ballyvoile head waterford 20/10/07

People:me + pat :)

Duration:8/12.30 p.m.

Tide l.w.@6.30

Weather:s.e. wind

Bait: lures

Rigs:

Results:4 bass/ me, 6+5lb. pat :) ,9,4lb.
went to a mark i had not been to in 20 odd years, pat had taken some good fish here recently to 11.5lb. there was a fairly big surf+swell combined with a fresh on shore breeze which made casting into it with light plugs/poppers difficult the furthest i could cast was around 30 meters, put on a heavy sandeel type lure first cast, just as the lure reached my feet it went solid, gave it a few jerks to free it, then it jerked back :) before charging of soon had a nice bass of over 6lb. beached. pat got a 4lber. shortly after. we then went back to a rocky outcrop that pat had taken several good fish from, sure enough within 10 mins. he hooked up to a 9+lb. that took the lure as soon as it hit the water, i followed this up with a 5lber. we then moved about a mile to another mark, we worked our way along the beach for 200 meters, till we reached the hotspot i had put on a deep diver and as it passed through the surf right at my feet it went solid, i held thinkibn it was kelp when the wave receaded there was a bass of 7/8lb on the stones the next wave swept him back into the surf were it shot off, played it and was attempting to beach it when the hooks pulled :x pat then hooked up again right in the brakeing surf this fish shot of and was stripping line at a scary speed, it tryed to round some rocks, pat tryed to stop it then the hooks pulled :x another 7/8lber. took some pics. on phone(forgot camera) that i will try and post.....

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well done art ,fantastic fishing there, well done two both of you :wink:

nice one art