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  • 02/2013 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    Feb 2013 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    Fortunately for us, My Ways re-launch earlier this month appears to have coincided with a spell of reasonable weather that has allowed us to sail quite regular. Having only launched 11 days ago, we have sailed on 7 occasions, each day though with greatly varying results.

    Over the weekend of 16th 17th the forecasted wind has shown light southerly winds decreasing, however each day the constant wind speed remained in the high teens, often gusting well over 20mph, undeterred and with shelter from the southerly direction we managed to sail and catch a good number of fish from a variety of species.

    The fishing although, consistent for February from Anglesey, remains hard work at times and a number of moves around the bay are required in the day to keep the anglers catching throughout our time afloat. There are a fair number of coalies swimming around Holyhead, with an average size of 2lb. Not the biggest but great sport on light tackle and a welcome change from the ever present dogfish and small whiting, coalfish are not too common neither, so it was nice to see a few lads catch their first coalie with us.

    Another first was Tom from Wrexham who managed a first ray by way of a small thornback on a patch of mud not far from Holyhead Breakwater. Fishing was similar to the previous weekend with dogs, whiting and dabs making up the bulk of most anglers hauls with the addition of a few other species such as huss, thornbacks, codling and coalfish making the odd appearance.

    By 19th, the weather had settled to barely a ripple on the water and with small tides and light winds we had decided on an early sail and a journey out to Holyhead Deep in search of some early spurdog fishing. Normally we see the odd few this early, but tend to leave our spurdog adventures till the middle of March. However with some of our crew having never caught a spurdog before, our trip had these hard fighting small sharks as our main priority.

    Thankfully, we managed to land a few, with the majority going into double figures, Bryn Jones and Ricky Thomas were both able to record their first ever spurdog and Harry Hudson, who’d not caught a spur for a decade or two, managed to snare a couple including the heaviest of the day at 14lb.

    Fishing alongside and not directly into a wreck for the spurdog, Ricky also tried a big mackerel bait ledgered on the bottom and managed to tick off another target of his for 2013, a conger eel. It was just a small eel, but satisfying in being a first. Sadly though he did get snapped on later in the day by something a lot bigger!

    So far an excellent start to 2013, hopefully good weather and great fishing will bless us all for 2013.

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