Oxwich

lofty · July 20, 2014

Been looking forward to this as I've heard great things about it. Had a meal out with chums on Weds night and left Poole at midnight for Wales, arriving at 3.30 am on the campsite,and dossing in my mondeo.

Up and at them for a practice on Friday and to find my feet with a new venue.

It was horrible in the morning,lumpy and choppy, but it settled down in the afternoon. Fishing was hard but a guesstimate double smoothy put a smile on my face, and I'm hoping Chicky took the money shot?

Had 5 species on Friday so had a personal target for Saturday

The campsite filled up and had a nice night with old faces and new.

Everyone was up at the crack of sparrows and down to the sign in

Carpark was rammed and we all rigged up and assembled for the sign in, collect our photo card number, and receive a nice little goody bag from the sponsors.

It has to be said straight off that the organisers and sponsors put together a prize table to behold.

Well done Swka,escape watersports, palm, and all the others that donated and worked so hard to pull this together.

Paul gave the safety brief , explained the rules and orf we jolly well went, all 141 of us. Watch out fish!

I had a plan, get away from the crowd and go fishing. I wanted a plaice so down goes my spoon,rag and beads and start a nice slow drift, with a bit of jiggling for movement.

Seems everything liked this rig bar plaice

Should of kept going with it but fancied a change of scenery so headed over to the cliffs

I became very popular as 4 others drifted into me for the next hour and my scissors were poised to cut wayward rigs off before they got me. Fortunately everyone managed to sort themselves out so the scissors of doom were put back

Three more species and then it all went quiet

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I paddled up to the wreck and it was rammed. I know I could of got a few more out of it but I wasn't confident of dropping the anchor and snagging another kayakers anchor. I should of tried with hindsight, but I gambled on a short session to get on the prize table.

For a while I was king of Oxwich