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  • 08/2013 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    Aug 2013 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    My last report started off as a small tale of woe thanks to the strong winds keeping us inshore instead of making way to Holyhead Deep for large pollack, tope and spurs. Un deterred the lads cracked on with a species hunt and ended up enjoying a fantastic day with tope to 48lb.

    This latest report is littered with days off during the middle of August, however we also managed to grab the odd day within Holyhead Bay; drifting and anchoring we were fortunate once again to hook into a good mixed bag of species. The Bolivar rock is a favourite of mine in Holyhead Bay for drifting; however you have to have conditions right! A strong tide and your gear is lost to Davy Jones as quickly as you can re tie and drop down.

    When calm you have lardy blokes having their midlife crisis by zooming around on jet skis, the fish soon run for cover in the shallow waters.

    But when it’s good, it can be very good with anglers reeling in numerous ballan and cuckoo wrasse with the odd corkwing. Fishing a high flyer we’re often rewarded with sizable pollack. At anchor there has been a good mixed bag of the usual suspects, with a great number of red gurnards showing with deep red colours, a striking looking fish, by far the prettiest of the gurnard family,

    Edging towards the end of August and we managed to grab a couple days on the edges of Holyhead Deep. With a LW early morning all anglers had booked on knowing that an early morning sail would be necessary. 6.30am to be precise! Argh, not good, we are fortunate in Holyhead Marina that we have water at all states of tide, so we can plan our day around the wind and tides of the day, offering sensible sailing times of between 8 and 10-am most days; every now and then though, when the weather and tides align, you have to make the most, so 6.30am it was.

    The early start one day did allow us to watch the impressive cruise vessel Crystal Serenity as she came to berth in the harbour. We required a 90minute steam to our mark, normally we break down the journey with inshore drifting on our way out, but both days the early start was planned as late as could be allowed and a direct run out chosen instead.

    A couple brews and an empty biscuit barrel later we soon arrived at out chosen wreck, before I could step out the cabin, an array of different jellie worms, red gills and sidewinders etc were being lowered over the side of My Way.

    First drift and nothing!

    Oops, OK I said, I was just setting that one up – I then suggested someone move over to the starboard side of the boat as there was an uneven balance of anglers just asking for tangling trouble – no one moved until Micky said I’ll go! Next drift …. Guess who caught from where!

    Threats of violence soon followed, but before action could be taken we were drifting again. The wreck chosen lies in 200ft of water and was only small so if you got it wrong or missed out the first call of down, you’d be better of waiting to save tangling your trace line, lol. Thankfully we were catching each drift, sometimes the one hook up, other times 3 or 4 and sometimes the wreck. Warning of wreck approaching was always given, but as true fisherman, most fished very close were the sounder showed the fish to be feeding...

    On their first boat fishing trip, we were joined one day by Jeanne and Jeff from The Fishing Cabin in Widnes, puddle danglers by profession they wanted to see what all the fuss was about in boat angling, after bit of coaching from Harry and a number of lost sidewinders, they were both soon bringing in some decent pollack. Jeanne showing the boys how to do it with a few pollack, the best of the day going just short of 9lb in weight.

    Over the two days we managed in the Deep we had Micky & Jon from Cheshire, My Way regular Carl from Colwyn Bay and Mike all the way down from Scotland.

    Jon had set a few goals for the trip, PB pollack so anything over 5lb, a first tope and a first cuckoo wrasse, thankfully the fish obliged and Jon managed to bag all three along with many other species during a great time.

    Mike, following an absence of a couple years from angling was fishing as though he had never been away, with numerous species through the two days. Similarly Carl and Micky, pollack, tope, huss etc in the Deep and then an alarming amount of species on the drift, from minis such as long spined sea scorpions to an astonishing number of ballan wrasse. Many of which were landed using the HTO lure rods, available for use aboard My Way from Tronixpro.

    Great fun with some great anglers, thanks to everyone who helps make this job so enjoyable.

    Expect some great fishing aboard My Way this September, read more: -
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