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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Tuesday 17 September 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Species Rich Mumbles Belle
Went out today & had a very good day, catching small tope, small huss, growlers, plaice, sole, dabs, red mullet, red gurnard, tub gurnard, grey gurnard, dragonet, bass, bream quite a little species hunt but we never managed a trigger fish which was our "target species".
The weather was like summer & my face & bald spot caught the sun, I will feel that now when I go in the shower.
Skipper Vic
Yes a good day indeed, Vic. Not to mention the lack of lunatic fish. Great when a cunning plan shows results. Allan Walters
Bloody marvellous, up the Barmy Army. Keith James
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 14 September 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Today’s Lundy trip started a little
bumpier than expected, 2 hrs after leaving Swansea, we arrived at the
island a little more shaken than stirred. After settling down in some
quiet water to have a cuppa and sausage sandwich we started hitting the
more productive reefs, finding reasonable numbers of pollack (mostly
small), ballen wrasse, cuckoo wrasse, codling, scad and mackerel.
A
little while after lunch we picked up some launce and mackerel then
headed for a few bass, which we found in ok numbers along with a few
more pollack and loads of monster scad!
The weather came perfect by the end of the day, as forecast! A very long, but enjoyable day!
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Friday 13 September 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
It's got teeth!
Will Walker assisted by Phil Cryer, with a big old huss he caught today
on Belle, along with small tope, smoothounds, growlers, pouting,
pollack, red mullet, tub gurnard, red gurnard, mackerel, scad, dabs,
bass.
Great weather but I forgot to take my 10" tablet with the Navionics
App, so I was stuck with the "house" plotter which is like an AA map
compared to the Navionics. However it put us close enough to get a nice
selection of species with the exception of bream (which I think will
have largely left by now).
So we will need a brand new "cunning plan" for Tuesday seeing as bream
are off the menu, & whiting haven't come on yet, its going to be a
lean month I reckon.
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
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Ouch!! Its got teeth Phil Cryer (left) and Will Walker who caught the big old huss
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Sunday 8 September 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Mumbles Belle" angler Peter James landed his first ever trigger fish this afternoon, a fine specimen of 4.66lb. Caught on the Strombus fishing mark. Well done Pete. Our seaarch for bream was less successful.
The Belle's "Barmy Army" keep soldiering on.
Skipper Viv Lilygreen
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Peter James 4.66lb Trigger Fish
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 7 September 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
A reasonable day on the oystercat today just Colin Albert and I but we still managed to have a tangle that wiped out 3 rods! We stayed fairly local and had ok numbers of bream, a few small tope, huss, red & tub gurnard, pouting, scad, mackerel, a hand full of dogs and loads of small eye rays! In all a lovely day on the water!
Skipper Dean Gifford
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One of many small eyed ray
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Ashley Hayley Boat fishing out of Weymouth
Weekend 31 August - 1 September 2019
Ashley
Haylely went boat fishing out of Weymouth aboard Flamer IV. The
fishing party had a great time on day 1.
Species caught where
mackerel, scad, bass, launce, pouting, smalleyed, undulate, red
gurnard, cuttlefish, black bream & the fish they were all hoping
to catch the turbot.
The
boat and skipper were great and highly recommend a trip out. With the
big tides and the wind being so strong they thought it was going to
struggle but the skipper pulled it out the bag and put them on the
fish.
Ashley
caught mackerel, bream and turbot, but missed out on the trophy for
angler of the day.
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Mike and Ryan Cooze
31 August 2019
No
joy on the lures today so we picked some crab and gave them a go.
Ryan
did well catching 4 bass up to 4lb and he also had a big common
eel,well done son
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Ryan Cooze Bassing it again
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 1 September 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
An
ok day aboard the Oystercat today; we spent the day inshore keeping out
of the swell and fierce tide.
Loads of scad and mackerel including a
few jumbos, red and tub gurnard, dogs, hounds, small tope, thornbacks to
12lb, a few dabs and a dragonette.
Lovely day to be in the water!
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Deand Gifford - 12lb Thornback Ray
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Little and large mackerel Dragonette
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Oystercat Get Into Fishing Trip
Sunday 25 August 2019
Skipper Mark Thomas
The mission of the Club is to get people into fishing and participate in the amazing sports of boating and fishing. So we held a 'Try Fishing Morning' on the Oystercat today to introduce them to the amazing sport of fishing and the excitement of catching fish.
After a few cancelled get into fishing trips due to bad weather, we finally managed to get some young people out on the Cat to have a go at fishing for the 1st time.
With a brief talk on safety and life jackets on, we made way to the middle of Swansea Bay. The sea was nice, flat calm, ideal for the juniors.
On the way out we showed the young ones how to drive the boat and all the electronics .
Once anchored, some one to one lessons on how to bait up hooks and use of the reels they were off. With in minutes they are catching fish. In the two and a half hours we were out, the boys caught loads of dogfish, pin Bream , young Huss and Mackerel.
As you can see by the smiles they had a great session and we hope to see them again as new members.
Only a small turn out this time, but that was due to a Bank holiday and change of dates. We hope to get all the others, that signed up to try out fishing, out there as soon as possible.
Skipper Mark Thomas and all the crew Dean Gifford, Ritchie Pearce and Colin Albert.
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Jon West and juniors |
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Bullhuss this time
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Now I have a mackerel
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Friday 23 August 2019
Skipper John Elvins
With the weather at last settling down and no babies to sit on I (John) thought a trip before the weekend rush worthwhile. A grim wet morning greeted our set off and a stronger that forecast SSW greeted us past the swig.
But with a dozen or so fresh mackerel for baits we ventured to Langland. Conditions improved throughout the day and a bag of bream ended in all taking a brace for tea. One double Huss and very few dogs mean't a reasonable day's fishing was had.
At one time some of us stopped fishing when a shoal of Skad was under the boat and every hook was coming up with one on.
Apologies to Captain Hixon, no photos, as he was hiding up front and I missed the opportunities.
Skipper John E
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Breams for Nigel Davies and Peter Mansell
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Monday 20 August 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Tope, hounds, dogs, gurnard (red & tub), dabs, bass, red mullet. Not an outstanding day but we were kept entertained.
Allan
Walters caught the biggest hound I have ever seenn, I thought it was a
tope. When he hooked it it jumped clear out of the water 4 times like a
marlin, then run to Mumbles then Port Talbot.
Unfortuneately
he blotted his copybook, when measuring George Brincatts'
With the weather at last settling down and no babies to sit on I (John) thought a trip before the weekend rush worthwhile. A grim wet morning greeted our set off and a stronger that forecast SSW greeted us past the swig.
But with a dozen or so fresh mackerel for baits we ventured to Langland. Conditions improved throughout the day and a bag of bream ended in all taking a brace for tea.
One double Huss and very few dogs mean't a reasonable day's fishing was had. At one time some of us stopped fishing when a shoal of Skad was under the boat and every hook was coming up with one on.
Apologies to Captain Hixon, no photo, as he was hiding up front and I missed the opportunities torecord his catches.
Skiper John E
"personal
best" dab, he allowed it to slip out of his hands and fall back into the
sea. Some said it was sour grapes but George took it well (despite the
tears).
We had fun on the Belle, we caught some fish, and we got back safely, so today was a good day for the "Barmy Army".
Skipper Vic reporting
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Members Mike Cooze and Colin Breen
boat fishing out of Plymouth
22 August 2019
Club members Mike Cooze and Colin
Breen, for a change, went wreck fishing on “Sizematters” out of Plymouth.
Mike had 1 ling 19lb and 8 conger eels around 40lb.
Colin had fewer eels but beat Mike on
the ling with a 24lber.
Other anglers on the boat also had some good eels and
ling.
They gave big thanks to skipper Kevin McKie for his
knowledge and for the use of his gear and for the boxes and boxes of fresh iced
mackerel and cuttlefish !!
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Allan Walters
Llangenith Beach - 11 August 2019
A good days fishing for golden
greys at Llangennith, today. Eight gg,s caught, four returned, the heaviest
kept was 2 lbs 9 oz, great fishing. Four school bass also caught and returned.
Allan Walters
From Vic Lilygreen: Great session Allan some very nice gg's there, they do pull
well & are great sport on the kind of light gear you use. Pity no bigger
bass put in an appearance.
Reply from Allan: Yes Vic, they do fight well,
my best day for gig,s , A heavy weight in my box to carry back to the car.
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Monday 5 August 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Yet another poor day at the office.
Went out of an empty lock into an empty Swansea Bay, with swells rolling in from Mumbles Head which kept our nose FIRMLY inside the SWIGG,
Had a look at a couple of spots I had in mind, but at each one I had the "No thank you" look from the anglers, so we headed for the serenety of the Mumbles Moorings. First cast I had a nice fat dab, then somebody else had a small gurnard, then we went down the gearbox with long periods of no bites "Quiet isn't it" said the crew, and I pointed out the whitecaps visible through the islands, as they came off the Mixon Bank & rolled towards Port Talbot.
Well the sun was out and the showers passed us by, we did catch a few fish; dabs, gurnard, mackerel, dogfish, small tope, smoothounds (Allan Walters had his PB) and the banter was good.
We came in as soon as the lock closure allowed and there wasn't much water under us and the sandbanks either side drew lots of attention from the crew who were uncommonly quiet until we got into the safety of the lock.
Another day of few fish, sunshine, mickey-taking, tales of yesteryear, and how it will be different next trip. Well what do you expect for £11 including 2-3 cups of coffee
Skipper Vic
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 3 August 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
The South Easterly wind was a little stronger than expected so
‘Plan A’ was as going to be very uncomfortable. Instead headed for a
bit of shelter, which turned out to be a pretty good alternative.
We
ended the day having had: loads of small bass (30 or so), lots of
mackerel - including some jumbos, scad, a few small eye rays, smooth
hounds, baby tope, a turbot and only a dozen or so dogs.
We had a very comfortable day but ended up bring home all the worm bait intended for bream, can’t complain too much though.
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Small eyed ray for Paul Eaton
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Steve chapman on the bass
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Small eyed ray for Keith Chapman
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Small eyed ray for Steve Chapman
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Monday 29 July 2019
Skipper Vic lilygreen
should have said Nooooooooo!
I knew going out today would be a waste of time & worms, & so it was! A few dogs, a few "lunatics", a few small tope (yes they were they had teeth!) a red gurnard, a bream & a small bass, & nothing else. Plus an easterly wind that increased in strength as the day went on, that made a bad day virtually impossible. We had to "tack" our way from Mumbles to well east of the SWIGG before heading for the Port Mid Fairway Buoy, then tacking again to the Inner Fairway Buoy, poor old Allan Walters was a lather of sweat & I decided that seeing as there was nobody else in the lock he could do his first lock through. He managed very well too he is an essential part of Mumbles Bell's crew now, but his fish finding skills need some honing 
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 28 July 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
The
original plan for today aboard the oystercat was to stay inshore and
target bream, the fish unfortunately had other plans! The first few
hours saw us only have a handful of bream, and a few other odds and
sods, including some small scad and pouting, which were retained.
As
we had a few live baits and bream didn’t want to play, we headed
offshore to try for a few bass, which we found in good numbers, 60 in
the 3 hours or so we fished.
By early afternoon everyone
was starving, so we headed back to find some settled water for some more
general fishing and some grub.
We ended the day with a
dozen bream, around 60 bass, a few red mullet, red and grey gurnard,
pollack, mackerel, scad, pouting, huss, smooth hounds and dogs.
In all, a good day, even if things didn’t go quite to plan.
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Matt Taylor - small smoothhound
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Matt Taylor - fish supper
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 27 July 2019
Skipper Mark Thomas
The
plan today was to try to fish for Tope and Bream, but word was that the
Tope had left. The plan was then changed to just a general fishing day
instead.
The morning started great with a calm sea and
slight swell and a good start on the Bream , as the day progressed the
wind built up and forced us back into the bay to finish.
Catch report - 24 Bream, Red Gurnard, 3 Red Mullet, 3 Codling , Bass , Mackerel and not so many hounds but plenty of dogs.
Cheers Mark Thomas
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Wednesday 24 July 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Big swells, new spot, cunning plan.
The
idea was to fish a new spot midweek when nobody could see where we
were. Well the swells were massive going across Swansea Bay, and not
much better on the way to Langland, but we got there ok. However the
fishing was pants and we did 4hrs without a bream only huss and dogs, so
moved back to the old spot and picked up 2 bream, more dogs, and loads
of pouting.
VHF gave a warning of strong wind coming from
the east after a "flattening" so once it flattened I headed us for
Swansea Bay post haste to avoid a force 6 easterly.
We
intended to fish the Strombus but that was already being fished so we
went to the "muddy stones" and caught an unknown number of small huss
and dogs, until my sanity was tested and we headed home in bright sun and a flat sea.
What happened to the force 6 easterly Milford Haven Coastguard??????
Skipper Vic
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Wednesday 24 July 2019
Skipper John Elvins
Reasonable conditions but a poor day's fishing. With the ever elusive mackerel only showing in in low numbers. We went out to a Tope mark for high tide, they were even more elusive. 2 Huss and a few dogs were all we could find. On the way back Andrew chapman showed the way with a Bass of about 38cm, and that was at last knockings of trip.
Poor days fishing but great conditions.
Skipper John E
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 21 July 2019
Skippers: The 3 Mullets
Fairly last minute trip on the Oystercat today.
Forecast was poor but we were able to get offshore for a few bass on the flood in the morning.
The ebb was spent inshore where we had a red mullet each, a few chunky dabs, mackerel, scad, codling, dogs and more bass.
Weather was a lot kinder than forecast for a change!
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 14 July 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
A
slower trip than yesterday on the Oystercat, fish were less obliging
than the night before - maybe due to the bright-flat calm conditions,
maybe any other of the excuses fishermen have.
We
ended the day with 25 or so bream, 20 small bass, a few small pollack,
codling, mackerel, strap congers, smooth hounds, lots of huss, dogs and a
red mullet.
Conditions were great, if not a little warm.
Lovely day to be on the water!
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 13 July 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Very
productive evening trip aboard the Oystercat. We had good
bream fishing for the first 2.5 hours, having 35 or so, biggest being
a whopping 4lb 2oz to Jason
Dennis,
along with mackerel, scad, dabs, hounds, dogs and Huss to 12lb.
The
next couple of hours were spent drifting for bass, which we found in
good numbers but of fairly small size; we had 25 in 2 hours before
needing to dash for the last lock.
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Saturday 13 July 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Steady
day on Mumbles Belle.
We
had some very nice bream (releasing the large males to tend the
nests), we also had loads of small huss but only 1 biggish one? Once
the tide started to push and the wind got behind it then was
time to head back to the bay, shelter, and dabs. We had a good few
nice dabs and quite a few over ambitious undersized ones.
Once
again I prevailed on Allan Walters to do more than his share of time
on the wheel, and he is increasing in confidence with every trip,
today he even had a masterclass on how to apply a plaster.
A
very enjoyable day with the usual good natured banter, and a few
fish thrown in for good measure.
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Friday 12 July 2019
Skipper John Elvins
With the forecast not quite as good as when trip
first booked we set off across bay to Swig and had about 9 mackerel
when we spotted a lot of bird action on the Mixon. So off we went.
When we got nearer we could see about 30 gannets diving for food and
dolphins rising also . We spent a
good 40 minutes chasing birds but only one mackerel for our trouble.
By then we had turned “the corner” and a steady swell was coming
from the West with a chop from North. So settled for rest of the day to fish
Langland and ledges. No great catch but steady fishing.
2 Thornbacks
5 bass (all returned), 8 bream, some Pollack, Scad, Mackerel, Pout,
Huss, Smoothy and some dogfish.
Paul Canning showed the way to do bass
fishing catching 4 of the 5. best fish. Double figure thorny for Les Chapman.
Fresh air a plenty and tea flowed all day.
SkipperJohn Elvins
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Tuesday 2 July 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Had
a reasonable day on Mumbles Belle today.
Drifted
for plaice initially, we caught 3 (all undersize), a small gurnard,
and then anchored up at our usual dab mark waiting for the tide to
drop, but didn't do as well as normal.
We
moved to Langland to catch the last couple of hours of the ebb and
were heavily attacked by "lunatic fish" and small huss. We
did manage a few of our "target species" (bream) the best
one going 2lb 3ozs. Tried for mackerel on the way back but no luck
although others seemed to be having them. We had another drift in the
bay for plaice waiting for the lock to open but no luck this time,
but we had a good selection of species, and some lovely table fish to
take home.
When
we got back, another boat owner gave us 3 drums of diesel (He had
drained his tank to carry out work on his fuel lines) and decided to
dump his old fuel. Knowing that Mumbles Belle has run on chip fat,
and central heating oil in the past, I grabbed it with both hands,
filtered through the funnel.
That
15Galls will last us the summer. Don't say we aren't doing our bit
for the planet, recycled diesel, bring it on.
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 6 July 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
A very long but enjoyable day aboard the oystercat today.
To avoid the air show traffic, both cars and boats, we left very early and returned late.
In
the 14 hours we were out, we covered a lot of miles but ended the day
having had 140-160 bass to 4lb 8oz mostly 30-42cm, pollack, codling,
smooth hound (on a skerries sandeel!) spotted ray, tub gurnard,
mackerel, scad and dogs.
All fish were released unharmed.
We saw plenty of dolphins, a group of 100s of shearwaters feeding on
bait pushed up by bass and gannets actively feeding everywhere.
Iin all a lovely fishing day out.
Skipper Dean, give him an
Oscar, can smell a Bass from a 10000 paces ,a good day out with close to
200 catches, 2 of 5 lbs and rest returned.
No Spec Savers for Dean.
Till next time.
Bob Christie
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3.6lb Smooth hound Ron Phillips
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John Thorne - 4lb 8oz bass
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Colten Jones not just 1 but 4 small bass
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Tuesday 2 July 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Had a reasonable day on Mumbles Belle today
Drifted for plaice intitially and we caught 3 (all undersize) and a small gurnard. Then anchored up at our usual dab mark waiting for the tide to drop, but didn't do as well as normal.
We moved to Langland to catch the last couple of hours of the ebb and were heavily attacked by "lunatic fish" and small huss. We did manage a few of our "target species" (bream) the best one going 2lb 3ozs.
Tried for mackerel on the way back but no luck although, others seemed to be having them. We had another drift in the bay for plaice waiting for the lock to open but no luck this time, but we had a good selection of species, and some lovely table fish to take home.
When we got back, another boat owner gave us 3 drums of diesel (He had drained his tank to carry out work on his fuel lines) & decided to dump his old fuel. Knowing that Mumbles Belle has run on chip fat, & central heating oil in the past, I grabbed it with both hands, filtered through the funnel that 15galls will last us the summer. Dont say we aren't doing our bit for the planet, recycled diesel, bring it on.
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 29 June 2019
Skipper Mark Thomas
Weather better than expected and no wind. We went straight to
Langland for the bream. Fishing wasn't the best for the last of the ebb
and start of flood, only a couple of bream and a million hounds.
Nigel had psycho fish of a good size 11lb, which destroyed 5 traces and the loss of my new sunglasses grrrrr .
So
off to Oxwich and not much there, best was my thornback. Than back to
Langland for last of flood where we did manage a good catch of bream to
finish the day !
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Smoothhound for Nigel Ellerton
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Wednesday 26 June 2019
Skipper John Elvins
With babysitting suddenly postponed, I was hoping to get on board for Tuesday trip but boat was quite full.
So
with forecast deteriorating I went for a “cheeky trip” on the wed.
Major surprise when reaching the swig to find sea conditions very good,
so set off to fish the flood at Langland.
Not an
exhilarating days fishing, but steady nods of rods all day. Small
codling, pout, gurnard and bream, 5 for the pan and one plate size Dab.
One Huss of 12lb who did not want her picture taken.
Never seen so many small Huss come to the boat, the sea must have been thick with them.
Some mackerel caught but still sparse.
Till next time skipper John E
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Carl Rosser - bream for dinner
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Tuesday 24 June 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Not such a cunning plan!
Eventully found our way to Langland in the fog, but by then the run had died, and we drifted over the anchor rope and the drogue for ages. Picked up "lunatic fish" growlers and huss but not a sign of any bream, when the tide picked up a bit I moved our position hopefully to where we would find some, but not a touch from a bream, more "lunatics" growlers and huss so we abandoned Langland and came back into the bay for dabs. We had a few nice ones but not as many as we normally get. Allan Walters picked up a nice plaice with his last cast to cheer us up.
Good to see "SamBass" and Kerry back after a long ansence (try to be more careful Sam)
Allan brought us back from Mumbles to the lock gates before handing over to me to bring us through, he will soon be confident enough to do it on his own.
Skipper Vic Lilygreen reporting
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Monday 22 June 2019
Skipper John Elvins
Morning trip with a full boat of anglers including 4 new members.
We went for a short trip to see what was around, did a bit of feathering
to start with and had a dozen or so mackerel. Then a bit further and
anchored, caught 6 nice sized bream and a few smaller ones came to look,
Alex Bradshaw seemed to have the knack of letting them drop off the hook
before he could reach them. Saved him getting them off the hook I
suppose.
Quite a few smoothounds and a few Huss were also caught.
Dogfish were there but not a major pest which was a welcome change.
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Steve Chapman - smoothhound
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Greater spotted dogfish (Bull huss) for Richard Cliffe
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Keith Chapman - Smoothhound
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Phil Eastment - Smoothhound |
Smoothhound this time for Richard Cliffe
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Hayden Northey and Phil Easment |
Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Tuesday 18 June 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Whent out to do a bit of crew training. Then dropped the baited hooks. Caught a few undersize fish, plaice, bream and bass. Caught a good size dabs. There were loads of lunatic fish (hounds), some of the biggest I've seen. Also quite a few growlers.
Skipper Vic.
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Monday 10 June 2019
Skipper John Elvins
Took advantage of a small gap in weather for this fishing trip. Not many members on board but enough for a trip.
We had a few mackerel on our way out. So
decided to go Oxwich for tope. No more baitfish to be seen. We anchored 1
hr before high tide. The water from lighthouse down was full of Mayweed
Bloom. We had a couple of runs with John and Phil losing fish at the
boat, but Howard "lucky "Hopkins managed to land 3 to 25lb.
Skipper John Elvins
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Allan Walters boat fishing out of Milford
Sunday 9 June 2019
A superb days fishing today out of Milford aboard the Celtic
Wildcat . Weather was great and plenty of Pollock to 6lbs and a couple
of Codling to 5 lbs. Happy days.
Alian
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Monday 27 May 2019
Skipper John Elvins
Oystercat fishing trip on yet another great Neap tide looking like it was "blown off". I thought I would give it a go if for no other reason than to show how bad it can be just past the SWIG and how nice along the Swansea foreshore. I was not proved wrong.
Thought we were in for a good day with a thornback 3 minutes after dropping anchor. Fishing went downhill from there on. Very few doggies, three small huss some big scad, baby tope, one small bream and a small bass. The wind was by this time above 30 mph, so we came back in at 12.00 noon to fish just off the strombus. Les had a few smoothie to 8lb. Very windy and was not going to be nice once tide turned so back on the 1.30 lock in. Plenty of fresh air and empty pegs but not a great catch.
Skipper John Elvins
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John Elvins - Thornback Ray
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Les Chapman - Smoothhound |
Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 19 May 2019
Skipper John Elvins
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today's Oystercat fishing trip the conditions were good. A big tide
running running down to Langland for our first stop, we had a few bream,
scad, small whiting and a pollack. As the bream were spawning they
were returned unharmed. t was then off to Oxwich for shelter from the
tide run. There we had loads of smoothies to1.5lb, dabs, a few plaice,
one thornback ray. a small bullhuss and plenty of dogs. Some pf the
other boats fishing out there had a few mackerel but not us.
Reasonable day out, dry and comfy all onboard seemed to enjoy the day and fishing.
Skipper John Elvins P,S. been asked to mention that sitting down on to a hot cup of tea is not recommended !!!
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Peter Mansell - Smoothhound |
John Elvins - Smoothhound |
Phill Carroll - Smoothhound
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Phil Bowen = Thornback ray |
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 18 May 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Fairly slow start to today’s wrecking trip to Lundy. We did find a few fish in the end. The catch included pollack up to 8lb 8oz, a ballan wrasse, coalfish and a pouting.
Only saw 2 dolphins all day, one of which was dead and being eaten by gulls. Very little bird life, no seals and just a few porpoise closer to home. Most sad, everywhere seemed a little barren / devoid of life today.
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 12 May 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Poor day on the Oystercat. Only 3 onboard so we did a
bit of prospecting.
Spent the morning and early afternoon drifting for
flat fish, we caugth one plaice, a few dabs, grey gurnard, smooth hound,
mackerel and dogfish.
We came back into the bay in the afternoon where we added a thornback ray and whiting to our day's tally.
Easterly
wind made drifting with the tide very difficult in the morning, but
can’t complain too much as it was gloriously sunny all day.
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John Bevan - just the one plaice
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Sunday 12 May 2019
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Not a bad day today on Mumbles Belle, we caught a few fish for the
pan, & a lot of dogs & smoothhounds that were only good for
tangling our fishing lines. We had some very nice dabs (which Livio
seemed to end up with). I was happy with the boat & the way it
handled, & apart from a backache from not using the proper seat, all
was well.
I look forward to the next one, when we will have more of a
"cunning plan" than we had today, which was very much a shakedown trip
for boat & skipper.
Crewman Nigel (Ellerton) was saddled with most of the driving,
whilst I mingled with the anglers, & pointedly gave much advise on
the many errors in their boat fishing techniques and duties.
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 11 May 2019
Skipper Richie Pearce
Skipper Ritchie Pierce and chief mate Nigel Ellerton took 8
members from Skewn out on the Oystercat
and the weather and sea condition conditions were near perfect.
In the morning session we caught a mixture of species and the usual Mumbles trout topping the list.
Come midday skipper Ritchie looked into his crystal ball, weighed anchor
and repositioned the Oystercat off Langland. To our delight we were rewarded with a catch of 22 bream, the
biggest was 3lb 4 oz. All 22 bream caught were safely
returned.
Nigel Ellerton's Bream Dream record was smashed by Marine Biologist Colton Jones' stunning 3 lb 4 oz Bream.
A big thnak you to Richie and Nigel for their patience, their culinary skills, having a happy ship and giving us a fishing experience is second to none.
Bob Christie reporting.
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Colton Jones - 3lb 40z bream
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Mick Vernau - Thornback Ray
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Steve Absalom dressed to thrill
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 5 May 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Very
very cold. Slow start to the fishing today but came ok in the end. We
had 15-20 small eye ray, 10 or so smooth hound (would have been more if
we had more crab), thornback ray, bull huss, dabs, whiting and lots of
dogs. Only 3 of us on board so lots of space and a nice easy tea round -
needed lots to keep us warm in the chilly northerly breeze.
Skipper Dean Gifford
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Pete Jordan small eyed ray
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Oliver Venus small eyed ray |
Oliver Venus collects another SER
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Smoothhound (Dean) and thornback ray (Pete) |
Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 4 May 2019
Skipper Mark Thomas
With a big tide today the plan was to go to Oxwich wrecks and moorings so as to stay out of the rip. It paid off with a total of 10 species and good quantities.
Nice size dabs, loads of them, pin whiting, pouting, some type of blenny.... I'm sure someone will say which, small eye ray, smoothhound, grey gurnard, quite a few, red gurnard, conger, and of course everyone's favourite dogfish.
Strong wind from Northeast was the only downside but I'm sure everyone will agree it was a lovely day !
Cheers
Skipper Mark Thomas
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Oliver Venus special catch |
Oliver Venus - Grey Gurnard
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Olliver Venus - Blenny thingy |
Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 28 April 2019
Skipper John Elvins
After waiting for the weather to subside a window was showing for a trip at last .
Waited 25 mins for two no show (not good guys) we then went to the piers to see what the sea state was like. Lyn Marie passed us off to Sker point. Not feeling that brave we headed past the Swig and a swell of 5 to 7 feet was running so we dropped anchor about 1/2 mile past Swig.
Not that an exciting day except for those with big baits. 20 plus Huss to 11.5lb, 2 dab and one small Bass. The bass was Paul's first time out and Oliver experienced the huss trying to bite back.
It was claimed that the huss were there due to Peter's diligent attempts to ground bait all day.
Not bad as we heard that Lyn Marie had three people doing the same. Nice to be out lets hope the mackerel turn up this year.
Skipper John Elvins
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Oliver Venus - snappy huss
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Paul Canning - small bass |
Skipper John - huss and monkfish (swollowed by huss)
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 21 April 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
A far more relaxing trip today aboard the Oystercat, got to laze
around in the sun, only moving to reel in fish or turn the sausages.
I didn’t even need to do much netting, only the 2 double figure huss on dab rigs.
We
ended the day having loads of dabs, whiting, grey gurnard, bull huss
and dogs as well as a spider crab and a hermit on consecutive casts.
Weather was glorious, again!
A great pleasure to be out.
Skipper Dean Gifford
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All calm and relaxing start...
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.. then the dabs started knockin to be caught - Livio Apajee |
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Dean - dab and spider crab |
and just for a change - a whiting for Livio
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 20 April 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
The fantastic forecast allowed us to head on the first long rang wrecking trip of the year.
We had plenty of pollack mostly small - between 2lb and 5lb, many
of which still had sprats in their mouths, a few pout, mackerel, haddock
and grey gurnard.
When moving between wrecks we were joined by loads of dolphins, some tagging along with us, others going about their business.
Was a great pleasure to be out.
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Pete Jordan - 'Isee no bird or fish' |
George Brincatt on the pollack
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Colin Albert showing his gurnard
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Colin Albert showing his pollack |
Dean Gifford & Richie Pearce with their pollacks on show
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Brian Mason & George Brincatt a pair of pollacks
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Peter Jordan's dolphin video
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 30 March 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Managed to squeeze in a last minute trip today aboard the
Oystercat, didn’t get through the locks until about 11:30am. Fishing was
tough, we had to be right on the wreckage to get any attention from
eels managed a dozen to about 30lb on the flood. Ebb was difficult with
wind over tide causing the boat to swing off the structure. We finished
the day in the bay where we found tons of pin whiting, a few dogs and
pouting.
We drop on a massive shoal of whiting, they were like mackerel! As
soon as you hit the bottom you’d have 2 on. One of the anglers had about
10 on the same piece of mackerel skin before they ripped it off!
Well done Dean, we finished off with a run of whiting and 2 codling was a difficult day.
Paul Morgan
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Dean Gifford & Craig Barnes - Congers
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Thursday 28 March 2019
Skipper Mark Thomas
Conditions for today's trip were perfect, calm seas, sunshine and small tide.
The Big plan was to go east and anchor off Aberthaw and target the Rays. We did manage to find a couple but it was hard work fighting our way through hundreds of dogfish.
We also had a early smoothie and 4 strap conger. Adrian took the biggest blonde ray of the day at 13lb.
Aall in all a pleasant day out.
Cheers Skipper Mark
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Lock out, all set to go fishing |
Adrian Morris with the catch of the day 13lb Blonde
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Steve Rosser's turn for a ray |
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 27 February 2019
Skipper John Elvins
Oystercat trip trip was on;y half full, no juniors. With willing anglers on board we set of out on the 8.000 lock, to fish for 3hr. 2.5 hr out on our first mark found dogfish then a shout of "this is better" from Nigel. The rest of us were spurred on with some level of enthusiasm from then. Slow but steady we landed 10 spurs and lost 4 to bite offs 3 conger and a 5 inch whiting on the bank saw the day out.
Conditions were great and the company also enjoyable. Best fish Howard 24lb conger, I had a 14.5lb spur.
Skipper John Elvins reporting
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Jphn elvins doing the conger |
Up the spurs - Niel Wilson and John Elvins |
Les Chapman earning his spurs
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Howard Griffiths 24lb conger |
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Howard Griffiths nice spurdog
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Nigel Davies with a nice conger
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 24 February 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Really poor day on the oystercat today, beam on swell or chop seemed to follow us from mark to mark.
Had a few whiting, couple of small codling, dabs and dogs. Ended up coming in before the lock closures, which is only the 2nd time I’ve ever done that; the first time my Mrs threatened to kill me if I was late to a party!
On the plus side, I got to sit in the sun and shell the 2kg of mussels I had left, blow down the yellow tails and black lug ready for freezing and sort my tackle ‘bucket’ as I’ve been just dropping rigs in there for a few weeks thinking ‘I’ll sort it when I get home’... which I never do; every cloud has a silver lining I guess.
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Shore fishing Session
Allan Walters
18 February 2019
Fished Llangennith today in a big surf. Caught my first bass of 2019. The fish was 54cm in length approx 4.5 lbs. The fish swam away strongly.
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My first bass of 2019 - 54cm - 4.5lb
Swam away strongly after the photo and measuring
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 16 February 2019
Skipper Mark Thomas
It was a very hard day aboard the oystercat today. The weather
forecast was borderline for cancelling but decided to have ago and went
east 1st to try and find some spurs and ray .
Unfortunately failed and only managed to find dogfish a couple of
dabs, small whiting and a strap. The weather held back so a pleasant
day in the end.
Cheers
Skipper Mark Thomas
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Marina at 7 in the morning
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EELy good catch!! for John Spanner
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Friday 15 February 2019
Skipper Simon Clark
Started on the kidney bank where the wind resulted in quite a chop and
made it a bit uncomfortable. Fishing was slow with only a single spurdog
to Adrian, two whiting and the inevitable dogs (and not a lot of them
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thornback.
However, the company was as good as the weather and a good day was had by all.
Well done Simon great to have you "back" good to see the skippers
is still out front with the thornbacks. those southerlys play havoc at
anchor and should be banned ...
John Elvins
Thanks Skip, bit choppy in the beginning, not a lot of fish but the company and weather made up for it.
Shout of the day was Adrian pulling in a Spur Dog “ I ain’t touching that”
John Martin
Thanks for an entertaining day and good banter looking forward to trips great skipper would go out with you any time
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Albert Harris
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Mumbles through the looking net
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Thornback for skipper Si Clark
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 3 February 2019
Skipper Mark Thomas
Oystercat trip today turned into quite a reasonable day, started off with a lovely sunrise and calm sea.
1st stop produced 4hrs of entertaining fishing with lots of small whiting and dabs, mixed in with 11 spurdogs up to 13lb, mainly to the terrible two Phill Bowen and Nigel Davies!
When the tide turned the wind picked up and made it uncomfortable but we stuck it out for a while as the fish continued to feed.
Then decided to head inshore and get a bit of shelter where we caught more dabs, included a picture of the Belle to say thanks to Victor for letting me anchor next to him as i had no GPS unit today.
Cheers skipper Mark Thomas
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Sunrise at the start of the fishing trip |
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Feels like a very big one |
Oh no its not!! just a new species
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Phil Bowen wrestling hold one
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Phil Bowen wrestling hold two
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Phil Bowen wrestling hold three |
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Just the two of us Phil Bowen and Nigel Davies - top anglers of the day |
Mumble Belle full of fihersmen |
Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Sunday 3 Febuary 2019
Skipper Vic lilygreen
Poor day generally dabs were mostly of a good size, but the whiting were like goldfish!
We
moved out to the area of the Strombus at the start of the fllood &
it was useless, & choppy, decided to move back inshore only to find
that the anchor had caught another anchor rope (or a lost pot or pots.
Our
anchor brought a birds nest tangle of what looked like 13mm coarse
yellow rope with a length of blue rope attached like a dropper.
We
were unable to get it above the surface to get it on our winch, only
managed with great difficulty to cut our anchor free, & made our way
back to Mumbles to carry on "dabbing".
Made our way back in at 3.30pm.
Is that it until the bream come back in April? Will have to make do with photos of the sun taken by Allan Walters.
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Sunset
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 19 January 2019
Skipper Richie Pearce
Conditions were wet and damp as skipper Richies took
the Oystercat out into Swansea Bay. On board were 8 senior members of
the Club from STSCC, out on their first trip of the yesar. The seas were
moderate and calm annd the rain did not dampen their spirits.
On the mooring the fishing was slow with no outrages shouts for net
net!! However we caught a couple of small dabs, whiting and the dogfish
were a bit of a nuisance.
Come midday skipper Richie toook out his crystal ball, upped the
anchor and headed a further 2 mile west of Swansea. Dropped the anchor
and within minutes Andy Charles struck gold and was rewarded with a 12lb
spurdog, this was followed by a franzy of 25 spurdogs weighing 5 to
11lbs plus. Two anglers qualified for a Mission Acomplished Award.
What srated as a quiet day turned into a manic afternoon. Bait of the day was fresh mackerel.
Richie and Nigel Davies gave outstanding support and help with
their fishing and safety skills. Not to mention their exceptional
culinary skills, providing hot and cold food and drink that would put
Cunard and P&O to shame. Well done MMBFC
Bob Christie reporting
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 20 January 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
A
great day aboard the Oystercat today; lots of conger to 30lb, loads of
spurdog to low teens, few whiting, dabs, small Huss and dogs. Weather
was very kind all day, allowing us to stay offshore until the tide
forced us back in.
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2 Congers - Ronnie Willams & Nigel Davies
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Just a pactice spur for Paul Eaton
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Paul Eaton & Nigel Davies - get their spurs
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 5 January 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Very chilli start to the day over in minehead today!
Didn’t find the bigger cod we hoped for but had a few small ones, lots of tiny ones, whiting, lots of strap eels, few thornbacks and dogs.
We added dabs to our catch tally when we got back in swansea bay.
A long but enjoyable day.
Due to the limited cod interest I now have about 3lb of black and yellow tail lug to blow and freeze down!
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Early start to Minehead |
Dave Snelling - Thornback
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Colin Albert - Cod for his species hunt collection |
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Tuesday 1 January 2019
Skipper Dean Gifford
Good start to 2019 aboard the Oystercat today; started the day down Oxwich.
Where the fishing was steady through the morning, headed closer to home where the fishing picked up in the afternoo.
We ended the day with plenty of nice whiting, dabs, dogs, bull huss, pouting, cod(let) and a little spoted ray.
Weather was very kind, everyone had enough fish to take home and there was plenty of friendly competition in the Pearce-Williams family!
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