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    North Wales Another evening on the beach

    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...
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    North Wales Great for the time of year

    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...
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    North Wales A couple of hours at high tide

    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.
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    North Wales Back to the beach

    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...
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    North Wales Back to the beach

    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...
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    North Wales A couple of hours last night

    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...
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    North Wales Evening dog walk

    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...
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    North Wales Nice day afloat

    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 )...
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    North Wales Out on the boat

    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...
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    North Wales A good day out

    Went for a trip out on the boat this afternoon, after a catalog of disasters?. Firstly the alternator on the truck died on the way to porth colmon, launched the boat and 200yds out the engine started making a loud ticking noise, sounded like a tappit sticking, I was gutted, I put my head down...
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    North Wales Inappropriate clothing

    Going down the charity shops in Pwllheli tomorrow, need some winter clothing ?
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    North Wales Criccieth on the ebb

    Went to criccieth beach yesterday to try for some dabs, fished the tide down using mackerel and lug, a few caught but not of any size, lovely day for the time of year.
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    North Wales A couple of sessions

    Went to aberdaron beach on Monday evening to try for a whiting, bait was mackerel, plenty of bites but struggled to hook up with much, dropped hook size to 6 and started catching small coley, only one undersized whiting caught.
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    North Wales A good days fishing

    Decided to put my mountain goat legs on yesterday and take my mate on a sphincter clenching trek to find a spot out of the wind at uwchmynydd. Plenty of mackerel on feathers, Pollock on the float, and doggies on the bottom, nothing of any size but good fun. In the evening we tried the beach for...
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    North Wales A couple of hours afloat

    Had a couple of hours out of Porth ysgaden this afternoon, more mackerel around than this time last year, sizes from joeys to jumbos. It's a big bucket, there is around 30 mackerel in there.
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    North Wales Plenty of pollock

    Had a trip down the lleyn a fortnight ago to service the boat, the weather was lovely so I decided to have a trip out of Porth ysgaden. The intended destination was bardsey sound but halfway there I nearly froze to death, I decided to try for some Pollock with soft plastics at Porth iago, fish...
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