West Waterford 16/01/11

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West Waterford 16/01/11

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Duration:15:30 to 18:30

Tide:HW around 16:00

Weather:Just lovely

Bait:peeler,lug, razor

Rigs:2 hook flapper, 3/0 pennel pulley

Results:1 bass, 1 rockling, 2 coalies




Report:With the forecast for the weekend giving a hammering south west wind, I thought a trip to Waterford might be worth a try on Sunday. Unfortunately it wasn't just the South and West coasts that got hammered on Saturday :oops: which resulted in arriving at the mark about 3hrs later than planned.
The plan had been to target codling but maybe I should have phoned ahead to let them know I was on the way down, they never showed up.
There was a deadly surf running which looked very bassy so I lobbed out a big lug/razor cocktail on the pulley first off and when baiting the second rod noticed the first had gone slack. Wound in and the fish was still on, a nice 45cm bass. Happy to get one this early in the year.Unfortunately that was the end of the excitement for the day, only picking up a couple of 10cm coalies and a 10cm rockling after that. Have a feeling that things could have been different if I got there a bit earlier; staying off the sauce next time.
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Re: West Waterford 16/01/11

#2 Post by razor2 »

nice bass. off the mark for the year 8)
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Re: West Waterford 16/01/11

#3 Post by Al and Jordan »

hard luck with the cod, but the bass would have more than made up for it :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: West Waterford 16/01/11

#4 Post by Stephen8wood »

Ahh that's bass. :lol: Ahhh sorry. :oops: For the younger members in the audience that just went over your head didn't it. :wink:
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Re: West Waterford 16/01/11

#5 Post by roger de dodger »

nice early bass night owl 8) havnt opened my account yet but their,s plenty of time yet :lol: its a long year and plenty of golden beaches waiting to be fished,shame its so feckin cold still :wink:
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Re: West Waterford 16/01/11

#6 Post by chuckaroo »

ah it was well worth it. lovely wee bass
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Re: West Waterford 16/01/11

#7 Post by southaussie »

what a great bass so early in the year n all, still waitn here :roll:
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#8 Post by Nite Owl »

Cheers lads. Good to open the bass account this early alright, it was well into March last year before I got the first one.From reading the other reports it seems that I didn't need to drive so far in search of codling, and missed out on the free hugs too :wink:
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#9 Post by RockHunter »

Well done on the bass.
Nite Owl wrote:From reading the other reports it seems that I didn't need to drive so far in search of codling, and missed out on the free hugs too
Think I would have preferred to have caught the bass than been molested by strangers on a dark beach !!!!
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Re: West Waterford 16/01/11

#10 Post by equium »

Well done :D
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