Latest Fishing Reports: Wales
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06/2012
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
Jun 2012 by Steve Andrews
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What a week we have had good weather bad weather, two species comps with over 2000 fish and 19 different species being recorded in one of them between 3 boats.
Other trips have included plenty of good double figure huss , thornback rays over a dozen caught this week I think they are making a come back, gurnard ,dabs ,whiting , not too many dogs plus plenty of small mackerel .Plenty of tope as well
Yesterdays trip had a small group of friends from the north west boarded the Supreme at 11am a short 7 minute steam had us anchored over the Smoothound and bass mark .
90 minutes later we were on the move having landed 28 Smoothound .The quarry this time was to be the hard fighting tope but unfortunately nobody told the tope after 3 moves non had been caught so the decision was made to move onto another mark for smoothies and bass .
Paul tired arse Baker was first in with a couple of small bass then the double figure smoothies came on to nail the baits with some nice fish coming to the boat.
Fantastic weather , great crew plenty of craic and excellent inshore fishing.
NO OTHER SKIPPERS INFO WAS USED IN WRITING THIS REPORT,
NO GIMMICKS, NO BULL JUST RESULTS.
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15/06/2012
Fishing Report by Carl Davies
on Gwen-Paul-M (Conwy, Conwy)
15 Jun 2012 by Carl Davies
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We are seeing consistently good fishing on the offshore wrecks for pollack and sometimes cod. Pollack are running in the range of 3lb-9lb and cod 2lb-6lb. Odd coalfish are also being taken.
The spring algal bloom has died off, so the water has cleared and mackerel are now widespread in numbers. We are even seeing launce mixed in with them for those using shrimp rigs which provide a deadly livebait for the pollack.
Pollack have been falling to variety of colours, however on Wednesday, rhubarb and custard 4-6 inch sidewinders took the lion's share of the fish. Ground fishing is producing plenty of bull huss with the odd thornback and tope mixed in.
Grahame made a great dish onboard the other day...a twist on sushi! He mixed chunks of skinned raw cod with coriander, mild chillies, and red onion, with lime juice to part cook the fish. May sound a little odd but it tasted great.
Weather is still proving challenging at times however calm spells inbetween the storms give us chance to venture out.
I have room on various trips which are all listed however if you have another date in mind, please feel free to give me a call or drop an email.
Regards,
Carl. View Boats Page
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13/06/2012
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
13 Jun 2012 by Steve Andrews
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The day started with a 10 hr general fishing trip which produced a couple of Thornback Rays, Huss to 13lb ,plenty of mackerel and all the other suspects.
We then had a couple of hours on one of the wrecks that litter Liverpool Bay this produced Ling,Pout,Cod,Huss ,and again plenty of Mackeral.
I then had a evening Smoothie and Bass trip well what a trip this turned out to be with over 40 Bass falling to the guys and girls onboard most were returned and a few kept for the table .the smoothies put in an appearance as well plus some mackerel rounding off a great trip.
tight lines steve
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06/2012
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Jun 2012 by Gethyn Owen
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Following the success of our Smoothhound challenge competition in 2011, this year’s event was extended to 2 days and run over the bank holidays of the Queens Jubilee celebrations. The aim of the Smoothhound Challenge is to simply catch the heaviest hound of the trip.
The main prize each day was a Fladen IM8 sensor tip rod, perfectly matched with a Fladen Maximus 444 sized multiplier reel. These prizes, along with baseball caps were kindly donated to us by Fladen UK.
2nd and 3rd places each day were to receive baseballs caps and a selection of fishing rigs from both Fladen and GO Angling.
With the event being well received last year, the 2 bank holidays were booked fairly quickly, so we decided to also lay on an evening trip for the hounds, with the heaviest caught being eligible to win the ‘overall’ prize of 2 Gift Vouchers for a fully inclusive day aboard My Way.
Day one and we set sail in calm seas and bright sunshine, not the best of weather when hunting out the hard fighting small sharks. It was a good few hours before we struck into the first of the day. Kev had never landed a smoothhound before, so a 10lb 7oz specimen was a brilliant start to the challenge and a specie for Kev to tick off his list.
Colin was the second to call for the net, this shark looked to be a lot bigger than Kevs as it swam deep in the water and refused to come to the surface. After a powerful struggle, Colin’s hound was netted, with the weight coming out at 16lb 9oz.
A further 3 smoothhounds came to the boat, with only Dave coming the closest with a great double figure hound of 16lb. This was made all the better for Dave as his pb hound currently stood at around 8oz, having landed a tiny starry whilst beach fishing on the each coast.
That evening we set sail for 4 hours with a mixed bag of both experienced regulars and anglers out for the first time afloat. It wasn’t long before Tom hit into his first hound, followed closely by his mate Dave, both recording hounds of 12lb 8oz. Paul Coulthurst was next with a hound just sneaking into double figures.
After which Robin, on his first fishing experience persevering with smoothhounds as his girlfriend Danielle reeled in dogfish and small codling, struck into the biggest of the night with a hound of 14lb.
It looked to be in the bag for the evening for Robin and as I called lines up & started My Ways engine, Gareth P called fish on and proceeded to play and eventually land the biggest hound of the evening and a new pb at 16lb.
Day 2 and we were greeted with a damp and miserable day; light rain was going to be with us for the majority of the day. Still, with what we considered to be better conditions than the previous day, we set sail with great anticipation. In all we managed to land 12 smoothhounds during the7 hrs we were fishing, however from the crew of 8 the day was real owned by Dan and Paul who between them landed 8 of the fish, taking 4 apiece.
3rd place went to Gareth P, who couldn’t better his 16lb smoothie from the previous evening with a hound of 9lb. In second place was smoothhound expert Paul, again fishing the Tuesday following a try the previous evening. A hound of 12lb 8oz saw Paul walk away with a baseball cap and selection of rigs from Fladen and My Way.
The actual 2nd place fell to Dan, however he bettered his hound of 16lb 11oz with a cracking specimen that topped the scales at 18lb 130z, winning Dan the 2nd IM8 Super Sensor Rod, 444 Maximus reel and with the heaviest fish of the challenge 2 fully inclusive Gift Vouchers for a days fishing aboard My Way.
Not electrifying fishing this time around, but given the changeable weather conditions we were all happy to get afloat and catch a few hounds over the 2 days.
The My Way smoothhound challenge will return once again next year during the Spring bank holiday and the following Tuesday, book now to avoid disappointment. View Boats Page
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06/2012
Fishing Report by Gwyn Andrews
on Goldilocks (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
Jun 2012 by Gwyn Andrews
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Things have taken off lately with the the arrival of the tope.We have been landing them every day,the best weighing 42 lb.Still plenty of midweek trips avaliable so book now while the tope are here.
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10/06/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
10 Jun 2012 by Aaron Smith
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Sunday 10th June,
A day with Bold Sea Angling Club
Well the weather died off and alowing us to visit a few wrecks around the 20-30mile mark off Holyhead, we set sail at 7:30 with the kettle on ready for a brew once we were underway.
First stop off for the day on a wreck around 12 miles just to breck up the traveling time which after 4 drifts produced around 8 Pollack to 6lb.
A further hour steam out we arrived at our venue for the day and working closely with a vessel from Caernarfon to find the fish around the different wrecks of St.Goerges Channel.
Calling lines down on the first drift and almost instantely people calling for the net with fish around the 4-7lb mark which was another perfect start on a wrecking trip.
This kept up until the tide slackend and as always on slack water the smaller fish around the 2-3lb came out to play one after another with the odd coalie and we had this until the tide turned and the flow increased which saw the smaller fish disipate and the larger Pollack from 3-7lb start to feed with the odd codling, once the tide got too strong we headed to a wreck a bit closer in to finish the day which on the first 4 drifts saw a fish to the same person each drift lucky man with the right colour jelly! but it soon came to the last drift of the day which 4 out of 6 hit fish around the 5lb mark to finish.
So a good 2 hour steam home with my crew man watching the wheel whilst i filleted all the fish and the lads tucked in to a nice big pan of hot pot.
The Cod should be making more of an apperence on the wrecks soon and the larger Pollack to follow, Back out there a few times this next week so it should be intresting to see if a few Cod make an apperence. View Boats Page
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10/06/2012
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
10 Jun 2012 by Steve Andrews
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Out today Sunday 10th after another few days of wind, and what a day it turned out to be plenty of Mackerel ,dabs ,whiting,coddling tub and red gurnard ,dogs ,plenty of good size Huss and a first for Richard out on his first ever boat trip he caught a Spurdog which is the first for over 25 years could they be making a come back?.
We also had a couple of Tope to finish the day off .
tight lines
Steve View Boats Page
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05/2012
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
May 2012 by Gethyn Owen
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Our last report detailed the great smoothhound fishing we have been experiencing in recent weeks. Many anglers have been fortunate to catch some quality double figure hounds, with the vast majority also smashing personal bests.
All said though, the smoothhound fishing has also been patchy and hard work when compared to the reliability of recent years. Where one day we can go out and bag a dozen large double figures it will be followed by a day with just 1 or 2. An example of this was a couple weeks ago, when amongst the crew of 7, we had 4 anglers visiting from Newcastle Upon Tyne. Having found Roy, this month’s Boat Fishing Monthly cover boy a first ever tope in 2011, the task this year was for a smoothhound.
The hounds though had other ideas, leaving the baits for a constant stream of dogs and small codling to devour. Through the day despite trying a couple of our more consistent marks for the hounds, the return was a paltry 2. That said Dave had a cracking time fighting his double figure specimen and Roy managed to bag himself a 6lb starry hound, small but a target species ticked off the list.
With the tides dropping for the following day, we decided that a trip off to Holyhead Deep was called for and then try for the hounds later in the afternoon. Our day started drifting for small wrasse, pollack, codling and coalie for an hour. As the tide dropped we made our way off to a mark offshore, which would see us anchored in around 180ft of water, with the drop off laying the baits around 220ft.
Roy was first into a fish, a nice spurdog just short of double figures; we won’t mention how the skipper knocked it off with the net though. For the next 3 hours, all 7 anglers were treated to a big fish bonanza and from 200ft of water, they certainly felt it afterwards. Every 5 minutes there was call of net as double figure spurdogs were accompanied by double figure huss! Everyone aboard was playing a fish with =in minutes of their leads hitting the sea bed. With only the odd photo shot, the majority of fish were released quickly back into the sea, from chatting after the hectic 2.5hrs fishing, we’d estimated over 50 double figure spurs or huss between the 7 lads, along with the slightly smaller sharks and also dogfish. Sadly the tope failed to turn up to this particular party, but just means we’ll have to try again!
Returning to the deeps the following day I was joined by a group of good friends, Boat Fishing Monthly duo Dave Barham and Jim Midgley, Anglers Net Supremo Elton Murphy and the MD of World Sea Fishing Mike Thrussell jnr. Our plans were to have a ball in the deeps with the double figure spurs and huss, maybe even snaring a tope for our efforts. Everyone caught well from a variety of species, however despite, the mass of angling super talent aboard that day, the honours were well earned by My Way crewman Harry, who had bought a £7 kiddies play rod from a shop in town; coupled with a small Abu 6000, Harry was determined to land big and have fun whilst doing it!
Drifting a couple wrecks on our way out to our chosen mark, Harry caught consistently on most passes, with pollack averaging 3 to 5 lb, this little fishing rod bent double as the pollack hit hard and made the occasional dive for freedom!
In over 200 foot of water, the fun really started , a spurdog was the target species for Harry, despite having been fishing these waters for many years, the spurs always eluded his hook, congers, huss or dogfish usually getting to the bait first. It wasn’t soon after dropping anchor that his rod was bouncing with a nice take from the depths. During the fight, Harry often had to hold the 4foot, 2 ring masterpieces straight down to allow the fish to take line without the risk of snapping! Eventually after a gruelling 20 minute battle, a …. Conger broke the surface! Were as we laughed at this initial capture given the spurdog fishing of recent days, we then realised that a good 20lb conger had just been hauled from the deep water on what could be best described as a twig! Excellent fishing, I am though pleased to report that Harry got his spurdog, again on the small rod it was a fantastic double figure specimen.
The following day we set out with the Boat Fishing Monthly smoothhound trip competition winners. How did they fair? You can read on these exploits in a forthcoming issue of the magazine.
In shore the general fishing is fairly reliable for the time of year with mixed bags including dogfish, whiting, codling, small rays, huss and gurnards and many other species keeping the anglers busy whilst at anchor. On the drift the wrasse quantities are picking up with every passing day. Mackerel are about but proving patchy when wanting to quickly bag enough up for fresh bait.
Hopefully more settled weather will follow on from the gales that are currently blasting along our coastline. View Boats Page
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06/2012
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Jun 2012 by Aaron Smith
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MAY **
Fishing started off slow and picked up through the month as to be expected.
Mackeral are still very slow but there is plenty of Pollack, Wrasse and Coalies to compensate on the reefs.
Anchor inshore is producing plenty of Dogs, Huss, Whiting, Codling, Dabs with Smoth-hound and Rays coming up if targeted.
Wrecks are picking up slowly with mostly Pollack coming up but with every trip out to them we are expecting more Cod to start showing slowly. View Boats Page
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04/06/2012
Fishing Report by kevin austin
on Goldilocks (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
4 Jun 2012 by kevin austin
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we went out on the goldilocks on the 4/6/12 had a fantastic day the skipper was alot of fun we only booked 4 places but the rest of the guys on the boat were a good laugh as well we caught well all day.We ended up with 13 species on theboat by the end of the trip. Whiting and dabs made up most of the catch. At the end of the trip two tope were landed one of 20lb and another of 30lb. If anyone is looking for i trip i would recommend giving the goldilocks try
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