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  • 01/2010 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    Jan 2010 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    Winter 2010 has been abysmal for most of the UK. We have been pounded with winds from all dirtections - the only common factor being the strength - the vast majority over 20mph.

    With a small fun match scheduled for Saturday 04th January, our last outing before My Way came out of the water for her winter TLC, the weather gods once again changed the forecast from a nice 10mph, to an un appealing 25mph W. Rendering the match a no go.
    However with no trip planned for the Sunday, organiser Chris Hamblin phoned around the troops and 6 brave souls were happy to try for the Sunday which had easterly winds of 10mph promised. Sadly other plans for the Sunday reduced our numbers from 9 to 6, never the less, we would set sail, un sure of what we would find in the sea following the barrage of Force 10 gales suffered on our coast earlier in the week. Sadly Chris also had to withdraw last minute, yet another victim to this viral bug doing the rounds.

    Setting sail in the morning, whether the fishing was good or bad - it was always going to be a fun affair. Arthur Beechey and Glyn 'Fester' Hughes are often likened to many famous double acts - Hinge & Bracket or the Chuckle Brothers spring alarmingly to mind.

    Glyn set his sights on first place before we had thrown the ropes away. Remembering the match we fished last October, Glyn claimed he was brought to the boat under false pretences. Apparently Arthur had mentioned an evening sail and laugh with the lads to Glyn, who was keen for an evening fish after work. Grabbing a few rigs and whatever bait was lying around, Glyn was lured to the marina only to be met by the other lads gearing up for a full match assault - we heard of nothing but this fact all evening!

    It wasn't to go Glyn's way early on - after catching the dreaded first fish, his catches slumped slightly as young Mike took the lead from Glyn, Alan and Pete with a succession of whiting and the odd dab. To add insult Mike also managed to snare a small codling and sizeable coalie to further frustrate Glyn's ambitions. What of Arthur? Well it took a while before his first fish came aboard My Way this day, but we wont mention the tying of rigs after the anchor was dropped.

    After a couple hrs we headed off to the mussel beds for some more sizeable quarry in the shape of the bull huss. Now then , this didn't quite go to plan! With a HW in the Tide Book for 1245pm, taking into account the local difference and a little more for the tide, we anchored up at 1130am, expecting the last of the flood. Shock horror, the tide was already ebbing. Now normally I would blame the skipper, but saying as I was at the helm this was obviously not the case. The moon, must have had a greater pull on the tide!
    With only a few dogs added to the tally in the half hr of comfortable fishing available to us we then moved inshore onto a patch of mud for more whiting and bits etc

    With sausage butties, pasties & Cadburys chocolate all washed down with plentiful amounts of tea & coffee, it was now an all out assault for lads to land first place in the match. By Now it was a close thing to call between Pete and Glyn, who had both been catching dogs and whiting far more constantly than the others. Mike was struggling from his bow draw to latch into the fish further down tide, whilst Alan was quite happy trying out all the new rigs and feathers it looked like Father Christmas had delivered the previous week. Not to be out done, Arthur picked this move to step his up game. Having finally decided upon the rig that worked he started to make ground on the leading pair with double and triple shots of whiting. A triple shot of dogs, also adding 12 much needed points to his wanting tally.

    The final assault though proved a little too late for Arthur when the results were counted up. Managing to over take Pete, Arthur was still left 14points behind Glyn who had exorcised the demons of the match in October by claiming the first place, well done.

    A hard days fishing, in extremely cold conditions with an unforgiving easterly breeze. Would we do it all again - yes I suppose so. Sometimes it's nice just to get out there and blow them cobwebs away. With the banter and jokes flowing at regular intervals, it makes for a fun time afloat.

    A total of just short of 158 fish were caught between the 5 anglers fishing
    Top 3 slots went as follows:

    1 Glyn Hughes 119 100% £30
    2 Arthur Beechey 105 88.24% £20
    3 Pete Minns 99 83.19% £10


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