Chris and I hooked up with another friend Steve for an afternoon/evening session at Marcross beach a few weeks back in search of hounds, The fishing was hard going and Chris had an eel and some dogs, Steve had a couple of dogs and I had my first hound of the year and a small ray.
I also had a day out with 3 friends from work at Dyffryn Springs. One of the guys had only fished once before and we had a great day learning the very basics of casting, striking and fish care etc.
We all had a great timer and everyone caught a fish or two! This last few weeks I've questioned my decision to change my career and go back into employment but in truth I'm certainly less stressed out than I was working for myself.
The money is less but I'm just being more sensible about how I spend it and trying to gather up what I do have for the times I do have free.
This being said, I had a trip back down south to a club lake that I caught a large bream from back in April a fortnight ago and after leaving work at 12.30pm I made the 3 hour drive down for a long bank holiday weekend. Things didn't go at all to plan and I hit holiday traffic which included some terrible driving and numerous accidents. I arrived at the lakes around 8pm that evening after a horrid 8 hour drive! I found the lakes very quiet with just 2 on for the night.
I met a very nice guy who chatted with me until around 10pm before I set up for the night. This turned out to be unproductive and I awoke at 5.30am to the sound of splashing around in the margins and the inevitable spawning going on. I met up with the clubs fishery manager and we had a walk around the complex with my drone to do some aerial footage for the club.
Very little showed up and it was concluded that there really is not very much in the entire complex to fish for. I went back to my swim and spent a night camping with the mindset of an early drive home empty handed.
As predicted that was the case and Sunday was a quick pack up and return drive home to a family afternoon at the beach chasing smoothound.
The girls came with me and we had a great afternoon with the dog and some family time searching rock pools and bathing whilst waiting for a smoothy to bite. The situation was that between 6 anglers fishing there were just 2 hounds caught all day, I had one of them and lost another. Things were very slow.
Weekend just past was a similar event with Chris and I hooking up with Steve again at Marcross. We arrived at the beach to find a match in progress and nothing had been caught all day! Steve decided to stay till 3pm but Chris and I called time and walked back to the van to go try an alternative venue a half hour west. The venue was much choppier and despite finding a cracking human free area, we stood for 6 hours without so much as a nibble!
Tough going all round at the moment with many carp waters closed due to spawning, the river season not quite upon us and the sea species not really inshore yet either!
Slow pickings.....I have a long weekend ahead this week starting with an evening of Cricket on Friday at Sofia Gardens watching my local squad Glamorgan take on Yorkshire in the T20 blast. Then maybe a fish or two on Saturday or Sunday.....we'll see what happens!
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