Welsh Smooth Hound Festival Llanwit Major 2nd August 2026
Tata SAC hosted the above festival which took place over a 3-mile stretch of local beaches this weekend. A light south easterly wind stayed constant throughout the day with 55 anglers fishing the match, coming from all over Wales & Kent. 8 different species of fish were caught consisting of smooth hound, conger eel, 3 bearded rockling, bull huss, trigger fish, bass & pouting & spotted ray. Fishing was patchy with 33 anglers catching fish totalling 267kgs.
Heaviest smooth hound went to Shaun Tucker from Neath with a hound of 5.61 kgs. Shaun won £250 & the smooth hound cup donated by Simon Davies Carpentry & Fire Protection LTD.
Heaviest conger eel prize of £100 donated by Maria's Llantwit Major Beach Cafe was won by Lee Brimifield fishing for Tata SAC
All top ten Heaviest bag weights received prizes which were funded from the competition entry fees & will receive seamaster points as will the remaining top 20.
Top 5 winners.
In first place with a great bag of 41.14 kgs was Holton Road tackle shop owner was Dan Crump consisting of 12 smooth hounds. Dan won £300. Runner up for the third consecutive year went to Angling Ambitions rod builder Dai Llewellyn from Barry fishing for Holton Road SAC with another cracking bag of 7 smooth hounds for 22.34kgs, Dai won £200. A close third place went to Cardiff SAC angler Joe Arch with 7 smooth hounds for 22.208kgs, Joe won £100. 4th place was Steve Smyth fishing for the Garry Evans Match Team with 6 smooth hounds for 19.57kgs, Steve won £75. 5th Place went to Cardiff SAC member Chris Equall with 5 smooth hounds for 16.59 gs, Chris also won £75. 6th Place was Lee Williams fishing for SWSA with 5 smooth hounds for 15.046kgs again winning £75.
Heaviest Bag winner Dan Crump
Runner up heaviest bag Dai Llewellyn
Third place heaviest bag Joe Arch
Top twenty placings and an up to date list of SeaMasters League placings can be found by clicking on the link HERE
Newport & District SAC Open
St Brides 19 July 2026
60 anglers fished the open event, only 11 of those caught fish.
1st Dai Llewellyn with a bass of 1.87kgs.
2nd Ryan Davies with 0.98kgs.
3rd Lloyd Summer with 0.76kgs.
4th Junior Henry Equall with 0.49kgs.
5th Chris Tucker with 0.21kgs.
6th Roy Tapper with 0.17kgs.
7th Gary Parssons with 0.15kgs.
8th Nigel Putbrace with 0.14kgs.
9th Jason Lewis with 0.13kgs.
10th Rob Guscott with 0,12kgs.
11th Craig Maddock with 0.10kgs.
Junior winner Henry Equall with 0.48kgs. He was the only junior to weigh in.
A full match report can be found on the on the Newport& District SAC Facebook page.
Garry Evans SeaMasters Results following the match can be found by clicking the link HERE or from the link on the East Region Home Page