ChrisE Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 As my better half was away visiting for the weekend I had a free pass to go fishing on Saturday and Sunday. Spent a couple of hours on Sat and four hours on Sun bassing. Sat started off chasing a flock of diving seabirds on The Shingles. They happened to be diving in 12-15' of water right on top of the bank. Drove to within 30m to a scene of swirling bass everywhere, in an area the size of a football pitch! A couple of casts brought in the first, quickly followed by 3 more. Small fish but fun on light gear. My cautious side was noting at the same time a big swell rolling over the bank, not breaking but close enough for discretion to give way to valour.. Moved over to The Bridge and caught 3 more, best just over 6, all the fish caught on softies. Sunday saw Martin and I on The Bridge for just after first light, pretty parky it was with a fresh ene wind cutting right through you. We had 3 fruitless drifts then Martin latched into something a bit bigger. After 10 mins up popped a 9lb bass. It was a lovely black backed fish which I would have snapped but for the fact that in taking the hook out prior to releasing the fish Martin managed to get both spiked badly and a part of lure lodged in his finger. So fish went back and dug out the plasters to stop the blood which was making a mess of the cockpit! To cut a long story short Martin had another 6 fish up to 6 plus a large number of wrasse to about 4. I was fooling about with different softies and managed a fair sprinkling of wrasse and managed to pull out of a decent bass. Bar a 2lber for tea all of the fish went back. So a profitable weekend. BTW, for those who are interested the car park had about 20 boats anchored on Saturday and about 10 on Sunday, ch6 was very quiet so I assume that not many cod were caught. Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Nice report and sounds like the title of the thread is spot on. Well done Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JIMBOB Posted October 8, 2012 Report Share Posted October 8, 2012 Good to see a few Bass about and well done for finding them. Its good to read about catching them, even if I cant get out for them! weather windows and days of work seem hard to come by these days! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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