Bass departure

anyone else get the feeling the bass season is over 8 blank trips in south dublin over 2 weeks are starting to convience me,
any thoughts guys

Between now and Christmas is prime time for BIG bass...keep an eye on your rod..

Between now and Christmas is prime time for BIG Bass...keep an eye on your rod..

sounds exciting century man ill keep plugging away (pun intended)

Over just starting

They'll be feeding hard and fast this time of year , quite a few showing up our neck of the woods

Blanked the last 6 times I've been out in search of them but I refuse to believe they're gone, the conditions weren't right

is it true that the bass migrate to deeper water

the common knowledge is that they go south for warmer waters - however there are hangers on to be had - so much so they seem to be hanging round until the others return

im begining to think at this stage that there are far more of them knocking round the colder months than before

now whether thats global warming, increased numbers due to the commercial ban or just a plain behavioural thing - thats for another thread

hey everyone i have fished the same mark on the last 2 friday nights and have caught 3 bass, 2 large schoolies and a 2.5-3 pounder. there was surf and a all were caught at dusk, bait black lug wraps.enjoy

anyone else get the feeling the Bass season is over 8 blank trips in south dublin over 2 weeks are starting to convience me,
any thoughts guys

nt in Cork anyway

nice thoughts there corbyeire

im still waiting for the first force 6 to hit and then apparently i can put me spinning gear away

in my area i can get bass all year round .feb and march being a slow time but you can pick them up if your lucky.with all that very cold weather last year it was a different story.i have been under the impresion that bass dont go anywhere but in other areas it seems the do depart where do they go and why

Had one and lost one last fri(on lure)... water was very clear, then on tues. not a sign... water very murky close in to shore ..but better further out...Nov can be great on bait...

I love bass

I love Bass

Paul its just a pitty they dont love you

no problems over here in the west,loads of them about,can't seem to stop catching the feckers! there getting in the way of me flounder fishing!

I love Bass

paul i hope surfing dogs dont put them off tomorrow night

Blanked the last 6 times I've been out in search of them but I refuse to believe they're gone, the conditions weren't right

its interesting you should mention conditions Shambo, i was reading a post by Jim Hendrick on probassfisher about a period of weather and sea conditions that would bring "an autumn bass bonanza" and sure enough, I had a whopper days fishing in the time frame he described

wonder can he get us a line on the weekend lotto numbers

Plenty of bass around. I reckon if people are going to interfere with species (be it kill or cause stress and damage with C+R) they must become knowledgeable about that species.

Anyway,

Mature bass enter our shores from about April up the duff as it were and they spawn here from late april till late July. They have a grand summer holiday but come Oct an internal alarm goes off and tells the fish to start eating and to stock up for winter, and they get fat! About December time the majority of Bass (almost 100% of the mature) head to genetically encoded breeding grounds. They spend 3 months in a fascinating crazy bass orgy then come back to their home (and home could be a stretch of a couple of hundred miles of coast).

And the cycle goes on and on.

Its very unfortunate but its a known fat where these breeding grounds are and unscrupulous fishermen exploit these, both in the exodus to the grounds (which may be hundreds or thousands of miles) or on the breeding ground itself.

There is one such location, Boue Blondel, in the channel islands just off France that is the centre of a lot of media concerning the 'slaughtering' of bass and the affect this has on international stocks...

some info here
http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=we ... NA&cad=rja