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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday/Monday 30/31 August 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
Fairly
diverse fishing aboard the Oystercat over the bank holiday weekend.
Sunday was a trip down to Lundy, we had launce, mackerel, pollack,
ballan and cuckoo wrasse, ling, tope, bull huss, spotted ray, dogs,
whiting, pouting, poor cod and scad.
Monday
was a local trip, fishing was pretty steady but finished the day with
20 or so bass, a few bream, mackerel, scad, pouting, huss, hounds and
dogs. Nothing of any great size or massive numbers so not many pictures
sorry.
Skipper Dean Gifford
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 23 August 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
Very slow day aboard the Oystercat, we managed to get out in the bay but we were struggling with lose weed after the storm Saturday.
We ended the day having red mullet, a few tub gurnard, a few huss, strap conger and a few dogs. We came in early as there was a lock closure and the sea state wouldn’t allow us to head offshore.
Skipper Dean Gifford
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One of the red mullet caught
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 15 August 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
We did the first long range trip of the summer yesterday, we headed down off the North Cornish to try a new area and attempt to get some shelter from the easterly wind; as we passed Hartland Point the wind swang south westerly so we didn’t have shelter there.
Fishing was tough going, 25-30 pollack to 8lb, a few small bass, some jumbo mackerel, scad, poor cod and a lone codling.
The first leg of the way home was lovely and smooth but as we rounded Morte Point we were faced with the strong easterly we were sheltering from so the run back across the channel was a bumpy one until we got close to Swansea.
Weirdly we saw more dolphins inshore off Swansea than offshore towards Lundy!
It was interesting to fish some new grounds and everyone had a few fish to go home with.
Skipper Dean Gifford
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Friday 14 August 2020
Skipper John Elvins
Cat trip on misty day with rain threatening, but a glass like sea what could go wrong!
A nice southerly slop rolling us about from 11am. looks like all the fish went away for the day.
A very slow day, 4 mackerel in total tried 6 different marks fish finder blank screen all day. We did manage to pick up a few stragglers and plenty of scad if you wanted a wake up.
Best fish 12.3lb thornback, Nigel not smiling that much as someone else landed his best huss for him. Nigel got fed up waiting for him to pull it up and tangled up with another line .
Skipper John E
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Phil Bowen - nice dream and gloves
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Phil Bowen into a bull huss
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 11 August 2020
Skipper John Elvins
After a foggy start we found a few mackerel off the Swig and when the fog lifted made way to Langland. Nothing spectacular, lots of small bream and a few to keep. Huw had a nice pair. and Ted seemed to enjoy the day out but tired by the time we came back.
Skipper John E
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Nice pair of bream for Huw Jones
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My turn next says Ted Yorke |
Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 8 & 9 August 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
Reasonable weekends fishing aboard the Oystercat, Saturday was very
pleasant even though it it started very misty. Today’s south easterly
wind and chop made for a rolls morning but it settled out nicely in the
afternoon.
Over the weekend, we had lots of small bream, a few bass,
lots of scad, jumbo mackerel, red and tub gurnard, red mullet, huss,
pouting, lots of small eye rays and a few dogs. There have been dolphins
everywhere, today the first pod was 200m off the pier heads.
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Bass for Paul Eaton & Robert Davies
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Red Gurnard for Nigel Davies |
Small eyed rays for Craig Barnes, Dean Gifford *Colten Jones? |
Oystercat Fishing Trip
Friday 3 July 2020
Skipper John Elvins
After the Lord Mayor's show!! very slow day down Oxwich way.
Found a pod of about 12 Dolphins off the headland so no mackerel to be found.
In the Bay plenty of small starfish and not much else.
Back out to headland we hit some Mackerel for a change and off out deep for Huss/Tope, the dogfish obviously thought otherwise!!.
No Photos and not much else to report.
Pleasant conditions at least..
Skipper John E.
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 2 July 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
A reasonable day aboard the Oystercat today, conditions were just ok but the fish fed steadily through the day.
We had plenty of mackerel, some grey and tub gurnard, dabs, huss, pollack, codling, scad as well as a few more interesting catches of red mullet, a big cuttlefis.
Everyone who wanted fish had a few to take home.
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Super size cutlefish for Dean Gifford
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Mumbles Belle Lift Out
Thursday 30 July 2020
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Mumbles Belle came out of the water at 9am today to get the engine out and the oil leak fixed. She will get washed off and anti fouled if required.
I will check the annodes & replace any that have sacrificed too much. If I get any offers of assistance I will give the seats a coat of wood preserver & hopefully give the duckboards a coat of Creosote ready for the winter. It would be nice to see a coat of white go on the wheelhouse & seats but I cant see that happening!
While the engine is out I will give the bilge a lick of paint & give the engine a coat of gloss, should be like a new boat when she goes back in, but it will still be a "Chugger".
Many thanks to Richie Pearce and Allan Walters (who took the photos) for giving a hand.
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In tp the boat yard for engine repais, body clean up and painting |
Gower Fishing
26 July 2020
Caught on a Gower rock mark by Gerald Collier
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Pembroke Fishing Trip
Sunday 26 July 2020
Member Mike Cooze
Mike Cooze and Chris Morris went out at 2:15 am to fish Pembroke this morning. Caught five small bass and a garfish between them.
Another tale of woe .
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 25 July 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
The last couple of trips I’ve taken have been fairly underwhelming.
Today’s trip was really slow, just a few gurnard, a dab, a pouting, some smooth hounds and a handful of dog fish.
Many of the ‘banker marks’ were dead, even the normally productive marks of the oysterledges and Langland reef were devoid of life.
Didn’t see much bird life out there either, hopefully things will be better when the weather settles out.
Very dissappointing
Mike Howells :Same in Carmarthen Bay too mackerel there one day then gone for days must be sometime do with all the dolphins around the coast chasing the shoals and scattering the bait.
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Friday 24 July 2020
Skipper John Elvins
Short and sweet 5hr trip today.
basicly,
to get some baits in the freezer. We drifted for 3 hrs for bottom fish
and after 90 mins nothing to write home about. Horse mackerel were the
main catch, but fresh air and jigging rods for most of the time .
Gurnard, huss and dogs of course but no surprises.
Nigel felt left out on last few trip so here he is with his catches.
Skipper John Elvis
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Nigle Davies with very good bullhuss
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Nigel Davies and res gurnard
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Friday 24 July 2020
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
The cunning plan never worked.
We had loads of growlers, a few mackerel, a few dabs, a tub, a tope (small) & thats abour it!
We had a good day weather wise, boat went well, we had a good laugh but fishing wise it was crap, better luck next time.
Skipper Vic
Victor Lilygreen I am going to change spots for Wednesday see it we can alter our luck lol
Dave Smith Let's go back a few years, blueskip, if you're down there sort my boat out.
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Tuesday 21 July 2020
Skipper Richie Pearce
Pleasant day fishing.
we caught some nice Bream, Three codling, bulhuss, Gurard, and Bass. No mackerel showing. Everyone enjoyed their day.
Skipper Richie reporting
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 19 July 2020
Skipper Mark Thomas
Today's
trip was very pleasant with nice weather and sea conditions, fishing
wasn't great only one nice Bass to Ritchie , with a few small Bass and
small bream , gurnard, pollock,dogs lots of dogs , smoothies and a tiny
conger and some macky.
Cheers Mark
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Star catch, bass for Richie |
Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Thursday 17 July 2020
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
It was "narley"
over the Cherry Stones & furter down towards Langland, & Belle doesn't do "narley" so it was the Bay for us, much to my dislike.
We tried drifting for plaice first off but caught only growlers so I gave them the choice of fishing the Strombus or the moorings & they chose the moorings, which was a bad choice & they grumbled so I gave them the option & they chose the Strombus. When we reeled in I had a very niice plaice on the end so they changed their mind again lol.
We ended up with 1 plaice, 5 dabs umpteen dogs hounds, tope gurnard & that was it, not much of a day but at last I outfished the crew na na na nan na!
Skipper Vic
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Tuesday 14 July 2020
Skipper John Elvins
We are off!! a trip Tuesday 14th was made with a view of how interaction on board would fit in with Covid guidelines. John had permission to take total of 5 but no takers after the 4th man. looks like safe number on board to keep 2m guide is 6. slow day out on the water 3 small bream 4 tope and a few huss . Terry had a first Tope so a Pb at 22lb John and Les had the huss. Cold wind but plenty of fresh air.
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Terry Pugh first tope a PB at 22lb
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John Elvins with a tope this time
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Les Chapman into the Huss |
Oystercat Fishing Trip
Thursday 2 July 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
We had an enjoyable evening, loads of corkwing wrasse, 8-10 pollack, millions of small bream, tompot blenny, half a dozen conger and just 2 doggies. Was blowing a fair bit when we were on our way back in at 9:30.
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Thursday 2 July 2020
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
Not much of a day.
We didn't have much of a day weatherwise or fishingwise on Thursday, we had quite a few spells of "rock & rolling" when the wind changed direction & gusted, but nothing too bad.
We probably wouldn't have noticed if the fishing had been good, but personally I had only dogfish & lunatic fish. Peter fared better having both dogs & lunatics, plus a good size thornback, plus 3 or 4 nice dabs & a nice plaice (plus he missed a big plaice because he never used the net, & we watched it swim away) Well he has been told, & I put the net next to him, lesson learned I hope lol.
We had some rollers coming home but they were behind & helped us along, unfortunately my battery in the car was flat???? Luckily Allan Walters came in at the same time & gave me a lift home & took me down with a charged battery this morning. The inconvenience of only 2 on board is not the only inconvenience we have to suffer!
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Wenesday 17 June 2020
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
"Lunatic
Fish" probably about 8, growlers untold numbers, Good Dabs 1 Plaice 5
(2 barely size returned) 1 bream (barely size returned) apart from that
it was beautiful weather.Every time Peter put his
leggings on the rain stopped.
I took
brown bread & salted butter to make mackerel fillet sandwches,
unfortunately Allan & Richie FAILED MISERABLY TO GET ANY MACKEREL.
Once again it was up to Mein Host to catch all the good fish, these boys
must master the way to make the traces & the colour & sequence
of beads is an art form they have to learn lol lol lol.
Slipper Vic
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Wenesday 17 June 2020
Skipper Vic Lilygreen
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Ashley Haley - Night fishing - Knab Rock
3 March 2020
Haven’t been out for ages with these storms a quick gap in the weather resulted in 2 pb well happy
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Wenesday 5 Febuary 2020
Skipper John Elvins
Oystercat trip 5th Feb. Happy New Year, with the high yides coming in this week who could resist. Me and about 15 other boats plodding around the bay catching dogfish. On a brighter note we spent the first couple of hours out deeper as conditions were fantastic where we had 12 spurs to the scales to 14.5lb and 3lb more lost at the net. Back into the bay for second half of trip was as above. Great/fantastic conditions but no whiting other than two and a couple of strap conger.
Skipper John Elvins
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The three spurdogs - Roger Davidge, Phil Bpwen, Paul Thomas |
Oystercat Fishing Trip
Friday 25 January 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
First trip back out of Swansea today aboard the Oystercat.
The South
easterly end kept us inshore all day. Fishing was fairly slow to be
honest, plenty of dogs, few small conger, some whiting, lone spur and
one codling.
Skipper Dean Gifford
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Fridayday 24 January 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
Finally got the Oystercat back to Swansea after an extended stay at Cardiff Bay Yacht Club after fishing the cod comp. We had a hour or twos fishing over low water on the way back. Nigel Davies was top rod having a 14lb smooth hound, a nice blonde, spur dog and a thornback while Richie and I just had loads of strap conger to mid teens and a few dogs. Lovely flat sea for the journey back!
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Nigel Davies - Smoothound |
Nigel Davies - Blonde Ray
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Mumbles Belle Fishing Trip
Tuesday 21 January 2020
Skipper Allan Walters
A good day out on the Belle on Tuesday. Vic was back on board after his Illness, weather was superb, considering we are in January. No codling caught but plenty of good size dabs and a few whiting for the pan.
Skipper Allan Walters
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Just great to be out fishing again with Vic
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Sunday 19 January 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
Another nice day from Cardiff Bay Yacht Club
aboard the Oystercat today; weather and tidal conditions couldn’t have
been better; only dampener was Borge, me and Roger forgetting our frozen
baits.
Codling feed steadily through the morning, we had 15 or so to 3.5lb
before moving to some different grounds where we had a few congers,
whiting and dogfish in the afternoon.
In all a lovely day on the water!
Skipper Dean Gifford
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Jayson Whitehouse - codling
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Jayson Whitehouse - yet another codling |
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Richie Pearce & Dean Gifford - with codling
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Shore Fishing Knab Rock
Friday 17 January 2020
Vic Lilygreen and Allan Walters
Had a few pleasant hours down the Knab. Got rained upon, hailed upon, poured upon, & frozen in between, but after 7+ weeks shut in it was glorious. I caught 3 small whiting & Allan caught a couple of small whiting a little dab. I found out that my Youngs bib & brace isn't waterproof any longer, & I'm not too sure about my UMAX either I think that is only good for dry cold weather, so it looks like my old Fladen Floaty on Tuesday lol. I never used to suffer from cold extremities but I do now, my feet, fingers, & ears were freezing, it must be a result of the blood thinning medication I have been given that causes that, but it's a small price to pay for what they have done for me. I have noticed that after years of idleness none of my flasks work, they all get hot on the outside which means the seals must have gone allowing the hot liquid to escape to the outside, I will have to get a new one as I intend to do more shore fishing than usual in future.
Vic Lilygreen
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Cardiff Cod Competition
Sunday 12 January 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
The
day started with a lovely breakfast from the club house. Fishing was
tough but we managed thornback rays, whiting and a few codling,
unfortunately none met the 2kg minimum weigh in limit.
The catch of the day was a bloody massive log that got caught on the anchor rope!
In all, an enjoyable day, thanks to CBYC and all of the sponsors for organising the event!
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'Carch of the day- logfish |
Oystercat Fishing Trip
Friday 10 January 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
Took the Oystercat up to Cardiff today, ahead of the Cardiff Bay Yacht Club's annual cod competition on Sunday.
The journey up wasnt too bad, a little messy as we passed Porthcawl but other than that, very comfortable!
We had a days fishing too, a few small codling, rays and conger eel - hopefully we’ll find a few bigger ones on Sunday!
Skipper Dean Gifford
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Saturday 4 January 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
A bit of a change of pace today on the oystercat; we stayed local and fairly close to shore, it was nice to be able to use a spinning rod and 3oz of lead all day.
We had lots of whiting, mainly small but enough big ones to keep Richy’s bucket topped up, dabs and some dogs.
As there were no outstanding fish the only picture I have is of one of the ham sandwiches we had for lunch!
Lovely day in the water, was even nice and warm when the sun came out in the afternoon.
Skipper Dean Gifford
Enjoyed today! Hopefully the big lads will turn up in Cardiff
Jayson Whitehouse
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Oystercat Fishing Trip
Wednesday 1 January 2020
Skipper Dean Gifford
Long range trip to Minehead. Bait taken was black lug, squid and mackerel.
Nice day out aboard the Oystercat today.
Plenty of congers, Rays, a few whiting, codling and just a few dogs.
Everyone had a few fish and weather was kind but the highlight of the day was the curry made by Vicky.
David Williams and famiy said 'A great day out, thanks for the help and advice, the family really enjoyed'.
Skipper Dean Gifford
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Nathan Williams conger and cod
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Lunch - Vicky's super curry
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Emma Aubrey-Cooze - conger
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Emma Aubrey-Cooze - whiting
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