Tuesday 26 August 2008
Report, Teifi - LAA
Date - 26/08/08
A quick trip up the Teifi, and the river was running high, and coloured after the constant August rain. The second trot through a pool with a single lob worm, produced my 1st salmon of the season.
A quick trip up the Teifi, and the river was running high, and coloured after the constant August rain. The second trot through a pool with a single lob worm, produced my 1st salmon of the season.
A fresh hen fish of just over 5lb.
She was quickly sent back on her way to continue her journey.
Monday 25 August 2008
Report, Silver Spray
Date - 23/08/08
A planned attempt at the Poole porgies, armed with enough dubby for a week. Unfortunately we failed to tempt one to our baits, but we did manage a few nice tope to over 20lb on the 'spare' rods.
Species caught - mackerel, pout, garfish, tope, scad.
A planned attempt at the Poole porgies, armed with enough dubby for a week. Unfortunately we failed to tempt one to our baits, but we did manage a few nice tope to over 20lb on the 'spare' rods.
Species caught - mackerel, pout, garfish, tope, scad.
Wednesday 20 August 2008
Saturday 16 August 2008
Report, Celtic Wildcat - Shark
Date - 15/08/08
The danglers trip on Celtic Wildcat, left Neyland at 7am sharp for a day's sharking. After filling up on mackerel for bait, and the dubby, we were soon fishing.
To cut a long story short, we managed 14 sharks to teh boat between the 8 of us on board. In that we had 4 porgies (116lb, 87lb, 83lb, & 67lb), and 10 blues (biggest 87lb), and alos dropped 8 or 9 fish. These fish were mainly lost as there was another fish ready for the boat, so had to be played slowly!
I'll let the pictures do the talking.......
I managed a lively blue of 50lb.
Celtic Wildcat Website - CLICK HERE
The danglers trip on Celtic Wildcat, left Neyland at 7am sharp for a day's sharking. After filling up on mackerel for bait, and the dubby, we were soon fishing.
To cut a long story short, we managed 14 sharks to teh boat between the 8 of us on board. In that we had 4 porgies (116lb, 87lb, 83lb, & 67lb), and 10 blues (biggest 87lb), and alos dropped 8 or 9 fish. These fish were mainly lost as there was another fish ready for the boat, so had to be played slowly!
I'll let the pictures do the talking.......
I managed a lively blue of 50lb.
Celtic Wildcat Website - CLICK HERE
Tuesday 12 August 2008
Report, Silver Spray - Alderney
Date - 09, 10 & 11/08/08
Day 1
A 6am start from Poole to try to miss the worst of the strong winds forecast, meant leaving the house at around 1am for the drive down from West Wales. We set sail promptly with a group of anglers from Northampton & District Sea Angling Club were aboard Silver Spray for 3 days in Alderney. With 3 hours of reasonable conditions behind us the last hour or so freshened up and got a bit snotty, but soon the guy's were tackled up and bringing mackerel aboard. With the strong south westerly winds (force 7), we were resticted to fishing grounds to the north of the island.
On the drift over rough ground, some nice reef pollack (to around 4lb) were coming aboard to jelly worms, hokki's and sandeel imitations. As soon as the tide eased, we stopped drifting and anchored up over a patch of mixed ground, and sent some baited hooks over the side. Within minutes, some decent black bream, large scad (horse mackerel), ballan wrasse, and more pollack fell for the bait. Amongst the smaller stuff, one of the lads managed a cracking 22lb blonde ray.
Day 1
A 6am start from Poole to try to miss the worst of the strong winds forecast, meant leaving the house at around 1am for the drive down from West Wales. We set sail promptly with a group of anglers from Northampton & District Sea Angling Club were aboard Silver Spray for 3 days in Alderney. With 3 hours of reasonable conditions behind us the last hour or so freshened up and got a bit snotty, but soon the guy's were tackled up and bringing mackerel aboard. With the strong south westerly winds (force 7), we were resticted to fishing grounds to the north of the island.
On the drift over rough ground, some nice reef pollack (to around 4lb) were coming aboard to jelly worms, hokki's and sandeel imitations. As soon as the tide eased, we stopped drifting and anchored up over a patch of mixed ground, and sent some baited hooks over the side. Within minutes, some decent black bream, large scad (horse mackerel), ballan wrasse, and more pollack fell for the bait. Amongst the smaller stuff, one of the lads managed a cracking 22lb blonde ray.
Day 2
With the wind increasing overnight, we were again restricted to fishing the same grounds as the previous day. The script was basically the same, with nice bream to around the 3lb mark coming out, with the addition of a few eels, up to 20lb +. With large swells, we called it a day at around 5pm and headed to Braye Harbour.
Day 3
We woke to a slight drop in wind speed, but still a stiff breeze and large groundswells from the previous days wind. Soon we were on our way to one of Andy's cod marks, surfing the large waves with the wind at our tails. Once at the cod grounds, they seemed to have dissappeared (or at least the guy's could not catch any!), so we decided to anchor up on one of the small wrecks in the vacinity.
Black bream made an immediate appearance taking feathers baited with mackerel strips, giving excellent accounts for themselves in 180ft of water. Amongst the bream were the obligatory pout, scad, mackerel, and 5 red sea bream. The 1st I'd ever seen. On the heavier gear, the guys caught tope to 20lb+, and conger, with Mick boating a monster.
Red Bream
With the beginning of the flood, we decided to have another crack at the cod, and we steamed over an area with a lot of marking, soon our shads (fished on portland rigs), were engulfed by cod. The biggest one went around 8lb.
All in all - the wether took it's toll again, but some of the fishing was excellent, with a superb stamp of fish. Roll on some settled weather!!!!!Species caught on the boat during the 3 days -
mackerel, scad, blonde ray, conger, cod, bass, pouting, poor cod, red gurnard, red sea bream, black sea bream, ballan wrasse, tope, pollack.
Wednesday 6 August 2008
Report, Garnffrwd
Date - 05/08/08.
With the heavy rain writing off a trip up the Teifi, Steve Jones and I headed to Garnffrwd after work for a catch & release ticket. With the rain easing, our hopes were raised by seeing the wind drop and a few fish rising.
It started off slow, and after spotting a few caddis scuttling across the lake, I changed over to an imitation that would create a wake. It immediately worked with practically a follow or swirl at the fly, every cast. Eventually one stuck, and a rainbow of around 2lb was photographed and released.
The wind dropped and the lake went dead calm and devoid of fish! That was until around 9pm, when the fish finally came on the feed in huge numbers, but again were very selective. I managed one on a diawlbach, and that was that. Another frustrating night!
More rain today and an attroicious forecast for the forseable future - not looking good!
With the heavy rain writing off a trip up the Teifi, Steve Jones and I headed to Garnffrwd after work for a catch & release ticket. With the rain easing, our hopes were raised by seeing the wind drop and a few fish rising.
It started off slow, and after spotting a few caddis scuttling across the lake, I changed over to an imitation that would create a wake. It immediately worked with practically a follow or swirl at the fly, every cast. Eventually one stuck, and a rainbow of around 2lb was photographed and released.
The wind dropped and the lake went dead calm and devoid of fish! That was until around 9pm, when the fish finally came on the feed in huge numbers, but again were very selective. I managed one on a diawlbach, and that was that. Another frustrating night!
More rain today and an attroicious forecast for the forseable future - not looking good!
Monday 4 August 2008
Report, Teifi
Date 29/07/08 & 31/07/08
Fished the Teifi on the 29th and managed a small sewin on a worm, before dark, then lost a schoolie 1st cast on the fly after dark, and another fish of 3.5lb (or so) on my 3rd cast. Strangely the river seemed to go dead after that, and the rain moved in.
Two days later, the river had risen following the rain the day before. A brace of small trout on worm were the only bit of action I had all evening. River was unsuitable for the fly.
Fished the Teifi on the 29th and managed a small sewin on a worm, before dark, then lost a schoolie 1st cast on the fly after dark, and another fish of 3.5lb (or so) on my 3rd cast. Strangely the river seemed to go dead after that, and the rain moved in.
Two days later, the river had risen following the rain the day before. A brace of small trout on worm were the only bit of action I had all evening. River was unsuitable for the fly.
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