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12/2017
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Dec 2017 by Gethyn Owen
Report on-board My Way 2
2017 review - part two July to December
Continuing a look back at 2017, part two covers July to Dec aboard My Way. Our first trip of July saw some lovely weather and some mixed fishing both inshore and in Holyhead Deep.
As the weather continued to play ball, more sorties into the Deeps were rewarded with pollack on the wreck and some great tope action at anchor. Amongst the catches we had plenty of wrasse and pollack to test the light gear with some cracking action from the spurdogs in the Deep.
Staying in July and climbing tides we looked for more rod bending action closer to home. Rays, small tope and big huss putting the rods to the test amongst various other catches. Back off in the Deep towards the end of the month and the fishing coniued to raise smiles. The wrecks offering some great pollack fishing and at anchor rods bent over with tope and spurdogs.
The odd surprise coming along too with species such as Marks some big grey gurnards.
One day towards the end of July and Part of our Pure Fishing competition days the weather was forecast to blow a hoolie for the afternoon. With no sign of the wind we decided on a short run halfway top our normal marks in Holyhead Deep.
Unsure of the rewards, Halton SAC geared up for big stuff and were duly rewarded with over 20 tope, a bagful of huss and spurdog. It was a close run thing, with scores averaging 95points but with Rich and Ron both tying on 109 each. A quick count back found Ron had 9 species to Rich who had 8 thus winning a brand new Greys GR100S 20lb rod and Abu 7000 reel for himself … just by coming out for a days fishing.
Species hunting is great fun, changing tackle, tactics and baits can bring up all manner of fish and add of the fun and enjoyment of the day.
Weather in August started to hamper our fishing; thankfully we’d often be able to grab a day afloat in relatively calm seas despite often being sandwiched between two days of 30knot winds.
Fishing was regularly better than expected given the winds, at anchor a good variety of species and drifting proving very successful with any amount of wrasse – ballan, cuckoos, goldsinney & corkwing together with mackerel and plenty of pollack.
A birthdays fishing trip is always a great idea, with friends and family not forgetting birthday cake too.
When taking the youngster afloat, whether a trip specifically for the younger generation or mixed into a normal day, it’s important to help them enjoy the whole experience. Including a stint at the helm, young Richie making a splendid job of steering to our chosen mark,
As the weather juggled our days afloat, myself along with many others still wanted a fishing fix. So this year I rekindled my enjoyment in fresh water fishing at a fishery local to me, Llyn Y Gors in Llandegfan. It’ll never overtake my love of being afloat on the sea, but offers a great chilled out time catching! With My Way sponsors Pure Fishing (UK) Ltd having companies such as Greys, JRC Mitchell and Shakespeare within their portfoilio, we were well equipped to catch and offer a similar experience to My Way regulars that had had their trip cancelled.
Back afloat and the fishing delivered an array of species and fun throughout August and into September; with many days seeing up towards 20 different types of fish being landed
Using multiple hook rigs can pose the odd problem. Popular and highly effective our two hook muppet rig for Holyhead deep snared it’s biggest of the day in Gethyn. With a 27lb tope on one hook, the tope was lifted into the boat, the tope naturally thrashed about, a little peeved at its circumstances.
The flaying hook embedding itself into his wrist. No real drama, the hook was cut away and pushed through. Job done. The tope, a first for its capture, also released after a quick photograph. With a space available on the boat one day mid September Mark managed a days fishing whilst crewing and bagged himself a lovely male tope of 43lb and his largest tub gurnard to date.
Weather was not the kindest for our Sept Pure Fishing competition with a strong NW breeze forecast, fortunately this eased quite quickly, leaving a fairly reasonable sea for us to enjoy within the bay. It started off wet and windy but as the winds eased the sun came out for a cracking day inshore fishing.
Our last anchor producing a final spree to the finish line with many more fish including a 2nd hound to Alan. Chris and Mark again matching each other for fish, but Chris’ better drifting proving decisive in the end as he took the win from Mark and Alan who had crept up the points list with a steady haul of fish through the day.
For the win Chris received a Shakespeare Agilty 9ft Tipster rod with a Penn Spinfisher 5500 fixed spool reel. The outfit with a retail price of £210 is ideal for fishing at both anchor and drift. The 3 piece rod has a sensitive tip section, that can detect the smallest of bites in all seas, while still having the strength to battle larger prey such as Smoothhounds to over 20lb.
Fishing and Fun go hand in hand, sometimes when fishing for the likes of hounds & tope etc. it’s a waiting game, bait prepared, rods set … wait for the hit. There is always time to chill and have a giggle and this is what happened when I left my GoPro unattended with Nad and Cards near by …
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Days afloat however limited through September and October resulted insome great fishing. With variety and size helping us enjoy our days afloat.
As the weather started to get colder, the spurdogs started to return in numbers in Holyhead Deep along with some good conger action for a few anglers.
Afloat in the bay through October and November and we had plenty of action inshore. With the deeps once again providing the big action for the rods.
Fortunately early spring winter time, we don’t have to travel too far, the spurs seemingly preferring the rougher more broken ground to the north of Holyhead Deep.
It’s not all about the big fish, one most memorable towards the latter part of summer was this little beauty, a leopard spotted goby. You can target these from the shore with relatively good success from a few Anglesey marks, but they’re not so prolific while afloat. This only the 03rd landed aboard My Way
Early November and a few more cancellations with the weather; Iwan and Shelby opted for plan b and a first time coarse Fishing at Llyn Y Gors. They weren’t disanointed with some lovely catches to rods and poles.
Thankfully on the days we were able to sail as the year progressed the fishing continued to prove successful
Despite the weather, its fair to say we’ve had a great time aboard My Way throughout 2017.
Many thanks to everyone that has sailed with us and help make another memorable year afloat, hopefully 2018 will be as successful on the fish.
Many thanks also to our sponsors Pure Fishing (UK) Ltd. With their support we have been able to provide all our customers old and new quality rods, reels lines and tackle from some of the largest names in the industry.
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31/12/2017
Fishing Report by jon old
on High Flyer 2 (Great Yarmouth, Norfolk)
31 Dec 2017 by jon old
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Top angler of the year award on High Flyer 2 this year goes to David Jones (Norfolk)firstly because hes on the boat more than i am! Holder of our boat record for smoothound (returned) this year featured in Sea Angler and Saltwater Angling magazines also with double figure bass (returned). Dave is always helping others ,explaining tactics,bait presentation etc, undoing tangles! From me personally a big thank you mate for your support through the hard days, all seasons and weathers, your enthusiasm rubs off on others always a pleasure to have you onboard. Tight lines for 2018 Dave . Jon (High Flyer 2)
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31/12/2017
Fishing Report by brian poppy
on Cleveland Princess (Lowestoft, Suffolk)
31 Dec 2017 by brian poppy
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Hope you all had a great Xmas and a chance to try the new fishing gear out that Santa brought you,with the conditions this last 3 weeks being very poor weve only been able to get out a few times and when we did go it was mainly off Snag Ally but it seems that the fish are holding in that area at the moment i did get out to one of our better marks on the Newcomb Bank but this proved to be no better than fishing close in,weve had a few small Cod on the trips that we have made but nothing to right home about the fish are all around the 2lb-3lb size with an odd one a bit better one of the party last Thursday 28th lost a nice fish he just got it to the surfice and it decided it was not going to be his dinner i estamated it around the 7lb mark that would have been nice as Peter paid to enter the £100 Cod competion that i run,the picture is of Paul with a lovely 21lb Cod that made its way to the boat in 2015, i wish you all a fantastic New Year and the Fish of your dreams appears in the not to distant future,Brian.
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30/12/2017
Fishing Report by STAN DICKINSON
on Tuskar (Liverpool, Merseyside)
30 Dec 2017 by STAN DICKINSON
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Working hard for cod in numbers this year but perseverance paid off for Luke Cadden as after the pool had moved 3 times and with 30 minutes to go he wound in this 12 pounder to take the money. Well done
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12/2017
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
Dec 2017 by Gethyn Owen
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2017 review - part one January to June
Looking back at the recurring theme of foul weather, 2017 was the not best of years for many around the UK, north Wales no different with numerous days cancelled through strong winds. Days afloat however reduced from previous years were quite frequent and filled with some great fishing and laughs for those that sailed with us.
Our report from 2017 takes a pictorial look back over the year and some of the many great days we’ve had afloat.
We started our new season very early in February and rewarded with an array of species including plenty of fine huss and thornbacks.
The first quarter of any year sees most trips venture out to Holyhead Deep for spurdogs, these hard fighting small sharks are great fun to catch.
From 200ft of water and on 12lb class gear, they offer some tremendous early season sport.
Goes without saying we always eat well aboard My Way and often our crews bring along offerings for everyone on the boat.
Quite popular is Asian cuisine with Aloo Methi & a Chicken Curry from regulars Neil and Paul respectively.
In March we reported our continued sponsorship from Pure Fishing (UK) Ltd, the worlds largest tackle company that boasts some of the best and most popular brands around today. PENN, Greys, Shakespeare and ABU Garcia among them.
Already sporting an array of rods and reels from many selected lines spinning rods, light boat rods, Tipsters etc. we were able to delve into the catalogues and stock up more gear for our anglers to use.
Moving into April and the fishing continues to improve. Inshore the wrasse and pollack provide some good days afloat around the breakwater and rock ledges of Anglesey.
One day in April day stands out amongst the many, plenty of fish inshore with pollack to 5lb on the wreck. Setting anchor in the Deeps we planned a good few hours on the spurdogs, everyone catching plenty but Iwan bucking that trend with 3 tope to 30lb his reward
Fishing can be so fickle! Especially when chasing spurdogs, small sharks that roam through areas on the feed. Below 2 photos from Luke Kelly and his crew, a run out to the deeps was rewarded with over 40 spurdogs in a mad and frantic 90 mins, these together with a few huss and customary dogfish.
The following day with a similar tide & conditions, not a sniff! Huss and dogs only, not even a solitary spurdog lost from its pack. Fishing can be so frustrating at times; everything can be planned to perfection, except the one main ingredient, the fish!
We don’t run trips specifically to the wrecks. My Way hasn’t the speed, and I don’t particularly enjoy that fishing for all day! Maybe if I ate more fish I would!
We have a couple wrecks in the Deeps that fish fairly well for us from late April each year, a couple hours fishing the last of the ebb tide offers plenty of pollack averaging 6lb, the largest a couple years ago went 12lb.
Then we drop the anchor and have fun with plenty of spurdogs, tope, huss and the odd conger eel.
Plenty inshore and spurdogs further out is how the fishing continues into May before we turn our attention to the influx of quality smoothhounds.
Mark Cain smashed his PB last year during the smoothhound challenge with a fantastic hound of 24lb in 2016. He opened his 2017 account on a Weds 03rd May, a couple weeks early from this years event with another mighty fine hound pushing My Ways scales to 20lb 1oz, pictured above
During one day afloat in May we were fishing a mark 8 miles out to sea. Not long into our anchor had a small visitor, a passing swallow needing a rest from its long journey north. The bird stayed with us sat up in the bow for half an hour before moving on for the next leg of its epic journey
Occasionally I get to have a fish myself, light tackle and inshore pollack can be great fun.
Our Smoothhound Challenge is a long established event now, running for 5 days towards the end of May each year. Daily prizes up for grabs for the angler with the heaviest smoothhound. 2017 was another great success, with some quality smoothhounds caught and 5 lucky anglers winning a fantastic rod and reel combo from Pure Fishing (UK) Ltd. See the winners here
June and the great fishing continued, Holyhead Deep with some great spurdog fishing, while inshore the drifting and anchor fishing allowing us many different species and sizes.
Mike Thrussell landing this beautiful 10lb 10oz pollack from the back of Holyhead Breakwater.
Another 20lb hound this time to the tope maestro Iwan and a first hound and another 20lber for Zukia.
Late June and Luke was back for another quality day with friends and family – this time recording some nice pollack, tope and plenty of spurdogs including 2 over 21lb in weight.
The smoothhounds just kept coming
However, smoothhound fishing is a waiting game! You may have an hour or two sitting on your baits waiting for a pack to come through. A little bit of fun helps the time pass. Not always about the fishing …
The first half of 2017 was placed with fish and some great times afloat
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20/12/2017
Fishing Report by Colin Penny
on Flamer IV (Weymouth, Dorset)
20 Dec 2017 by Colin Penny
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My last trip of 2017 I took advantage of the nice weather and got a trip in before Christmas. The fishing was really good with 5 different species of Ray caught with Paul Milkins catching his first ever Spotted Ray also caught were Congers,Whiting,a Bass and the usual Dogs and Pouts also a bonus 6Ib 8oz Turbot which Paul Milkins gave to the "Poor Old Skipper" for a Christmas treat'.Denise Youngs is pictured with her 10Ib 2oz Small Eyed Ray.
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12/2017
Fishing Report by Nigel Lihou
on Optimist (Brixham, Devon)
Dec 2017 by Nigel Lihou
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2017 has been a good year for Optimist we have put the Anglers on the fish on every trip. The Wrecks have been a bit hit and miss during the year with some good catches of Pollack when we have managed to hit a wreck that has not been commercially netted the day before, Pout as usual have been very prolific, it is just convincing you anglers that a large Pout is if gutted when caught is not a bad fish to eat and they can put up a reasonable fight.
The Skerries bank as always has fished consistently throughout the year with reasonable quantities of Plaice although this year there were very few above the 2lb mark and a lot of undersized returned for another day. The banks still throw up surprises and we have had some good sized Turbot and Brill and Ray as well as the unexpected.
Our biggest problem this year has been fresh Mackerel as they didn't arrive until mid July and then it was a case of not on the usual marks except for one day in August where we sat on the mooring and nearly filled a box, which meant we could freeze some down for future use.
Also during the year we have become a recognised Elasmobranch tagger recording data for the SSACN, practising a catch and release program with Sharks, Rays, Huss and Hounds, this has so far proved very successful and we hope to build on this in 2018.
Optimist tries to live up to its name and with bookings for 2018 already starting to fill up we look forward to welcoming you aboard just call Nigel on 07817136505 View Boats Page
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22/12/2017
Fishing Report by Gethyn Owen
on My Way 2 (Holyhead, Isle of Anglesey)
22 Dec 2017 by Gethyn Owen
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A great day in the office today following a good few weeks of wind.
Plenty of whiting inshore, a few retained for baits in the deeps for the spurdogs.
Superb fishing in the deeper water with some good fighting spurs and a solitary huss for Keith.
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23/12/2017
Fishing Report by Rich Cope
on Mistress (Whitby, North Yorkshire)
23 Dec 2017 by Rich Cope
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Happy Christmas guys, hope youve all had a lovely time.
Leading up to the big day we ran a night trip, a few hours sleep then on to a day trip, my deckhand Clag and me were ready for break following our day at sea!
The fishing was ok too, I only had 5 lads for the night trip but we all took a good few fish, 2 lads took a dozen cod and the rest of us 6/8 cod a piece so a good night was had by all.
We were full for the day trip, but had a drop in tides, and a blustery day, meant we were limited to where we could fish, never the less we took a steady picking of cod finishing up with around 50 keepers again, plus chuck backs. The best angler getting around a dozen.
Best bait remains black lug, unwashed squid and cart.
We're running trips again from the 28th, with a day off for new years day.
If youre interested in a days fishing with me give me a call on 07977 436903
Or mail me at seafishingwhitby@hotmail.co.uk
Tight lines Rich
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24/12/2017
Fishing Report by Trevor Crawley
on Girl Mandy (Southend-On-Sea, Essex)
24 Dec 2017 by Trevor Crawley
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Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all our regulars and newcomers this year hope to see you all again through 2018 good health and tight lines till next year from Myself and Matt
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