Saturday, July 2, 2011

back on the bass.....

I got out early on wednesday and thursday mornings
to try for a few bass with my mate Ger Doran we got to
the mark before first light both mornings
and from the first cast we were both into
pollock up to about 2lb all on various surface lures
super spook , patchinko and the pugachev cobra
pugachev cobra from absolute fishing




















we had bass up to 5lb on wednesday morning no pictures though as i hadnt
got my camera with me and on thursday morning we hit the same mark
early on thursday morning and we were into pollock again we must have had about
thirty or more pollock between the two of us over both the mornings
I picked up one small bass on the cobra about 1.5lb and i switched
to a sub surface lure the megabass anthrax 100 a weird looking lure
which at first glance looks to be made upsidedown
anthrax 100





















it swims in like an injured or dying baitfish belly up and leaves
a nice wake due to the fin on the belly which slaps from side to side
on the retrieve 2nd or third cast i was into a good fish and after
a good fight i landed a nice bass of just over 7lb my best fish so far
this year and the best of the 2 days
7lb'er




















Ger moved down to where i was and we both cast out together
he had a patchinko and i stuck with the anthrax straight away
we were both into fish both fish made good runs but the lines got crossed
and Gers fish came off , i landed mine another nice fish of a little under 4lb
unfortunatly that was it for the bass another few pollock after this and we moved
on to other marks but no other bass to report.

On another note i also done a little bit of lrf on wednesday and i got
a few pollock more blennys or cobblers as they are known locally
and another lrf first for me a pouting


















































Yet another new species to add to my ever growing list
of lrf caught fish another good few days fishing.

tight lines,

Jay

Friday, June 24, 2011

Another first...

Went out today for some more wrasse but they weren't playing
ball no matter what I did. I suppose I spent an hour or so trying
so i decided to try out some of the tiny lrf lures I got from Andy
at jacks and went rockpooling instead saw plenty of little gobies
but none took they just played with it instead of eating it this went on for
a while and i tried several different pools and several different lures
the one that got the most interest was the ''mouse'' a little lure of under an inch
i tried this one pool and a much larger fish came out and stuck the lure and it turned
out to be a blenny/shanny i think (correct me if i'm wrong please) about 7 inches long
i lifted the fish went to unhook it and the little fish bit down on my hand and was actually
hanging from my hand by its jaws i should have really looked to if it had teeth which it did
more funny than sore to be honest but an aggressive little fella none the less any way it another
new species to go with the other firsts of yesterday.





















































 It was the only fish for the couple of hours i was out but i have to say the difference
the solpara has made to my fishing is vast two new species in two days.
I cant wait to see what other species i can catch.

Tight lines,


Jay