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Apologies for the late report but due to gardening duties and PC problems I didnt get the chance to post anything over the weekend.
As the title says Ive managed to fit a couple of sessions in since my last report, the first of which was last Thursday night when I made the most of the last of the really calm days to head for Ty Croes to try and bag myself a ray. I also took the opportunity to meet up with a Facebook friend, Paul Jones, who I dont think is a member on WSF but if you are Paul it was nice to meet you at last :thumbs:. Sadly the fishing wasnt up to much and I had to make do with the usual dogs and whiting but Paul showed me how it was done with twice as many fish as me and the only ray of ray of the night, a decent specimen of 5lb 2oz :notworthy, apologies this time for the lack of a picture which is also due to the aforementioned PC problems :nonono:. Some other guys fishing nearby did see a seal make a meal of a good double figure ray but the dogs were obviously finding our baits before the rays had the chance :sad:.
The next session was on Saturday evening / night when a cancelled afternoon in the pub to watch the rugby presented Steve A and myself with an unexpected opportunity to wet a line :yeah:, sadly the south westerly winds prevented us from heading for Ty Croes again so we decided to make the most of a start in daylight to have a wander around a new area for us at Freshwater bay. It didn't take us long to find a fishy looking spot and we were fishing by 5:30, in daylight we stuck to smaller baits catching a few plump little codling and a nice shore pouting of 27cm but as darkness fell we doubled up with a second rod each fishing big baits to try for a conger. Unfortunately our bad luck with the conger this winter continued and apart from a single run to Steve we didn't see hide nor hair of one
. Despite the lack of conger though we weren't bored as a steady stream of conger and the odd small codling kept us busy untill we packed in at a quarter past midnight.
So 2 sessions which didn't quite deliver what was hoped for but which were both very enjoyable with some good sport in great company :fishing:.
As the title says Ive managed to fit a couple of sessions in since my last report, the first of which was last Thursday night when I made the most of the last of the really calm days to head for Ty Croes to try and bag myself a ray. I also took the opportunity to meet up with a Facebook friend, Paul Jones, who I dont think is a member on WSF but if you are Paul it was nice to meet you at last :thumbs:. Sadly the fishing wasnt up to much and I had to make do with the usual dogs and whiting but Paul showed me how it was done with twice as many fish as me and the only ray of ray of the night, a decent specimen of 5lb 2oz :notworthy, apologies this time for the lack of a picture which is also due to the aforementioned PC problems :nonono:. Some other guys fishing nearby did see a seal make a meal of a good double figure ray but the dogs were obviously finding our baits before the rays had the chance :sad:.
The next session was on Saturday evening / night when a cancelled afternoon in the pub to watch the rugby presented Steve A and myself with an unexpected opportunity to wet a line :yeah:, sadly the south westerly winds prevented us from heading for Ty Croes again so we decided to make the most of a start in daylight to have a wander around a new area for us at Freshwater bay. It didn't take us long to find a fishy looking spot and we were fishing by 5:30, in daylight we stuck to smaller baits catching a few plump little codling and a nice shore pouting of 27cm but as darkness fell we doubled up with a second rod each fishing big baits to try for a conger. Unfortunately our bad luck with the conger this winter continued and apart from a single run to Steve we didn't see hide nor hair of one
. Despite the lack of conger though we weren't bored as a steady stream of conger and the odd small codling kept us busy untill we packed in at a quarter past midnight.So 2 sessions which didn't quite deliver what was hoped for but which were both very enjoyable with some good sport in great company :fishing:.
