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  • 09/2010 Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)

    Sep 2010 by Gethyn Owen

    Report on-board My Way 2

    Sadly September was a very hard month weather wise, following the reasonably settled spring and summer months of 2010, early indications for autumn were gloomy with low pressures appearing to dominate the pressure charts.

    September did however start off on a high, with very settled high pressure and sunshine bearing down on us for the first few days. Drifting offered plenty of ballan and cuckoo wrasse, with weights up to 5lb and 1lb 8oz respectively. I even managed to snare myself a decent wrasse during 1 trip out and break a long standing 4lb pb with a fish of 4lb 10oz.
    The first week of September saw us fishing with the Armed Forces. Teams of 9 anglers from the Army, Navy and RAF fished a hard battle against one another in the prestigious Inter Services Boat Angling Championships, a full report is available on our website.

    Inshore and the fishing was fairly hectic once again with a good variety of fish coming aboard My Way. Along with some good spotted rays, we had a few thornies and a few good blondes.
    Other species included the world famous Welsh Tiger Shark, yep honest, it was reported so in the papers a few years ago - we normally call them dogfish though :-). Plenty of red & grey gurnards around along with a few nice tubs. The Tub Gurnard is not a fish we catch in abundance, but 2010 has seen a fair few around the 2lb mark. Further catches inshore included pollack, huss, whiting, codling, smoothies, dabs, plaice, strap congers and a few others.

    We managed a few trips into Holyhead Deep, however after 5 excellent months gone by with huss, tope and spurs in abundance, the trips of September returned very few hard fighting sharks. Plenty of huss, however only a handful of tope and a few small spurs were really all that put bends in the rods.

    Above one of the many red gurnards that we've landed this year. This was Mike's first ever red, so a great catch for him that was photographed a fair few times :).
    With the weather playing it's part in scuppering a fair number of days afloat during September, I have slowly been building up our Fish Identification pages. They have been under construction for a fair while now and really still have a little way to go. The pages are not designed as a complete species reference tool, more a photographic identification of the many species caught aboard My Way.

    There is however a small amount of text to assist with id and also some facts about the specie -http://www.goangling.co.uk/fish_ID.htm

    Here ends our brief September report, hopefully a better October will help forget a few of the woes that September brought. Currently though, a F6 to 7 NE has put paid to todays outing, though with some high pressure looking to move in early next week I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
    Enjoy your fishing where ever you go .... http://www.goangling.co.uk/availability.htm





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