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peterw
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Mayo Bass

#1 Post by peterw »

I've been sea angling for a little over 5 years now , so after maybe the first year / year and a half of getting my bearings and getting settled , you could say I've wanted to catch a bass for about 4 years . Disapointment was never a big factor more determination than anything because I always enjoy being out , catching something ( sometimes nothing ) , having the craic , finding marks and meeting folk .
Last Wednesday I was up at 5 to hit the beach , new rigs tied , heap of bait , new line on the reels . Result ?? Nothing .
So on Sunday (3/10) I fell out of bed and rolled onto the beach with something niggling my brain , oh that's right - one of my reels is fecked . Well I put out the other rod into what seemed to be perfect conditions for bass and decided I'd chance the fecked reel as it was too good to be fishing at 50% .
No perfectly presented baits going out today , I launched a pulley rig with the last sessions sand eel on it freshened up with a new one.
Meanwhile Dougie had landed on the beach with the lads from Total Sea Fishing and David Gray so I went over to say hello and borrow a reel from Doug . When I reeled in the good rod setup I found that I must have got buried in the sand and my line snapped :evil: So over to the fecked one , nothing felt unusual , winding in I saw something amongst the waves , being the pessimist that I am my initial reaction was " It's a mullet "
Well I'm winding in and the reel is crunching and grinding , skipping and spluttering , I'm all the time walking backwards and letting the tide help me , I finally was certain it was a bass but it wasn't until I had it 3 or 4 metres up and away from the surf that i let the lads know what I had caught .
Doug and Roger drove up to me to see what the commotion was about, I almost met them halfway with all the jigging and dancing I was doing.
A little while later i looked down the beach to see Doug holding up a bar of silver too I thought " Bugger , he's gone and stole my thunder :x " but Doug had caught a sea trout , the other lads had a few flounder but nothing else for the rest of the day
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Re: Mayo Bass

#2 Post by mitch »

well done peter thats a nice bass 8) think you'll be
doing a job on that reel soon :wink:
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Re: Mayo Bass

#3 Post by peterw »

mitch wrote:well done peter thats a nice Bass 8) think you'll be
doing a job on that reel soon :wink:
Thanks Mitch , the reel has been brought back from the dead twice , it's finally gone to the spare part bin in the sky
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Re: Mayo Bass

#4 Post by Powderkeg »

Nice one! still havent caught one meself! well done!
SPECIES 2010: Flounder,Dab,codling,red codling,coalfish,3b rockling,5b rockling,dogfish,Starry smooth hound,common smoothhound,whiting,ballan wrasse,corkwing wrasse,Gold shinny wrasse,tompot blenny,pollack,silver eel,Huss,conger..
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Re: Mayo Bass

#5 Post by razor2 »

thats the job,nice bass :D
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#6 Post by polaris »

fair play to you peter,nice bass well done,,,,,
2010 species----flounder,dab,whiting,doggies,coalfish,pollock,siver eel,sea trout,bass,ballen wrasse, thornback ray,mackerel,pouting,red gurnard,grey gurnard,conger eel,launce,mullet,ling,cod,tub gurnard,octopus,bull huss,3 bearded rockling,poor cod
2011 species----turbot,seatrout,flounder,whiting,coalfish,L s doggies,3 beard r
rockling,mackeral,thornback ray,pollock,ballan wrasse,

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Re: Mayo Bass

#7 Post by king65 »

nice bass well done ,the first of many
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Re: Mayo Bass

#8 Post by rustyhookthomas »

deadly, don't let Noel on here see this post! mind you he got his bass too!! :D :D
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,
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Re: Mayo Bass

#9 Post by Surfrod »

Glad to see you popped your Bass cherry :) :) ;) :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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#10 Post by Al and Jordan »

congrads on the bass pete 8) 8) you show em how it's done man :D 8) 8) and a nicely written report too :P
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#11 Post by stevo74 »

nice one Pater. I know how it feels to wait a few years for your first Bass!
Species list 2011 - Bass, Dab, Rockling, Dogfish,Common Smooth hound, Starry Smooth hound,whiting,pollock
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#12 Post by oli »

nice bass,well done!
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#13 Post by declan65 »

Well done on the bass, you will always remember the first one,first of many hopefully 8)
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#14 Post by roger de dodger »

nice report, lovely day and a fantastic location to take pictures ,especialy one of your first bass 8)
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#15 Post by seanie35 »

well done on your first bass lovely fish fine report aswell 8)
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#16 Post by saltey »

welldone on your 1st bass Waite ages on my ins the to rock up at once
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#17 Post by paddylav »

NICE ONE PETE ABOUT TIME!1
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#18 Post by Nite Owl »

Well done on the bass. Just back from that part of the country myself, I think I saw that picture taped to Dougs' bait freezer.
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#19 Post by peterw »

Thanks for all the replies . Got to say my missus was probably happier than me to see the bass caught. She brought home a few fillets of the farmed rubbish they sell here , I told her there would be no bass eaten in our house untill I caught one. Think I heard her say under her breath " looks like I'll never know what Bass tastes like then "
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#20 Post by luanaigh »

excellent...congrads

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