The second match of the winter league took place last Saturday night at Llandudno North Shore, 16 anglers took part on a cold evening with some pretty horrible showers of hail and snow.
We decided to fish near the bandstand as there are usually some good bags from this end in the opens and there is some nice stoney ground that we thought might hold a slug or 2.
There were plenty of empty mermaids purses washed up after the rough weather of the couple of days prior. This is from a Thornie.
There were some still in the water too as i found when i reeled in my first chuck. This one being from a Dog.
There were plenty of undersized fish, with Whiting and Codling coming in. Nowhere near their size limits though.
Of the 8 of us fishing this end, only Pete had found an insize fish as high came and went. Dave found a better Whiting amongst the small stuff which gave us renewed confidence for the last stretch, but no more sizeable fish were caught.
Mike had noticed a bite on his rod and was hoping it was a slug. I thought it was a small Whiting by the way the rod was trembling so we were both suprised when this little beauty came in.
His fifth species of the year to take him joint top in the hunt.
So it ended in a blank, not a good night especially with the inclement weather. Looking back, this is my first blank since Deganwy in 2008. I hope its as long until my next one.
At the weigh-in only six people had fish in size, with Allan Illman taking first place with a bag of 3 dabs and a whiting for 0.84 kgs. One of his dabs also took the heaviest fish prize at 0.30 kgs. ( 0-10-08 lbs.)
2nd was Mark Patterson with a whiting and a dab for 0.43, and 3rd, his team mate Dave Elmer with 3 rockling for 0.25, the last of the cash went to Dave Lunt in 4th with a whiting of 0.18.
The other two weighers were Peter Price with a specimen rockling of 0.16, and new member Dave Jones, on his debut match, with a rockling of 0.09.
The Bucanneers ( a scouse club ) had a match on the Pier and they all did crap too so we will have to make sure we dont come here again in the Winter league.
Hopefully our next match at Flint will be better but im not holding my breath.
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