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Welcome to Anglesey

Adventures and the great outdoors: From course to coarse

Pack your clubs and your tackle for some great golf and fishing in North Anglesey.

Early evening on the golf course. Ball on the green, red putting flag in the distance.
Start from
Bull Bay
Finish at
Carmel, near Llanerchymedd
Distance
About 9 miles

Start out with a round at Bull Bay Golf Club, the most northerly club in Wales (and one of the country’s most testing). Playing between rocky outcrops and thickets of gorse demands accuracy and control, while the breeze whipping in off the sea provides an extra layer of challenge.

Third hole ‘Lle Mynno’r Gwynt’ (which roughly translates as ‘where the wind cares to roam’) demands unusual precision. Playing into the wind, a small ravine threatens the under-hit shot while impenetrable rough awaits any ball struck with too much power.

By contrast, 11th hole ‘Nebo’ invites a big drive, despite the risks posed by its narrowing fairway.

If playing at Bull Bay gives you the golf bug, you can also enjoy a game at Anglesey, Baron Hill, Henllys Hall, Storws Wen and Holyhead golf clubs (grab an Anglesey Golf Pass for reduced rate rounds at any four of the island’s courses). If you aren’t ready to take on a full course, there’s a driving range in Llangefni where you can work on your skills.

Lunch: Bull Bay Clubhouse, for sandwiches, snacks and warming post-game comfort food.

Spend the afternoon casting a few lines at Parc Newydd Fishery. From Bull Bay, follow the A5025 to Amlwch before heading south on the B5111 towards Llanerch-y-medd. Turn right at the roundabout in the middle of the village and take the B1152 for about 0.5 mile/0.8km, before turning right down the minor road to find the fishery.

Parc Newydd’s spring-fed, 5-acre/2ha Llyn Edna is home to coarse fish including brown, rainbow and blue trout, plus wildlife like stoats, water voles, buzzards and kestrels. It’s just one of a number of inland fisheries you’ll find across Anglesey, with species like perch, tench, rudd, bream and pike waiting to be hooked in places like Llyn Cefni, Llyn Llwynog, Llyn y Gors and Tyddyn Sargent.