Bracelet Bay, Southgate, Langland Bay and back to Swansea West Pier

Some views of Swansea West Pier

A couple of pictures of the dog fish we caught


Last week me and my housemate continued to explore a few sea fishing spots in the evenings. On Monday we headed out past Mumbles and on to Bracelet Bay. We parked in the car park by the kids playground area and went out on the rocks. The tide was almost fully in but was on its way out. In the couple of hours we were there all we managed was one weird looking thing which we believe was a long-spined bullhead having looked at pictures on the net. This was caught float fishing with lugworm although I did also try using silver shrimps and also fishing on the bottom to no avail.

On the Tuesday evening after work we headed out towards South Gower and ended up at Southgate. We went for a bit of a stroll and found that there are some accessible areas on the rocks that we might try in the future but we decided not to atempt it this time. We then continued to Caswell Bay but the tide was in and there were a lot of surfers and body boarders there making it unfishable from the beach.

Our final destination was Langland Bay where we dicided to give it a go for an hour. Having gone to the far edge of the beach to keep out of other people's way we soon found there to be an excessive amount of sea weed and abandoned fishing. I did notice people fishing off the rocks further around so maybe thats somewhere to try in the furure.

On Wednesday evening we went back to Swansea Pier. In the two hours we were there we managed four dog fish and a crab between us, all of which we put back. This is mainly because I'm not really sure how to prepare and cook dog fish but I have since been researching online so the next one we catch may not be so lucky! In truth we were just glad to catch something having not had much success in the previous two evenings.