Skewen Angling Club
Fishing In Wales: Skewen Angling Club
Skewen Angling Club Description:
Fishing In Wales: Skewen Angling Club
Skewen Angling Club has fishing on the following:
The Square Pond is situated alongside the C.M.B. Factory on the outskirts of Neath alongside the Main Road. The water contains carp, including crucians and grass carp, roach, rudd, bream, tench, perch, and eels. Many fish have been stocked over the years, with a number of fast growing carp up to 15lb the most recent to go in. Carp have been caught up to 24lb in recent years, with at least eight different twenty pound fish caught. There are also rumours of a number of catfish of various sizes having been illegally stocked from a garden pond!
Tennant Canal runs from Aberdulais to Port Tennant, approximately 8 miles in length. There is a wide variety of fish species in the canal, ranging from pike to rudd with even a few chub. The pike, bream, tench, and carp all grow to specimen size though due to the shallow water, can prove a challenge to catch.
Neath Canal can be split into two separate parts. The upper section runs from just below GlynNeath to Resolven road bridge and the lower section from Tonna to the Wharf in Briton ferry. It holds carp, tench, bream, roach, rudd, perch, eels and a few chub and pike, as well as the odd trout.
Gnoll Pond is situated on the outskirts of Neath in the middle of the Gnoll Country Park. It is around 15 acres in size, and fishable on two sides with a number of pegs available for anglers. The water holds bream, tench, roach, rudd, perch, gudgeon and carp. It is the carp most anglers fish for with specimens going to almost 25lb being caught. The water is only accessible during park opening times.
Gnoll Community Fishery was once an open air swimming pool and lately lay stagnant and lifeless. The damn had to be strengthened and sealed, an island created, the overflow controlled, and pegs built before any fish were introduced. The first stocking saw 27,000 fish, mainly roach. A second recent stocking saw roach, rudd, tench, and crucian carp introduced.
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hi could you give me the prices for this year to fish the canal in tonna for adults and juniors please thanks
Hi Nigel,
I think you may be better off asking the club direct through their website. The link is above.
Would be really grateful if you could let them know you got their details from Fishing In Wales!
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David
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with regards to the club the melyn side of the canal has been spoilt due to introduction of to many pike it used to fish well for mainly all type,s course fish but these day,s it,s not worth fishing thing,s should have been left as they were i thought it would have fished well after being passed over to the club but every vist has proved poor results.At the end of the canal the ferry warf end the grey pipe side,always proved well with the tench but after many visit,s very poor results giving me the impression that all the course fish are deminishing and the pike are getting fat, why did u introduce so many pike over this side?,never mind we,ve still got the square pond.no pike PLEASE!
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for taking the time to add your comments. It’s really helpful to other anglers. Please do feel free to comment on any other entries in our directory if you can.
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David
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