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  • 08/2012 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    Aug 2012 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    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

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