west waterford 28/4/10

People:mise met up with figs later

Duration: 8 till 12pm

Tide:dropping

Weather:blustery and dry

Bait:peeler

Rigs:4/0 flapper

Results:2 bass




Report: the sea was good and choppy with nice sets of waves coming in was fairly confident of a fish. got 2 in the end and missed about 3, was using foxsea powerpoint carbon bass hooks and they seem very good

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Well done seanie they are lovely bass. Crab seems to be the bait to use down in Waterford, I've never had much luck on it. It all depends on where your fishing of course.
Do you collect your own crabs or buy them from somewhere?

nice fish sean well done

...Crab seems to be the bait to use down in Waterford, I've never had much luck on it. It all depends on where your fishing of course...

You gotta 'match the hatch.' Although, crab will produce all year round, it is particularly effective around the times of the big peel as bass gorge themselves on the readily available food.

Good fishing btw Seanie .

Well done Seanie,
What size were they?
Were you fishing the western/right hand end of one of the usual haunts? If so - then it was me at the eastern end!!
I had three small bass, largest was 42 cm but the other two were undersize schoolies - only about 35 cm. Interestingly I had crab on one rod and lug on the other - didn't get a bite all night on the crab but had all the bass and a couple of codling on the lug.

Well done seanie they are lovely Bass. Crab seems to be the bait to use down in Waterford, I've never had much luck on it. It all depends on where your fishing of course.
Do you collect your own crabs or buy them from somewhere?

crab is good at the moment but im sure the other baits fish just as well in the right conditions

nice fish sean well done

cheers john the jellies were deadly

...Crab seems to be the bait to use down in Waterford, I've never had much luck on it. It all depends on where your fishing of course...

You gotta 'match the hatch.' Although, crab will produce all year round, it is particularly effective around the times of the big peel as Bass gorge themselves on the readily available food.

Good fishing btw Seanie .

cheers pat

Well done Seanie,
What size were they?
Were you fishing the western/right hand end of one of the usual haunts? If so - then it was me at the eastern end!!
I had three small Bass, largest was 42 cm but the other two were undersize schoolies - only about 35 cm. Interestingly I had crab on one rod and lug on the other - didn't get a bite all night on the crab but had all the Bass and a coupling of codling on the lug.

yep that was me , where you there last nite aswell seen a few lights, biggest fish was about 3lb water was deadly on the wednesday night

Yes I was back there last night too - but not much of a surf and quite a bit of kelp so I didn't stay long - but long enough to get another small bass Again it took the lug, nothing on the crab.

i blanked but still had 2 bassy type bites but not half as aggressive as night before

You gotta 'match the hatch.' Although, crab will produce all year round, it is particularly effective around the times of the big peel as Bass gorge themselves on the readily available food.

Your so right Pat.....as always

Interestingly I had crab on one rod and lug on the other - didn't get a bite all night on the crab but had all the Bass and a couple of codling on the lug.

It just goes to show you Frank, you can never tell what they are gonna take on the night.
That's why your always better having a couple of different types of bait with you, incase one isn't producing very much.
I've always preferred lugworm to anyother bait for Bass - the only pain is having to dig it!! - back breaking stuff for someone small like me

Nice fishing there Seanie....some lump of crab on that hook

some lump of crab on that hook

Seanie's not a man for small baits

It just goes to show you Frank, you can never tell what they are gonna take on the night.
That's why your always better having a couple of different types of bait with you, incase one isn't producing very much.
I've always preferred lugworm to anyother bait for Bass - the only pain is having to dig it!! -

I normally use lug or lug/razor for bass myself - but crab seemed to be producing some good bass last week in the West Waterford/East Cork area so I made sure I had a good supply - the crab certainly worked for me last Sunday night on a different beach.

some lump of crab on that hook

Seanie's not a man for small baits

It just goes to show you Frank, you can never tell what they are gonna take on the night.
That's why your always better having a couple of different types of bait with you, incase one isn't producing very much.
I've always preferred lugworm to anyother bait for Bass - the only pain is having to dig it!! -

I normally use lug or lug/razor for Bass myself - but crab seemed to be producing some good Bass last week in the West Waterford/East Cork area so I made sure I had a good supply - the crab certainly worked for me last Sunday night on a different beach.

I might get some and try them on my next trip and see how I go. You tend to get stuck on a couple of baits and because they work you don't try new baits incase they aren't any good so it would be interesting to see how I get on with them.
I'll just have to source myself some now for freezing. I'll make sure I have the razor and lug too though incase they aren't any good.

bass r back
well done

Well done SEanie, you'll be racking them up soon!!!

nice going sean ,they seem to be there its just a matter of getting tide and wind together last night
we hit one of your beaches ,just east of where we fished .we got the last 2 hrs of the drop and 3 hrs of the rise
we didn't expect much as there was 0 wind and tiny surf first cast a bass of 5 lb 2 nd cast codling 39 cm
3 cast bass 3 lbs we thought happy days were in for a good session BUT alas it wasn't to be we fished till 6 am this morning and we never got another bite but thats fishing ,see you soon

first cast a Bass of 5 lb 2 nd cast codling 39 cm
3 cast Bass 3 lbs we thought happy days were in for a good session BUT alas it wasn't to be

thats a good session in many a fishermans books gerry unless of course there was 15 of ye fishing

first cast a Bass of 5 lb 2 nd cast codling 39 cm
3 cast Bass 3 lbs we thought happy days were in for a good session BUT alas it wasn't to be

thats a good session in many a fishermans books gerry unless of course there was 15 of ye fishing

hi sean there were 3 of us and 6 rods out between us . it was well worth the drive down and the weather was fab the
plus side of it was that i now know that it fishes down the tide

by the way we had fresh crab and lug ,all fish took crab

first cast a Bass of 5 lb 2 nd cast codling 39 cm
3 cast Bass 3 lbs we thought happy days were in for a good session BUT alas it wasn't to be

thats a good session in many a fishermans books gerry unless of course there was 15 of ye fishing

hi sean there were 3 of us and 6 rods out between us . it was well worth the drive down and the weather was fab the
plus side of it was that i now know that it fishes down the tide

by the way we had fresh crab and lug ,all fish took crab

fineky fish, the other night franks all took lug at 1 end of the beach and all mine took crab at the other end. definatly fishes down the tide and like you say abit of surf and it really hots up