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April 9th 2024 update: Time out


Hi all - I'm having an extended breather following last year's events. I may do some guiding later in the season and if so I will announce that on here. Clearing the house you grew up in should not be underestimated! I guess I did and am slowly regenerating: the weather has been lousy in any case. Last trip I had was a guided session at New Quay breakwater at the end of November. Whiting and dabs threw themselves onto the hooks non stop. Just as well as it kept us warm: it was -3C when we got back to the cars!

News from the coast is the incredible amount of sand-stripping from the Ynyslas shore. There are literally acres of gullied clay like this, just off the rectangular brick building:

Ynyslas


The clay is full of part-crushed bivalves at certain horizons and likely it is the lateral equivalent to the submerged forest to the south, representing the transition from boggy woodland to estuarine flats, thousands of years ago.

Ynyslas

Close-up of the bivalves, almost all Scrobicularia - the common name is 'furrow-shell'.

Ynyslas

How will this affect the fishing? Low tide on springs is still clean sand and will be quite fishable - it's the middle beach that will be affected on flood or ebb. You could set up on the edgeof the ledges and cast close-range into the deeper water but they are very slippery underfoot so beware! This clay is eroding fast and deeply gullied, so plenty of ways to lose rigs here if you try to fish a whole tide!

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