Penarth boat fishing on Lady Helen

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Penarth boat fishing on Lady Helen - Well what a nice change for me to only have a 1.15 mins drive to go boat fishing

Penarth is on great roads so getting there from south wales / midlands or Bristol area is a breeze

Back to the Penarth boat fishing trip . Parking is free but not sign posted so check where you park as it is a clamping area but from the guests car park it is only a 2min walk to Lady Helen berth

The weather was tops and met check yet again got it spot on ; force 1 and sunny

With a hello to JuanPablo in the car park we made our way to Lady Helen berth and met the rest of the group who we would be sailing with

On the trip there was six people which made fishing very comfortable. Lady Helen would fish 8 with the comfort but anymore ( think uptiders ) might be a bit tight – she is licienced for 10

So with the hellos out of the way, we set sail to our first mark which was about 40 mins steady steam

On the way the other lads pointed out areas of the coast line that are worth fishing from the shore, of which was tops and greatly appreciated – thanks lads

So all anchored up, out went the rods

A mixture of uptiding and downtiding on 8 oz grip leads was the name of the game today

As for bait - we tried it all
Sandeel
Peeler crab
Mackerel
Squid
Ragworm
Cutal fish


All fishing individually or as cocktails ; squid being the most productive

Rigs
Pennel rig 4/0 were the back bone of the day although at slack water I did put down pat.. rig – 3 hooks size 2s

So what was caught I hear you say
Well it was a busy day and there was almost always a bite going on or a fish coming in

And yes Dogfish – bloody loads of them and must have been 50 plus fish come onboard and then duly released back into the water . I do not mind catching dogfish but one poor guy ( sorry wine has gone to my head and forgotten your name ) was king dogfish man

But the story is not over there so here is the list of fish caught

Dogfish to 2.3lb
Strap conger to 15lb
Smoothounds to 12lb
Buss Huss to 4lb
Thornback ray to 8lb
Starry Smoothound to 5lb
Three bearded rockling

Think thats all of them covered

Thanks to Mike the skipper for putting us on marks that got the fish and it was nice to see so many different fish come aboard . Mark and his mate were always at hand to give help with fish / advice and I must say it was a pleasure to be with a nice friendy skipper and have a good chat

Something that will cheer all new comers reading this thread was that there was a young lady onboard out for her first boat trip --- you guested it she bagged up with loads of fish and taking the biggest smoothound of 12lb on the day . I think she well might be going out again ( to the shock of her boyfriend )

JuanPablo catch
Well hope I get this right
Thornback ray
Dogfish
Strap conger
Smoothound 11lb



Me
Well not so good
Bull huss
Dogfish
Strap congers

I targeted rays allday but I did not get one – but hay the rods did not stop rattling with bites and to me that makes a great days fishing

Thanks to JuanPablo for getting it sorted and Mark / crew for a great day out and to the other guys

Cheers

[Norfolkboy]

Lovely report Rich, a joy to read.

Great to hear you all had a good day, with plenty of fish.

Did anyone manage to get pics? Well done on your fish mate, that's a few more points

Well done Juan too with his fish

[Ben]

nice1 every1!!!
shame you didnt get your ray richard but at least you tried!

[JuanPablo]

yip rich you got it right! plenty of doggies and out of probably 70 fish overall only 1 was retained or killed for any reason.
Brilliant group of people and a friendly skipper/crew which makes a lot of difference!
My smoothhound managed to remove my 8oz gemini lead whilst fighting??!! very skillful i thought.
i have burnt very badly though! just dabbing some aftersun on and sipping cold beer.

we have both failed to take photos of the day but luckily the skipper had a digi camera and took some shots of our fish. he will email these to us and then we can post them in the thread.

[carlton]

Good wirte up Richard.Nice to see you all had a great day anyway. Not sun burnt i hope!

[Old Smoothound]

Nice one fellas, Great report Richard.

Loads of fish caught as well! Shame about your Ray Richard....but next time hey

Well done Juan on the Smoothound mate nice fish at 11lbs

[wellyfish]

good write up richard,sounds like a fun day

[pingu]

good report on what sounds a cracking day
]well done

[john-boy]

Sounds like a superb day to me... so much variety. Excellent!

Cheers,
JB.

[JuanPablo]

yip and myself and rich also managed to learn a lot about the aberthaw coastline in terms of shore bass!!!! very informative and definately worth a trip mate. well up for cold knap on a biggish evening tide aswell i think....
im goin back to work on the weekend