With wind, snow and freezing temperatures, topped
off with a NE force 10 causing havoc in Holyhead, 2010 started in epic
fashion, with little chance of indulging in our sport of catching
monsters of the deeps! My Way came out of the Water mid January until
the start of March, for some much needed TLC following a hectic 2009.
Launching early March our fishing adventures
could be best described as up and down. Many days would see a fair
number of fish come aboard, and others not so many – the only
consistency being the elusiveness of anything touching double figures
on the scales. With a better outlook for the month to come, hopes were
high.
Fortunately April saw the change in our weather
fortunes as more settled weather and high pressure spells nestled over
the UK and treated us all to calmer fortunes.
This time of year we tend to go on the look out
for big bull huss, spring spurdog and if lucky one or two small tope
that often run with the spurdog packs.
Northern marks at the edge of Holyhead Deeps were
not to let us down as our first jolly early April returned numerous
double figure huss and spurdog to 15lb. Sadly no tope on this day, but
being a good 6weeks before our general run started, we were not to
down hearted. Approaching North stack on our way out, we noticed some
dolphins playing in the water – deciding to take a slight detour we
went to hae a look and were rewarded with over half an hours
excitement simply watching a pod of over 100 bottle nosed dolphins
playing and feeding in the spring sunshine. You can watch a short
video here ...
Dolphins
The following day a slight change in actual
mark we fished, gave us the huss, spurdog and this time the tope
we had hoped for, weighing in at 22lb and 23lb for Milnrow Sea
Anglers Ken and Dennis. During the trip we reached a good 12
species aboard My Way including pollack, coalie, ballan, cuckoo, a
good start to our 2010 adventures.
Barring a few trips when the wind gods wanted
to dampen our ever increasing enthusiasm for 2010’s fishing
exploits big huss, spurdogs and even more 20lb+tope was how April
continued. Inshore the drifting has improved almost daily with
better Pollack and coalies moving in to populate the rocks and
ledges surrounding Holyhead bay. The wrasse are still playing hard
to get, but some nice ballans and cuckoos have started to make an
appearance on this years guest list.
When the weather has hampered our days out
and we have been forced inshore, there have been plenty of fish
around in the form of dogfish, whiting, small codling, dabs, small
huss and a few thornbacks – nothing to really get an IGFA world
record, but battled on light tackle followed by a sausage buttie
and cup of tea, always makes for a fun filled trip.
With our new
Lowrance HDS 8 Structure Scan
unit due for installation in the next couple weeks, things are
looking exciting for the year ahead. Check out the video on the
left for a little more information.
As we utilise the many
benefits of Structure Scan, we'll be adding a 'Lowrance Blog' to
the website full of information and screen shots from our fishing
adventures throughout 2010.
