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We were joined on a Sunday by My Way regulars
from The Wirral, this report requires a page of its own to be
honest, but these photos should give you a very good idea of what
went on ....
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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. |
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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.
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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.
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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!!!!!!!!!
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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. |
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| 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!
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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
The Islands of Western Britain. |
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