Duration: 9.40 pm to 2.00 am
Tide: LW at 11.15 pm
Weather: Mild, calm, scattered clouds
Bait: Razor
Rigs: 4/0 pennel pulleys, two hook flapper (2/0 hooks)
Results: 6 bass, 2 codling
Report: The conditions looked good for a beach session, the weather had calmed down, it was forecast to be dry and the tides were big (4 m +). I choose a beach that usually fishes well on the last hour or so of the ebb and first hour of the rise. When I arrived there was a nice surf rolling in and the beach looked clean, no weed to be seen
I set up two rods with 4/0 pennel pulleys baited with razor, cast out one as far as I could and the other to moderate distance. Then put the two hook flapper on a third, again baited with razor, and lobbed it in close. There was not much happening for the first hour and a half, but it was a very nice night to be out, very mild, with just a very light southerly breeze and the beach was illuminated by a bright full moon.
I had a couple of nibbles on the rod in close but nothing hooked, then just at low tide (11.20 pm) I had a strong bite on the rod cast out farthest and the line went slack. I grabbed the rod and reeled in the slack before connecting with a resonable fish - had to be a bass
After a few minutes I hauled a 42 cm bass onto the sand 
A short time later I had another bite on the same rod, but this time the fish was not putting up so much of a fight, turned out to be a small codling of 42 cm - same length of a fish but much weaker in comparison to the bass.
As the tide started to push in I had another good tug on the distance rod, I struck and hooked into a better fish. This put up a good struggle, ran a few slackliners but I kept up with it. This one was a 47 cm bass
I thought I had a slight knock on the rod in close, left it for a few minutes, but then spotted another small tug, I reeled it in to find a tiny codling on the end.
Shortly afterwards I had a tug on the intermediate distance rod, I picked it up, struck but could feel nothing - missed the fish. I left it for a while, the line had gone slack but I assumed it was because the gripper had come loose. As I started to retrieve I realized there was a fish on the end - nothing big, but a fish all the same. It was a 36 cm bass
By 12.45 am the tide was pushing in faster. I was intending to fish until 1 am so refreshed the baits for one last cast. Shortly afterwards I spotted a slight twitch on the distance rod, I went to check it and found the line had gone slack, I rapidly reeled in a lot of slack before catching up with the fish. This felt to be a better quality fish, it was pulling strongly, and ran a couple of short slackliners. As I got it close I could see a good size fish splashing about in the shallows and eventually hauled in a fine fat 56 cm bass
It was close to 4.5 lb, above average weight for its length.Of course after that I had to stay a bit longer
so decided to fish up to 2 am. About 1.15 am I had another knock on the distance rod, and another slack line bite. This was not so big, 46 cm bass As I was walking back up the beach after releasing it I noticed that the line on the intermediate distance rod had gone slack. I reeled in the slack and connected with another bass, this was a little smaller at 44 cm. I fished on until 2.00 am, no more bites and was very tempted to stick it out until high tide at 5.10 am since the conditions were ideal for bass fishing, there wasn't a bit of weed and the fish were definitely on the feed but I had a lot of work to do the following day so for once common sense prevailed. But I was very happy with that session, 6 bass in mid-February .... the fishing gods were truly smiling upon me last night
,and you only got a
), i wont ask what size the tiny one was, probably mid thirties cms 
