Bass puzzle

[CODHEAD]

graft mate sorry have a good day lads ile ring yous

[andyb]

Have you lads ever been shore fishing and been told your casting too far???
I think if you give up on trying to get them off shore and look inshore....all my bass have come from within 10ft of water...caught on sandy and also shingle type ground. best time to get them is early morning or late evening....oh and i\'ve even managed to get them to 9lb 3oz here in SCOTLAND!
bait wise..crab,lug (not both at the same time!) or red-gills on spinning rods......might help to open your eyes a bit!....
take a look....... this was caught at 4.15am on a crappy summer morning.....
http://www.walton-sea-angling.co.uk/abr04_andy_brown_files/andy_bass.JPG

[DaveMason]

hi Andy ,

That was not the original question m8 . What i said was if we catch them from the shore ( Which we do but don\'t broadcast it for obvious reasons ! ) why is there none pulled from the wrecks like from the southern waters .One of lifes little mystery\'s me thinks .

[Charlton]

There has to be somewhere off the coast locally where big bass hang out, whether wreck or reef, chances are it must be a reef otherwise the odd one would have been caught by accident. Although it could well be that if they are on a wreck they will be well above it and anglers tend to get their bait down to the wreck as sson as possible. On one occassion i was fishing a wreck with a shaol of fish well above it, thinking they where just mackies or coalies I never bothered having a go until late on. I did have a couple of good takes and fish on for a litle while, but never landed one to see what they where. They could well have been cod feeding high or Pollock or big coalies one never knows. Bass well into double figures do turn up in nets on occassion, a couple of years ago two around 18lb where caught, so they are there somewhere, like anything else the effort or shear luck will find them. Somebody may already know and be keeping it quiet, like marks that fish for other species are.??????