May 28th Llangennith
While on a weekend camping down the gower the 'Danglers' decided to have
a session for flatties and bass down Hillend side of Llangennith.
Bait for the trip were maddies (mudrag), razorfish, mackerel, sandeel and
lugworm.
We hit the beach 3 hours before high water which was at 8.30pm.....a little
later than planned.
while walking over towards Burry holmes to try and avoid the surfer nobs
we talked to a few of the anglers already fishing and things weren't looking good!
A few guys had been there 4 hours without a bite!
We decided to move another couple of hundred yards over and set up. More
or less the 1st casts went in at once....2 hook flappers with size 2 hooks and various baits.
After a few quick moves up the beach Blackcat had a knock and struck
into the 1st fish a schoolie bass (his 1st) which had taken his lug bait.
Perhaps things would be better for us than the guys we spoke to we thought!
After some more frantic moving of gear Balckcat had another schoolie, and
another after that. With no one else having a bite! Then on his next cast Blackcat had a better bite which put a nice little
bend in his rod, on winding in he had managed a double shot...a schoolie bass and a nice flounder! 4 Casts, 5 fish, 1
Jammy bugger!
Barrelreef was next to have a bite which resulted in a schoolie taken on
lug.
Around high water we started to have trouble with weed clogging the line
so we moved over the beach 300 yards. Amazingly such a short move had taken us away from the weed.
We continued to have bites and probably missed more than we hooked.
Barrelreef caught another 2 schoolies and Valleyboyo managed 1 schoolie
(also his 1st bass)
Wilba blanked but unluckily missed a few bites. Most of the bites came
on lug and maddies but lug seemd to be the top bait.
We left around 9.30pm with Mission accomplished for the day by catching
some bass.....all small though but cracking fun!
Blackcat 5 schoolies and a flounder
Barrelreef 3 schoolies
Valleyboyo 1 Schoolie
Wilba Blanked
