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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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Brilliant fun day inshore today with Andy and his 3 lads, Tom, Harry and Freddy. The emphasis on catching plenty of fish and some new species for the youngsters to enjoy. The mission was accomplished with ticks for new species against smoothhound, whiting, spotted ray and grey gurnard along with a few others species the day was a great first time afloat in Holyhead for the young anglers.
Another day inshore with big tides restricting our movement, but glorious weather allowed us to move around Holy Island and target a few different species. With a couple anchors around Holyhead bay and then using the ebb tide to drift around toward Trearddur Bay, the final tally was 16 different species for the day :- dogfish, whiting, codling, huss, dab, pouting, poor cod, spotted ray, smoothhound, pollack, coalfish, mackerel, red and grey gurnards, ballan wrasse & cuckoo wrasse.
Sean was happy to land his first ever smoothhound and spotted ray during the trip, as was Matt, recording his first ever ray (spotted) having only just returned to angling after a break of many years.
Menai Bridge angler Mark Dolben had a target of a cuckoo wrasse for the day, having landed his smoothhound with us earlier in the year; this though was going to prove a little difficult for us with the size of tide. An area guaranteed to produce would see a very fast drift, so we agreed to give it a few drift later on just before we ended the day. After 10 minutes of fruitless attempts in a couple knots of tide, Mark changed to a heavy lead in one last attempt to stay in touch with the sea bed and catch a cuckoo.
As I called lines up & time to go home, Mark had a small twitch on rod, he lifted into the catch and the slowly retrieved his catch. Nice, not the biggest cuckoo ever seen, but when you nail your target, the success and satisfaction is equal to any catch!
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