dublin bass quest, different result :)

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dublin bass quest, different result :)

#1 Post by rustyhookthomas »

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Duration:10pm-midnight

Tide:h.w. 9.30pm

Weather:20 degrees, dry and westerly wind

Bait: lug

Rigs: 2 hook flapper 3oz weight and spinning rod

Results:one smoothie :)

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Bass ban lifted i decided to head out for a couple of hours, especially as the next 7 days are looking very good (cortaz report)
started off a bit weedy and i was checking baits every ten min or so to remove weed and refresh the lug whitch i dug a few hours earlier. as the drop started the weed lessened and fishing big baits got easier.
i was using 2 or 3 big black lug per hook to tempt a bass but nothing was showing.
11pm came and the rod rattles, strike, fish on and a few runs and retrieves later it was lost just as i lifted the net, first bass of the year gone i thought :( quickly rebaited and lobbed it out again.
within a minute or two the rod rattled again and same runs and retrieve but felt a bit stronger.
as i got the fish under the net i was nicely surprised to have a smoothie and not the bass i was expecting :)
haha still no bass yet this year but a nice smoothie to add to my list for 2010!!
will stick a pic up later!
species 2009, whiting :(, three beard rockling,.shore rockling, 5 beard rockling, flounder, lesser spotted dogfish,bullhuss, dab,bass(13), more whiting : pollock,poorcod,pouting, sea trout(the dodder!)brown trout,sea scorpion,mackerel, silver eel,
topknot:), cod, conger, corkwing wrasse,smooth hound.
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Re: dublin Bass quest, different result :)

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species 2009, whiting :(, three beard rockling,.shore rockling, 5 beard rockling, flounder, lesser spotted dogfish,bullhuss, dab,bass(13), more whiting : pollock,poorcod,pouting, sea trout(the dodder!)brown trout,sea scorpion,mackerel, silver eel,
topknot:), cod, conger, corkwing wrasse,smooth hound.
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#3 Post by Al and Jordan »

nice one thomas :P not what you were expecting, but a hell of a consolation :D
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#4 Post by Jayball10 »

Nice result. Call me crazy but I'd prefer a smoothie over a bass any day havin just got my first ones this year. Smoothie caught on worms yeh?
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#5 Post by roger de dodger »

not the first time that one took monster lug i still havnt got a decent smoothy every time i target them some stupid bass eats the bait :lol: tried monster lug last night but the doggies just hammered it :| and its too hard to dig to be wasting!!
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#6 Post by tight lines »

well done thomas nice hound pity about the bass might see u down that spot i was talking to you last year with the moon nice and the evening tides well done again
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#7 Post by Tony Fella »

Nice one tom
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#8 Post by rustyhookthomas »

down that general area tonight(thursday) and got two bass around the 2 kg mark and a 30"+ smoothie!
also lost a biggie bass on my last cast of a nice 90 min session, no real pull on the line as it swam from the cast to the shore and got weeded up and legged it as i tried to stick the net under it!! haha it made the release a bit easier as the first bass
struggled bigtime. the second went like back a torpedo! :D
super few days/nights to go fishing! :) :)
species 2009, whiting :(, three beard rockling,.shore rockling, 5 beard rockling, flounder, lesser spotted dogfish,bullhuss, dab,bass(13), more whiting : pollock,poorcod,pouting, sea trout(the dodder!)brown trout,sea scorpion,mackerel, silver eel,
topknot:), cod, conger, corkwing wrasse,smooth hound.

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