Latest Fishing Reports: Wales
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02/06/2013
Fishing Report by Carl Davies
on Gwen-Paul-M (Conwy, Conwy)
2 Jun 2013 by Carl Davies
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ALL THE DUCKS LINED UP!!
Its not often they all line up, but they did today. We sailed, with Royal Tottington SAC, from Bury, on a 10 hour offshore wreck trip this morning, encountering calm seas with a light air from the north west. The ebb tide carried us down to the west and we tried a couple of wrecks but the fishing was a little slow with a few small pollack.
We ventured a little further out and our new spot produced 4 nice pollack to 7lb on the first drift. Consistent fishing saw pollack falling to many different artificials, notably 6 inch white sidewinders having the edge. The fishing fell away as the ebb slacked so we moved further out again. The final wreck gave the best fishing of the day, over low water, with 5-6 fish a drift not uncommon. The lads ended up with well over 100 pollack up to 8 lb with the main stamp of fish between 4-6lb.
A long steam home, carrying back the flood, in the sunshine, went by quickly as the lads busied themselves filleting their catch.
Great fishing, weather and a good bit of banter thrown in, a day that will be hard to beat, thanks lads.
Reports from inshore today tell of an early showing of tope with one of 30lb landed on another charter boat from Conwy.
We have still not caught one mackerel yet as water temperatures still struggle to get to 10 degrees but hopefully they will arrive soon.
I have space for one on a two day Isle of Man trip 30th June - 1st July, £165, including Band B, if anyone fancies a short angling break.
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31/05/2013
Fishing Report by Eric Robinson
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
31 May 2013 by Eric Robinson
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The weather was bright and lumpy in the morning with tide and wind working against us early on, but later in the day the conditions really improved. The mackerel are still failing to show but other baits worked well enough to make the 8 hour match an enjoyable and close run thing. Rip Van Winckle did not make it onto the boat. Mind you I wouldn't want to tangle with him – neither does anyone else.
Species taken on the day included Dogs, Dabs, Whiting, Tub Gurnard, Pouting. Sea Scorpion, Codling, Bull Huss, Por Cod and an Octopus!!
Gull attack excluded, all were retuned safely except the Octopus which was destined to make a guest appearance in a weekend paella.
Steve moved us when he had to and when things slowed down. He called the species that we would catch before he anchored up on the marks. Pity he can’t call 6 numbers for me on a Saturday night. Usual drinks and snacks were supplied by a skipper who really knows his stuff. I take my cap off to him – literally!!
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25/05/2013
Fishing Report by Wayne Morgan
on Sarah Louise (Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan)
25 May 2013 by Wayne Morgan
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Summer Species are finally starting to Show.
A mixed party caught
Dabs over 60
Smouthhound
Gurnard
Turbot
Mackeral are showing but not in large shoals
Black Bream are being caught off the inshore Reefs.
Bass, Rays and Tope will be caught on the next trips. View Boats Page
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05/2013
Fishing Report by David Axtell
on Seren y Mor (Swansea, Vale of Glamorgan)
May 2013 by David Axtell
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Seren y Mor is now back in the water and operating after our usual break. Fishing in May started off slow with everything being a little late this year due to the low water temperature, but in the last week fishing has improved quite considerably with Penywaun SAC landing 35 Smoothounds. Mackerel are being caught a little further west in good numbers so it looks as if summer is finally coming. Photo is of young Dylan Jenkins (12) giving the Penywaun boys a run for their money with a 10lb 6oz hound.
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05/2013
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
May 2013 by Gethyn Owen
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Smoothies, pollack, spurs - not bad when the winds don't blow ....
Despite a healthy calendar, early May still fell foul to the weather gods. High winds once again leading to the cancellation of far more trips than we actually managed to sail on.
When we did manage to sneak out, the back of the breakwater was still producing some nice Pollack. With plenty in the 1 to 2lb bracket, we also hooked into a good few up to 5lb in weight, offering a nice meal for the lucky angler. At anchor we started to see far more fish than the struggle we had through the bitterly cold weather in late March and April. With Dogfish , Whiting, Dab and Codling we also caught some small thornies and huss approaching double figures.
It was though Smoothhound we really wanted.
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After a break of 10days, cancelling every trip along the way through high winds, we managed a nice few days afloat from 17th May. This was to be our first attempt at landing a smoothie this year. Our day actually started with some drifting. Everyone tackled light and we had some great sport for a few hours catching pollack, cuckoo and ballan wrasse.
By lunch it was time to head over to our anchor and try for a few hounds. The waters though were still fairly cold compared to recent years; this was seriously affecting the crab moult. Cold waters had stopped the big spring moult required to bring the big Smoothhound to our shores on the feed.
Regardless we made our best attempt, primed with some quality Anglesey peeler crab. It took an hour before local angler Arron Miles had a clear bite and run from the first hound of 2013, as I jumped for joy and screamed "you hero" Arron lifted into the hound …… and lost it!
To which I called him something else, "hero to zero in 10 seconds" Billy pointed out!
Arron though had the last laugh as he went on to land the only two smoothhounds of the day and get My Ways Smoothhound hunt truly underway. The following day the wind was once again playing havoc with our attempts to get out fishing. Delaying the sail time to lunchtime, we once again set off with high hopes; sadly though no smoothies graced the decks of My Way that afternoon or evening.
Proof to the ridiculous nature of the unsettled weather we are experiencing this year was these few days. The scenario was Friday light NW, Saturday strong NE and then Sunday, sunshine, no wind and calm seas.
With the Smoothhound still being a little unpredictable I made the suggestion pm the Sunday that we make the most of the neap tide and glorious weather and head off shore in search of some bigger pollack action and maybe a few huss and spurdogs; not exactly what the crew wanted, but in fairness the guys were happy to take onboard my observations on the state of the current fishing situation.
With nervous anticipation I set My Way up for the first pass over the wreck and as I called the warning the sunken vessel was coming up, I could see Marks rod tip bend over as a hard fighting Pollack hit his lure. On the first drift we had a few nice Pollack grace the decks of My Way including a 10lb er for Mark. A few more drifts and everyone was hooking into fish and a few the wreck! A couple drifts and Mark in particular had 3 fish in his bag for a return of 27lb, not bad fishing at all for our small part of the world
Don Abbot also raised a smile when amongst his haul he managed a nice 10lb 4oz Pollack. At anchor we had spurdogs, a few small huss and a fair old number of dogfish! But returning back onto the drift when the tide was running, we were back into the Pollack.
A few more cancellations followed before we were able to get back out to try for the Smoothhound in Holyhead bay. Each trip though started with a small amount of drifting or general fishing before the waiting game of hound fishing. Thankfully we were rewarded with some smoothies, all being double figure sharks. Sadly though the hounds are still not in the great numbers we normally associate with this time of year.
But with the hen crabs now shedding shells in great numbers, each day should be a marked improvement on the last.
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23/05/2013
Fishing Report by Tim Harrison
on 3 Fishes (New Quay, Ceredigion)
23 May 2013 by Tim Harrison
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I'm sure that the chat about cold water conditions and a late season has caught up with you wherever you are.. I believed it all too but the interesting thing is we have just started finding bass which matches last year almost to the day (25th May first fish last year). Its lovely to see bass following the lure and with clear water conditions due soon we'll start seeing this more and more. Here's Jack getting hit hard by a fish which he then lost!
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05/2013
Fishing Report by Jack Thomas
on Incentive (Colwyn Bay, Conwy)
May 2013 by Jack Thomas
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weathers still being a pain but we got out on sunday. mackerel still thin on the ground but we had plenty of whiting and dabs. a few codling and huss and the first gurnard of the season. Roll on the better weather!
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16/05/2013
Fishing Report by Steve Andrews
on Supreme (Rhyl, Denbighshire)
16 May 2013 by Steve Andrews
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At last signs that summer may well be on its way out today had Mackerel ,Herring ,Huss ,Thornback ray , Dabs,Whiting,Dogs and a few other bits .
Looks like we might get a settled spell over the next week some spaces still available .
If you fancy a day out give me a call and we will see if we can fix you up
tight lines
Steve
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12/05/2013
Fishing Report by Stuart Denman
on Ebony May (Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire)
12 May 2013 by Stuart Denman
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Sunday 12th May weather cold and wet sea lively, small trip with only three concentrated on the inshore marks, the inevitable dog fish plus some large smooth hounds, bull huss and one tope. No mackerel showing yet to any extent but they must be very close. Weather looks poor til Thursday, hopefully we can get out and have another crack at them.
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04/2013
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Apr 2013 by Gethyn Owen
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Early season 2013 and the weather has played a major part in the fishing all over the UK. From mid-March all the way through April, the water temperatures have remained unseasonably low in comparison to previous years. Together with a relentless barrage of strong winds, it really has been hard to get out and put any sort of run together.
Early April and we managed to sneak out to the deeps on one day, as a small example, either side of this particular we cancelled because of strong winds. With a good group of regulars, we sailed around the coast looking for herring or pollack to supplement our frozen baits for our spurdog and huss hunt. Sadly none of them wanted to help us out. Barring 2 good spurdogs out in the deeps, the day would have been a real hard one.
An extract from our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/GOAngling) this days fishing reads as follows:-
Glorious sunshine and flat calm seas today, nice end to the Easter period … sadly the fish failed to read my email! A painfully slow start to the day, drifting around the coast to Trearddur Bay saw no fish for the first 90 mins. A move to anchor, then a further move finally saw a few doggies, with the odd codling and whiting break the surface of the water.
Additionally we had a fair number of bull huss, sadly they were the smallest huss I had ever seen, the largest was smaller than a standard dogfish! The deep was sadly hard work also.
Dave managed to hook a beauty of a spurdog towards the end of our time, following on from Ian Thomo who hooked into the only other spur of the session, everyone else catching just dogs. Fortunately for Ian, it was his first spur and a very a decent one at 14lb 6oz
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The fishing through early April was hard work; even the dogfish were showing signs of hibernation. Normally April is a month that really gets going, all manner of species moving in and some fantastic sport with spurdogs, huss and small pack tope arriving in the Holyhead Deep. Towards the 3rd week of April things started to pick up on the fish front, with quantity and more species moving in.
This was when we managed another couple days afloat, having cancelled numerous trips in between leaving both me and the anglers extremely frustrated. With a planned trip off to the Deeps restricted again by a strong NW breeze one mid-April day, our efforts centred on various marks within Holyhead Bay. The usual suspects of dogs, whiting, dabs, small huss, codling plus more showing up to grace our baits and help out some of the crew with their clubs on going 2013 species hunt.
The following day the wind swung around to the south, too strong again to allow us to get to the deeper marks offshore but it allowed us to drift a few inshore marks around the Breakwater and Rocky coast in search of early season pollack that move in to Holyhead Bay.
Thankfully the pollack had arrived, nothing too big, the best specimen probably going 4lb, but with a fair number in the 2 to 4lb bracket, a few buckets were filled with some nice chunky fillets going home with the anglers.
Light tackle and 25 to 35 foot of water, makes for some great fun with these hard fighting fish. Sadly, the over all wind patterns remain unsettled for us at the moment and whilst colleagues on the south coast have basked in some fantastic calm seas, and hot days, we have had to dodge winds for the odd day or two afloat.
On the plus side, things though are quickly improving, the waters are warming up, the crabs are starting to peel and fish are moving into the bay with each passing day.
We have limited spaces available for the remainder of May and into June, if you are interested in a particular date or species to fish for please email or call to discuss, thanks. View Boats Page
