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Plenty of whiting around and the odd huss, but pleasing for some very fewe dogfish.

Sunday the weather was far more settled. Sailing at 12 noon, we were determined to give the conger wrecks a few hours into darkness. The day started off in traditional winter style - dogs, whiting, pouting, poor cod at anchor not much on the drift though today only a few ballan wrasse - no pollack. 

As darkness fell we moved over to the wrecks and anchored up for the last three hours in darkness for the eels. We managed to land 10 eels in the end, 8 of which were in the 12 - 20lb mark. A big one lost on top of the water and a few monsters lost to the wreck itself. Poor  Chris Hamblin hooked into a big fish twice, sadly this fish got the better of him on both occasions. Very good fishing and an enjoyable day. With the forecast looking good for next weekend hopefully a bit more of the same. Check availability here.

Daniel Maple, on his first ever conger outing hooked into 2 double figure fish, the largest of which touching 15lb. Showing dad Will how to do it.

With the later sails we always enjoy a good lunch and then an evening snack!!

Thankfully not too slow - Sunday we sailed for 8hrs and managed wuite a few fish - dogs, whiting, pouting etc followed by quite a few huss and then all topped off with a very nice 41lb tope.

6 miles off the wrecks have been throwing up a few pollack, whilst drifting over waiting for the tide to ease for us to anchor for spurs and tope. Nothing spectacular - fish ranging from a couple pound to around 6lb. Plenty of spurs found at anchor and some nice huss too, didn't find any tope here though.

The bigger tides have crept up on us over the last few days, and slowed the fishing down a touch. There have been plenty of fish around to keep us entertained but nothing special - dogs, huss, whiting, codling pouting etc and the odd strap conger.

After a few quick photographs the fish was released and swam away to see another day.

The coaching sessions will consist of 3 hrs on the boat and 3hrs on the shore. The session will be conducted by fully qualified coaches and are completely free. The age limits for participation are  7 and above to 16 or under.

A few good fish have been lost these last few days through incorrectly set drags. When fishing for bigger species you really do need to have a light drag setting, this allows the fish to dart off with hook and line in tact, before you attempt to reel the fish in. If it wants to run again let it, don't tighten the drag or 'ping' your line snaps.

On the reefs though the wrasse fishing has been excellent, ballans have been varying between 1lb and 4lb, with the odd cuckoo at 1lb.

Whilst de-hooking one I got spiked in the wrist - boy did that hurt.

Meltham & District SAC had one of their competition days out with us last Saturday and landed just short of 50 spurs in a couple hrs, half a dozen tope including a 31lb and 40lb (both caught by Alan Boyes), and a few huss during their couple hrs in the deeps.

Drifting a small reef a few miles off SW of Penrhyn Mawr on Sunday we hooked into quite a few nice pollack. Sizes varied from 1lb to the biggest at 8lb for Davey.

Plenty of them and some great sport, this made for a nice short stop on our way to the  spurs and tope.

Hopefully not too long before the next report!!

The algae is however more or less gone - with the fishing picking up quite well. Then weekends haul included plenty of small pollack and coalies on the reefs, with some very good ballan wrasse thrown in. Outside saw just the one tope (I caught it - hehe) and spurdog with a handful of bull huss.

Inside the fishing was a lot better on anchor - plenty of dogs and whiting as usual, with hordes of good bull huss and also a couple strap eels.

Pollack, coalies, wrasse, codling and mackerel - all of which appeared to have near suicidal tendencies. Kicking off the drift for a few mackerel and possible coalie we hooked into numerous pollack and coalies between the 1lb and 2.5lb mark, mixed in with these some good mackerel.

Paul Thelwell from Wrexham came up trumps recently with his first smoothound capture - a nice starry of 10lb 5oz - the last cast of the day.

WFSA International Arthur Beechy had a good day afloat recently when he managed to pluck a few 3 -4lb pollack from a very close in wreck. Not to be outdone fellow ABC SAC club member Owie also got in on the act with some plump inshore pollack. The wreck is only 500 yards off the breakwater, and offers some good fishing when the weather blows a strong 6.

Richard Brewin fell asleep during one change of marks, fair play he did drive for   3.5 hrs before setting sail.  Couldn't resist the squid on the head photo though.

Not go. Easy as that - you need to rely on the forecast. That was the decision so we decided to bottom fish and taking the small tides and the slack water  coming up into account, headed south to some deep water to look for some huss and spurs. Fishing was slow to start - but as the tide dropped a little for us we started to get through the dogs and locate a few huss - best one we hooked into was 11lb 1 oz. A few spurs were also landed to just short of 10lb. I even managed to land a small tope - first of the season. 

Well 7 hrs into the 24hr forecast the wind picked up a little, then a little more. soon we had the 5-6 expected a bit later, upon us. Unfortunately the wind forgot to change to the north East that would've given us some shelter and a less lumpy ride, the north west it stayed -  was a little rough out there. Albeit safe - but still a  rather uncomfortable ride home to safety.

Where's he going with this I can hear you asking? Well,  I was fortunate today in that I had a very good crew aboard with me, who appreciated the forecast given. Sometimes you can call off a trip, or not venture to where you wanted to go and the winds don't appear. Damned if you do and damned if you don't! Safety though will always come first

Weather forecasting is not an art, and if truth be known I think it's becoming a very hard science to predict. So here's hoping that someone, somewhere is listening to my plea's for light winds and calm seas.

Set sail recently with a great crew from Clarksfield & District SAC from Manchester way. Small tides but still a steady flow of fish came over the gunwales.  In all a fairly mixed back - dogs and huss and a few other bits 'n' bobs at anchor with small pollack and some nice ballan wrasse on the drift. Tried for a few smoothound but nothing. On of the small boats out at the weekend reported catching a smoothie - so at least we know that they are moving in now. 

I don't think the Bob Marley look turned out quite as Darren wanted it to!!

As for big fish - huss become the mainstay on the inshore grounds for a while now. On the neap tides we are able to hook into the bigger rays (blondes and thornbacks) , as we move into May the smoothound should start to appear.

Close in under the rocks the fishing can be terrific for the sporting angler. Reef pollack, coalfish and ballan wrasse, all up to 4 lb have been showing slowly. Light rods such as sensor tips and coarse feeder rods have given a number of anglers some really exciting sport recently.

St Georges day 2005, had a crew from Nottingham fishing with us, and despite the rather stiff force 4 NE, we managed to hook into a fair number of fish - dogs, whiting, huss and pouting monopolizing the catch. Phil Garner coming up trumps with his first fish of the day and first ever huss weighing in at  8lb 7oz. 

Best bit of news - the 'Porta Potty' has gone and the electric flush loo has finally been installed - all that I ask is that you lay off the curries the night before Yorky!! 

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GO Angling Charter Services, Dalmuir, Chapel Street, Menai Bridge, Anglesey LL59 5HW