East Cork on the lure 6th August.

What a night! One bass landed 4.5lb and one lost at my feet.
But that's not why......every second or third cast, a bass would follow the lure to my feet.
I have never seen so many follows in all my time lure fishing.
At least 30 +.
I tried every lure in my box and fast/slow erratic ...no good!!
At one point, 3 bass followed the lure in! Usually this competitive behaviour results in a take.
Nothing i tried would get them to take...and i had no bait or JELLY eel's.........
I think the jelly's would have done the trick.
I had my fly rod, but it was too windy.
Very enjoyable night!


Both fish C&R ...one by itself!

Bass fishing in the dark.

I had my broken fly rod tip section replaced yesterday, and went out to a spot outside Cork harbour to test it out.

I fished in to the darkness with a floating line and a 1/0 Gurgler fly, but had no luck!

The weather was far from ideal, with some very heavy shower's and poor visibility.

But...i have my fly rod back in action!!!

Early start this morn. East Cork lure fishing.

THE LURE.

Got up at 5.30 this morn to go Bass fishing, but was delayed waiting for my wife to get home from a party.

She eventually arrived back at 5.45!! Party animal!

straight in to the car and off to an east Cork mark.

Big tide 4meter+.

Water was clear-ish but with lots of red weed in it which proved hard at the start, but as the tide pushed in it pushed the weed in to.

This Mark is on rocks fishing over a shallow rocky reef full of weed and gullies.

It took a long time to connect to a fish and 3/4 hour before full tide i hit the first one.

small enough about 2lb (guestimate)

Next fish was a little better................about 3lb but in my excitement i forgot to photo it!!!

Then a lovely fish a good 4lb

After that i struck into what i thought was the reef until i was nearly pulled in!!

A really good fish on and i hoped the hook's would hold as i had crushed the barbs after the first fish......

DISASTER... i saw the fish come up head first and shaking the lure...it flew out and the fish was gone...ah well...

I adjusted the clutch(should have thought of that earlier!)and cursing myself i fished on.....

One more take produced another nice 4lb fish

A great morning's fishing!

Pity about the big one ...B.T.F! (but that's fishing)
ALL FISH C&R.

East Cork the night AFTER i got back from Wales.

Went to a favourite mark inside Cork harbour, and i could not believe the conditions!


Murky weedy water with big waves and swell!


I did manage one follow from a very nice size bass but she didn't bite the lure.........

Hoping for a bit of calm warm weather......if only........

New Quay west Wales.

On holidays for ten days in Wales.
Went out a couple of mornings and one evening and another afternoon with plugs.
The water was very murky at times and if any wind blew, it stirred up to very poor conditions.
After 4 trips out, and also using sand eel for bait, i had no luck.
Lots of weed too........
That's fishing!

Still it was very enjoyable to fish a completely new area, and I'm back on my home ground tonight!!

Wish me luck!

Big lure time.

Out at a mark that has a mixture of shallow and deep water, using 15 and 18cm lures.
Landed Two smaller fish about 3.5lb and 4lb on the 15cm lure.(both released)
This mark also has snaggy rocky outcrops under the water with plenty of weed and food i imagine!
Then in the shallow part casting parallel to the shore (not more than 10 feet out) i landed and released the fish in the photo below...5and3/4lb.
Nice fat fish!


No mack were around, or sprat but this was an evening seis and also had a few bites at the lures.....



ALL FISH WERE C&R.

Gurgler fly.

Fished a very shallow reef type mark at low water.
I could see sprat jumping and small pollack breaking the surface.
Switched to a floating line and a gurgler fly (floating popper).
Twitching it back got some small hits from pollack, then a big boil behind the fly....left the fly for 3 seconds and twitched it again.
Bang!
An explosion of water and fish!
Bass on!

Fly is green/white with a white foam top.
Photographed and released!

Bass on the fly.

Fishing for pollack with sinking line and a deep sinking clouser
and caught this fine Bass.
The fly was a bleeding clouser green/white and red with red eyes.
The mark is a deep rocky and kelp laden one.
Great fight!
Photographed and carefully released.