North Coast Bass - Got One!

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chuckaroo
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North Coast Bass - Got One!

#1 Post by chuckaroo »

It's been a long time coming! - maybe 3 years and maybe 20+ attempts - but I was graced today by a nice little schoolie bass of about 1lb from the north coast. 8)
I worked most of the beach with a 11' spinning rod and a Tackle House Feed Shallow, wading knee-deep into the surf. The fish struck right in the suds in front of me, maybe 10 feet from me and 30 feet from the shore.
A small fish but nice to see. A feeling of joy to eventually see one on the end of my line, but moreso relief than anything I guess! lol.
Would have been that wee bit more satisfied if it had been 2 or 3lb - which is a common stamp of fish for this beach when they are eventually caught..
Some damage to the dorsal and adipose fins on the fish. But it swam of strongly, back into the suds!
Happy Man.
That'll do...... for now...
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Re: North Coast Bass - Got One!

#2 Post by chuckaroo »

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Re: North Coast Bass - Got One!

#3 Post by keymcg »

Well done. Your perseverance paid off in the end

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Re: North Coast Bass - Got One!

#4 Post by Rob Millard »

Nice one Charlie!
Species 2019: Common Skate, Pollack, Whiting, Coalfish, Cod, Cuckoo Wrasse, Bull Huss, Lsd, Porbeagle Shark, Mackerel, Grey Gurnard, Thornback Ray, Plaice, Turbot, Ballan Wrasse, Dab, Smoothound, herring, haddock, Blonde Ray, Tope, bass

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Species 2017 : Cod, Coalfish, Whiting, Poor Cod, Pollack, Bull Huss, Ling, Pouting, Bass, Flounder, Painted Ray, Lsd, Tope, Ballan Wrasse, Mackerel, Herring, Launce, Haddock, Thornback Ray, Conger, Plaice, Turbot, Grey Gurnard, Red Gurnard, Cuckoo Ray, Tub Gurnard, Dab, Smoothound, black goby, Scad, Cuckoo Wrasse, Megrim

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Re: North Coast Bass - Got One!

#5 Post by johnwest »

Way to go Charlie! Now you can relax and go fishing.
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2015 species; 28

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Re: North Coast Bass - Got One!

#6 Post by MC »

Nicely done your patience paid off, but what's the next target?
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#7 Post by jack01986 »

Good man Charlie!
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#8 Post by chuckaroo »

johnwest wrote:Way to go Charlie! Now you can relax and go fishing.
Ha! Indeed Paddy. You all set for this weekend so that we can get a bigger one!!
MC wrote:Nicely done your patience paid off, but what's the next target?
A tope, a specimen flounder, a keep-able turbot from the shore and a BIGGER north coast bass!! lol
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#9 Post by corbyeire »

That really is some going, on a lure, north coast and this time of year
Very impressed with your determination and perseverance
I could well do with some of that

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#10 Post by FisherKing »

Nice one and more to follow, must give the spinning rod a go in the surf
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#11 Post by Sweetwrasse »

Outstanding Charlie! A hard earned fish. Well done on keeping at it!
It ain't easy but it sure is simple!
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#12 Post by chuckaroo »

Sweetwrasse wrote:Outstanding Charlie! A hard earned fish. Well done on keeping at it!
Cheers Robin, hard earned indeed, to say the least. Now for a bigger one..
Hope you have started your ISA savings account and weekly payments for Iceland next year... :wink:
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#13 Post by Sweetwrasse »

Some day......!
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Re: North Coast Bass - Got One!

#14 Post by family guy »

fair dues chuck ,great to see those expensive lures paying of :D , where you up benone direction ? been up a few times this season with no luck , or should i say i've never had any luck up there lol :?
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Re: North Coast Bass - Got One!

#15 Post by chuckaroo »

family guy wrote:fair dues chuck ,great to see those expensive lures paying of :D , where you up benone direction ? been up a few times this season with no luck , or should i say i've never had any luck up there lol :?
up around that neck of the woods family guy, yip
funny, i was speaking to a guy that fished that north coast 40 years ago, he said that they were rare then too! - at a time when fishing on our shores was generally more plentiful....
hard to get. need to put serious time in, or be damn lucky.
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#16 Post by family guy »

seems to be the general consensus chuck, and with game season approaching it only gets harder :D
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#17 Post by mickser »

Perseverance pays off a long wait and well worth it I would have given up
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I have not fished in two years hoping to change that this year with anything ?
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#18 Post by hunterman »

nice fish well done my 2nd fav beach :wink: have had sum good times there
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#19 Post by billybob1013 »

Nice fishing, a well deserved reward after all your work.
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#20 Post by Danny M. »

Excellent result, fair play!
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