Dilbertd
Well-known member
Well it has been a while since I posted on here, not had much worth speaking about (been float fishing and spinning for Macky all summer and there is not much point posting pictures of Mackerel !).
But I finally got my first Bass out last Saturday. I have targeted them on SS big beach a couple of times and got nothing. I targeted them at Cresswell a few months ago and got one Dab. But this time I tried Cresswell again and scored.
I turned up 3 hours before high tide only to find that the sea was huge even though there was no wind on Saturday morning. I knew the sea has been big a day before but I thought it would have died down with the wind. Not so
Anyways I was not going to chicken out and drive 30 miles back home and fish the ratty or something so I had a go anyways.
The beach along Druridge was unfishable but I found that the scars were breaking the big swells so the gulley behind the scars in front of the Drift Café was fishable so I fished two rods, one at 100 yards with a pulley rig and one close in with a 2 hook flapper. As the tide got bigger I found that I could not hold bottom very well and I was getting dragged round to the left. I was getting pushed back up into the dunes as well by the huge tide. Eventually I got what I thought was weed problems on the distance rod but turned out to be my first Bass. Only about 30cm but a Bass all the same. Never realised how difficult the buggers are to pick up. He stuck his spines up every time I touched him. Gorgeous fish though. Chuffed to bits to have one out eventually
I returned him to catch another day as rules on keeping Bass are pretty strict at the moment and he was undersized. (If I wanted to eat one the ones on Sainsbury's counter are the same size and farmed).
Pics below should show the conditions.
Sorry about the quality of the pic of the Bass but I was in a hurry to get him back.
But I finally got my first Bass out last Saturday. I have targeted them on SS big beach a couple of times and got nothing. I targeted them at Cresswell a few months ago and got one Dab. But this time I tried Cresswell again and scored.
I turned up 3 hours before high tide only to find that the sea was huge even though there was no wind on Saturday morning. I knew the sea has been big a day before but I thought it would have died down with the wind. Not so
Anyways I was not going to chicken out and drive 30 miles back home and fish the ratty or something so I had a go anyways.
The beach along Druridge was unfishable but I found that the scars were breaking the big swells so the gulley behind the scars in front of the Drift Café was fishable so I fished two rods, one at 100 yards with a pulley rig and one close in with a 2 hook flapper. As the tide got bigger I found that I could not hold bottom very well and I was getting dragged round to the left. I was getting pushed back up into the dunes as well by the huge tide. Eventually I got what I thought was weed problems on the distance rod but turned out to be my first Bass. Only about 30cm but a Bass all the same. Never realised how difficult the buggers are to pick up. He stuck his spines up every time I touched him. Gorgeous fish though. Chuffed to bits to have one out eventually
I returned him to catch another day as rules on keeping Bass are pretty strict at the moment and he was undersized. (If I wanted to eat one the ones on Sainsbury's counter are the same size and farmed).
Pics below should show the conditions.
Sorry about the quality of the pic of the Bass but I was in a hurry to get him back.
