He's Done It Again!!!.... And Again!!!

[BigMac]

It was still dark as Rupe, Tom and myself slipped the mooring and headed down the harbour. Tom had said that his morning had started badly by putting his arm in a pile of puke, left by a late night reveller, at the garage on his way to the boat. He also apologised about his wind problem in advance and hoped it wouldnt cause offense. Sometimes your just glad of a bit of breeze from the west.

 

By 5.00am we had loaded the livebait well with 30 baits and were on our way to our first mark. Tom had prepared his tackle the night before, his rigs looked great and his reel spools were filled beautifully to the lip, a 20m leader on one and a 10m leader on the other. As he tackled up, in readiness for the bass fishing, the wirey mono leader springs off the spool and lands in a tangled heap on the deck!!!!!! No worries, says he "I have another already tied up". The new spool is fitted on to the reel and Tangle Tom does exactly the same thing Much cussing and swearing from Tom and laughter (of the sympatetic kind) and urine extraction from us, he finally sorts himself out as me and Rupe are on the third drift.

 

There wasn't much tide, as expected, but with the wind blowing from the south west we were covering the ground effectively. An hour passes before the first action and Rupe nets a 5lb fish for me. Another half hour without further action and we're thinking of moving. The fish must want us to stay because Rupes rod takes on a healthy bend! Its 2 minutes before he can turn the reel handle, so Me and Tom reel in to give him some room. At one stage the fish even got some line (not easy, I tell you) off of him but without too many dramas the fish is expertly netted by Tom and slipped out of the net on to the deck. "Better weigh that one" says Rupe. On to the scales to reveal a new PB of 11-08 "Might as well stay here for a bit longer then"

 

The next few drifts produce a few more fish in the 3-6lb bracket for me and Rupe but Tom seems to be using a bass repellant mackerel and has not had a sniff. Rupe resets Tom float for him and finally he manages to hook a fish, a nice 5lber. Rupe hits another one next drift that pulls back a bit and 5 minute later another good one hits the net. On to the scales....10lb 4 oz

The first time we've had a brace of doubles on the boat in the same day and Rupe caught them both His first 3 doubles ever, in the space of six days, he wont lose that silly grin for a few days yet Well done mate!!!!

 

The tide changed, the sea was building and we ran for some shelter in the Solent. We fished for another two hours and we took fish regularly enough to keep us there until 12.00, when we had to leave to get to the run while there was still enough water for us to get back in.

 

The final tally for the morning was 15 bass ( Rupe-8, Me-6 and Tom-1 ) including two doubles of 11-08 and 10-04 to Rupe. Another lovely mornings fishing in great company.

 

Cheers fellas!!

 

Al

 

[great white]

Nice one guys

 

You are really on song now well done again

 

Charlie

[TomBettle]

I have to admit, despite fishing like a total tw@t all day, a day which started badly at 04:00 I had a great time with the guys on Aquafresh.

 

I haven't sussed out this Eastern Dorset Bassing malarky yet, but despite the frustration of not getting bites whilst the boys were it was facinating to watch them work.

Definitely demi gods in the world of Bassing and amazing to see such great fish coming from inshore marks.

 

Well done Rupert, good fishing Al. Hope you will both let me come again and gradually work out how to weedle the bu@@ers out myself.

 

Thanks chaps

Tom

Edited July 8, 2006 by TomBettle

[JIMBOB]

There really are some good fish out there at the moment, and were not yet at the best time of the year for the bigger fish.Two doubles in one trip is really fantastic fishing Well done chaps.

 

James

[Paul D]

Nice fish Rupe, good to see so many large bass around.

 

I also got out yesterday but as my friend didn't arrive from Portsmouth until later and on getting out of the run and seeing the sea state, decided to fish the mark you were mentioning the other club meeting - there was no way we were going to steam all the way to the island in that sea.

 

Spent an hour drifting X-Ray area for the macckie and then headed back to the mark, but no way was I going to anchor it ( there was an orange coloured boat anchored at X-Ray but no way did I fancy being chucked around as the waves were getting a bit large and were coming broadside due to the southerly wind.), so we opted to try drifting with a freelined joey.

 

First drift and something had a go at the mackeral.

Second drift and I caught a 3lb fish, then it went a bit quiet ( probably not helped by someone steaming in circles around us ).

 

Steamed back out to X-Ray for some more mackeral and lost the lid of the bait tank whilst going over a particularily large wave. ( The orange coloured boat had upped anchor by then )

 

Back to the mark and I hooked into a better fish which flew off and then dropped the mackeral, let some line out and it hit the mackeral again only to drop the mackeral a short distance from the boat. Ah well, at least I am getting some success now and this looks a great place to fish one evening when it is quiet.

 

Sea was roughing up now, so headed back to the run where it was LW, but managed to sneak in ( much to the amazement of the Wilson Flyer who was telling us how shallow it was ).

 

Nice day out still, despite having a cold and chest infection - bit of fresh sea air has done me a world of good !

Edited July 9, 2006 by Paul D