West Clare 24 - 08 - 2013

People:Myself

Duration:Too Long

Tide:Rising

Weather:Wet and Wild

Bait:Sandeel and Lug

Rigs:2 Hook Flappers

Results:1Bass and a couple of Doggies




Report:
Hadn't been out in a couple of weeks so got the green card stamped and hit to west clare. Had been watching the forecast all week but obviously i had the eyes shut while i was reading it because what i thought was to be an ok day turned out to be fairly rough . Hit to my lug mark first, pull up and looked down to the mark and it was literally like a badly managed garden with the amount of weed up on the mark had to dig the weed before i could start getting the lug. Ploughed away for a whlie until i got enough of the lug. The plan was to fish a mark that i have not fished in about 6 months but when i saw the weed on the lug mark i knew mark 1 was out, so decided to hit another favorite mark albeit that i know things have been slow on the fishing front.
Things were very slow from the get go As the tide started to push it brought in a fair amount of weed, it was still fishable though. The tide was coming through like an express train so it wasnt long before i was forceably shoved back up the beach. There had been another lad fishing for a while but after an hour or two he had packed up, not before we had a good old natter about our Limerick hurlers last week or rather, the lack of hurlers I was going to pack up as well when all of a shot one of the rods double over, struck in, as i started to retrieve the fish ran in directly towards me, just before the shoreline it made a shot for freedom but after a quick tussle i landed the fish, a lovely plump bass that weighed in at just slightly over 5lbs, over the moon, so launched out the baits again, but once again it went quiet. After about another 1 hour i hooked into a couple of Doggies. Slow day but was delighted to get a few fish

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Nice fish well done

I'm sure that bass made it all worth while, nice fish!!

Slow day? Great day I'd say! Nice Bass and some dogs. What could be wrong with that?

Nice fish well done

Cheers Dave

I'm sure that Bass made it all worth while, nice fish!!

Cheers Sean, that fish made my day

Slow day? Great day I'd say! Nice Bass and some dogs. What could be wrong with that?

What was looking like a disaster turned out to be mighty I'll tell after the bass I was delighted to get the couple of doggies

never a bad day when you get a 5lb bass well done lovely fish

Nice fish well done.

John Ainsworth.

Wow!

I could have been there with you. Well done again Seamus.

I hope I can tag along next time.

Congrats on the silver!

Cracking plump fish, well done!

never a bad day when you get a 5lb Bass well done lovely fish

Cheers Alan, well happy with that catch

Nice fish well done.

John Ainsworth.

Thanks John

Wow!

I could have been there with you. Well done again Seamus.

I hope I can tag along next time.

Congrats on the silver!

Cheers Wabs, sorry for the late notice but we'll organise a session soon,

Cracking plump fish, well done!

Cheers MAC,

nice bass : )

Go on bro...... About time lol Sent you an email

nice Bass : )

Cheers lucky13

Go on bro...... About time lol Sent you an email

Hey Joe, great to hear from you, the wait is over sent you off an email, hope all is well, get ready for your return trip for the winter fishing