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I started this blog in March 2021, having blanked in over half of my fifteen winter trips to various waters of Newbury Angling Association. The rivers, canals and lakes are fine, I'm just not very good at catching the fish in them. Oddly, i seemed to get a bit better for a while, but 2023 has undone all that. In July I moved to South Wales, not entirely for the weather, but to enforce a change in my fishing luck.

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Aberavon beach

18.12.23 - Aberavon Beach

With rain due this afternoon and the tides in the right direction, I headed for the local beach. A steady sou' westerly was driving quite a surf and being a newbie at this sea fishing lark, I don't yet know if the cold-water fish come as near to the shore as the summer bass do. Anyway, I cast as far as the wind and my poor technique would allow into the meaty waves. At least with the tide coming in, the bait (a two-hook flapper rog, one holding a sandeel, the other a bit of squid) would eff
Aberavon beach

12.9.23 - Aberavon Beach

Having ordered some Senko lures (cheers, Barry!) I had another go on the lugworm for the bass this sunny afternoon after the heavy rains of last night. Fished two hours with the tide rising and 1 after.  It was much the same as last week with lugworm tails nibbled off the hooks most casts (I used a full half pound - ie £9-worth in those 3 hours), but I did end up with 6 of the little silver fellers, to a max of 5 oz. Tried sand eel on one hook for a couple of hours, but these were untouched. Gre
Aberavon beach

5.9.23 - Aberavon Beach

Having blanked a few times now, I took local anglers advice and walked down to the beach with my new neighbour as the sun went down and while the tide was coming in.  I'd also bought a newspaper packet of lugworms, plus a few frozen sandeels and confidence was high. After a heatwave of a day, it was beautiful on the sand at night as the lights of Swansea twinkled across the bay and the furnaces of the steelworks sent the occasional plume of flame into the sky.  We had bites from the of
Aberavon beach

14.8.23 - Aberavon Beach

My second ever go at sea fishing in our new Welsh home came on the most perfect weathered afternoon possible. With a warm westerly breeze and surf churning nicely my mentor advised that the prospects for seabass were good. Nobody told the fish that however, as our sand eels and squid remained stolidly untouched. Never mind, it was just lovely to be out on the near deserted sandy beach as the sun sank over down-the-road Swansea.
Aberavon beach

17.7.23 (part 2) - Aberavon Beach

One of the many benefits of my move to Wales was the chance to go sea fishing for the first time. never done it before, and I even get seasick watching the Onedin Line. I know little of tides beyond a childhood knowledge of their affect on my sandcastles but my new neighbour, Glyn, having dug his old tackle out his loft, took me saying two hours before high tide and an hour after was best. I bought the sand eels while Glyn kindly lent me a rod with missing rings, and a left-handed reel with
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