Specimen Bass, Cork, 18th June

Species:Bass

Specimen Weight:10lb 4oz

Irish record:17lb 13oz

Location:Cork

Bait:Maria Chase BW Holo

Rigs:

Report:Landed the beauty below on a Maria Chase just as it was getting dark.

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Congrats Mate.

Lovely Fish there on a good lure, did it give you much of a fight?

cracker of a bass pat, you must have got a good tussle out of him, well done mate

well done pat thats a beauty

thats a beautiful fish pat well done

Cracker Pat!
Congrats... so early in the season to break the double!

Congratulations Pat - thats a great start to your lure fishing for the year. I will have to get out my spinning rod now

Well done Pat, cracking fish. A hard one to follow

2 in 2 years Pat! congrats. good to see a big one like that in cork.

well done fish of a life time

Thanks for all the comments lads. It certainly is a fish of a lifetime....a lifetime ambition of mine has been to catch a double on a lure. I've been plug fishing since 1994 and have lost more big fish over that time than I've landed. When you do eventually land that prize it makes it oh so sweet .

Some interesting stats on the fish: it measured 82cm & had a girth of 40cm. A fish I had last year was 80cm but had a girth of 43cm and weighed slightly heavier. Just shows the impact of post spawning and what a difference feeding over the summer months will do in terms of weight.

....did it give you much of a fight?

Sorry, Danny, just spotted your question. Yeah, he gave a great fight. At a guess I reckon it took me over 10 minutes to land him. At first I thought it was a schoolie it was coming so easy. The fish I reckon didn't realise it was hooked (nor did I realise what I was hooked into). When it came close to the platform I was on it woke up and exploded on the surface. Its first run was so fierce I was haunted I had the anti-reverse lever dis-engaged for, eventhough, I had the drag set I reckon he might have smashed the line. That run took him right out to the limit of where I can cast with these weighted plugs - 60 yds at a guess. I had several more explosive runs before I finally tamed him.

What a fish!

More power to you

Blackie

Well done on the fish.

Looks like I’ll have to buy night vision binoculars to keep track of you.

cracker mate,

Smashing fish well done M8.

Yappo

....Looks like I’ll have to buy night vision binoculars to keep track of you.

Donal I was fishing your gilthead mark the other night , but from the shore. I had a few bass, so was very happy . Haven't fished this spot in a few years. Its a great sheltered spot. Any lads fishing the beaches and open coastline that night got blown out of it.

Congrats beautiful Bass

Nice one well done

another one?? jammy git .

congrats pat.