Llandudno (19 Jan)

[BUDDY]

We all met up this morning. Quite windy. forcast heavy rain. 5 of us decided to fish. Wind settled down, rain stopped and the fish came out to play. everyone cought. We fished the pier end of the bay. Fish cought were small Whiting, a few small codling and a couple of dabs. Had the usual drinks and chat at the big white van. All in all a good day. Hope we have many more A few people came to chat as they had other things on. Nice to see everyone.






OOPS who feel in beaching

[ZEBRA]

great photos their steve. ian looks cold ;D sounds like a great day gutted i missed it .

[topcat]

Hi lads
Good to see the wind droped and you got out, I could have stayed, I never recieved the phone call. So I went back to llandudno later ,I could see you out neer the charter boat ,I bet they were suprised to see kayaks fishing that far out alongside them . How long did it take you to paddle that far out
ps good to see you had some fish

cheers tony

[rapala]

I' looking cold because I fell in! As you can see from the photos it was pretty heavy surf. I though I would just let the waves gently push me in while I looked around and cooly step out into 2 inches of water . Disaster struck when I got caught by a monster 8 inch tsunami wave. I don't know whether the bow stuck in the sand or whether it was just the leverage between backwash at the front and the wave at the stern but I got tipped into 8 inches of water. A complete and utter embarrasment.

Lost my anchor as well because by the time I realised it was gone it was 20 minutes later and the tide had come in . Just shows that you need to clip everything down when you come in.

Fishing was great. I caught nothing for the first hour probably because I was anchored over a rock patch. Meanwhile everyone else was running out of bait! Moved on and it was a bite within every 30 seconds of the bait hitting bottom.

Anyone going back there this week may find an anchor at low tide, just down from the first roundabout into town.

Thanks for the fishing advice lads, the whiting tasted great.

Ian

[Reeco]

Nice pics lads, seems like you had a good crack. ATB. Reeco

[degs]

After a one and half hr drive in the pooring rain things wernt looking to good-we did notice that there was no wind at all all the way down >until we hit wales<,after arriving we all got together with a cuppa had chat for a while (nice to see the lads again) as we were waiting for the wind to drop,


the rain stopped after about a hr. we decided to head out,we paddled out just before the point of the big orme,
we anchored up and started catching whitting streight away,after about a hr of none stop whitting i decided to put a big bait out to try for coddling with the result of dab trying to take a full squid the surprise i had when bringing it in as the hook was bigger than the fish ,i stook with it for about another hr but only whitting,we then decided to go a little further out fishing in line of the the big orme and little orme in line with a charter boat that had been there since before we even parked up,this resulted at least one whitting every 10-15 seconds of the bait hitting the botton left anylonger and the bait was stripped.

it wasn’t long before we were running out of bait the whitting must have covered the sea bottom no matter what you put on your hook they took it-dave was pulling them up one after another on rubber sand eel ..
We all paddled back together not sure but think it took us about half hr for another brew before heading home.

we all had a fantastic day with thanks to dave for sorting the day out and cant wait to get out again.
sorry didnt get chance to take more pics as we were to busy

[THURSOMAN]

Nice one lads. Looks like you had a great time!
Dave, would you mind telling us about type of sandeel you were using and technique please?
I'm all for artificial where possible. (;o)

[stitch]

Great to see everyone on Saturday, that has to be the best days fishing i have had for a long time in terms of numbers caught, i lost count. A big thanks to Dave for organizing the day and everyone who turned up. Sorry will have to keep it short and sweet this computer is playing up.

;D ;D ;D

john

[jonnychaos]

Good to see you guys getting out there and doing it glad you had a great time the Sea state didnt look to bad. Wont be long now till I will be out again with you.

Laters

John

[wmj1960]

Hi there i want to buy a kayak and i thought you might be able to help me i have been told that the Bic is good but i fancy the native watercraft Manta Ray angler version whats your view on these two sorry i mean best and also what length 11 or 12
Cheers
Mark

[SEAJUNKY]

Hi wmj1960

First of all welcome to the site mate. I'm sure you will find a lot of very good advise from the guys. You mentioned the manta ray. It is a very nice kayak. In fact I have one. We have a few of these on the site. I am sure one or two of the other guys will give you their opinions., but I really rate the Manta Ray, and would say that its probably one of the best kayaks available at the moment. We have a meet next week, why not come down, I'm sure one of the lads will let you try out a manta ray. By the way I would recommend the 12 footer.

Steve

[ZEBRA]

you are very welcome try mine if you like at the meet i have a 12 .