East cork April 06th

People: Me and fishy1987
Time: 18.00 - 22.00
Tide: High at 20.00
Weather: Fine
Bait: Frozen and fresh lug, white rag, razor, crab and sand eel
Rigs: 4/0 pulley pennel and 2/0 running ledger
Result: Me 4 flounder and 3 bass
Fishy 1 flounder

We had planned a session for last night but were told by rockhunter that we wouldn't get a sniff of a bass unless we had fresh lug. So a plan was hatched to take an extra long lunch break and go digging. So with a successful dig and the last few bits of work out of the way we hit the road at about 5pm. Landed on the beach about 6 and met oli and his friend who had a few bass and flounder already. The surf was looking lovely and it was a nice calm warm evening so we got set up and started fishing. I had 2 rods out at all different distances with all different combinations of bait and a mix of different rigs and hook sizes. Didn't matter how big or small the baits were, how far or close they were cast. The crowds of rogue flounder that roam this beach were finding the baits straight away. I had a fish a cast for the first three casts. With two of these flounder a nice size, one was 1lb 2oz the other a much shorter but thicker fish of 1lb. I was glad to be getting nice size flounder but we were here for a reason and that was bass. As it started to get dark i popped on the tip lights and rebaited. I had fresh lug on one rod, thanks to frank for the tips. And some razor on the other, thanks to donal domeney who gave me the razor a few weeks back. The two rods were cast one in close, one as far as i could go. The one in close got a strong bang, then another so i struck and reeled in the first bass of the year, small but welcome. I noticed a few nods on the other rod but they weren't massive but maybe that was due to the distance i was fishing at so decided to give it a strike anyway. Bass no two leaped out of the surf a few minutes later. The same size as the last one. Popped him back into the surf and i re baited and re cast. Just relaxing for a minute when the line on one of the rods shot off westward parallel to the beach. I chased it down and struck and got a good scrap before landing the fish. He was bigger than the previous two but still nothing massive. Fishy had one flounder some time during the night so he was glad to beat the blank but we were both sorry he didn't get his first bass. Nice night out and we'll be back down soon to scratch the bass off fishys list. Sorry bout the quality of some of the pics. I forgot my camera and fishys one was acting up.

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fine fine flounder,the mouth on the last one was the size of a cod,s mouth and a few bass good nyt pity about the camera and a pity the fish were everywhere but near my multiple concoctions of bait
t ick on the species list anyway

nice one,evan,was nice to meet you,we got 3 bass each and flounders ofcourse razor was doing his job....

Glad to see you finally got your bass - well done.
Did you get them on the lug or razor?
I was out myself last night but headed the West Waterford direction in search of a big bass - I will post up the result soon.

Glad to see you finally got your Bass - well done.
Did you get them on the lug or razor?
I was out myself last night but headed the West Waterford direction in search of a big Bass - I will post up the result soon.

Cheers frank. Got one of the bass on lug and two on razor. Oli and his friend were catching them on razor too. Looking forward to the report.

Glad to see you finally got your Bass - well done.
Did you get them on the lug or razor?
I was out myself last night but headed the West Waterford direction in search of a big Bass - I will post up the result soon.

Cheers frank. Got one of the Bass on lug and two on razor. Oli and his friend were catching them on razor too. Looking forward to the report.

That's good to know - for the last few weeks they wouldn't touch razor, but maybe after the windy weather earlier in the week they have switched back on to it. I might be able to get a bit more work done now during the day without having to head off for long "lunch" break to dig lug.

Looking forward to the report.

For the moment its on the blog.

well done on the bass. class pics there

nice fish there evan well done on the bass

well done on the bass evan its fishing well done that way the last couple of weeks hope fergal gets off the mark sortly for the bass

some nice fish there lads great fishing well done

nice bass. great flounder. decent session. well done

Thanks for the comments lads. It was a good night and very enjoyable catching a good stamp of fish such as flounder to over 40cms in daylight. When it got dark i was glad to see the bass coming on the feed but it was tough work as i forgot my headlight.

nice fishing lads fergal will get his bass soon enough your doing all the right things in all the right places and with frank giving you advice you should be quids in soon enough you know they say he talks to the bass and cod down there the fish whisperer

nice fishing lads fergal will get his Bass soon enough your doing all the right things in all the right places and with frank giving you advice you should be quids in soon enough you know they say he talks to the Bass and cod down there the fish whisperer

Well if he does like talking to bass and cod he'll never be short of someone to listen to him