brittas bay 10.05.08

People:me, fishface and John Bunn

Duration:7.30pm-11.30pm (fishface got a few extra sneaky hours earlier :lol: )

Tide:falling

Weather:mild clear night

Bait:lug, rag, mack,squid

Rigs:everything (bass caught on 3 hook flapper made by fishface :roll: !!)

Results:dogs, smoothie, unidentified flatfish. BASS,,,, YES I CAUGHT A BASS :lol: :lol: :lol: ,,,,,




Report: Arrived at Brittas (Nice meeting you again John 1 and Harry) to find Neil already fishing away in the hotspot. 8pm my a"s£!!!!!!! Set up and got ready for the usual banter and slagging but we werent getting any bites :cry: . Then Neil (fishface ) caught a smoothie (on his zippy) and we knew we would have to catch or we wouldnt hear the end of it all night :shock: :shock: . I was fishing two rods, i wont do that again at night as i found it too much work in the dark :cry: :cry: . Then i lit my lamp and i thought it was going to explode :roll: , there were flames everywhere,my own fault, but i think i'll be going down the rechargable battery road in the future. About an hour in I caught a small flatfish which the lads thought was a brill or small turbot, i thought it was a flounder but i'm sure someone here will sort it out :lol: . John Bunn had a doggie soon after and the pressure was off. I had blanked in Bray on monday night and told Neil and I was getting some stick for not putting a report up of my first blank of 08, but what was there to report ??? Anyways the blank was out of the way!!! :oops: :oops: :oops: . I reeled in slowly and felt something hitting the bait, i was hoping but not really believing it could be a bass :shock: :shock: . It was tugging and pulling all over the place and i kept easing the line back on to the reel." Stay on,,,,,,stay on" ,,,,I said to myself waiting for it to come off the hook,,,,,,
.but it didnt and as it came ashore I realized that yes,,,, it was,,,a BASS 8) 8) .. My first one ever,,,,, all slagging aside the two boys were delighted for me also. We had been trying for weeks for one with me just happy to be along learning from the lads,,, but i didnt think that it would be me that would catch one,,,,,,,as you can probably guess i'm delighted :lol: :lol: :lol: . I was on cloud nine all the way home :roll: .It took a lug and squid bait and you want to have seen how fast the lads went after my squid!!!. Thanks again to the two lads, especially fishface for showing me the ropes,,,,, and the marks!!!!!!

Congratulations on your bass. It sounds like it was a great experience.

That certainly looks like a flounder to me. It does have some unusual colourings and markings though.

Regards,
John D.

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great result dave :wink:
and as usual good report aswell.

congratulations on your first (BASS) makes all of them trips worth while :lol:
im sure it wont be your last well done mate.

the flat is a flounder.

nice one dave great photos , who took them????????, i still say thats not a flounder, but the other one is def a bass, i think i hate you :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: ,

defo flounder, they change there patterns according to the sand base, on killiney you get loads of them like that where the sand is grainy. should have gone there last night instead of the dunes

nice one dave great photos , who took them????????, i still say thats not a flounder, but the other one is def a bass, i think i hate you :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: ,

Great camera skill there Neil to be able to catch me at the exact time I have my eyes closed for a milisecond :? . Still,,,,,, that is a BASS in the photo isn't it? :lol: 8) 8) .

well done eyes on ur 1st bass, happy 4 ye. :D :D

still lookin 4 my 1st of the yr :(

well done eyes on ur 1st bass, happy 4 ye. :D :D

still lookin 4 my 1st of the yr :(

Thanks Wayne :wink: So was I till last night :lol: :lol: :wink:

now uve got ur 1st under ur belt ders no stopin ye :D

well until da 15th may-15june anyway :D

goin 2 try 4 a north dublin bass over da next wk :D :D

Well done mate :D :D

flounder :wink:

see you have changed your pic you show off , i still hate you :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

Well done Dave,
I am delighted that you got your first bass - that will be a moment to remember.

Hopefully that is the first of many more.

well done fella. . . . super catch :D

Congrats on your bass the first of many!!

Hey eyesreilly, all that hard work finally paid off, well done on your first Bass (I've been waiting to say that for ages :wink: ) 8) 8) 8)

I'm sure now you got 1, the hunger will be ever greater to catch your 2nd, 3rd,4th.............

I'm still waiting for my first :oops:

But added a wrasse to my species list on saturday to it wasnt too bad a weekend :D

well done man ! ! 8) finally got your first bass, nice to see all that effort was finally rewarded. may it be the first of many more 8) you deserve it for all the disappoints in trying so far, yet again man, well done