23/05/2026
18th session of the year last night.
The target a double figure hound and the mark Swansea West Pier.
Joined by Lawrence Turner and Riley of , Aidan Parish, Jonathan Daviess we set up at the end of the pier at around 1700 and got about to the businesses of catching some fish!
Very quiet start for everyone with just a few little nibbles and knocks but nothing connecting.
Mixed baits and rigs all around but I was using on the two big rod with pulley dongles a mix of squid, bluey, sandeels, peelers and hardbacks & on my little scratching rod my usual tipped feathers.
Lawrence was the 1st one to land the target species, followed swiftly by another and another, one of these been a new PB for him š¤š»
After this everyone else started hooking up to hounds and I was left with only the scratching rod seeing any action with dog after dog....and then to help improve my mood my crab net got jammed into the rocks and some complete womble of a boat deliberately went across my line and cut it off. We know this was deliberate as it was his 2nd attempt by coming far too close to the pier and at speed.
Towards the end of the night the guys had landed 19 hounds, a number of dogs and a nice huss, while I was sitting on 9 dogs.
Finally after 9hrs of fishing my 1st good run and hook set! Swiftly followed by my first hound of the night, falling to hardback crab.
A little less than half an hour later the same rod goes again and just as that one is coming up the wall the 2nd rod goes! Amazing, 2 hounds landed at the same time!
Just shows perseverance does pay off and the luck of the evening can change in a heartbeat.
It also gave me the chance to try my new reels, Penn Surfblaster iii Longcast 8000 from Basstastic Fishing, what a great reel. Very little effort to bring the hounds in with these paired with my penn tidal 420 rough ground rods I picked up a few weeks ago. Also casting much further than before but I do need to work on my technique more.
A 4th hound was dropped at the wall, we tried handballing it up as it had wrapped itself around Aidans line :-( but I did get to help his land his 4th Hound of the night.
Totals for the night between us was 25 hounds landed, 1 Huss, far too many dogs and 1 very broken fisherman!
Lawrence had a cracking session with 10 of the hounds falling to him and net man Jonathan helping everyone out to land the fish.
