clonea waterford 29/11/07

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Duration:3/6p.m.

Tide:l.w. @ 2.30

Weather:sunny/ freshing s.w. wind

Bait:lug razor... lugrazor cocktail

Rigs:2 up + 2 up 1 down

Results:8/9 bass up to ? 8/9lb

Catch and Release:: Yes/ kept 1 for the pot.
first cast got a big slackliner felt like a big fish lost it whatever it was. next 2 casts got same type of bites resulting in fish of about 6+1.5 went a bit quite after that for about an hour, till the tide started to fill a gully that i had expected to produce a fish or 2, the light was going prefect surf, no weed and a fish a cast... well i lost 2 and missed a few..



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[cortaz]

some more 8)

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great fishing arthur,tried down here but the wind had strengthened to much, was throwing up a 10+ ft surf by 6 o clock, made it very difficult to fish, this augmented by the horizontal rain. should hopefully fish well next week over the low water tides if the wind dies down

lumpy, the wind and rain was gettin bad when i left heres a pic. of conditions when i started.... 8) perfect... 8)

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ya it was like that about 2 o clock down here but typically the beach doesnt fish in day light. had hoped to get a few hours before the wind and rain picked up but didnt happen, thems the breaks i guess

Great Fishin' as usual Art.Your a dab hand for the oul Bass !!! :D :D

stuff;;;
The 3 biggest fish took full razor on 4/0 pennel rigged aberdeens, 15lb snool clear mono.
All 3 were taken on the down hook on a 2 up 1 down trace.(this snool took 5 in total i also missed 2 on same.)
All fish gave slackline bites...( flooding tide).
All taken whitin 50 meters of beach around the 2/3 wave.
Lost 2 fish and missed 2 slackliners :x .
Most fish/bites at dusk.
there was more fish there..........if i had stayed...............tomorrow :) ..

well cortaz all i can say is me and steve will be back next year, save us some bass please

art, any idea why the bass seem to be in your area all year round? where im from the bass fishing is excellent from april to september but then they vanish.....anyone else got an opinion?

thirty, were are you from ?. the bass fishin slackens of around here from dec. till march.. water temp.?.. they are still some fish about and if you get suitable weather ie. mild, with southerly winds then it can be as good as any other time of yr. which means they are never that far away and must be whitin a few miles of the coast.

well cortaz all i can say is me and steve will be back next year, save us some bass please

MC, pity you are not around today, just had a look at the beach, nice surf bit of colour in the water = bass,bass,bass :P going out at 3p.m.

Nice fish C. The bigger one definitely looks like a 8/9 pounder. In prime condition. Looks like many a poor crab/whiting etc met a bassy grave.

[cortaz]

fished same mark today from 3/6.30p.m., not much surf and the water was very clear nothing till the light started to go then got 5 in 90 mins. up to 5/6lb. had to go away with all the coalies/dogs. full razor worked best...

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fine fish there art , how do you do it :lol: well done :wink:

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fine fish there art , how do you do it :lol: well done :wink:

gifted.............. :lol: :) :P o yeah, the moon says i shoud get a specimen over the weekend :P 8) :roll:

you have somthing thats for sure :lol:

about 25 over 8 lb. so far this yr. 8) none over 10lb. :x :x :x

my best been 7lb just that one , but mate had one bass over 11lb , but very bad down here :cry: total for the season 50

This is a sample chart demonstrating the occurrence of bass caught along the Wexford coast as recorded by SEAi over the last five years. These are not number of fish but rather and indication of unit effort for fish caught over time by visiting anglers and the results obtained. These numbers do not reflect quality or size of fish but strictly unit effort of numbers caught and returned during angler fishing times as recorded by SEAi.

The fish that are recorded are caught using only fly and lure – there are no numbers available for bait fishing. The unit effort per catch for fly fishing is considerably greater than that for lure fishing, calculated somewhere in the region of 9 times. This may demonstrate some of the challenges involved in bass fly-fishing.

Interesting comments:

June and July of this year were particularly difficult
September October and November of this year remain very good
July remains consistently high in unit effort/catch in all years mapped
August remains unpredictable over the five years mapped
April of this year was exceptional
May and June are influenced by the closed season
Bass are evident on the Wexford coast from April up to December. The low reading for December is because personal fishing is only recorded in this month. Nevertheless it is very possible.

Water clarity, wave height and direction, rainfall, wind strength and direction, temperature all affect the possibility of catching bass. The predictable influences like tide are easily determined but the above factors are less ‘calculable’. On an open coastline these factors exert even greater influences over fish.

Notes:

The significant noticeable factor in Wexford at the moment is the clarity of water and stability in weather systems. This has ensured us high catches of fish right through October and November. This clarity is probably due to low rainfall and light winds. Salinity and clarity within the estuaries remains high and stable. There is little or no ‘cloudy’ water and any that there is, is clearing usually within 24 hrs. This is one of many reasons why we are still catching bass and other species on fly and lures as early as today.

The approaching weather systems may knock that stability off over the next few days and consequently the bass fishing on fly and lure for Wexford may degenerate this weekend – but I’ve said that a number of times this month.

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