Mayo Bass

I've been sea angling for a little over 5 years now , so after maybe the first year / year and a half of getting my bearings and getting settled , you could say I've wanted to catch a bass for about 4 years . Disapointment was never a big factor more determination than anything because I always enjoy being out , catching something ( sometimes nothing ) , having the craic , finding marks and meeting folk .
Last Wednesday I was up at 5 to hit the beach , new rigs tied , heap of bait , new line on the reels . Result ?? Nothing .
So on Sunday (3/10) I fell out of bed and rolled onto the beach with something niggling my brain , oh that's right - one of my reels is fecked . Well I put out the other rod into what seemed to be perfect conditions for bass and decided I'd chance the fecked reel as it was too good to be fishing at 50% .
No perfectly presented baits going out today , I launched a pulley rig with the last sessions sand eel on it freshened up with a new one.
Meanwhile Dougie had landed on the beach with the lads from Total Sea Fishing and David Gray so I went over to say hello and borrow a reel from Doug . When I reeled in the good rod setup I found that I must have got buried in the sand and my line snapped So over to the fecked one , nothing felt unusual , winding in I saw something amongst the waves , being the pessimist that I am my initial reaction was " It's a mullet "
Well I'm winding in and the reel is crunching and grinding , skipping and spluttering , I'm all the time walking backwards and letting the tide help me , I finally was certain it was a bass but it wasn't until I had it 3 or 4 metres up and away from the surf that i let the lads know what I had caught .
Doug and Roger drove up to me to see what the commotion was about, I almost met them halfway with all the jigging and dancing I was doing.
A little while later i looked down the beach to see Doug holding up a bar of silver too I thought " Bugger , he's gone and stole my thunder " but Doug had caught a sea trout , the other lads had a few flounder but nothing else for the rest of the day

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well done peter thats a nice bass think you'll be
doing a job on that reel soon

well done peter thats a nice Bass think you'll be
doing a job on that reel soon

Thanks Mitch , the reel has been brought back from the dead twice , it's finally gone to the spare part bin in the sky

Nice one! still havent caught one meself! well done!

thats the job,nice bass

fair play to you peter,nice bass well done,,,,,

nice bass well done ,the first of many

deadly, don't let Noel on here see this post! mind you he got his bass too!!

Glad to see you popped your Bass cherry
Good on ya boy

congrads on the bass pete you show em how it's done man and a nicely written report too

nice one Pater. I know how it feels to wait a few years for your first Bass!

nice bass,well done!

Well done on the bass, you will always remember the first one,first of many hopefully

nice report, lovely day and a fantastic location to take pictures ,especialy one of your first bass

well done on your first bass lovely fish fine report aswell

welldone on your 1st bass Waite ages on my ins the to rock up at once

NICE ONE PETE ABOUT TIME!1

Well done on the bass. Just back from that part of the country myself, I think I saw that picture taped to Dougs' bait freezer.

Thanks for all the replies . Got to say my missus was probably happier than me to see the bass caught. She brought home a few fillets of the farmed rubbish they sell here , I told her there would be no bass eaten in our house untill I caught one. Think I heard her say under her breath " looks like I'll never know what Bass tastes like then "

excellent...congrads