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  • 07/2012 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    Jul 2012 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    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.

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