Duration: 16:45 - 20:00
Tide: falling
Weather: Beautiful sunshine and no wind
Bait: X-layer and Tide Minniw
Rigs:
Results: My first ever Bass (and a foul hooked minnow)
Report:
Looking out the window all day in work at the sunshine thinking: "It's a day for fishing".
Left work (rathcoole) at four p.m. and was undecided where to go. I was thinking anywhere from Brittas Bay to Greenore. But I decided on Malahide because I would be 10 minutes from home when I was finished (even though my last two trips to Malahide blanked).
Got to Malahide and had two chocolate muffins and a can of coke for dinner because I was dying to get casting.
Set up my spinning rod with a Megabass x-layer and got stuck in.
On my fifth or sixth cast - BANG. Fish on, first thought was it was probably a mackerel but after a few seconds I knew it felt different. I started to get excited and nervous as a couple walking by stopped to look. Being a novice I was afraid I was going to lose it and look like a d**e. But it came to the side pretty easily and there was no rocks etc for it to head for.
As it got near I was nearly jumping for joy because I could see the silver and I just knew it was a bass.
I landed it on and it had swallowed the lure well. I had decided weeks ago that I was keeping my first bass and I did just that. It was about 14 " long.
I fished on for 3 hours smiling like a chesire cat.
Between 19:00 and 20:00 the water was as still as a lake and there was plenty of fish activity. I saw two or three big jumps, one where the fish left the water completely.
I wasn't sure but presumed they were sea trout, although the last one I saw looked like a mullet (do they jump?).
I had changed to a tide minnow by that stage, and whatever the jumping fish were, they were not interested in the tide minnow.
I did manage to foul hook a minnow about half the size of the lure
........no wonder it didnt put up much of a scrap........ YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED,and no ignorance is no excuse. 
