No, I occasionally get constipated.
| + Visit Cardiff FC for Latest News, Transfer Gossip, Fixtures and Match Results |
No, I occasionally get constipated.
Went down Ogmore river last week Sludge. Just took the fly rod. It was less than 7m tide and i was there before sun rise. Beautiful spot by the water works bridge. i jumped up on the concrete arch and was using an imitation sand eel fly. Did not catch anything but saw the biggest bass i have ever seen, easy a metre long. I will be going back this week, but thinking of just ledgering wth bread or maddies with light gear and a bigger rod with a big bait on (minging piece of squid maybe) just in case that monster bass shows its face again
Some good information in this thread.
Spedger
Some big bass and mullet in the ogmore estuary , good flounder fishing tooOriginally Posted by Sloop_Jon_Bee
What I cant stand about sea fishing is the idiots it attracts
Porthcawl Pier , stench of urine everywhere , small fish being taken , dogfish stabbed with a knife then thrown back
The deeps , great fishing venue but ruined by tossers too lazy to take plastic bait packets and line and beer cans home with them
It's why, among other reasons , why I knocked it on the head and have returned to coarse fishing and trout , just a shame the season isnt all year round
The only sea fishing I am interested in these days is hunting out bass etc with spinners or float fished crab or sandeel
Mate of mine and his cousin caught two 8 pound bass at summerhouse point near aberthaw a few weeks back , both on squid
Mackerel is worth a go
For the flatties and smaller bass good old fashioned ragworm used to work down ogmore
Are there any pike , perch etc around the weir ?
There are small perch. I always used to catch perch and small trout spinning where the brook enters the Taff above Western Avenue bridge. I am now more towards 80 than 70 and spent most of my early years on the banks of the Taff. We used to swim below Llandaff weir and come out looking like miners after a shift. The transformation in the river is remarkable. In those days there were only eels and blind roach. The water was black and the bottom was black. Just above Western Avenue bridge was a small island we called Tomato Island which was completely overgrown with Peashooters ( Japanese Knotweed ). We had to make sure we could get off the island before the tide came in !!. We’d believe anything in those days. After all that I have never seen a pike caught in the river even though we dumped some jack pike from the Wye over the bridge. Happy days!
Nice one !
If there were not pike in the taff then , there sure is now , loads of pike in cardiff bay , they will have made their way upstream and this is how they have got into the Ely, unless they were stocked , cant see them getting much past blackweir though , unless a few of your little ones bred up western avenue way
'Migratory river fish populations plunge 76% in past 50 years'.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-past-50-years
Speaking locally whilst not interested in salmon fishing its reckoned that the taff is a good salmon river , not on a level with the Scottish rivers but miles better than it was
There are certainly loads of brown trout and grayling in the river these days
Tomorrow night I am fishing the ely again with the hope of a big wild brown trout , a big perch , a chub or even a small pike .
Jesus just how good are you all at fishing??!
Posting Permissions
Reply With Quote