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May & June - Lot's more fish |
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There haven’t been many updates for a while now; simply owing to the weather gods looking down on us (barring the odd NW gale), and Poseidon helping My Way out with some real quality fishing on most of our expeditions from Holyhead.
Since my last few paragraphs that resembled a report in mid May, we have had some excellent fishing. Species caught have included plenty of ballans and cuckoo wrasse, good old lesser spotted dogfish, dabs, whiting, codling, small ling (the best went 6lb and tasted great), loads of strap conger, with a few decent and the best reef conger so far going 32lb.
The staple all year round bull huss, has again not disappointed with plenty of big fish testing the rods and terminal tackle in use. |
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Drifting for wrasse and pollack is a favourite of mine, with the ballans touching 3lb and to date our best inshore pollack has topped the scales at 8lb with plenty of fish in the 1-3lb bracket keeping our anglers active.
 
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| Main event of late though has been the smuts. Regular as clockwork the smoothound have appeared in recent years during the 3rd week of May, this year being no exception when on the 15th local anglers Nathan from Llandudno and Dils from Llanberis hooked into common hounds of 15lb 9oz and 14lb 3oz respectively. Therefore over the last five weeks we have given a few hours during
most trips to target the hard fighting hounds, I’m glad to say we have had some excellent results |
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All together we have landed over 100 double figure fish in the past 5 weeks, with many more in the 5-9lb range, our smallest hound this year went around 4lb – which was quickly unhooked and returned to the sea with a look of shame by …………………. no that would be cruel wouldn’t it Neil!!
Our concentrated efforts in smoothound fishing paid off for Wigan based Hindley Hare and Hound SAC Member Brian Taylor who landed a starry smoothound of 25lb 6oz, which smashed the current WFSA record for a starry, which has stood for a few years at just over 23lb
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Offshore we have seen, rays, congers some early tope to 30lb and also some excellent spurdog fishing still. Sadly not in the plague proportions that thrilled anglers many years ago, but enough to allow us to target them. Last April Trevor Lockwood from Warrington Sea Anglers broke the current WFSA record of 17lb 15oz with a great fish of 18lb, this triumph though was short lived when a fortnight later
James Coffet from Sefton Sea Anglers fought and landed a big female spurdog of 19lb. |
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So that was 2 record breaks on the spurs in as many weeks, with the seas warming up that I thought was our lot until later winter time.
How wrong I was, on the 08th June Manchester angler Damon Brierly eclipsed the potential record of 19lb by landing a fish of 19lb 2oz. Will the 20lb seen sometimes off the Scottish coasts venture down to our North Wales waters, only time will tell. |
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A quick point for everyone reading is that the WFSA changed the rules a few years ago for record fish. You no longer have to kill the fish and weigh ashore for a record claim. You need only take plenty of photographs against a relatively sized object and as many measurements as possible. After submitting your claim to the WFSA, it will be heard by the Executive committee who will
either except or decline your stake for a record depending on the evidence produced.
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That’s enough for now – hopefully the next report will not take as long. But if it does, you’ll know that we’re out there catching quality fish and topping up the suntan.
Let’s see what the next few months bring My Way
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