Monday 2 April 2012

Sunday 1st April 2012 to Saturday 7th April 2012

Sunday 1st April 2012
Up early to make sure Phil got off and then back to bed. Sorting fishing gear out - repaired ruck sack sorted rigs and lures out.  Am all set and can't wait.  Went in to work to finish a few things off.  All homework completed and handed in, am going to have some days off this week and not do any work (probably).

Monday 2nd April 2012
Up at 4:30 got Phil off to work.  Did a couple of minor bits of work.  Then went a really slow run - muscles felt mega tight for some reason so a fair bit of walking unfortunately.  Going to Bakewell Market in a minute.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/166638038

Tuesday 3rd April 2012 
Up early to pick mum and dad up from Manchester airport.  Plane was really later - apparently problems in Munich and then they had to circle Manchester to get a slot and then it took ages to get them through baggage recall.   Off to Wales then in a cold snap in rotten April getting to Valley Baits about 5:10 I’d emailed Bryn at Valleybaits (valleybaits@hotmail.com) to confirm that he’d be open for a bit later and he said he’d be open until 6pm so got lug and rag,  came to about £5 but I got £4 worth of lead as well.  It’s farmed rag but okay really if not mega big stuff like you might get a Telboys.


Tuesday night in any case was blowing a hoolie so fished the little beach behind the cafĂ© only to find it was a beach no more the following day as 3 foot of sand has been dredged out by the sea).  So had a cast, lost a rig, give it up as a bad job.  Ought to have had a crack on the main beach but weather was way too rough I felt.   High tide was 21:00 and around 4.9m.  Tidal co-efficient was 84 (high) 


Wednesday 4th April 2012
Got up early and got down there for about 7:00ish, High tide in the morning was at 09:15 and was set to be 5.2m so not a big un by any means and certainly easy enough to get off the beach.  Managed a flounder in the daylight which was a result I felt.


Went fishing early doors, got a flounder.   Went a walk to check out a beach just beyond Crugmor called Porth Penrhyn but the sea has dredged a ton of sand off it and made it unfishable. 
Still at least I've checked it out. http://connect.garmin.com/activity/166638043

High tide at night was at 21:40 and only 5.3m so still very manageable.  Fished mainly lug (got another pack when we went shopping in the morning) missed a bite or two but also connected with two schoolie bass. All returned but a result on a sort of mid-sized tide.  Again could get off the beach easy enough.   The tidal co-efficient for this one though was described as being 98 (very high) – all the bites came about an hour before high then slacked off as the tide turned.  The lunar phase was a Waxing Gibbous – the day was rated as a 1 fish rated sort of a day.


Thursday 5th April 2012
Went a walk round the Ranges as it's often referred to near South Stack, Anglesey.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/166638050
Found the mark that's called Ringbolt.  Apparently a tackle graveyard so might try it, might not at some point in the future.  Route from car park to Ringbolt, Ranges mark is here http://connect.garmin.com/activity/166638055

Went to do a bit of spinning on the rocky headland north of Church Bay used plugs and spoons but maybe a bit early in the season for lure fishing will come back and give it a better go in June.
Going http://connect.garmin.com/activity/166638063
Returnings http://connect.garmin.com/activity/166638069

Disastrous evening this was for the beach as a fishing club from Amlwch came and took over the beach.  High tide was  22:20 and a 5.6m one so just getting blocked off a bit was able to get off shortly after high tide though, no great shakes.  Not a bite to be had but put that down to the moonlight and the fishing club trying to emulate Blackpool Illuminations on the beach.  The day was rated as a two fish sort of a day by tides4fishing.com but didn’t prove to be.    A guy off the campsite managed a dogfish but that was about it.   Coefficient of 108 (very high) and lunar phase was a Waxing Gibbous.



Friday 6th April 2012

Supposedly the best day of the week according to Tides4Fishing.com – rated as a three-fisher.  The low tide was well out at 0.3m at 16:50 so dug plenty of good quality fresh lug, gave some to the guy off the campsite who was doing his best with a plastic spade bless him!  Was considering fishing the low but could see kelp everywhere and though it would just equal lost gear!   The high tide in the evening was a bigger one at 5.8m and meant I got wet getting off the beach after losing the leaders on my main reel and my back up reel.  I was doing really well with a big pit reel called a Zero 760 which I got off Ebay cheap as chips – the cool thing about it is that you can put the fixed spool out of gear and then walk back to your rod rest rather than having to flip the bail arm – I like that.  Anyway I lost two leaders and therefore two rigs – the second one of which had got a bit on it I felt but the fish got stuck in the rocks somewhere now that the sand is all gone.  Anyway that hacked me off some more so got off the beach and got wet at the same time round about high tide time.  The chap off the campsite had a dogfish, a rockling and a Pollack while I was there on the bait I’d dug and he was no more than fifty yards left of me.  Such is life.  The tidal co-efficient was described as 112(very high) and lunar phase was a Waxing Gibbous.

Saturday 7th April 2012 

Went down to the beach early doors and recovered lost gear.  Over the four days fishing I'd only lost the one rig on the first night when it was unfishable - that's pretty good going I reckon.   As was up early I put all the fishing gear away and got it stowed in the motor.  We were off for about 9:30 I think and back home early afternoon which was okay.   Saw Phil's legs for the first time since his accident, very nasty. 




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