Cloudy and a bit of a breeze ,and bank holiday monday was looking like a bit of a long day in big swells.Very small tide meant a good chance to have a good try for some smoothounds,before they move off to deeper water for the impending winter.
The Steam down to Aberthaw didn`t hold out much […]
Glorious sunshine,saw us lock out at 2pm for a days fishing with a group of anglers from Cwmbran.A short steam around to the Barry Harbour area and we were away .Baits mainly squid ,fished on 4/0 pennel rigs to long flowing traces.Wasn`t long before the first doggy of the day was aboard.The dogs have been […]
A new Lady Helen is on order !
An 11m South boats Catamaran has been commisioned and is due to replace the existing Freeward 35 early 2007.The South Cat offers increased levels of space , comfort and speed. She will comfortably accomodate 12 anglers, has on deck toilet facilities. Powered by twin 300 hp Iveco diesels […]
Well it was a big tide today, 13.5 ish meters ( Yes that’s meters ) so like every other boat out today it was a case of fishing close into shore,due to the very fast tide run.
My good friend and my web site designer RIchard had a very shinny new ABU Suveran Pro uptider to […]
4am Lady Helen made her way into the dark Bristol Channel with only stars to navigate by ( ok plus gps , radar ect helped a bit)
It was a flat calm morning and as the sun began to break with some much welcome warmth we dropped anchor on our mark hoping for some […]
Members of the Exel Fishing club joined Lady helen and spent a pleasant day, soaking up the sunshine, fishing on the flat calm Bristol Channel, and jumping up and down because “the weather man ” had got it right for a change.Several good smoothounds, double figure conger, thornback rays and a solitary Poor cod […]
An great weekends fishing off Aberthaw , dull and overcast on Saturday,giving way to glorious sunshine on Sunday. A good mixed bag of fish to brighten up both days on board Lady Helen. Peeler crab taking most of the bigger Smoothies, squid cocktails accounting for most of the smaller ones.
10 1/2lb Common Smoothound
14 1/2 […]
Iron Maiden front man Bruce Dickenson spends a pleasant day fishing with his sons aboard Lady Helen in the Bristol Channel. Read the full story in the Pages section to the right, or pick up a copy of the August 2005 Sea Angler magazine