A few more bass - 21st April 2014

People: Me

Duration: 8.20 - 11.50 pm

Tide: HW at 11 pm

Weather: East/ESE wind, clear, dry, cold

Bait: Lug

Rigs: 4/0 pennel pulleys

Results: 3 bass ( up to 4.25 lbs), 3 flounder (up to 43 cm)




Report: Having got over the worst of a bad flu and chest infection I was eagar to get out fishing. However, the warm light southerly breezes of the past week were replaced by rather cold east/east southeast winds. One of my favourite marks for this time of year does not fish well if there is an easterly wind blowing so I made my way to an alternative venue. I got to the beach at about 8.30 pm which gave me 2.5 hours fishing to high tide, the optimum interval to fish this mark, although I would have preferred to fish it on a bigger tide. There was a weak to moderate surf with closely spaced waves breaking on the beach. So it looked promising. I set up my usual format for bass beach fishing, two rods with 4/0 pennel pulleys with large lug baits.

However, it was quite for the first hour and a half. Then at about 10 pm there was a sudden tug on the rod to my left and the line went slack. I rapidly reeled in the loose line. The fish had carried the bait in a long way, it must have been only 15 out from the shore by the time I connected with it. It was a small bass of 2.5 lbs with a length of 46 cm.

After that there was more activity, but mostly small flounder plucking on the bait. The first flounder I landed was about 32 cm. This was followed ten minutes later by another bass. It fought a little stronger than the first and was a just under 3 lb with a length of 48 cm.

After another ten minutes I thought I had another bass. There was a strong knock on the rod, but as I was hauling it in the fight didn't feel like a bass, more like a flat fish. It was a flounder, but my largest of the year so far at 43 cm.

Then at the top of the tide I had a very strong tug on one of the rods. I immediately grabbed it and could feel a good fish on the end. This was putting up a much better struggle and fought hard all the way in. It was a 4.25 lb bass, 54 cm in length.

I had planned to fish for an hour on the dropping tide until midnight. But after the third bass it quitened down apart from the occasional flounder nibble. I decided to pack up at about 11.40 pm. I reeled in one of the rods, dismantle it and reached for the second rod. But as I began to retrieve I could feel some weight on the end and then the pull of a fish. It was another large flounder, just over 42 cm.

So with three bass up to 4.25 lbs and three flounder up to 43 cm it turned out to be a better session than I anticipated given the slack tides and easterly wind.

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That is great fishing

Well done frank fine floundersess aswell

Some nice bass in great condition Frank..! Whats up with that flat brown bass..???!!

fine fishing again there sir...

Thanks guys,
In the past I have found April to be a good month for big flounder on the beaches.

nice fishing well done.

Well done frank your puting the bad year last year well behind you keep it up

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nice fishing that same night i fished (the smelly pier) with lug from 8 to 11 was amazed to get 3 cod over 3lbs in space of 10 minutes never got another touch afterwards do u ever pick up cod this late ?

well done, great fishing and pics