After a week of high winds it has been good to get back afloat and enjoy some settled seas and good tope fishing. The tope have been around in numbers both in Holyhead Deep and the shallower waters around our coast. We’ve enjoyed sunshine, great crew and great fishing. More photos in Gallery 276
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Whilst the wind blows 50mph+ outside today, its hard not to get disheartened with the constant barrage of bad weather. However sifting through photographs today from this years fishing, you quickly remember the many great days we had afloat. Our tope fishing kicked off in April this year, when fishing for spurdogs and local rod Iwan pictured above, was fortunate to land three 25lb+ tope during the session. Tope are caught frequently in the deeps, especially when targeting the likes of huss and spurdogs. In all the tope fishing was good for us once again aboard My Way, with […]
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A small collection from some of our tope fishing during 2017
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Watch as mark releases his lovely 43lb tope after weighing
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Today’s windy weather job list includes more of our popular tope and spurdog paternoster rigs. Tied with 100lb mono body and 80lb wire biting trace, the 5/0 semi circle hooks include our new red and luminous head muppets Check out these rigs and more at the GO Tackle website Yesterday we had ledger booms to make. Some as running booms and others rigged with mono, swivels and links.
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There are plenty of small baby tope around inshore at the moment. Some of them barely 5lb in weight. We’ve been having some epic little battles on small scratch Rigs and light gear.
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Inshore fishing on Thursday 06th Apr was great fun, but the deeps let us down with only big huss to the hooks, so a change of venue was called for he following day. After a mixed bag inshore on Friday 07th Apr, it was time for a delicious beef casserole, thanks to Dawn. Next, the drift and we were rewarded with plenty of good sized pollack for April. The deeps followed and thankfully the fish came too. Plenty of big huss and spurdogs for all onboard, but birthday boy Iwan had to win the day with three nice tope, the best pushing the […]
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Tope fishing is a GO Angling favourite. Sitting and waiting patiently for that small click and then accelerating first run of a tope is really an exciting experience, and one we love to share with our anglers 2016 has been another good year, not too many large females but plenty of pack tope resulting in a few first and some new personal bests for our anglers. Here are a few photos from our 2016 tope adventures ….
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Tope is the most abundant large shark native to the British Isles. They generally have a light grey top and white belly area; however some tope have been caught with a dark topside. Tope are live bearing with a normal litter size of between 6 and 30pups, usually around the 20 mark. The Welsh Record of 79lb, was caught & released aboard My Way in Aug 2005 Tope are found through out the UK, with certain areas having a greater concentration than others. The fish move inshore during the spring and summer months chasing the shoals of mackerel and herring […]
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Good day afloat yesterday, drifting a little slow but the Deeps made up for that, the day should be called ‘Ethan Showed Them’, as the young angler showed the adults how to do it with a new PB 27lb tope, a first spurdog, followed by a handful more and a nice huss. Few photos from the day below …
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