaining time and have an impromptu ‘Fun Match’ with the Magnificent prize of a My Way beanie … well it was a cold easterly breeze!
The fishing was steady for the next hour, with a good few Whiting and Dab coming aboard with surprisingly few Dogfish. Mark the Manc was taking a commanding lead from the others with double and triple shots of fish falling to his tactics. After an hour we lifted anchor with visions of spending a small amount of time on the drift for pollack and herring, sadly though to no avail. After a few drifts with only 1 solitary Ballan Wrasse for Warren we decide to anchor up again, this time a little further out on the edge of the famed Holyhead Mussel beds.
Fishing was now back on, as all the anglers started to pull aboard Whiting, Dogfish and Dab with the occasional poor cod and also nice tub gurnard. Things were starting to look a little grim for Mark the Manc as work colleague Mike, local rod Mark D and Scouse Andrew started to pick up double and triple shots of whiting as he brought in single fish. Sam and Dan on the other hand decided it wasn’t to be their day on the numbers and changed over to big hooks in the hope a rouge conger or maybe a huss would enjoy a half whiting offering, sadly not today.
I started the engine up to signal the end of the match and despite a triple shot of plump whiting in what could only be describe as ‘Fergie Time’ for Mark the Manc, Mark D from Menai Bridge came out the triumphant winner by 2 fish. We made it back and tied up as Port Control showed 19knots of NE wind.
Fingers crossed 2013 will be full of calm winds and calms seas for us all. View Boats Page
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11/2012
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Nov 2012 by Gethyn Owen
Report on-board My Way 2
Wind and rain has continued to play havoc with our days afloat. This week in particular much of the country and Anglesey in particular has been hammered with winds in excess of 50mph.
Fortunately on the days we have managed to sail the fishing has been fairly consistent with a good number of fish and a variety of species available for the anglers.
One trip in particular saw a family group hop aboard My Way for a day of catching, nothing in particular, the emphasis was on having a bit of fun and hauling a good number of fish aboard My Way along the way. Fortunately everyone the fish had read the email I sent out and we were rewarded with plenty, with dogfish and whiting making the bulk but huss, dabs, gurnards and thornback ray amongst others adding to the fish count; many of the whiting well over 1lb in weight and going home for supper.
Herring, pollack and coalies have been around on a few trips now and all within a good take able size. Although I guess following this week’s seriously high winds, we may struggle to locate them for a few days or so.
We had another fun match last weekend; sadly a couple anglers had to withdraw the day before leaving only 5 fishing for the days honours. With big tides and a forecast that had a severe gale 9 moving in later that day our fishing was restricted to a few marks within Holyhead Bay.
Our first anchor produced only a handful of fish for the guys, a few dogs and the odd whiting, thus a move to some slightly deeper water was on the cards further into the bay. Here we started to hook into more dogs, whiting and a few dabs. As the tide slackened off Chris changed tactics to slightly smaller hooks and searched for a few species and was rewarded with a few poor cod and also a nice late goldsinney wrasse to add to his tally.
Chris and Harry were both edging into the lead slowly matching each other fish for fish. Chris was on the stern picking up single fish with a quick drop and retrieve, whereas Harry pegged at position 8 near the bow of the boat, took the approach of waiting to load the hooks up and retrieving less frequent however double shots and the odd triple.
From Telford we had Ray, Keith and Jim all having a small wager amongst each other as to who would take the honours and bragging rights for the journey back home. Keith following a slow start that saw him struggle to catch in the first couple hours, changed tactics in midway through the morning and was soon to be rewarded with regular double shots of whiting.
With rock goby, huss and tub gurnard adding to his fish list Chris was edging away from the pack slightly and came out the eventual winner for the day with just under 70 fish, beating Harry, into second place by a few fish.
Keith carried on his new found fishing fortune and took the Telford crown from Ray and Jim who vowed revenge on a return trip! View Boats Page
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11/2012
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
Nov 2012 by Steve Andrews
Report on-board Supreme
November is panning out as expected with mixed weather conditions .
When we do get out their is exellent inshore winter fishing nothing massive but none stop action with dabs ,whiting,dogs ,huss,still a few gurnard and mackerel,thornback Rays and coddling in the mix .
no gimmicks no bull just results
tight lines
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