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Only last month I was praising weather, for the last couple years June has been a windy and wet affair but this year warm settled seas have seen us sail regular with high hopes for the following months.

In typical fashion, good old British Summertime kicked in during July, just as the kids break form school and many anglers look forward to the summer days afloat. Wet, windy and to quote from a radio station I was listening to recently - typical April weather'.

Un deterred we have set sail on many occasion in search of numerous species including last years elusive tope.

Tope fishing has been a hard push the last couple years with the weather putting paid to many a trip. Those who sail with us on a regular basis know only too well that small tides and no real winds are required for our Holyhead Deep adventures.

So far we have managed to fish in the deeps on quite a number of occasions with some fairly good results.

The tope have not been big by Holyhead standards, but the number of pack tope averaging 20 - 25lb offer some excellent sport on light gear and also great hopes for the coming weeks, when numbers tend to increase and sizes tend to double and often exceed the 60lb mark.

Whilst on the subject of shark fishing I have had a number of enquiries of late with regards to targeting blues and porbeagles from Holyhead. Sadly at the moment, this is simply not a possibility, but thanks to all those for the calls. Where as we do get the odd visit from a porgie and we have certainly tried on a number of occasions to hook them up they usually appear on very odd occasion, blues are most definitely a very rare site indeed. I could never take you out ..... in the hope! Anglesey has never had a shark fishing industry to speak of, the best shark fishing by far in Welsh waters was always around Cardigan Bay during the 70's & 80's, when UK shark anglers flocked to the ports in search of the big porbeagles. As time has gone by, Milford Haven has moved on to become the best port in Wales and possibly the UK for targeting porgies and blues in reasonable quantities. The catches of both skippers I mention on the right are becoming wide spread as shark fever reaches yet another level in the UK. The links are for 2 exceptionally good boats & knowledgeable skippers that can help connect you with some quality shark fishing, give them a call and best of luck.		The Celtic Wildcat Nick O Sullivan http://www.celticwildcat.com/content.asp
		White Water III Andrew Allsop http://www.whitewatercharters.co.uk/

Returning to our recent catches, all species have a hold on us for different reasons. Wrasse fishing though can offer you adrenalin pumping action and more, basically a much greater chance of success. Whilst afloat the most popular and productive form of fishing for wrasse is on the drift. More often than not the grounds you will be fishing will be relatively close to shore, in shallow waters of below 60ft. By nature of the wrasses habitat, these grounds will be weed covered rocky areas; therefore tackle loss will be inevitable during your quest for these hard fighting species.

But lb for lb, they are offer some of the best sport in UK waters

On the right, Monty and Annie show some good wrasse sport

With plenty of huss, rays, gurnards, dogfish, whiting, codling and many other species coming aboard My Way, hopefully the weather for the next few weeks will settle down for us to enjoy our fishing once again.

	GO Angling Charter Services Holyhead July 09	Holyhead Marina Anglesey
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