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  • 20/06/2010 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    20 Jun 2010 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    With neap tides upon us, lessoning the tidal pull in 200ft of water, a trip to Holyhead deeps was the plan for today. Sadly the weather gods conspired against us and blew a very strong northerly wind most of the night. Despite the decreasing wind on getting to the boat in the morning, the sea state was lumpy and cancelled any thoughts of big spurs and tope.

    A change to the day was required and after a chat with the crew, some inshore work drifting for pollack and wrasse with the chance of big huss to pull the strings was the order of the day.

    We started our drifting for the day around South Stack Lighthouse and Abrahams Bosom, these rocky areas never fail to produce some excellent sport on light tackle. The crew was made up of regulars and novice anglers and fortunately before too long all were soon into some nice ballan wrasse, reaching up to 3lb and both female and male cuckoo wrasse just shy of the 1lb mark. Some of the crew were using light spinning gear and getting some amazing action from these feisty fish. Fortunately some of the pollack and codling that came onboard were in the tasty 3 to 4lb bracket, and were promptly despatched to end up on a few plates with chips that evening.

    Moving over to anchor for a few hrs, it was inevitable that the dogfish were going to hone in on the big fish and squid baits lowered to the sea bed in search of huss and maybe a ray. From a variety of small fish including gurnards, codling, whiting and dabs etc the crew also managed to snare a good number of huss, the vast majority of which went double figures.

    Our sail back to Holyhead Marina was again going to include a drift around the coastline – resulting yet again in more wrasse, pollack, codling and this time a few small coalies.

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