I went to the car boot sale at Singleton this morning and bought two new beach caster rods. Putting these with the sea fishing tackle I already have, most of which used to be my Granddad’s, I just about have a complete set up. Me and my housemate therefore decided to go for a short session but didn’t really know where to try first. I went online and found Swansea West Pier mentioned on a couple of forums so we decided to head there so that we could get some bait from the tackle shop in the marina.
We got down there at maybe 12:30 with £3 worth or rag worm. There were maybe seven other people already fishing and we went right to the end. The tide I think was maybe ¾ the way in or so. I haven’t been sea fishing for quite a while and never in Wales so I thought it may be a bit hit and miss as to whether or not we caught anything. I set up one rod to fish on the bottom with the worm and the other with silver shrimp to spin for mackerel. There was a guy fishing with I assume his son and they caught a dog fish whilst we were there and someone else caught a small whiting. Other than that there wasn’t much being caught.
It was very windy and difficult to distinguish bites. I had no luck with the silver shrimps so I switched to worm also. The wind began to die down and eventually I had a good bite and landed a dog fish which we threw back. We ran out of worms at maybe 3 -3:30 and headed back. I couldn’t believe the number of people that had arrived by then, the pier was almost completely full of people fishing. Clearly this is a popular spot!
What was disappointing was the amount of rubbish left here, the place was actually pretty disgusting! Clearly there are a few that spoil it for others by leaving all their crap because they cant be bothered to carry it home or to the nearest bin.
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