Bass with attitude - Gascony, France

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Bass with attitude - Gascony, France

#1 Post by kieran »

Hi

Anyone fish around here - been in touch with Fonzy already.
Put me onto http://www.apaoleron.fr and I found this...

http://video.google.fr/videoplay?docid= ... 5243840711

That's a maigre / meagre, like a bass but way bigger! :shock: way...

Thought this would be a scratching trip on the beaches...

I don't think so now! :D
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2015 targets - a triggerfish, a specimen bass, a three bearded rockling to complete the set and something big and toothy from certain north Mayo deep water marks
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#2 Post by kieran »

http://www.apaoleron.fr/phpBB_FR_v2.0.2 ... .php?t=706

From the shore, with a lure, as far as I know at the lighthouse at Coubre, mind you, look at the neoprene waders and at night...
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#3 Post by Tanglerat »

need to log on for that, kieran.
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#4 Post by kieran »

Doh! :oops: :lol: I'm try something else...
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#5 Post by paulocallaghan »

are they the same as stone basse??

if they are think they can usually be found around bits for floating debis in the water. was once told by someone that he always brings a spinning rod afloat with him and has a few casts around any debris he comes across
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#6 Post by lumpy »

different species paul. stonebass are more commonly known as wreckfish. will often see them holding under the hull of boats when driftnig for shark.have seen a few caught while sharking
shore species 2008(25):dogfish(3.1lbs), bull huss (12lb 2oz), bass, shore rockling, coalie, whiting, pollack, conger (22.4lbs),flounder, thick lipped mullet (4.8lbs),turbot,ling (11.2lbs),ballan wrasse(4.5lbs), cuckoo wrasse, pouting, poor cod, cod (9.5lbs), dab, 3 bearded rockling, long spined scorpion fish, corkwing wrasse, plaice, trigger fish, sea trout, garfish


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meagre

#7 Post by kieran »

Yeah, different species.

did I mention that this one is not especially big... apparently.
They can go over 100 lbs and run the rivers to spawn in June / July!

The wee salmon on the Moy will never look the same!

:wink:
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#8 Post by rapalajoe »

Look like something that known down under as Jewie.....or mulloway...
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#9 Post by hughcronin »

pardon my french, or rather the lack of, but where abouts are they getting those bass? like are they athlantic or is it off of some former colony or what?
golden greys, giltheads, triggers....who knows, maybe next summer![/img]
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meagre

#10 Post by kieran »

Hugh

they can appear anywhere but the main hotspot for them is the mouth of the Gironde, western Atlantic abotu three hours drive below La Rochelle

FWIW
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#11 Post by hughcronin »

Thanks Kieran,
Was just curious. Fished around la rochelle before but for carp. caught few small brownies as well in pyranees (the mountains like) but a bass like that. went lookin for the irish version this evening in cork harbour without a sniff-role on the summer!
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#12 Post by keith »

It looks similar to a fish they catch in South Africa called a Cob...
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#13 Post by Tanglerat »

I've caught cob up to 36 lbs, and compared to the fish in the photo it was a tiddler...... :?

One way to id a cob is the pale mustard colour of it's inside mouth. Does these bass have that?
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