Loughor Estuary

[JuanPablo]

hey guys had a good session again today!!!!
starting fishing at 10am just as the tide was starting to push that far up the estuary. There was a lot of flood water still in the river and it was flat calm so i wasnt sure what it was gonna fish like! Luckily we had a frost this morning and that seemed to stop the crabs touching my baits! I caught 8 flounder today - all on lug & king rag cocktail or rag on its own. I returned everything apart from 1 fish which weighed in at 1lb 6oz so happy with that considering the early season i would have thought the fish would still be slim after spawning. This wasnt the case though - even though all the other fish were smaller they were short fat fish so hopefully the start of good things!!!
was very discouraged when i opened my lugworm which i had just bought in a tackle shop to find that they were all pretty much dead - mostly blown and stretched - will be having words regarding that!!!
But other than that was a brilliant day - crabs started attacking as the tide eased off near high tide and thats when i left!
rigs were boomed paternoster and bomber rigs with 3oz plain bombs.

[Ben]

well done, good to know the flounders are starting to show

[Old Smoothound]

Well done JP nice to hear they are starting to show.
Did not try maddies then? Crabs are still a problem down on the Taw but they should thin out in a couple of weeks. I may leave it until well into November..... but you just can't tell at the moment.

Cheer
Shaun

[JuanPablo]

the poxy shop didnt have any - they blamed the recent rain.
and most of the king rag were huge!!! but cant complain coz the end result worked out ok!
may squeeze another estuary session in before the tides start getting bigger - any idea what the weather is gonna be like on monday?

[wellyfish]

Originally Posted by Pross

You have no chance of a written recipe from a chef. My brother-in-law is a chef and sea food is a bit of a speciality of his but ask him for a recipe and he'll rattle it off verbally but won't write it down! What I could do with first is an idiots guide to preparing a fish as I'm clueless how you gut / clean / fillet any fish. All mine have always gone back for this reason but with the flatties and cod coming soon it would be nice to catch something and eat it. Maybe some clever person could put up a guide with photos? By the way, are whiting nice to eat?

hi pross whitng is very nice to eat ,bit like cod ! even with just plain old bread crumbs and fried is nice with a smidgin of lemon juice ....plain and simple.....enjoy

[Ben]

sounds good, i look forward to getting 1

[Lee1]

Thats funny as i went fishing down Loughor estuary and went to the local bait shop spent£125.00 there got to our mark opened the bait and all the lug were dead what a coincidence it wouldnt possibly be the shop which supplies live sand eel would it