Anchoring just out of Trearddur Bay we were soon
into an array of late winter and early spring fishing from Holyhead.
Dogfish, whiting and codling making up the vast majority of catches with
many rigs reeling in double and triple shots, mixed in with these we
also had pout, poor cod and numerous small huss.
One angler even managing to land a triple shot of 3
small huss that had the 2 match anglers ‘cooing and awwing’ like kids in
a sweet shop. Huss are usually worth far more points of the common
dogfish and to catch them 3 a time, certainly good going.
This trend of fishing continued into our second
mark, nothing to set the world alight but a steady stream of fish to
keep everyone happy on a day where dusting down the fishing tackle was
more the priority. Lunch today was the famous My Way chillie.
With Geoff having his 21st birthday
(yeah right) another angler, Tony had brought a selection of cakes along
to have after lunch with a cuppa.
To end the day we once again decided to try our
luck on the drift, this time we were rewarded with pollack, coalfish and
also some early herring. We don’t tend to see too many herring around
Holyhead when on the drift and those we do see tend to be a little later
– so it was certainly nice to see some coming to the boat.
We ended the day with 9 species, we had hoped to
break the double figures for an early spring outing by giving Arthur the
chance to land our 10th specie … sadly he never proved to be
the dab hand at it!
