Latest Fishing Reports: Wales
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24/08/2012
Fishing Report by Nigel Conlon
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
24 Aug 2012 by Nigel Conlon
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Hi, to all those needing a fish catching fix, I know I was!
What was better than improving the odds and getting out on a top class charter with a great skipper and a good bunch of lads?
Was out yesterday with Steve on Supreme from Rhyl, the weather held and the forecasted rain and wind held off until later in the day. The mackerel were still there just under the surface, theses were small - just bigger than joey size but would again prove to be great bait and good eating.
First anchor at the wind farm provided loads of Whiting (getting bigger), usual Doggies, Dabs, Tub gurnards of mixed sizes to 2.5 lbs and Huss. A couple of weeks ago we even had a Turbot here-hadn't even seen one let alone caught one for many years, would be great if they made a come back.
We had a move to slightly rougher, deeper ground after the slack water and the fishing got even better with bigger Huss some near double figures, Dogs, a nice Codling-Eric please note!!!!, Ray and lots of quality Gurnards both Tubs and Red, and the water was thick with Mackerel and Whiting.
Best catches of the day was the Hot Pasties with the sausage barms and mugs of hot Tea close seconds.
Oh well back to shore fishing for a little while, but will be looking to get out again soon for my next fix.
Tight Lines and thanks for yet another great trip, if this keeps on I think I may give up shore fishing! Nigel
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08/2012
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Aug 2012 by Gethyn Owen
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So far the weather in August has been fairly decent for our small part of the country and allowed My Way to sail everyday up until 17th Aug, 30mph winds ended thoughts of a day afloat. The early part of the month was spent on fairly large tides that restricted our movements. We did however set sail with the capture of a variety of species in mind.
Many of the days would start off on the drift looking for wrasse, pollack and codling, it’s a great way to move around our coast, travelling and fishing for some extremely hard fighting species. Couple this with relatively light rods and reels and you have some great sport on your hands.
During August and September, we run many evening trips were we spend the vast majority of time drifting for these species, only anchoring up for the last hour to for a well-deserved break and enjoy our supper.
On one such evening trip we were treated to a fantastic sunset and some excellent fishing with plenty of ballans to 3lb and some extremely colourful cuckoo wrasse along with a few small pollack.
Following a hectic few hours drifting we anchored up to enjoy the last hour fishing on the bottom and give us some time to enjoy our sausage butties, the sport though was again hectic at anchor with a variety of species coming over the gunwales along with only the second ever tadpole fish to be caught aboard My Way, the icing on the cake though was yet to come!
Manchester angler Dave has become a regular aboard My Way in the last couple years and has been fortunate around his wind cancelled trips to get out and find some great sport, this evening trip was to be similar as cries of net echoed around the boat as I prepared the butties in the galley below. This time Dave has managed to land a beautiful inshore ling, a ling that took the scales to just under the 15lb mark, the biggest to be caught aboard My Way and our only double figure ling to date, well done, a fantastic fish for inshore shallow waters.
The inshore fishing has again been typically very good on most days (there are though also a few not so good ).
Some of our junior anglers have really been making the most of the time they have afloat and catching a variety of fish from hounds and rays to the ever present dogfish and a variety of gurnards. It’s always a pleasure to take the youngsters fishing, they are always keen to learn new tricks and fairly often beat the adults at their own sport!
Towards the middle of August the tides started to reduce in size and with the first viable tide size upon us and very favourable weather we were off to Holyhead Deep for hopefully a little action with some double figure species.
Our run to the mark was to be glorious, bright sunshine and one of the flattest seas I have ever sea at Holyhead Deep. Looking east, the eerily flat horizon met the early morning fog on top of which the mountains of the Llyn peninsular popped through, an awesome sight to see.
The spurdogs reported earlier in the year had all but gone, but for the next few days the lads were all rewarded with numerous double figure bull huss and many small pack tope. I lost count of the number of tope in the 10lb mark, small but also great fun from 200ft of water. We did though manage to lose a few bigger tope each day, not the best thing to happen after playing the shark for 30 tiring minutes.
Full report and more photos available at www.goangling.co.uk View Boats Page
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21/08/2012
Fishing Report by Carl Burns
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
21 Aug 2012 by Carl Burns
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21/08/2012: Had the pleasure of finally getting out boat fishing this year and fishing with Gethyn is always a good day afloat. We had 7 on the boat, me and 4 mates and a Father and his young son, and set sail at 8 a.m. and set off for Church Bay. There was a threat of the wind being a problem, but we were lucky in the bay as the wind held off for a few hours. The fishing was in the bay was good, a few bits first, Dabs, Dogs and a few Red Gurnard too, but I had gone with a Crab bait as Gethyn said he'd had a few Smoothies of the weekend. I didn't have to wait long and I was in to my first fish of the day fairly quickly and it was a Smoothie....Awesome. I was made up with that, so you can imagine how pleased i was to have a few more. My friends Martyn and Craddock both had a Smoothie and so did the young lad who came with his Dad whilst in the bay. My mate Dom, on his first time out, also had a Huss and although it was the smallest Huss i have ever seen, he didn't care because he was absolutely loving every fish he caught. After a Great session at Church Bay and some might fine Rib-Eye steak ciabatta's, we headed off for a drift, which i didn't think we would get away with today, but Gethyn took us in to the shelter of North Stack and it was game on. I had a Cuckoo and Ballans and another cuckoo fell to Martyn and it was great for me, because i love drift fishing. We had a move to fish the wall of the breakwater and i had another Ballan and Dom had a good tussle with his first Pollack. And, as ever, these things must come to an end, but what a fantastic day out, some good fishing, great company and fantastic Skipper....and my mate Dom has caught the Bug now, i can tell you, hahahaha!! Many thanks Gethyn. Carl Burns
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19/08/2012
Fishing Report by Don Griffiths
on Outrider 2 (Beaumaris, Isle of Anglesey)
19 Aug 2012 by Don Griffiths
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Sailed from Beaumaris 9am with a tank full of great live eels seined by Mick.
First drifts in the Bay at Puffin Island brought Bass to 3.5lb, pollock to 3lb and wrasse to 3lb. Great sport on light tackle. Some jumbo mackerel to 1.5 lb for supper then the rain started . With no wind to move it we moved, back into The Straights and back into the bass.
Two newbies on board both had bass suppers to take home and a great day out. Must be the first trip I've had in years with NO doggies.
Great day Mick View Boats Page
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08/2012
Fishing Report by David Axtell
on Seren y Mor (Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan)
Aug 2012 by David Axtell
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Fishing remains steady when the wind allows us to go to our chosen marks. Smoothounds are still around in decent numbers, small eyed rays are now there in good numbers, with a spell of decent weather I`m sure the bream will come back in good numbers too.
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07/2012
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Jul 2012 by Gethyn Owen
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The last couple of weeks in July saw mixed fortunes aboard My Way, mainly due to inconsistent weather conditions hindering all our best laid plans. Regardless we managed to sail most days, and with adjustments to our plans had a good day afloat catching a variety of species.
The inshore fishing on the medium to large tides can be fantastic when we concentrate on the great array of species that can be caught in and around the Holyhead Bay area. We’ve already struck a couple firsts for My Way this year with a streaked gurnard and also an angler fish, both extremely rare sights in our waters, sometimes you just never know what’s going to surface.
All 4 gurnards generally associated with the UK. Reds gurnards, the most common, followed by greys and tubs can all be caught during a species hunt, with the tubs growing in regularity and size the last couple years.
I mentioned in my previous report the number of rays being caught and this has continued with the spotted rays proving the most abundant once more and ticking a species off a capture list for many anglers.
Reliable double figure action inshore is normally in the form of bull huss, with average sizes from many marks from Holyhead in the 10 to 12lb area. That said, you can also find a similar amount of marks that regularly give us double and triple shots of very small huss, ones as small as 8oz, pulled from the sea sucking on a big lump of mackerel flapper!
The rays, smoothies and tope all having the potential to gate rash the double figure bull huss party.
We've been having a bit of fun lately using the 'Pen Fishing Rod', this rod is the actual size of a slightly oversized pen with a small multiplier reel to match. You are able to load the reel with around 60foot of braid and can have some awesome fun when drifting over shallow rocky areas for the hard fighting wrasse of pollack.
A good General Days fishing is seeing regular returns of over 15species for the boat, with many anglers catching over 10 species each.Additional sport inshore has come from smoothhounds in the 5 to 9lb bracket, small male fish still feeding hard in a variety of marks they are falling to mainly squid or crab bait.
Late July and we were joined by Dave Parker and colleagues from Derbyshire, the plan was for some mixed fishing inshore on one day and then offshore for a few fillets of cod and pollack for the table and then at anchor for sport with small sharks.
The wreck we choose was not too far to travel and lies due west of North Stack, within the shipping channel which was interesting as the ships made their approach to the port of Liverpool. These ships pick up the estuary pilots off the north Anglesey coast. The fishing was consistent over the wreck, nothing too big, the best pollack went 6lb, but with a fair number along with similar sized codling and a few coalies a good couple hours fishing was had.
At anchor the sport was slower than expected, however we caught a fair number of huss and also managed a couple of spurdog firsts from Andrew and Dave. View Boats Page
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10/08/2012
Fishing Report by Eric Robinson
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
10 Aug 2012 by Eric Robinson
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I was lucky enough to have been there when the unprovoked Blenny attack took place!!
We couldn’t have wished for a better day on board Supreme last Friday. There was hardly any breeze, bright sunshine and plenty of fish. As well as the infamous Blenny Lucky Alan caught a Turbot which we were all glad to see safely returned. The scorer for this match was kept really busy as the catches and species came thick and fast. The Bull Huss and Gurnard just kept on coming as the species count mounted. The availability of plenty of Mackerel was just as well as bait would have been the only limiting factor to the number of fish caught. Steve moved us on twice when things slowed down – and each time found us the fish. Although a competition, everyone on board took full advantage of the conditions to have a thoroughly great time. Thanks to Steve for a brilliant day and the usual creature comforts of tea and snacks. Really looking forward to the week after next to meeting up with him and the usual suspects again. View Boats Page
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11/08/2012
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
11 Aug 2012 by David Hancock
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Halfway through the holiday period and the fishing has been electric at Ramsgate, even the slower boats have reported a few bass caught. On the days where we have pushed offshore to the wrecks we've seen good catches of quality cod and a few cracking pollock. the offshore banks have produced plaice and black bream.
The inshore marks have been fairly slow with mainly bass showing on the banks.
Soon we'll be out of the August doldrums and the fishing will be even better. I'm looking forward to the Autumn Tope run and landing some huge Bass again.
Calendar is fairly upto date,
Hope to see you soon,
Keep it tight,
Dave. View Boats Page
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10/08/2012
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
10 Aug 2012 by Steve Andrews
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Fantastic weather this week with todays trip being a species hunt for the lads .
From the start of the trip it was Gurnard City three types Tub , Grey and Red with over 120 landed during the day with some nice specimens caught .
A first for a few years was a small Turbot 2 lb but a Turbot is a Turbot no matter what the size well done Alan .
Best laugh of the day was for Paul who caught a Tompot blenny but while getting ready to have a photo with it he was bitten on the finger :)
Cracking group of lads who are welcome anytime on Supreme. View Boats Page
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21/07/2012
Fishing Report by John Whittaker
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
21 Jul 2012 by John Whittaker
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Thanks Guys for a fanatastic day! We chartered the boat for a 10hr trip 2 weeks ago and could not have wished for a more perfect day weather wise, the sea was as flat as a mill pond, and the weather was fantastic. All of us returned with sunburned foreheads!!
And the fishing was pretty good too. There were only 7 of us that made the trip, but all of us caught fish and 5 of us all caught fish over 10lb. 3 Tope, 18, 28 and 45lb. At least half a dozen spurdog over and around 10lb, and a few Bull Huss again getting on for double figures.
This was the best boat I have ever chartered, and I can definitely recommend this boat to anyone with all levels of experience from novices to hardened pro's
Brillinat - thanks again guys!! View Boats Page
