Hobbs Point, Pembrokeshire

BAITS
The conger take mackerel or whole squid, though a fresh poor cod or whiting is the ultimate bait cut flapper style. Bass and flounder take either crab or ragworm. Ragworm tipped with mackerel or squid is a good combination for the dabs and whiting.

TACKLE AND TACTICS
The ground can be rough in places and there are old wrecks and wreckage littered throughout the area, so expect heavy tackle loss. Most anglers fish 25 to 30lb line straight through using pulley rigs made from 100lb mono and finished with a size 6/0 to 8/0 hook for the big eels. Drop the hook size to 4/0 and pulley rig line to 60lbs for the bass. Use a weak link system to the lead to minimise rigs and fish being lost.

Night sessions produce the best of the conger fishing with the hour before low and the first two hours of the new flood during neap tides by far the best period. Conger can also be caught during high water slack. The bass like some run in the tide and tend show as the early flood starts to push through, also just as the ebb tide gets underway. The best of the bass fishing is in September and October.

There are small areas of cleaner ground, mainly sand patches that hold the flounder, whiting and dabs. Once located, fish these with two-hook clipped down rigs, the lowest hook trace tight behind the lead with size 1 Aberdeen hooks. Codling also show during the winter time

LOCATION
In Pembroke take the A4139 for Pembroke Dock turning left on to London Road at the A477 junction staying on the A4139. Straight over the next roundabout and at the second roundabout take the third exit for Hobbs Point. There is parking and toilets by the boat slipway.