To be honest Coastman I could of done with a rifle myself at Ty Croes as shall be explained...
Arrived at Ty Croes to see a dozen vehicles parked up, but pressed on regardless, and started fishing around 15:45 to the area past the small hut on the right (Trwyn Euphrates).
This was after getting grief off of a couple of scousers that appeared to want the entire cliff to themselves. As anyone that has fished where I was will tell you there is a ledge that is accessable for 4 hrs either side of low water, however the 2 mickey mousers decided that the best way was to fish on the ledge above it.
The low water ledge can accommodate 4, the area above 2/3 so they were not best pleased when I set up my plugging rod with a 2-up 1-down scratching rig loaded with rag for Pollack/Coalies.
One of them nearly had a heart attack berating me about a lack of common sense, as obviously pulling your rig over 20ft width of rock needlessly is the pinnacle of common sense, as is having to climb down 20ft of cliff every time it gets stuck, especially when it got dark. I lived in Liverpool for 5 years and have come to the conclusion Harry Enfields characters do actually represent a minority of the population that live there, obviously they went fishing this weekend!
Anyway, weeded out 2 small Pollack before moving back to the top before the smart twins got too high a blood pressure.
Continued fishing until 20:00 but not a single bite to be had, so went into plan B, Trefor Pier.
Arrived just after 21:00 to find 2 cars parked up and was fishing by 21:30. Plan was to scratch out some fish straight down to save the blank, and put 1 rod out for general species and one out for Huss.
To do this I used the 3 Avis Boomed scratching rig with size 6 hooks I have come to rely on these circumstances. This was loaded with Rag and Lug and dropped straight down.
Multi rod was set up with a 2-up 1-down rig with size 1 vikings, loaded with fish, worm or squid.
Huss Rod was loaded with a 6/0 4/0 pennel pulley rig, loaded with mackerel fillets / mackerel head / squid or a combination of the former.
Was into fish immediately whilst scratching and in 2 hrs had accounted for 1 Codling, 1 Whiting, 2 Sea Scorpions (Bull Heads) and 9 Coalies. None of them in size (as will be seen tomorrow evening when I post the Pics)
The multi rod accounted for the smallest 5 bearded Rockling ever and the Huss rod coughed up a doggy around 23:30. Apart from that other people on the pier were getting sporadic doggys.
Finished at 01:30 after being fishless for 2 hrs.
All in all a good night session after a poor afternoon one. I just hope the chuckle brothers made it off of Ty Croes without incident.
Final Scores 2 Pollack (Ty Croes) 1 Dog, 1 5 Bearded Rockling, 1 Codling, 1 Whiting, 2 Sea Scorpions and 9 Coalies. So 17 fish and 7 species including a new one for the year for me.
How'd you do Tozer?
