Brackets fishing adventures

After last week's excitement at the 2 nice chub we caught, we decided to try again this week come hell or high water. High water it was. It has been raining all week and we chanced a trip down this morning and thankfully the river was just about perfect, nice bit of colour and about a foot of extra water. Most of the swims now had features and fishable areas, that last week would have been useless to even try. I had purchased some new floats and some bigger hooks as I had been struggling to see my stick floats at distance and we wanted to catch some more chub if we could. I met Damon at Millingtons fishing tackle at 9am and we just got half a pint of maggots and set off. I had all intention of trying some bread flake but I forgot to take the bread! We parked up and there was no other cars which is a good sign as it means the dog walkers were not out yet. Having forgot the bread, I decided to go for a size 10 drennan specimen hook and fish a bunch of maggots instead straight

Sorted out with my brother Damon last night to have a couple hours on river with him and little lad in a couple of easy access swims we have. I have to drop the wife off at work for 9am so would meet him there afterwards. The morning was very overcast and blustery so I messaged him asking how it was down by the river. His reply was "Fine wet fish"  eh?? I thought what does that mean when my messenger pings again to a picture of a nice trout. I could not wait to get down to the river now. Today was more about just fishing for bites to see if we could pick up a couple of fish for little lad. Simple stick float with maggots as bait. I pulled up next to Damons car just as my phone started to ring it was Damon gibbering with excitement saying you need to get here now I've got a big fish. Luckily it was a short walk from where we was so I picked up little lad and ran. From damon "After catching a brownie from one swim I moved down river in search of a few dace

I have always wanted to try sea fishing but had never had the opportunity to do so. I had a Google search and found some decent looking charters in Wales not to far but far enough to make a full day of it. I spoke to My brother and we decided we would do it. My beautiful wife then said she would pay for it for my birthday :-) so I said I would pay for my brothers and we was sorted. Booked on the charter and the date was set in April a little early in the season but the only date we could both agree on.  The only issue was we that we would be sailing from around 6.30am so I didn't fancy driving down to Conwy to get there for then so my brother offered to pay for us to stay somewhere the night before. We got down to Llandudno and stayed in a little B&B for the night before the short drive down to Conwy in the morning. We got to the meeting point and it was quite a cold morning we had no idea what to expect we had booked on with all tackle included so we needed nothing but o