clonea bass

[bigballs]

People:
me ,hopper,will
Duration:
19.30pm fri till 7.30am sat
Tide:
falling till 5am
Weather:dd
very calm
Bait:
mac,king rag,crab,razor,squid
Rigs:
pennels 3/0
Results:
5 bass,10 or 12 dogs,2 dabs



Report:
with all this talk about bass at clonea decided to give it a shot loaded the transporter and headed to waterford,got there about 7pm.full high tide at 11pm got set up and fished the falling tide all the way out man that is a long way out .was getting near the bottom of the tide and still no fish then from no where the 3 rods bent over 3 mins later 3 bass on the beach between 2.5lb and 5lb a few snaps and returned great to see them swim off.All rods baited up again and cast out about 40yrds and again with in 5 mins 2 rods noddin hopper landed his fish 1st another bass 3lb i was still fightihg mine great fight on the zipplex powertex bass rod but not long before a nice shinny bar of silver hits the beach 4lb or so didin bohter weighin him wanted to get back out there sadly that was the last bass we got the doggies had found us a dozen or so dogs later the tide turned ,back to the buddies for a kip, great nights fishing will defo do i again before the end of the month some pics to follow as soon as i figure out how to get them off my phone

Last edited by bigballs on Tue Oct 07, 2008 8:50 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Fair play lads.
Its really interesting to see when the fish were caught over a full 12 hour tide cycle from dusk till dawn.
I usually only fish for 2 hours at a time so it would be good to be able to unlock the secrets of which time is best.
I would say it was very calm?
Gave clonea an hour myself last night around dusk and only got a tiny flounder, it was rough, not very comfortable in the rain.

hardly a breath of wind figs and only one very small wave hitting the shore,I didin hold out much hope for bass when i seen how calm it was.There was a few lads fishing up the beach a bit but they left about 2am not hardcore enough

nice fishing their spud

Sounds like some good fishing but totally baffled with your tide times. If it was full tide at 7 pm how was it falling until 5 am. Maybe i've missed something.

sorry lads ment we got there at 7 high at 11 forgot to put that in its my 1st post was a bit nervous

sorry lads ment we got there at 7 high at 11 forgot to put that in its my 1st post was a bit nervous

We were all a bit nervous on our first time,,,,,,er,,,,Bigballs

ha ha i was thinking that didin sound good when pressed submit

hi lads, i gave 2 hours spinning at the top of the tide there yesterday morning not a bite even tho there was plenty signs of fish in around a few pools. I tried every spinner and plug i had but nothing For some reason this place is'nt coming up trumps for me this year

I would just like to say firstly my Bass was more like 6lb.Pic to follow to prove it,even mucker agrees!!Secondly that is the fastest tide i have seen(poor aul will couldn keep up with it) and last but not least i was d only one that slept in d buddie the other two hit d transporter with d heatin on.I was rudely awaken at 7am with a bucket of sea water!!!
Cant wait to go again
And thats all i have to say!!