The Great Wallsendo
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Croeso or Welcome as they say in Wales 
Went down the Gower (near Swansea) for the second year running and and in between the bodyboarding and long walks I managed to shoe horn some fishing in
Fished at two spots really - Ramsgrove Bay which is directly down hill from the site (about 3/4 mile) and Mewslade Bay. Mewslade at high water is totally submerged but as the tide recedes it exposes an expanse of golden sand...
The view for our Cave for the week - I had to climb, swim and scramble to get the spot before anyone else did as you can see by the picture the tide is still quite a way in
Was only using my flattie rod so was fishing with 2oz running ledger onto a 1/0 hook...baits were usually frozen sandeel but on the last day I also used frozen macky...over the 4 or so days down at the beach I managed to pull out about half a dozen scrappy LSDs
The biggest was prob over 3lbs but the only couple I weighted were a tad smaller and one was a confirmed weight of 2lb 9ozs
Why doggies when so many people hate them? Well - coz they were there I suppose...I was winging out fish baits so if a Bass had fancied it and taken it I wouldn't have grumbled
As to Bass...
After a couple of fruitless nights down at Ramsgrove of spinning, float fishing etc I decided to resort to last years tactic of freelined sandeel...within half an hour I hooked into something...
A keepy and eaty Bass good little scrap too...I look forward to the day when I catch a bigger one and get an even better fight
That was it really with the fishing...no real chance to get off and do some "proper" fishing as I was after all on holiday with the missus
Here's to next year...
Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod as they also say in Wales (google it)
Cheers
Tony
Went down the Gower (near Swansea) for the second year running and and in between the bodyboarding and long walks I managed to shoe horn some fishing in
Fished at two spots really - Ramsgrove Bay which is directly down hill from the site (about 3/4 mile) and Mewslade Bay. Mewslade at high water is totally submerged but as the tide recedes it exposes an expanse of golden sand...
The view for our Cave for the week - I had to climb, swim and scramble to get the spot before anyone else did as you can see by the picture the tide is still quite a way in
Was only using my flattie rod so was fishing with 2oz running ledger onto a 1/0 hook...baits were usually frozen sandeel but on the last day I also used frozen macky...over the 4 or so days down at the beach I managed to pull out about half a dozen scrappy LSDs
The biggest was prob over 3lbs but the only couple I weighted were a tad smaller and one was a confirmed weight of 2lb 9ozs
Why doggies when so many people hate them? Well - coz they were there I suppose...I was winging out fish baits so if a Bass had fancied it and taken it I wouldn't have grumbled
As to Bass...
After a couple of fruitless nights down at Ramsgrove of spinning, float fishing etc I decided to resort to last years tactic of freelined sandeel...within half an hour I hooked into something...
A keepy and eaty Bass
good little scrap too...I look forward to the day when I catch a bigger one and get an even better fight That was it really with the fishing...no real chance to get off and do some "proper" fishing as I was after all on holiday with the missus
Here's to next year...
Mae fy hofrenfad yn llawn o lyswennod as they also say in Wales (google it
)
Cheers
Tony
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