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North Wales, The Llyn & Anglesey 2014
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This thread hasn't had any pictures for a while... heres a quick snap from my last trip out with Daf.
A massive brown crab, blue lobster, black lobster, some mullet and most exciting of all, a cuttlefish - quite a rare one for North Wales!
I'd been fishing since 7am, met up with Daf in the afternoon - I'd fished a new area in the morning (quite well known to many on here), quite shallow and weedy - the viz was bad and although there were a lot of small bass about there was nothing takable - no mullet, which surprised me.
Daf and I took the boat out to deeper water in the afternoon and fished some of our favourite spots 1.5 km or so offshore - there were no fish but plenty of crustaceans about - I ditched the gun and headed off with the crab hook - we soon had an amazing blue lobster in the bag, a PB for both of us as it was a team effort.
The ground varied between gravel, sand and low rocks - the current was running like mad so it was hard work to keep in the right spot - the viz was bad and depth a little deeper than comfortable considering the current. On one drop, I can across a funny hovering rock, it took me a couple of seconds to realise it was a cuttle - as I've never seen one before - armed only with a crab hook, I didn't fancy my chances - fortunately when I surfaced, Daf was close by so we went down together to hunt the barren seabed for the cuttle which had legged it. We found it after 40 seconds or so and Daf gave it the steel - when we surfaced, I grabbed it and pointed it at Daf's face, hoping it would give him a face full of ink but no joy
We dived a few more spots and ended up in the shallows looking for mullet and bass - the viz was under a meter but I still managed a nice mullet (never blank ) - we finished the dive in some deeeeep water off the Rock, looking for Bream - really good fun tandem dives but a complete ghost town down there - although I did find a nice golf ball.
Maybe worth mentioning - in a total of around 9 hours in the water, I saw one sand eel. Just ONE.
A massive brown crab, blue lobster, black lobster, some mullet and most exciting of all, a cuttlefish - quite a rare one for North Wales!
I'd been fishing since 7am, met up with Daf in the afternoon - I'd fished a new area in the morning (quite well known to many on here), quite shallow and weedy - the viz was bad and although there were a lot of small bass about there was nothing takable - no mullet, which surprised me.
Daf and I took the boat out to deeper water in the afternoon and fished some of our favourite spots 1.5 km or so offshore - there were no fish but plenty of crustaceans about - I ditched the gun and headed off with the crab hook - we soon had an amazing blue lobster in the bag, a PB for both of us as it was a team effort.
The ground varied between gravel, sand and low rocks - the current was running like mad so it was hard work to keep in the right spot - the viz was bad and depth a little deeper than comfortable considering the current. On one drop, I can across a funny hovering rock, it took me a couple of seconds to realise it was a cuttle - as I've never seen one before - armed only with a crab hook, I didn't fancy my chances - fortunately when I surfaced, Daf was close by so we went down together to hunt the barren seabed for the cuttle which had legged it. We found it after 40 seconds or so and Daf gave it the steel - when we surfaced, I grabbed it and pointed it at Daf's face, hoping it would give him a face full of ink but no joy
We dived a few more spots and ended up in the shallows looking for mullet and bass - the viz was under a meter but I still managed a nice mullet (never blank
) - we finished the dive in some deeeeep water off the Rock, looking for Bream - really good fun tandem dives but a complete ghost town down there - although I did find a nice golf ball.Maybe worth mentioning - in a total of around 9 hours in the water, I saw one sand eel. Just ONE.
I really don't know where to suggest abersoch cam is down ty coch is looking good but its hard to tell vis stay away from beeches go deep south and you may find some thing where the tides have replaced dirty water with fresh clearer water its calmed down lots in the last 24 hrs.let us know how you get on.it looks like the first 50 m is crap may be much better out a bit.Ive come home now look at the flippin weather !!!!!ahhhh
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Got out yesterday, vis was terrible, but the wind had gotten up by the time i got in. Couldn't see the elastic by the time I got in. Had a hunt around for crustaceans anyway.
I'll probably look to get a session in on Friday down the Peninsular. Got the day off.
I'll probably look to get a session in on Friday down the Peninsular. Got the day off.
Might be down the weekend......
Will have South Coast viz report on Friday night for you all.
Where are you guys going down South? Was in for a surf Tuesday night, zero viz, hopefully it settles for you chaps
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