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Fishing Marks • Meresy • Dee Estuary • North Wales • Anglesey • Llyn

Common Species Advice of fishing for the most frequently found species along our coastline.

Essential Tackle All the essential equipment to make life easier and fishing even more fun.

About the Author

Stuart Johnson - Biography I began fishing around the age of 9 when I realised there were small trout in the local stream. In   the   shallow   stream   the   normal   size   of   fish   you   could   expect   was   in   the   6-10oz   range,   although   occasionally   something   a   bit   bigger   would   turn   up.   My   best   fish   was   one   of 1lb 3ozs, and at 18ins (45cm) long it remains the largest trout I’ve ever seen from that particular stream. My   first   experience   fishing   in   salt   water   was   fishing   for   mackerel   off   rocks   around   Saundersfoot   in   South   Wales.   It   didn’t   start   too   well,   until   a   man   fishing   the   same   rock   mark saw fit to give me some advice. He looked at my rod and reel, asked what breaking strain line I was using,  “He then he pronounced I needed a 18g Toby (what ever one of those was) . . .  The following evening, armed with my new 18g Toby I went out and caught 9 mackerel! “ That man I later discovered was Clive Gammon (born March 29 1929, died June 10 2012) at the well know Angling Author and Sports journalist Even   to   this   day,   some   40   plus   years   later   I   can   still   remember   that   evening   as   clear   as   if   it   was   only   yesterday   and,   catching   mackerel   on   a   single   handed   spinning   rod   and small lure is still one of my favourite forms of fishing. I continued coarse fishing back home and only fished the se a during the families summer holidays.  When   I   started   work   and   bought   my   own   car   was   when   I   began   to   take   sea   fishing   a   lot   more   seriously.   Initially   targeting   bass   and   flatfish   from   the   estuaries   of   North   West   Wales   catching   plenty   of   bass, plaice, flounder and eels using a light ledger rod and small fixed spool reel, the sort of gear you’d typically use to catch small barbel and chub. Indeed it was only really about 25 years ago that got the beach fishing bug and scaled up to heavier gear and started to concentrate more on winter fishing.  As well as sea fishing I still enjoy the barbel and chub fishing on my local river, the river Severn in Shropshire.  Now retired from 38 years as an IT Consultant I try and spend my time sea fishing at every opportunity. Although being 70 miles from the nearest marks trips aren’t as frequent as I’d like.