Latest Fishing Reports: Wales
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27/07/2011
Fishing Report by gary gribbin
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
27 Jul 2011 by gary gribbin
Report on-board Supreme
Myself,Dad, Stuart, John, Mick and Tom booked a trip out on Supreme 2 charter boat out of Rhyl, after keeping an eye on the forecast all week, it seemed the weather gods were on our side for a change.
Called the skipper the night before to confirm the trip was on, Stuart, kindly offered to take us in the 8 seater taxi, well we thought it was kind till the cheeky swine put the meter on ...................... no, fare play to him it was a good crack going down in a taxi, wouldn't like to pay a real taxi, £272 there ONLY!, shocking you taxi drivers!!!!
First stop was the cafe for some hot bacon and sausage, and then headed down to the slip, Prior to boarding the vessel we decided to throw £2 each in a pot for the biggest fish of the day to add a bit of fun.
Met Steve the skipper at the slip way at 8:30, set sail in lovely seas.
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Our first stop was for mackeral................... plenty of them about,
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Soon had the bucket full,............................ Well some of us did the" tangle twins" spent more time hockie knitting
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With plenty of bait it was time to move to our first mark about 7miles off shore, where we were fishing a sandy bottom at about 60ft managed to catch dabs, gurnad, and scad
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.... oh and Stuart managed to catch some mackerel already tinned
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With the tide and wind on our side the skipper decided to try a wreck about 11mile off shore, so upped anchor and headed out
Had a few drifts over it, and caught cod, ling, pouting
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Steve dropped the pin so we could fish it at anchor, the fishing was excellent, everybody was catching, whilst Steve were heating up some nice pasties, and making a brew.
As the guy across from me caught a conger, my plan was to catch myself one.............. So on with the mackerel flapper,............... soon after i was into a good fish, got it to the boat but unfortunately it slipped the hook before we could boat it,.................... estimated at 20lb, If you watch the video you can hear Stuart jinx me, He shouted "Its gone"
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I think he was just annoyed because the old wreck would not budge from the sea bed,.................... dont think it ever will now, the amount of lead he put in it.................... Ahh well I thought I'm still in with a chance for the pool with my cod, only to get thrashed by john with this 7lb 2oz ling
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The ten hour trip was worth every penny of £38, the skipper was excellent he put us right on to the fish, between us we managed 13 species and all managed to bring some good fish home.
The craic was unbelievable ,never laughed so much, the weather was glorious and I will definitely be booking another trip,
Here is a few more pictures of the day, and the video of my conger?
what do you guys think? can i say i caught a one?
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Cheers
Gary
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07/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
Jul 2011 by David Hancock
Report on-board Excel 2
Offshore wrecking is Hot Hot Hot !
100+ Cod a day upto 15lb . Long days, hard work but rewarding !
A lot closer to shore the Tope fishing continues to be some of the best sportfishing in the country.
No B *#^shit see the pictures.
For a more leisurely day the Bass fishing is still amazing. Catches are up on last year with some proper biggies showing.
Keep it tight,
Dave. View Boats Page
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16/07/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
16 Jul 2011 by Aaron Smith
Report on-board Bad Boyz VI
Its been a couple of weeks till my last report but with fishing so much its hard to keep up to date.
The inshore reefs are producing plenty of Pollack, Coalies,Codling, Ballens, Cuckoos and Mackeral whislt the slighty deeper reefs around 4-5miles off are seing plenty of Pollack and Cod from 3lb to 12lb.
Manage a couple of days out to Holyhead deeps this past weekend with different results both days, one producing only a couple of Tope and Spurdog to the next day being crazy with Tope, Spurdog and Huss and during slack water ATEMPTING to catch Whitting and Mackeral for bait was a total mess becuase of the amount of Tope attacking the fiss on the feathers.
The inshore banks and mud troughs are fishing well for Spotty,Thornback and blonde rays and plenty of the usual suspects from Dogs, Dabs, Whitting, Codling, Huss, Red gurnard, Tub gurnard, Grey gurnard and a odd Plaice.
Big tides and mixed weather this weekend but we did manage yesterdays trip for Cod and Pollack with very good results up to 8lb but todays weather was not the best but we fished locally in the Holyhead bay which produced the normal suspects. View Boats Page
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07/2011
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Jul 2011 by Gethyn Owen
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It has been 4 weeks now since we have found the time to write a report on our most recent fishing exploits. We have though managed the most basic of website tasks in keeping the website updated with photographs and boat availability, sadly despite planning, daily or even weekly reports, time gets restricted and fishing comes first! More importantly in recent weeks, the weather has been far kinder and My Way has set sail on all but a couple days.
This report starts in the middle of June when, we had a short period of cleaning and tying rigs owing to bad weather, so not really an awful lot to write about for those few days, moving swiftly on we were joined by a good crowd of seasoned mariners from Telford who despite the blustery conditions of large tides made the most of their time with us bagging a variety of species including a few pb smoothies, spotted ray and a first ever bull huss.
The weather the following week tried it’s best once again to put the dampeners on our plans to sail, un deterred we set sail regular and our anglers were rewarded once again with an excellent mixed bag of inshore fish ranging from the ever present lesser spotted dogfish to 18lb smoothies and a great array of pb’s and angling firsts.
It is also always a pleasure to take anglers out on their first time fishing, when planning days like this I much prefer medium to big tides, thus keeping us inshore, the water flowing and allowing us to help the angler get the most from both drift and anchor fishing. Putting someone new onto a mixed bag of species has a great effect on them and certainly helps heightens their desire for more.
It is always a pleasure to take anglers out on their first time fishing, when planning days like this I much prefer medium to big tides, thus keeping us inshore, the water flowing and allowing us to help the angler get the most from both drift and anchor fishing. Putting someone new onto a mixed bag of species has a great effect on them and certainly helps heightens their desire for more.
We were joined on a Sunday by My Way regulars from The Wirral, this report requires a page of its own to be honest.
For the 4th year running the RAF Angling Festival was fished from Holyhead. This festival partners an RAF angling enthusiast with a complete novices. The aim is to encourage more RAF personnel to take up the sport and join in the fun both on a boat and also ashore. This year the event was won by an angler who was fishing aboard My Way!
With rods, reels and rigs planned for the day, Rob caught steadily a mixed bag of fish learning how to bait up and the different methods to entice different species of fish as he went along. With the event returning sometime in 2012, it will be nice to see if Rob has continued with angling and been promoted to competent angler.
Making our way into July – the sun was beating down, the seas were flat calm, My Way was fully booked and all this could mean only thing – spring tides! Seldom this year have we had such calm conditions on neap tides when a foray into Holyhead Deep has been in the plans!
Never the less, large tides and calm weather simply offers us the chance to move around inshore and fish many marks for a variety of species. Drifting is something we do an awful lot of; pollack, codling and the various species of the wrasse family all our main targets. Whereas the pollack and codling are not monsters that you’d associate with offshore wrecking, ranging from a couple lb to around 6lb, with the odd bigger fish – they make for an interesting fight on light gear and relatively shallow water.
Moving into July we are still seeing the odd smoothie landed on My Way, Rob Field fish with us recently and smashed his pb twice with hounds of 13 and 18lb, more reliable inshore are the huss, with Specimens often exceeding the 10lb threshold for a quality huss.
July the 4th was another day to remember! With it being a day that people in the USA celebrate the declaration of Independence from the UK, we decided to pay our own tribute and celebrate ... My Way style. Yes, this meant only one thing Fish & Food, so it was off we set in bright sunshine whilst waiting for our breakfast of big thick ¼lber burgers to cook.
Fishing did interrupt our food at times as doggies, huss, gurnard, whiting, dabs etc came aboard My Way from the 30ft spring tide. It was soon lunch time and I had planned some great big US of A hot dogs. Pete Chant, originally from Holyhead and now living on the Wirral brought along a massive pan of chilli – chilli dogs it was.
As every munched down for lunch we made our way around to Trearddur Bay where drifting for wrasse and pollack made the agenda once again. Then on the sail home we rounded USA day aboard My Way with jam donuts and caawwfeee! Superb, great fishing, great food and certainly a great laugh – Oh yeah, Pete brought digestives!!!!!!!!!
With July now in full swing our attentions were turning to fishing Holyhead Deep, where Monsters of the Deep where rumoured to be found. I say rumoured as the weather of late had failed to allow us to get out to these sacred grounds, our last venture being the end of April, although we did pass on a few chances early June in favour of smoothhounds inshore, with the deep waters west of Holyhead scheduled to produce the goods well into October, this was a decision easily made with the quality of hounds around this year. Our first trip to the deeps was a non-starter, the strong NW wind that blew the night before left a horrible swell in the sea, so it was the mussel beds and inshore species hunting the order of the day huss, rays, various wrasse plus many more giving all reasonably good day afloat.
Fortunately though, the sea dropped off for the following day and inshore anchor, drifting and then the Holyhead Deep it was.
The deep waters off Holyhead didn’t disappoint, for little over 3 hours all the rods aboard My Way bent double time and time again with numerous huss and spurdog, all of which averaged 12 to 14lb amazing and hectic fishing.
Only one tope though graced us with its presence that day, this fell to the hook of Pete Minns, normally the dogfish king, Pete was on fire with a tope of 22lb, spurs to 14lb and huss to 12lb; finally the lessons are paying off!
This report ends with the good weather continuing during the neap tides seeing My Way take part in the filming of the Welsh language fishing show Sgota!
The original series screened in 2010 was a roaring success with many anglers both Welsh speaking and those viewing with English subtitles, raving about the quality of fishing and excellent presenting and information when compared with other angling related programs of late.
The 2nd series is now being filmed and titled Sgota: The Islands of Western Britain. View Boats Page
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09/07/2011
Fishing Report by Keith Jones
on Atlantic Blue (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
9 Jul 2011 by Keith Jones
Report on-board Atlantic Blue
Out again while on holiday in the area with the expert skipper Andy Truelove ., this time drift fishing near bishops and clerks .It was an outstanding day for all of us onboard , especially myself, being from the midlands and a hundred miles from the nearest sea it is always a treat to get out on a boat ..
i enjoyed tremendously the company of the local lads fishing that day ..Andy .The Skipper was superb again with help and advice to myself and others aboard Volsung. Pollack in vast numbers were caught by all along with wrasse..cod ,codling ..we ended the session trying for mackerel for later bait / tea ..but the shoals were ellusive ..and only a few caught .
All in all a superb day out for the anglers ..thanks very much Andy ..see you soon ..before i go home .
Keith (casey) Jones View Boats Page
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07/2011
Fishing Report by David Hancock
on Excel 2 (Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire)
Jul 2011 by David Hancock
Report on-board Excel 2
Evening bass trips are proving a rip roaring success with good numbers of bass being landed including a couple of low doubles so far.
During our normal daytime trips we are seeing good numbers of cracking Cod upto 15lb on the wrecks. A few pollock are showing but these are tending to be smaller, 4 to 8 lb.
Tope are still here and will be untill the autumn if you want to do battle with leviathans from the deep !
A party from Essex had 16 upto 55 lb to the boat. They now know where to come for the best sportfishing in the SouthEast !
Inshore we're still getting the big hounds, upto 20lb !
Bass and skate are showing in good numbers to fresh mackeral bait. Quite satisfying at the moment to go out, catch your own bait , then catch a good fish supper !
Keep it tight,
Dave. View Boats Page
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04/07/2011
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
4 Jul 2011 by Steve Andrews
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July justs gets better and better plenty of tope today the biggest falling to Adam Mcdonnel weighing in at a magnificent 53.5lb , closely followed by Lee Mcgill with another good fish of 43lb just missing out on the biggest fish pool
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04/07/2011
Fishing Report by Aaron Smith
on Bad Boyz VI (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
4 Jul 2011 by Aaron Smith
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A weekend of mixed results one day finding the fishing not as good as usual with very little Mackeral and the next day producing fantastic fishing with plenty of nice Pollack and Mackeral.
Best Pollack was just into double figures and average size is around 6 lb not to bad for reef fish, With everyone on the boat landing Pollack on both days the total was 118 Pollack over 5lb in 2 slack water sesions certaintly nothin to complain about and plenty of fish for the BBQ in this fine weather.
A few midweek small tides still available for Tope/Spurdog or to fish the Off-shore reefs ( special rates ) View Boats Page
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02/07/2011
Fishing Report by Geoff Smith
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
2 Jul 2011 by Geoff Smith
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2 July 2011, Just had another fantastic day on the Supreme, once again Steve the skipper put us right on the mark for a great days fishing. We had 7 nice Tope between 10 of us, the biggest tipping the scales at 47lb and lots of other species to keep us busy for the full 10hr trip. We were well looked after as always, and steve was really patient with some of the lads new to fishing, especially the young son of one, whom steve spent time with showing him the ropes.
Thanks Steve for a fantastic days fishing on Supreme 2.
Geoff Smith View Boats Page
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02/07/2011
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
2 Jul 2011 by Steve Andrews
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wow what can I say about the start of july .
cracking, wrecks producing pollack,cod,conger,plenty of ling pout ,whiting jumbo mackeral,
and today tried a new mark that I thought might produce some tope and the lads were not sat idle 7 in the boat biggest 47lb for Tony Peters lost count of the fish that picked up the bait and ran and dropped it .plenty of other species as well long may it continue View Boats Page
