Post by Mumbles Motor Boat Fishing Cl on Oct 19, 2015 16:55:50 GMT 1
With dropping tides and variable wind forecasts it didn't make it easy to formulate a plan for the fishing trip. I didn't really fancy a trip chasing bass, even though there are plenty about the times of the tide would have meant the day being a little broken up.
I'd been ask recently about a trip looking for a few blonde rays, a species I enjoy fishing for. As the forecast was good for heading up east and we'd get a lot of shelter off the land, I put my name down to take an Oystercat fishing trip on Sunday (18 October 2015) up to the Nash Sandbank then around to Aberthaw.
Its fair to say this trip was 'not well supported by the membership' come Sunday morning we only had 3 anglers down to go. In preparation for the trip, Saturday evening was spent doing the maths for a couple of different options as a trip of that distance split between 3 is pretty expensive.
Rays were to be the target as Mal needed a blonde for his species hunts and Pete had never caught a ray, and I've been promising him a ray for ages.
At 7:45am we met on-board and disused our options:
Option 1 Stick with the Plan - Nash and Aberthaw £££
Option 2 Just go to Nash ££
Option 3 Head to the Scarweather ££
Option 4 - the super saver option, just go to the Mixon and wrecks in the bay £.
Initially, it was decided we'd do option 3 and just sit on the Scarweather bank with a chance of catching a blonde, but more likely just small eyes. By the time we'd reached the locks the others wanted to head to the Nash instead to give a better chance of a blonde ray or two.
The trip up Nash was lovely, sea was flat, passed a pod of feeding porpoises, off Porthcawl, and within the hour we were anchored up on the Nash Bank fishing. We stayed here for a few hours, but the dogs were relentless!!
We did manage a few Small eyed rays, bullhuss and a little conger, but Pete still hadn't had a ray and Mal hadn't had a blonde.
After lunch we had a chat, as we didn't have too much water left under us, we decided to get the anchor up and go up to Aberthaw. The move was definitely worth it, within 10mins of us settling on the anchor I landed the first blonde of the day followed by a steady stream of blondes to 11lb, congers to 23lb, bullhuss to 6lb and a lone Cod of 5lb.
With the evening drawing in we got the anchor up around 5:30pm, after cleaning down etc we were away from the boat around 7:30pm. As I expected we'd not end up on the Scarweather I didn't bother picking up worm bait, I think we would have had a few more codling if we'd all taken worm! Next time.
I'd been ask recently about a trip looking for a few blonde rays, a species I enjoy fishing for. As the forecast was good for heading up east and we'd get a lot of shelter off the land, I put my name down to take an Oystercat fishing trip on Sunday (18 October 2015) up to the Nash Sandbank then around to Aberthaw.
Its fair to say this trip was 'not well supported by the membership' come Sunday morning we only had 3 anglers down to go. In preparation for the trip, Saturday evening was spent doing the maths for a couple of different options as a trip of that distance split between 3 is pretty expensive.
Rays were to be the target as Mal needed a blonde for his species hunts and Pete had never caught a ray, and I've been promising him a ray for ages.
At 7:45am we met on-board and disused our options:
Option 1 Stick with the Plan - Nash and Aberthaw £££
Option 2 Just go to Nash ££
Option 3 Head to the Scarweather ££
Option 4 - the super saver option, just go to the Mixon and wrecks in the bay £.
Initially, it was decided we'd do option 3 and just sit on the Scarweather bank with a chance of catching a blonde, but more likely just small eyes. By the time we'd reached the locks the others wanted to head to the Nash instead to give a better chance of a blonde ray or two.
The trip up Nash was lovely, sea was flat, passed a pod of feeding porpoises, off Porthcawl, and within the hour we were anchored up on the Nash Bank fishing. We stayed here for a few hours, but the dogs were relentless!!
We did manage a few Small eyed rays, bullhuss and a little conger, but Pete still hadn't had a ray and Mal hadn't had a blonde.
After lunch we had a chat, as we didn't have too much water left under us, we decided to get the anchor up and go up to Aberthaw. The move was definitely worth it, within 10mins of us settling on the anchor I landed the first blonde of the day followed by a steady stream of blondes to 11lb, congers to 23lb, bullhuss to 6lb and a lone Cod of 5lb.
With the evening drawing in we got the anchor up around 5:30pm, after cleaning down etc we were away from the boat around 7:30pm. As I expected we'd not end up on the Scarweather I didn't bother picking up worm bait, I think we would have had a few more codling if we'd all taken worm! Next time.