🌸 Blogging in May 2025

🎣 A morning wrasse angling session on the Anglesey rocks and the rig I’ve been using this week 🏊 Pool fun with my granddaughter 

🎣 With high tide at 11.27 a.m. there was no need to be up super early to do some fishing. 

In fact, I had a lie-in and woke naturally, although it was still before 7.00 a.m. when I stirred. 

Making a cup of tea, I got dressed, took the bait from the fridge and set off for the walk to the rocks. 

The wind made fishing difficult, although I did have a few nibbles, but caught only one  ballan wrasse. 

As per the previous session, I was just on the right side of the line again.  

In the video, I go through the rig. It’s very simple, and hopefully helpful to any coarse anglers who may be heading for a coastal holiday, at some point in the future. 

Tackle: SeaTech Outlaw 12’ telescopic rod and Daiwa Jupiter Z 6000 reel, loaded with 20lb line. The float was 5” and the hooklength 2’. Size 2 Kamasan Aberdeen hook. Fresh lugworm.

Nature notes: Several terns (common or arctic). Walking back, saw an oystercatcher’s nest about ten yards away, with two eggs. 

Click above or watch directly on YouTube

🏊 Once back at the bungalow, I had breakfast and then went to the indoor pool with my granddaughter. 

It is just a few yards from where we are staying and if I say it’s a stone’s throw, that is quite literal. 

The back wall of our place and the pool building are separated by just an internal road.

We had a great time and, as previously, we had the place to ourselves. 

Your children become adults but then you get their kids to keep you young. 

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