BAITS
Black lug tipped with blow and with a strip of squid bound around the lug is the top cod bait, but also takes the ray. The conger show a preference for rag baits tipped with squid or just a whole squid. Tip lug with fish for the whiting.

TACKLE AND TACTICS
A top mark for January through to the end of February. This is a spring tide low water mark fishing roughly two and half hours down the ebb and only for the first one and half hours of the flood. Watch the tide carefully on the flood and make sure you get back around the point before the water hits the point itself otherwise you will get cut off. It's a long walk from the car park, so carry minimum tackle.

It�s a rough ground mark casting over big boulders with patchy cleaner ground at longer range. Ideally fish just to left of the point of rocks and in to the bay for about 100-yards to get the best of the fishing. Due to the coloured water the mark fishes well by day, but inevitably better at night.

Fish heavy with a stiff 5-6oz beachcaster and a reel loaded with 25lb to 30lb line and a 60lb shock leader. The top rig is a pulley rig made from 60lb mono with a weak link system to the grip lead and using a double hook 4/0 pennel rig. Try longer casts to start, but if you get no bites start to reduce your distance until you find the fish. It can pay to carry a reel loaded with lighter 20lb line to get more distance, which occasionally can be an advantage here.

LOCATION
On the M4 come off at J33 taking the A4232 then the A38 for Cowbridge. As you leave Cowbridge take a left turn on to the B4270 in to Llantwit Major. Go through the village following the signs for Llantwit Major Beach. Park above the beach in the car park and head east along the beach until you come to Stout Point which is an obvious high outcrop of rock. Fish on the left side. Never leave valuables in your car here.

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