W Waterford, 22nd Aug 2013

People: Me, Willy, Jim Mc

Duration: 4 hours

Tide: rising and falling

Weather: Brilliant

Bait: Lugs, razors, crab

Rigs: 2 hook traces

Results: Bass, bass and more bass

Report: Set off from Dublin at 6am and arrived in Ardmore 2.5 hours later. Had breakfast and off to dig some big black lugworm. As the tide was high we were able to dig in a spot that only uncovers for some very high tides.

As there was little wind and bright sunshine we did not have great expectations of getting bass. To make matters worse there was weed everywhere and it was obvious that fishing could be difficult

On the first cast my rod got a hit and in came the first bass, a very welcome fish of about 3lb . Then Jim had one the same .

No sooner had Jim’s next cast hit the water than he started shouting and I ran to see a beautiful fish heading for the beach. The scales tipped 8.5lb. What cracker

Jim Mcs bass 4.jpg

After that it was mayhem with fish after fish being landed and many more missed. Most were 2- 3.5lb and nearly all were returned.
Next day conditions were the same and we were to go boat fishing but decided to try for a repeat performance. Three friends joined us expecting another marverlous catch…… we caught 3 small bass. THAT’S fishing

Two weeks before this I was on the same beach and caught 2 fish, a bass and a guilthead bream. Hoped to do a report but had no internet. So here is a photo of same.

Guilthead.jpg

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Stan the man unreal great fishing

Some great fishing big well done to you and the lads

Nice bass well done

Cracking report and fishing Stan, that bream looks like a lunker of a fish

Stan would that be a specimen guilthead looks big?

Thanks lads.

The guilthead was 1.84Kg and was a specimen. Happy days

Excellent fishing Stan.

Great fishing Stan

Fine report and that's some size of a bass . Great fishing.

Lovely stuff Stan, that gilty is a cracker! Pity about the second day, the bay is alive with huge bait balls still

2 fine fish Stan, i,d say Jim was delighted

Nice one lads.

Beautiful looking fish.

Thanks for the comments. Looks like even better bass fishing ahead in W Waterford. Jim fished a shore competition in Wicklow on Saturday night. It was won by 2 fish...biggest 22cm...........could be used for bait down south

It is important that the South coast is not fished out like the Irish sea

well done stan geat fishing i fished that mark a couple of days after you got the bream but not a bite all day but we did get 32 mack beaching themselfs cheasing the sprat

nice bass well done

Lovely fish man well done sounds like a great day out

Great bassing, never saw bream taken there before

Great fishing lads, cracking bass and bream

great fishing lads well done