Fishing In Wales Co / How-To Guides
Winter in Wales brings cold water, clear tides and hungry cod pushing into bays and kelp beds. For me, peeler crab is one of the most reliable baits for getting bites from big winter cod — if...
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When I started fishing tidal ledges along the Welsh coast I lost more than a few rigs to sudden blowouts: the kind that yank your sinker into the surf, tangle your trace around submerged rocks, or...
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I used to assume that heavier leads automatically meant farther casts from pebble beaches. After a few seasons of re-tuning rigs and breaking more plugs than I cared to count, I swapped to a 30g...
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I’ll cut straight to it: if you want to trigger estuary bass under marina lights with soft plastics you need two things to line up — the right tide and the right light window — and then you...
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I’ve lost count of the times I’ve watched a bait roll helplessly along a tidal ledge, or seen it snagged on the next swell because my sinker was either too light to hold or so heavy it bounced...
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I’ve spent more mornings than I can count standing on Welsh cobbles, watching terns spiral and sea foam gather along a line that seemed to hum with life. Over the years I learned to read those...
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I won't pretend there's a single magic trick to pull double-figure rays off slippery tidal ledges — but after a few seasons of stubborn dawns, soaked waders and the odd ecstatic shout when a big...
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I always get a buzz when the harbour lights start to bleed into the water — there’s something about that contrast between artificial glow and moving tide that turns a quiet spot into a pollack...
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I spend a lot of spring mornings standing on low, wind-scoured sandbanks, watching the tide line for rolling bass and trying to place a lure where the fish will meet it. For several seasons I’ve...
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I fish harbours at night more than I admit to my smartphone’s location history. There’s something addictive about the way pollack light up under quay lamps, how a single glow stick makes the...
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