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With the moon closest to the earth for over 20
years last week helping produce some of the largest spring tides for
a long time, we looked forward to the next set of neap tides that
would allow us to push offshore and see if spring was working its
way to Holyhead in the shape of big huss, spurdog and if lucky a
tope or two.
I know I shouldn’t continually whinge about the
weather, but being such a critical part of a days boat fishing, we
cannot help but moan when things go against us. That said, I should
try to remember that we are still only in March and traditionally it
is not a month known for calm winds and flat seas! So back to the
whinge, similar to the last set of neap tides, the wind gods kicked
up a stinker for the vast majority of the neaps just gone,
restricting our movements on all but one of the days to marks
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Inshore the fishing was once again consistent,
with a variety of fish coming over the gunnels of My Way. Most marks
consisted of numerous dogfish, small codling and whiting. Other
marks also gave us numerous small and also large bull huss along
with small ling, sea scorpions and also a few nice plaice once
again. The thornbacks have continued close inshore along Holyhead
Bay, nothing out of this world but acceptable at around 6lb average.
On our first deep water anchor for 2011, 26th
March, just at the edge of Holyhead deep, we only managed an hours
fishing, thanks to the strong 7mph wind slamming into the boat! Ok
it was a little more, it was actually 18mph gusting over 20mph, so
we didn’t hang about too long and as soon as the tide showed signs
of turning we upped anchor and retreated into the bay. For our
efforts, we were though rewarded with a few huss, dogfish and 1
spurdog, we did lose a few other big fish – spurs or huss I cannot
say. |
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