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	GO Angling Charter Services WRASSE	Holyhead Marina Anglesey
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	Wrasse fishing can be extremely good fun, either from the rocks or afloat. Wrasse are a very under rated fish, people just pass them over as they are in all honesty inedible. Unless you like green flesh and a mouthful of bones. However the wrasse family is on a par with bass and bream in the fighting stakes. Which is why wrasse fishing on light tackle is a firm favourite of mine.

Off Holyhead you can capture a few different types of wrasse - ballan, cuckoo and corwking with the odd chance of a goldsinny. The wrasse family live amongst the rocks and kelp. Rigs can vary, occasionally you will need to fish 3 hooks above the lead, and on other occasions your hooks will all need to be on a flowing trace.

With either style, your wrasse fishing on a boat will be predominantly on the drift. So be prepared for some tackle loss as the leads or hooks fall foul of the snaggy surroundings. Tackle losses can be minimised by various rotten bottom methods, the best and cheapest of which is to secure the lead to your rig with either a paperclip or an elastic band. If snagged the lead should break free, allowing you to retrieve your rig and possible fish.

Ragworm is the main bait. I have found that around the country that various attractors beads often help to entice the wrasse to your hooks. Depending on where you fish and the surrounding kelp etc the wrasse can be attracted to - yellow's, red's silver or quite often luminous beads. Trial and error with various rig beads will soon help your wrasse fishing improve.

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BAITS

There is only one bait for tackling wrasse - ragworm.

METHOD

Fishing for wrasse over rough ground, most boats will primarily fish on the drift. Therefore you should gently trot your weight along the sea bed., being aware of snags.

More wrasse information here

A little wrasse video - here

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