a monsoon and a bass

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Tom H
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a monsoon and a bass

#1 Post by Tom H »

People:me

Duration: 2 hs

Tide:there was one

Weather: wet

Bait:lure

Rigs:N/A

Results: bass
First catch report in bit from me. Have been out a few times over the last few weeks (all blanks) Any ways took a drive down the road to a mark that should hold a few fish but with this being the co Down coast! Anyways pull up and get the waders on and go for a walk just as the rain is starting. Find a nice wee rocky spit that gives way onto sand with a good tide rip running past it. On with a Hart x3 pencil and start having a few chucks around, 4 or 5 casts later a white trout of about 3lb smacked the plug hard but no hook up. Ten minutes go bye and another hit (not used to this! been a poor year fish wise) A moment or two later I'm slipping back a nice wee bass of about 1.3/4 lb! Fish on for a bit but with the rain almost monsoon like and my wading jacket not as waterproof as it once was. It was time to call it a day.



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Re: a monsoon and a Bass

#2 Post by chuckaroo »

brilliant stuff Tom. happy days!
well done mate, any pics..?
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Re: a monsoon and a Bass

#3 Post by Tom H »

chuckaroo wrote:brilliant stuff Tom. happy days!
well done mate, any pics..?
Nah mate. No way was the Fuji coming out of the car with that amount of rain!
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Re: a monsoon and a Bass

#4 Post by roger de dodger »

nice to get a bass in all that rain 8) it woke me early this morning hammering the roof and doing a good job of cleaning the moss of the tiles :lol: weather like this confirms if your fishing jacket is really waterproof or not :roll: or if your mad enough to test it :lol:
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Re: a monsoon and a Bass

#5 Post by Austin »

Well Done Thomas! Excellent stuff from this coast! 8)
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Re: a monsoon and a Bass

#6 Post by flyno »

Well done tom, not too often i see any reports here from the co down coast, i have tried lots of places from rostrevor to newcastle and have blanked so many times i just head south or the antrim coastline.. Although i havn't really tried anywhere north of newcastle, i should probably give it a bash sometime...
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Re: a monsoon and a Bass

#7 Post by forest »

nice one tom !! still waitng on my first county down bass have tried a few places but no joy closest was ballaghan point got a small one!!!
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Re: a monsoon and a Bass

#8 Post by sparkey+1 »

Fair play tom yea some rain down ere aswell Oh and my jacket and waders are still waterproof thank god as was out in it yesterday fishing for the day down the south coast.....
Species 2012: Flounder, Whiting, Dublin Bay Codling, Coalie, 3 Beard Rockling, Shore Rockling, Bass, Dogfish, 5.2lb Starry Smoothhound (PB), Twaite Shad, Thornback Ray 5.8lbs (PB), LSD, Pollock, Ballan Wrasse, Cork Wing Wrasse, 43cm Flounder (PB)

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Re: a monsoon and a Bass

#9 Post by Dawsey »

Just getting to see this now, I knew you would get one soon tom, pity i was not on that trip still looking for the 1st :mrgreen:
[i]Species '10[/i] [b]23 Species[/b]

[i]Species '11[/i] Coalfish, Pollock, Mackerel, Sea Trout, Flounder, Turbot, Dab, Thornback Ray, Smoothhound, Tope(pup), Tub Gurnard, LSD, Shanny, Ballen Wrasse, Corkwing Wrasse, Goldsinny Wrasse

[color=#FF0000]Target Species :- Huss, BASS, Cucko Ray[/color]

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