Trevor Pier (Again)

[nicstreet]

Fished Trevor Pier again this weekend, my other half wants to catch a decent sized huss and this is the best location I am aware of.

Fishing from just before dark (10.00) there were the usual reams of doggies (with many bites proving fruitless). We figured this was down to the very small doggies not able to take our massive squid/sandeel baits. This was confirmed when Karen landed the smallest doggie I have ever seen at about 10 inches.

Mid way thru the night tap tap on the rod after I had cast in only 30 seconds earlier. Pick rod up reel in slack then tap tap again and strike. Started reeling and knew it was a better fish. Result reasonable Huss at 40" (estimate weight at 8lb?). Not as big as some I've caught on there but beats the constant string of doggies.



Karen was a bit miffed but got stuck in and stuck her spinning rod out with the same pennel rig and squid/sandeel combination.

More doggies kept coming, then a tussle with a bloody spider crab, albeit a little one this time.



Then Karen had another bite on her spinning rod, typical doggie bite, she struck in and started reeling which proved quite difficult, looked down over the pier as whatever was on her hook was causing a fair bit of resistance. Result... not a doggie but .....



She was pretty chuffed and Ive gotta say Ive never seen one pulled out at Trevor before. Carried on thru until the morning and did a little spinning for mackerel (2 for the pan on white feathers).

I then had a first ever go at float fishing. Pretty cool had a good hour with half a dozen small wrasse, several small pollock and another Mackerel for the pan.

Overall a bloody good session.

p.s. can anyone estimate the size of the eel? I aint got a clue and think I'll invest in some scales for our next trip.

Regards

Nic

[liz]

Great report there, think that spider crab has been there for years, i was there during the day, and caught a mix bag, but nothing quite like yours.

[nicstreet]

Cheers Liz, we'll be going again this weekend in search of huss again then if karen catches, onto another species, probably smoothhounds.

Do yoy know of any marks where we can target hounds?

Nic

[steholywell]

Great report and pictures mate. Sorry, i can't estimate the size of the eel.
Good luck for this weekend

[greeni]

Hi Nic,

I estimate the conger to be about 6 or 7lb, but that is just a guess based on one I caught of a similar size.

Great report by the way, how was the condition of the pier, is it still dodgy?

[tiawow]

Nice one mate, you have to admit those huss arre ugly as hell aint they!

[nicstreet]

Cheers for that greeni, I think I may have been a little conservative with the weight on the huss, still got myself some scales now so future fish will be weighed.

No what you mean about huss being ugly Chris, but u sure you're not mistaking it for me

Would still like to find a location that could offer more huss, or at least sizable huss, we've had a few smaller ones there last few weeks.

On a different note we did notice that some of the doggies we we're catching were massive, Karen had one that I'd have liked to have weighed, gotta be the biggest doggie I've ever seen.

Rgds

Nic

[greeni]

Hello Nic,

Not to sure if people would class these as 'hotspots' for huss, but there are 2 places where I have had more than one huss, I say I have had them but thats a lie really because all off them snapped my line due to the tidal pull / not having a drop net.

I have 'had' 2 huss at Ty croes, on that particular day the wind was blowing directly into our faces, and I decided to use a full squid body mounted on a size 4/0 hook. The squid was dipped into tuna oil before I cast it out.

The huss was easily over 12lb, but due to the tide ripping up the rocks I couldnt get anywhere near it. In the end the battle went on for sdo long against the tide and the rocks, that the line frayed and snapped. About 30 minutes later I had exactly the same experience using the exact same method.

The other place I 'had' huss was at Aberdaron, this time the conditions were decent, but I had no drop net so both of the huss that I caught were lost right at my feet - devastated!

Since then, each time I take a gaff or a dropnet I never catch anything decent - sods law really.

[nicstreet]

Cheers for that mate but think we're gonna stick with Trevor again on Friday night. I figure that about 1 in every 50 fish we pull out is a huss. Hopefully with a good night we might get another decent fish. Still have'nt got a drop net myself so I just hope I dont regret trying to handball a 10lb fish up the pier, although I was fine last weekend. Got some pretty deep line cuts on my fingers though.

I think I may just stick some 4/0s on my Pennel and stick an 8inch bait out. Although doggies do have a habbit of being able to eat pretty much anything put in their way.

Am also trying some alternative bait this weekend as I read a thread regarding using chicken as bait. Thought it would be interesting to try chicken and/or beef on a spare rod.

Catch u later

Nic

[liz]

I know quite a few people that have caught huss and smoothies from trefor, using pigs liver... keep meaning to buy some and try it. but i think i would panic if i caught something big,, would just take a pic and cut the line. good luck tonight.