JIMBOB Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Finally Dawn Raider was back in the water. My cast came of Tuesday morning, then after a quick bit of physio I drove round like a mad man trying to get things sorted for my planned kimmeridge trip. But it wasn't to be, as my warning lights for brake pads came up on the car . I didn't want to ground them down any more with all those ups and downs in the hills around kimmeridge. So it was plan B. Christchurch. With a late launch saw us just catching enough bait for the night ahead, the plan was conger on the slack, then a late night move to see if we could find one of those elusive monster bass that are about (someone had a 15lber last week!) managed to sneak in a couple of drifts for bass before dark, which produced 3 on the first drift! was this to set the pace for the night?........................................ well not on the conger mark! it was a bit slow to start with but after an hour the first bites started and after a couple of lost fish we finally both managed to land eels not huge fish,marks went about 30lb mine 20lb, interestingly they were not! taking mackerel both fish fell to pout heads, so with the tide building and the prospect of a large conger in a large tide not being that appealing we upped anchor at midnight and went in search of that monster bass................................................................. All was quite quiet to start with and we both dosed off then sceeeeeeechhh from the reel saw me fumbling for my spinning rod in the dark it was solid and the line was grating on the other rods and heading in front of the boat! after heaving in for ages what seemed like a lump of weed, I gave up and put the rod back down to sort out in the morning.I lay back down then screeeeeeeeehh again ,so I grabbed it again and this time it I realised it was a fish and not weed!! and was now more awake, in the torch light at the net we both called Double, but on the boat she went 8lbs 10 oz After that it all went a bit mad and we must off hit a huge shoal of bass and in a mad flurry saw a succession of bass over the gunnel's including 4 over 6lb but not that elusive monster Then at first light my bass rod bent double and roared of line. I held on as I couldn't stop it at first I thought I had hooked a raft of weed or stay tree! until it kicked.............. was it the beast? it then kited in a big D and started going up tide!!! .........as it neared the boat we were both trying to stretch our vision to see what it was on the line as she stayed deep near the boat then up popped a thornback ray a good fish to at 11lb, rays dont half go on light tackle!!. saw Aquafresh blast past us at warp factor ,any good chaps? we were back in for lunch time. out again soon James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coddy Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Nice one Jimbo Wish I could have been out there as well. Coddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DommyBoy Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Crackin result mate, just wish i could have been out there aswell but instead was having my car towed home as its finally died on me! Oh well ill have to wait until monday now. If you ever need crew James let me know and id really like to join you sometime! Dom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
great white Posted September 7, 2006 Report Share Posted September 7, 2006 Nice one James a couple of nice fish amongst many that are not at all bad ether. I have not received a catch report Has everyone now stopped sending them???? Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul D Posted September 8, 2006 Report Share Posted September 8, 2006 Nice report James, wish I was out there as well ..... Oh yes, I forgot, I was Didn't have quite the same success on mackeral earlier in the evening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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