People:me
Duration:3 hours
Tide:1st 3 hours of flood
Weather:sunny with showers
Bait:rapala maxrap in flake chartreuse
Rigs:
Results:one bass four coalies
out yesterday in west cork mark for some plugging .third cast caught this beauty took the lure at my feet and fought like a tiger.not the biggest i've caught but one of the best conditioned bass i've seen no scales with me but at least 6 to 7lb .no bass for the rest of the session but got 4 coalies-not a bad day .as the tide flooded the water got well coloured with the good surf.
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west cork bass on lure 3/10/2012
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west cork bass on lure 3/10/2012
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Re: west cork Bass on lure 3/10/2012
Absolutley gorgeous fish,that must have put up some hell of a fight.Great catch
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Re: west cork Bass on lure 3/10/2012
ya cheers fergal it was a great scrap and he went back unharmed .thanks,
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Re: west cork Bass on lure 3/10/2012
Fair play lovely fish and it went back alive fair play... 
Species 2012: Flounder, Whiting, Dublin Bay Codling, Coalie, 3 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Bass, Dogfish, 5.2lb Starry Smoothhound (PB), Twaite Shad, Thornback Ray 5.8lbs (PB), LSD, Pollock, Ballan Wrasse, Cork Wing Wrasse, 43cm Flounder (PB)
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Species 2013: Coalie, East Coast Codling, Smoothounds, And hopefully a back opp to get back fishing soon...