West Waterford beach - 23rd November 2008

[RockHunter]

People: Me

Duration: 3.30 - 6.00 pm

Tide: HW at 2.30 pm

Weather: Cold, strong northwesterly wind, sunny with occasional showers

Bait: lug, razor, mackerel, mussel, squid

Rigs: 3/0 pennel, single hook flapper, lures

Results: 1 bass




Report: I headed out for a short session Sunday afternoon. As there was a cold NW wind blowing I chose a fairly sheltered beach - although there was still a bit of cold wind whipping along the coast. The wind had flattened out the waves so there was very little surf and the tide was dropping so I was not too hopeful of having much success but it was still nice to be out.

There seemed to be nothing biting, not a hint of a nibble and the baits were coming back untouched. By 5.00 pm my feet were getting very cold and I was beginning to think about packing up. Then right in front of me, no more than 3 m out from the shore a bass lept into the air, clear out of the water I grabbed the nearest rod and reeled it in quickly and put on a lure. Unfortunately it was the longest rod, 15' beachcaster. I had a spinning rod in the rod bag but I reckoned by the time I had it set up with a reel the fish would be well gone. I made a few casts with the lure - then bang, hooked onto a fish no more than 4 m out. It did some fierce thrashing about in the shallow water as I hauled it onto the beach.

It was a 50 cm bass, just over 3 lb

It was dusk at that stage, I did some more spinning for a little longer until the light faded.

I packed up at 6.00 pm, there had been no bites on the bait rods although not really surprising given the dropping tide and lack of surf - but I was well happy with an unexpected bass off a lure.

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Class.... well done

nice one, a bit of unexpected excitement and improvisation like that is always good.

[RockHunter]

Thanks guys.

a bit of unexpected excitement and improvisation like that is always good

The bass leaping out of the water was certainly a surprise - it was very calm, just ripples rather than waves then out of the blue a bass lept at least a foot into the air - definitely a sight to send the heart racing.

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Nice Bass catch

Brilliant fishing RockHunter, congratulations to your fast reactions and reaping the well deserved reward for it. Couldn't be any better

Nice bass there Frank

Nice one Rockhunter, quick reactions there, no time to think, just act well done, nice bass.

Well done!

Makes you wonder if you had been pluggin! It seemed to be the day for it. Attached is a pic of some of the plugs I was showin JLS and the lads that day.

theshoreking

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good man frank, is the same spot as the 2bass session, shoreking that squid lure looks like something out of starwars,obvously works, where did you pick up the raritys

Hi Seanie - no it was a different beach. One that I suspected should hold some bass.
Check out the gravel - does that give you a clue

that adds to were will I fish next dilema

Seanie,

The top one at the Dublin show a few year ago. The bottom 3 in the US and the eels I got off another angler but have very few left. In my humble opinion it is the best bass lure ever made. I know a guy who has 2 originals in the boxes. I offered him €200 euro for em but he wouldn't part with them.

wonder is eel completly soft or semi rigid, if you get the chance could you post a closer pic, a bit of homemade duplication could save you 200 yoyos