Winter bass sessions; Cork - 12th & 16th January 2011

your a lucky man frank super stuff

Hey Frank thats the job I think there is a bit of a bass fest at the moment long may it last
some fishing well done

Well done Frank, you getting numbers on the board early this year, nice to see the bass around though, bodes well for the year ahead

Another great report from the south coast. If ye Cork and Waterford lads keep posting at this rate you'll cost me a fortune in diesel.

thats nice fishing,,,great result,,welllllll done

if i hadnt got a wife and 5 kids i,d ask you to adopt me i,d be the perfect son and go fishin with you as much as you liked

brilliant pics man. sooooooooooooo jealous of them bass, well done

Great fishing Frank ,i think i met you in ballydwan co Waterford a year or to ago have i the right gent.

Thanks guys,

It's good to see you hitting into the Bass so early on in the year, your well on course to beating all of your previous year's Bass tallies if you keep on going the way you are. You seem to be catching a high percentage of your Bass from quite close in, it just goes to show that there's no need all of the time for casting long distances,

Thanks Paula, all of the bass I have caught this year have been in very close. Just as well since I am not great at distance casting, although over the last year my distance has improved, but my bass totals for 2010 were well down on 2009 - partly due to a sore foot over the summer but as well I think I was probably casting over the fish.

Frank thats fantastic fishing. Well done on mighty fish. id swear i was on same bech monday evening without a bite.

If you were fishing directly in front of the slip you may have been .

I don't normally fish there - but as I arrived so late I just set up the rods on the first bit of beach I reached, as the tide dropped I noticed there was a bit of a gulley in front of me which is where I was picking up the bass.

Well done Frank, you getting numbers on the board early this year, nice to see the Bass around though, bodes well for the year ahead

Hopefully it will be a good year

if i hadnt got a wife and 5 kids i,d ask you to adopt me i,d be the perfect son and go fishin with you as much as you liked

You could alway move to Cork

Great fishing Frank ,i think i met you in ballydwan co Waterford a year or to ago have i the right gent.

You may have, I did a bit of fishing there a couple of years ago.

Hey Frank thats the job I think there is a bit of a Bass fest at the moment long may it last
some fishing well done

Thanks Ray, the conditions on Sunday were ideal, although with this return to cold calm frosty conditions may have put an end to it for a while

outstanding fishing frank!! you are so lucky to be down on the SE coast man. a pound and a half cod would be the highlight of a session up here in the north

Frank you know how to hit the fish, well done.
Conor

fantastic fishing frank great to see so many bass around this time
of year ,and there are even some on the east coast

nice one frank i think you should change your profile name to bass hunter
great session's keep it up

Fairly intensive fishing there Frank! Great results for 2 and 3 hour sessions. If my sessions were as productive I reckon I would spend less time freezing my socks off and my other half would see me a bit more. When I do go out its half a day planned, and sometimes wasted .

I suppose its the difference in knowing what marks to fish, when to fish, what tides etc. I'm picking up some good info from these posts and by fishing marks new and old under different conditions, so future sessions could possibly be better

Cheers Frank, Keep up the good work, well, maybe work is the wrong word....

.... it just goes to show that there's no need all of the time for casting long distances, at the majority of marks (not all mind you) the fish will usually be found swimming close in the shallow waters ....

How right you are, how right you are.......I remember one fruitless plugging session returning along a shingle beach only to spot a large bass in the shallows. It couldn't have been any closer, its snout was almost out of the water, resting up on the gutter. I couldn't help but reflect that in my attempts to hit the horizon, not only was I overshooting the fish, but spooking those that were almost certainly at my feet!

Great fishing Frank, High tide or Low tide,,,,,,,,,,,it doesnt seem to matter , and now the bass themselves are providing you with your lug supply

Thanks guys,

outstanding fishing frank!! you are so lucky to be down on the SE coast man. a pound and a half cod would be the highlight of a session up here in the north

Thanks Al, I got spoilt with the good codling that were around Youghal in October and November - then you would throw back a 1.5 lb codling in disgust

fantastic fishing frank great to see so many Bass around this time
of year ,and there are even some on the east coast

Thanks Gerry, yes I wasn't expecting them to be around until March at the earliest.

nice one frank i think you should change your profile name to Bass hunter

Thanks Paul - I chose the name RockHunter primarily as I am a geologist and secondly when I first started fishing it was lure fishing off the rocks.

Fairly intensive fishing there Frank! Great results for 2 and 3 hour sessions. If my sessions were as productive I reckon I would spend less time freezing my socks off and my other half would see me a bit more. When I do go out its half a day planned, and sometimes wasted .
I suppose its the difference in knowing what marks to fish, when to fish, what tides etc. I'm picking up some good info from these posts and by fishing marks new and old under different conditions, so future sessions could possibly be better

I am sure they will, if you fish certain marks a lot you will get to know the stages of the tide and conditions under which they fish best. Plus there is a lot of information to be gained from this site if you read the posts regularly.

How right you are, how right you are.......I remember one fruitless plugging session returning along a shingle beach only to spot a large Bass in the shallows. It couldn't have been any closer, its snout was almost out of the water, resting up on the gutter. I couldn't help but reflect that in my attempts to hit the horizon, not only was I overshooting the fish, but spooking those that were almost certainly at my feet!

I had a similar experience in 2009, I was lure fishing a mark for a couple of hours without a hint of a fish, then as I was heading back to the car I spotted two bass (both a decent size 4-6 lb) crusing about no more than 1m out from the shore, by the time I had a lure back on the rod they were gone I have fished that mark a few times since but never had a bite.

Great fishing Frank, High tide or Low tide,,,,,,,,,,,it doesnt seem to matter , and now the Bass themselves are providing you with your lug supply

Thanks Dave, once I saw the surf on Sunday night I reckoned I had a good chance of a bass.

.... it just goes to show that there's no need all of the time for casting long distances, at the majority of marks (not all mind you) the fish will usually be found swimming close in the shallow waters ....

How right you are, how right you are.......I remember one fruitless plugging session returning along a shingle beach only to spot a large Bass in the shallows. It couldn't have been any closer, its snout was almost out of the water, resting up on the gutter. I couldn't help but reflect that in my attempts to hit the horizon, not only was I overshooting the fish, but spooking those that were almost certainly at my feet!

Yeah Pat, I know what you mean. I have had a couple of similar experiences to that myself in the past and I have now tried to learn from them. It’s a common mistake that alot of people make when out lure fishing, I used to do the same myself before I realised that I was actually casting over the fish, missing them altogether or as you said, spooking them/scaring them away. Since then I now cast my lures and plugs shorter and across the waves more and from doing this I have found my catch rate has increased greatly. Not just a Coincidence I think.
That’s the joy of lure fishing, anyone can do it. You don’t have to be a really great caster or to be able to cast long distances to do it and to be successful at it and catch fish. In my mind lure fishing is one of if not thee best forms/methods of catching bass there is. Very exciting indeed!