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  • 04/2010 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    Apr 2010 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    Fortunately April saw the change in our weather fortunes as more settled weather and high pressure spells nestled over the UK and treated us all to calmer fortunes.

    This time of year we tend to go on the look out for big bull huss, spring spurdog and if lucky one or two small tope that often run with the spurdog packs.

    Northern marks at the edge of Holyhead Deeps were not to let us down as our first jolly early April returned numerous double figure huss and spurdog to 15lb. Sadly no tope on this day, but being a good 6weeks before our general run started, we were not to down hearted. Approaching North stack on our way out, we noticed some dolphins playing in the water – deciding to take a slight detour we went to hae a look and were rewarded with over half an hours excitement simply watching a pod of over 100 bottle nosed dolphins playing and feeding in the spring sunshine.

    The following day a slight change in actual mark we fished, gave us the huss, spurdog and this time the tope we had hoped for, weighing in at 22lb and 23lb for Milnrow Sea Anglers Ken and Dennis. During the trip we reached a good 12 species aboard My Way including pollack, coalie, ballan, cuckoo, a good start to our 2010 adventures.

    Barring a few trips when the wind gods wanted to dampen our ever increasing enthusiasm for 2010’s fishing exploits big huss, spurdogs and even more 20lb+tope was how April continued. Inshore the drifting has improved almost daily with better Pollack and coalies moving in to populate the rocks and ledges surrounding Holyhead bay. The wrasse are still playing hard to get, but some nice ballans and cuckoos have started to make an appearance on this years guest list.

    When the weather has hampered our days out and we have been forced inshore, there have been plenty of fish around in the form of dogfish, whiting, small codling, dabs, small huss and a few thornbacks – nothing to really get an IGFA world record, but battled on light tackle followed by a sausage buttie and cup of tea, always makes for a fun filled trip.

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