Beginning here Gower reveals its truly golden sands. This bay is magnificent. On a calm day, with the tide out, there’s every chance of powerful surf conditions. It suffers the same malady as that of Langland; thronging crowds of half naked holidaymakers! So fish after dark or in October and November when the hordes have gone. This beach produces its best catches late in the year. At high water there’s comfortable fishing to be found off the rocks of the bay’s eastern side.

SPECIES

Bass, bass and yet more bass! Mackerel, pollack, plaice, dabs and useful turbot. They are all in Caswell waiting for you.

BEST METHOD: BEST BAIT

Fish the surf after dark with a two hook rig baited with lugworm. Have both hooks flowing above your weight. And don’t worry if you are not a long distance caster. It isn’t necessary at Caswell. If you fish late in the year change your bait to squid and put it out at the furthest breaker. The best area of the beach for this is the extreme right hand corner.

From August onwards the rocky point to the left of the bay will yield plaice, dabs and those turbot. Add a little colour to your lugworm bait by adding a few small clams. And step up your terminal rig to three hooks. From these rocks a twenty yard cast will put you onto unbroken sand.

Along the remaining rocks of Caswell’s eastern shore bottom fishing with a soft or peeler crab will produce fine bass. The further east you venture spinning with a red rubber eel will find bass while a mackerel spinner or small wobbler or wedge will tempt the mackerel and the pollack.

There’s a popular footpath running along the rocks back from Caswell to Langland. If you take this path when you arrive at its highest point you will be standing at the top of the areas finest promotory for spinning, feathering or float fishing. It;s steep and a bit tricky to climb down, especially in wet weather, but with care it can be well worth the effort. And your choice of lure is very easy; use mackerel spinner or feathers for the best results. If you want to change tactics during a session wherever you will find a swill of water from the waves as they break against the rocks float fish with crab for the bass at a maximum depth of 5ft or with a strip of fresh mackerel for the pollack at a depth of 10 to 12ft. The bedrock here is virtually flat but is criss-crossed by gullies and crevices that are full of seaweed. It’s well worth a session during the winter months for codling provided the sea will allow you to get close enough to the water’s edge. Because of its depth and exposed position it doesn’t take much of a wind to produce a large swell! Be careful!