Bass guide

[Nicholas6850]

Hi me and the brother are heading to tralee again in February, this is our third trip and had no bass, just wondered if anyone can recommend a good bass guide for the area. Determined not to fail this time haha

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Google kerry bass guides or "ullcatch". If them lads cant get ye bass then there wont be any around.
I dont know the area but february wouldnt be the best month for them. You will get them then but not the same numbers as in the warmer months.

[TheHero]

Best of luck, i was also new to bass fishing last year, got 4 bass in around 8 outings which i thought was reasonably good. I had researched and talked with fishermen that i had known or met through business. They gave me the best haunts and through meeting people at these spots i gained a greater knowledge into areas and features that bass like to feed around. You cannot beat the knowledge you get from the older seasoned fishermen you meet. I find you should engage in conversation with all around you as you gain knowledge from them as they do from you.

Which brings me to a funny story - I had purchased savage gear lures from a local fishing shop in midleton, only to arrive back home and as i readied myself to go bass fishing realised he had gave me the gear i had rejected instead. Not to let it be a downer to me i said this could be a sign. So off i went with my sandeel lures and a bag of shimmer eels. For those of you that don't know what shimmer eels are - they are soft rubber eels about the width of a cotton budd plastic. Myself and my friend decided for the craic while we cast out lures we would float bait with a shimmer eel. 15 minutes in there was we both had taken bass. There was a glimmer of the full moon on the sea and my friend spotted a bass having a go for the shimmer eel, he picked up the rod and waited and sure enough the bass took it. A 3Lb bass was landed and released, we were a bit dumbfounded by what had happened but it had worked and we had learnt something new. As had our older friends that had never seen a bass caught on a shimmer eel that way.

Sorry if i bored you with my story i get carried away.
Best of luck with your bass trip i hope you catch a few.

[Tanglerat]

Sorry if i bored you with my story i get carried away.

No such thing as a boring bass story.

[Martin Mc Gowan]

Hi Nicholas,

Let me know a few days before you get down, and we will sort you out no worries, get a session or two in with a few lads, will do our best to get you a few bass.
we have a few marks around Tralee that through up some bass

[Nicholas6850]

Cheers Martin we will let u know closer to time. We down for 7 nights so plenty of opportunity for a meet up.
Got hold of Eugene from ullcatch and he going to take us out aswell. Hopefully this time there will be no failure haha

[Martin Mc Gowan]

Good Stuff, 7 nights, we cant let ye go home with out catching a few
Talk soon

[Nicholas6850]

Let's just hope the weather plays ball, not that we mind fishing through the rough lol