Report, Teifi

Date - 27/07/08

Met up with Phil Rich on the Teifi for a spot of night fishing for the sewin (sea trout) tonight. It turned out to be one of the darkest nights for a while. Although near perfect conditions, we had little cloud cover, and soon it go cold.

As for the fishing, I managed 3 tiny brown trout/parr, and a few plucks off sewin on wet flies, before missing a few fish on the jambo.

Another blank for both of us on the sewin front!

Report - Delosal

Date - 26/07/08 & 27/06/08

With hardly a breath of wind, and glorious sunshine, we set off from Burry Port harbour mid morning, and headed towards Burry Holmes and the Worm. Our first task was to catch some mackerel for bait......at first they were a bit elusive, but eventually we located pockets of them, and soon had enough for bait (and a few for a BBQ that evening!).


A few joey mackerel were soon on their way to the bottom, and baited feathers soon followed. It wasn't long until the 1st 'doggie' of the day hit the surface, quickly followed by small grey gurnards.

A small starry smoothound also took a liking to a strip of mackerel, but all too quickly it was time to head for home.

The following day I travelled a bit closer to the Worm and was soon into mackerel and gurnards.

1st up was a Tub Gurnard

Followed by a few grey gurnard

And finally a red gurnard

Among the LSD's I did manage o pick out a small huss.

The only action I had on live joey was one bitten in 1/2 by a tope - no bass at all. Will have to look at getting live sandeels for the next trip! Nothing huge caught over the 2 sort sessions, but was nice just to get out in such glorious weather.

Report

Date - 23/07/08

Steve Jones and I fished a private lake this evening and managed to land a few nice wild brownies - averaging about 8 - 9 inches. Great sport on fly gear, and all fish returned apart from one awkwardly hooked fish, which was kept for tea.

Report, Teifi

Date - 17/07/08
A trip up Pentrecwrt after work, nothing caught - nothing to report!

Report, Delosal

Date - 13/07/08

Just a quick spin to get rid of some of the growth on the bottom of the boat.

Only a few mackerel caught in a short session.

Report, Gwendraeth Fach

Date - 10/07/08

After torrential rain yesterday, and the showers today - the Gwendraeth Fach was running high and coloured, but following reports of a few fish, I decided to give it a quick go.

First cast with a single worm, resulted in a brown trout of about 1/2 lb.

This fish was followed by another 6 or 7 brownies, and a brace of eels (the smallest I've ever seen!). A quick change of venue and after a dozen or so unproductive casts with a mepp, I put on a small fire tiger rapala and immediately hooked a sewin of around 2lb, which took practically under my feet! After a quick thrash - the fish came off! 2nd one in 3 days!

I fished the rapala through the pool for another 10 - 15 minutes without success.

The fish finally appear to have arrived.

Report - River Towy

Date - 08/07/08.

With the river level dropping nicely after the weekends rain, I left work, and headed straight to the Towy. Stopped off for 1/2 hr on the pumphouse stretch, spun a black 'flying c' with no luck.

Back in the car, I headed to the top Halfway stretch, and spun (what seemed perfect water) for over an hour, with only one missed schoolie to show. It went for a rapala, and was on for a matter of seconds! I did trott worms through a few pools & runs, without a touch.

I heard that a few fish (all schoolies) had come out of the stretch today, and also saw a grilse of around 4 - 5lb come off the opposite bank to a flying c lure. Reports that there are plenty of fish in the Cothi to fire tiger rapala & worms.

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Report - Mexico

Date - 26/07/08


Whilst on holiday in Mexico, I took the time out to join an American guy I had met on one of our previous excursions for an afternoon afloat.

The 'marina'!

A similar boat.

We decided to split the 4 hour trip into two 2 hour slots. The first was to be spent trolling for barracuda, sailfish, tuna, mackerel etc. This spell proved to be unproductive with only 2 hits in this time.

We then tried 'bottom' fishing for a while, which resulted in a wide variety of fish, which unfortunately I do not know what they are.

Trigger fish

Various fish

Rainbow runner?

As with all fishing the trip was over far too quickly, but a very pleasant one (if lumpy at times!).