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04/2011
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Apr 2011 by Gethyn Owen
Report on-board My Way 2
As expected the fishing has been picking up with nearly every day afloat. Not too many more species to add to the list, but more the quantity of fish being found at our more favoured marks. From the beginning of the year I had suspected a good start to 2011 and also a better run through the year, owing mainly to the more settled start to the year.
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In recent years, we have been hit with snow, ice and prolonged periods of minus temperatures in February, March and on occasions into April, this time around we got rid of the bitterly cold weather at the start of Winter 2010, with it all but gone by the time the end of the year came around.
This really does bode well now for the year ahead, sunshine, waters are warming, crabs are peeling and the fish really are on the move! When My Way was launched earlier this year the sea temperature was around 7.5degrees; during our last run out we recorded an average temperature of 9.1 degrees.
The species list now stands at 19 so far for 2011: - 3 bearded rockling, ballan wrasse bull huss, coalfish, codling, dab, dog, dragonet, herring, ling, plaice, pollack, poor cod, pouting, ss sea scorpion, spurdog, thornback ray, tope and whiting.
Inshore we have started to spend a little more time drifting a variety of rocky grounds and have been rewarded with some excellent catches of pollack & coalies in abundance and also a nice early run of herring. We don’t tend to see the herring in such great numbers early season; they have though been with us for a number of weeks now and are always a major plus this time of year.
The pollack are small at around 1 to 2 lb, as are the coalies and codling, with the odd few reaching 4lb at times. Ballan wrasse are starting to show, nothing too big once again with the biggest only touching the scales at around 2lb.
The last few trips has once again seen lady luck allowing neap tides and settled weather to coincide, thus deep water adventures ruled the plans when deciding on our days afloat.
Thankfully the species of the deeps have been obliging with far too many huss to count, along with some excellent double figure spurdog and the first few tope for 2011. These tope tend to be pack sharks that swim with the spurdogs, our biggest so far being 19lb 3oz; a first tope and heaviest fish for captor Wayne.