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Mackerel is the bait at the moment, tried worm on the lleyn, nothing, mate had mackerel, fish a chuck.

Went down for another evening on the beach, same tackle, bait and tactics, we were a little late and the tide had passed the feature where we caught the turbot and bass last night, still caught coleys and one decent whiting, if you can get on the beaches at the moment the fishing is better than...

Went to aberdaron beach again late this afternoon, quite a heavy surf pushing in, bait was mackerel fished on stiff link 5 hook flappers ( from wish 😂 ) we caught from the off with a small turbot, a couple of bass and some coleys, we carried on till 8pm but only caught coleys once it went dark...

Cold but clear and sunny

Went to aberdaron beach last night for short session on the last hour of the flood, bait was mackerel on feather strings, we caught coley, whiting and a pollock. Weather was lovely for the time of year.

I had my biggest ever conger on a whiting live bait.

I’ve just landed at the end of the lleyn so hopefully I’ll have a report soon.

Loving the whiting 👍🏻

Well we went down to the beach this evening and it turned out to be a good decision, using mackerel feathers baited with frozen mackerel we had bass, coley and flounder, the flounder and one of the bass were cracking fish, the other two bass, one was a schoolie and the other was around 31/2lb...

Well we went down to the beach this evening and it turned out to be a good decision, using mackerel feathers baited with frozen mackerel we had bass, coley and flounder, the flounder and one of the bass were cracking fish, the other two bass, one was a schoolie and the other was around 31/2lb...

Went down aberdaron beach last night for the last two hours of the tide, I had already checked it out for weed in the afternoon and it was surprisingly clear. Tackle was mackerel feathers with the tinsel removed and 5oz breakaway leads, bait was rag and mackerel. Ordinary rigs would have been...

Took the rod with me when we walked the dogs on the beach yesterday evening, I clipped on a 40g metal as I wanted to get past the swell which had quite a bit of weed in it, after half a dozen cast’s I got a schoolie, three cast’s later the rod was nearly ripped out of my hands but the culprit...

After checking my boat and trailer out yesterday after their refit, with a test launch and a couple of hours mackerel fishing from porth colmon, for three mackerel ?, I decided today to tramp on down to bardsey for a proper session, load’s of pollock from the off, three codling, ( one a keeper )...

Came back today ?, back in the middle of September ??

Had a trip down to bardsey sound today, lots of sea fog on the north side of the lleyn but bardsey was clear, lots of fish from the start with some nice pollock nudging double figures, several nice Ballan wrass,, codling, cuckoo wrass and mackerel. I wanted to spend a few hours on the tripod’s...