My P.B. bass.

A couple of years ago, while out fishing on my own, i caught my P.B. bass.
I was watching a pike fishing programme a couple of days previous, and saw a good pike taken on a whole joey mackerel dead bait, with cuts on the flanks to release more sent.
I decided to try this method for bass, and on a cold November night on a well know east cork beach i blasted a joey out into the darkness.
Thirty minutes past with no touch and just as i was thinking of reeling in, the rod went berserk.
I landed a fine fish, photographed it and put it back.
After a few minutes of disbelief went back fishing and caught nothing else worth mentioning.
I will soon put a scanned image, or two of the bass on here and let you decide how big it was........

November.. last.. gasp.. bass ?

Out last night and fished for several hours.

Ebbing tide at a rough, sandy, mixed ground venue.

Loads of good bites, but no hook ups until the very end and one small bass in the bag.(released of course!)

The bites were, i think, from mullet, but cant be sure, just guessing.

Will there be any more bass this year?

Where are the codling??

Things are getting very slow now, had this fish on razor clam at night.

Beach casting rod and 4oz grip lead off the beach. nice sized bass.

I lost possibly the best fish of the year last week.

Spinning a 15cm shallow lure at low tide, a massive bass took it and after a few shakes of its head, the lure popped out! It WAS huge! i was gutted..... thats fishing!!

Went out yesterday and fished for hours ... lovely sunny day...water clear as gin.... no sign of life!