Report, Garnffrwd Trout Fishery, Carmarthenshire

Date - 27/04/08

Steve Jones and I ventured to Garnffrwd for a few hours leisurly flyfishing for an hour or two. A £10 catch and release ticket for both of us and we were fishing with the emphasis on light and small on floating lines. On his second cast Steve was into a fish on a hares ear, and as I made my way to get the net, another trout took my stick fly, and the race was on to see who would land their fish first! Both fish were landed, released and were in the 2lb range.

Several more fish followed to, olive cdc buzzer, shipmans buzzer, and one on a light coloured dry fly. The fish seemed to be feeding hard but were quite selective on the size of fly rather than pattern, with anything fished in the top couple of inches producing fish. I did manage to land a fish of around 4lb which gave a cracking account of itself.

Total tally was 8 fish in just under 3 hours.

Report, Ogmore Deeps

Date - 22/04/08
Venue - Ogmore Deeps

Finished work early and headed East. The deeps were pretty quiet when I got there, but there were a few anglers there. I was hoping for an early ray, but ended up being plagued by dogfish. They pounced on every sandeel cast in, and with another rod out scratching for a while, plenty of whiting (some 1lb+) to other fish bait, I was kept busy for a couple of hours. A change of tactics to try for a conger, failed miserably. The tide turned and I left for home at 9pm.

Report, Cei Bach Beach, Ceredigion

Date - 20/04/08
Venue - Cei Bach Beach

Hoping for a huss to get the species hunt, well and truly underway for 2008, after a slow start (mainly due to the weather!), I headed to Ceredigion, for a few hours on Cei Bach.

On the second cast of the day, I managed to land the 1st turbot of '08, not a monster but still a turbot. A few more followed throughout the session, but nothing else was playing game! Not even a dogfish!