26/11/2008

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??

23/11/2008


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!