Cerith gets a specimen sewin!

Well done Cerith for catching this monster hen sewin! For most it is the fish of a lifetime. It is also very pleasing that he donated it to the hatchery. A fish of this age must be either very clever and resilient or just plain lucky! Which ever the case hopefully her eggs will provide equally resilient fish for us to catch in the future. This was 1 of 10 fish that Cerith caught last week, many of which were returned to fight another day. Very commendable Cerith!

A fish of a lifetime - a 15 1/4 lb Sewin about to leave for the hatchery!

And some more!

This is Ceriths own account of what happened!

I had some holidays booked this week, and have managed a few fish on worm and spinner through the week.I fished Llangadog AA monday evening down by Bethlehem. The river was very high and dirty so I fished the worm along the edges and back eddies. I hooked and caught a 4lb sea trout within the first hour and had a few other decent knocks. But the real fun happened aroud 6.30 when a cracking fish took my single worm and shot off down stream. I knew i had a good fish on, and was pretty sure that it would be a double figure fish. After about 20 min I landed a cracking sea trout.luckily the fish was hooked in the scisors and I had a tether handy in my pocket. I quickly tethered the fish and released it back into some quiet back water. I phoned Viv at the hatchery and explained that i had a good sized hen sea trout, and sugested that he came down to have a look and see if he wanted it for the hatchery.To cut a long story short Viv and Olwen took the fish back to the hatchery and after the fish had settled down in the tank agreed to weigh the fish.Olwen e-mailed me today and confirmed that the fish weighed 15.25 lbs.After 25 years fishing I finally have a Tywi double figure sea trout.Im sure that if my grandfather can see me now he would be very happy indeed. He was a great teacher.

DiolchDwrgi

A lovely brace of sewin!

Well done mate, you deserve it!

Anyway, enough of this excitement, here are some pictures that I took when I was down in Llangadog the week before last!

My camp site right next to the river

Farmer Ken's old tractor - 1960 ish I think!

That's about the best that I can do - amateur photographer and Blog Manager!