North Wales P.B. Rockling

[Timbc2]

I fished down the Llyn again on Saturday. Woke up and set off from the caravan to a windy and drizzly journey which didn’t bode well. I spent a lot of the session trying to catch mackerel and just managed 2, although one was a monster.

The weather brightened up and it turned out to be a decent day in the end.

On the bottom pulley rigs I had frozen mackerel on 10/0 hooks hoping for tope. Next thing I had a really good pull down and it turned out to be this beast of a 3-bearded with stunning orange colouration. That made the session right there and if nothing more decent had come out I was content with that. It reminded me of the beasts you see on the old Japanese pottery or a monster from a Manga film:







I had a few medium sized pollack up to around 2 pounds or so but nothing to rave about.

One of the mackerel I caught I sacrificed for bait and it led to the capture of this 40.5 lb tope:



Tight lines

 

[Warby72]

Wow, two beasts. That Rockling is huge well done. ?

 

[ouchthathurt]

That is a monster rockling! Well done mate! Nice tope too! ?

 

[Viaductbaggies]

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The headless fisherman strikes again ?

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[Skaterboy]

Well done Tim. You're on a roll with the tope and that's a cracking rockling.

 

[2much]

Can’t believe the Tope was second billing. ?
Top angling and congrats on the PB!

 

[Timbc2]

Wow, two beasts. That Rockling is huge well done. ?

That is a monster rockling! Well done mate! Nice tope too! ?

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The headless fisherman strikes again ?

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Well done Tim. You're on a roll with the tope and that's a cracking rockling.

Can’t believe the Tope was second billing. ?
Top angling and congrats on the PB!

Thank you gents, I am still buzzing off that rockling, it was the colouration as well as the size, as the ones I've had before have had more of a two-tone leopard skin pattern going on but this was really orangey all over. It was a sight to behold. Hope I catch another like that one day.

 

[bananas]

Wow thats a cracker of a session, well done on the Tope and the PB Rockling

 

[OCTOSPUD]

I fished down the Llyn again on Saturday. Woke up and set off from the caravan to a windy and drizzly journey which didn’t bode well. I spent a lot of the session trying to catch mackerel and just managed 2, although one was a monster.

The weather brightened up and it turned out to be a decent day in the end.

On the bottom pulley rigs I had frozen mackerel on 10/0 hooks hoping for tope. Next thing I had a really good pull down and it turned out to be this beast of a 3-bearded with stunning orange colouration. That made the session right there and if nothing more decent had come out I was content with that. It reminded me of the beasts you see on the old Japanese pottery or a monster from a Manga film:

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I had a few medium sized pollack up to around 2 pounds or so but nothing to rave about.

One of the mackerel I caught I sacrificed for bait and it led to the capture of this 40.5 lb tope:

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Tight lines

Great session there mate, the lleyn is fishing well at the moment, when you can get a break in the weather ??

 

[Timbc2]

Great session there mate, the lleyn is fishing well at the moment, when you can get a break in the weather ??

Cheers Toby, it's certainly been busy with pollack but I've been struggled to hit any numbers of mackerel this year so far.

Wow thats a cracker of a session, well done on the Tope and the PB Rockling

Cheers bud