Gower Rockhoppers SAC

Last Sunday was the fourth and last Gower Rockhoppers Mini Open of the year at Mumbles Foreshore.

Yet again it was another well attended match producing 40 anglers, some of which new faces.

Catches were made up of Dogfish, Whiting, Small Codling, Rockling and Flounder.

Results as follows:

1st  Rhys Lewis, Maesteg, 920g Dogfish winning £150

2nd John Priest, Barry, 900g Dogfish win...

Good result for 2 of our members on Sunday at the Llanelli Open at Bury Port.

Chris Isaac came 2nd with a flounder of 1lb 11 1/8th oz

Martin Richards 4th with a flounder of 1lb 10oz

All flounders making up the prize list. The point only produced small codling and whiting. Flounders came from the beach.

Last Sunday the 3rd of the Gower Rockhoppers Mini Opens was held on the Mumbles Foreshore. There was an excellent turn out with 43 anglers attending.

Every so often during the mini opens a nice bass or strap conger willbe caught to clinch 1st prize. Last Sunday however something a bitspecial turned up to take 1st.

 Steve Rees from Llanelli of Lecarum SAC landed a 11 lb  11oz bull huss to win 1st place and take £150 prize money.

2nd place and winnin...

30 Anglers braved the elements to fish Mumbles foreshore on Sunday and the fishing was excellent with a large number of Dogfish, Whiting and Dabs brought to the scales.

The results were as follows:

1st Stuart Reed / Swansea– 880g Dogfish £100

2nd Paul Morgan/ Llanelli –860g Dogfish £70

3rd Spencer Rees/ Swansea –840g Dogfish £40

4th David Williams/Mountain Ash – 780g Dog...

Last sunday the first of the Gower Rockhoppers mini opens took place at Mumbles.

There was an excellent attendance of 33 anglers, some of which were fishing a competition for the very first time.

Unfortunlately the fishing was quiet, probably due to the calm conditions in the bay.There was however a shoal of mackrel in front of us for most of theincoming tide, pity they didn't count.

4 fish were brought to the scales.

Gareth Lloyd w...

The Gower Rockhoppers and Fairwood Sea Angling clubs have arranged tofish against each other at a couple of venues throughout the year. Halfthe entry fees are given to a selected charity. The first of thesechosen by fairwood was at Manobier on Sunday 14th June. 10 Adults and 1junior (Thomas Stephens, Fairwood) fished, numbers down due to the niceweather. Fishing 3 hours either side of top water armed with crab,ragworm and fish baits 29 fish insize were brought to the scales.

Just got back from Borth fishing the second leg of the Welsh shore trials.

The fishing was quite poor with the bulk of the catches made up of small flounder and dabs. There was also a couple of greater weaver fish caught the biggest of which was 40cm long. I have never seen them that big before!

Myself and Tony fished the same zone on pegs next to each other, I came 2nd in the zone with 4 flounder in size Tony had 1 flounder undersize.

The venue was split into 2 zones either sides of the beach to hopefully get away from the tourists, surfers etc.  IT DIDN'T WORK!!!

No surprise really due to how nice a day it was.

However there were a few fish caught, Flouders, bass, grey mullet and golden grey mullet. The most productive zone was Worms head side of the beach.

Results

Zone 1

1st  Danian Geldard (Isle of Wight)     3.62m

2nd Tony Oates&...

Its on. We are fishing against fairwood on Sunday June 14th at Manobier.

This is the first of 2 venues fishing agaist them this year. Manobier was their choice we have presented them with our home venue choice. If agreed I will post the details.

Don't forget guys Fishing the bank in Penclawdd on Sunday.

It fished brilliant a couple of years ago lets hope it does again!.