wexford 27/8/22

[MC]

well, it was my annual trip to Wexford and due family illness my mate couldn't make it. So set off at 6am to get to the first mark by 11.30am, it's a rocky headland with a few bays ideal for working a surface lure or soft plastics over and I fished the point and several of the bays over low water with just one follow, but nothing took so after two hours I headed to my second mark. Now this mark screams bass and has several sections to fish at different stages of the tide. The first second is a rocky weedy reef with gullies ideal for soft plastics so on went the Dolive stick and fished to my heart's content, nothing doing for the time I fished, so as the tide passed over I moved on to the next section of the bay. Now this section has a sandbar, so I worked metals, plugs and a surface lure. As the surface lure zig zagged a fish splashed next to me and I saw fins cut through the surface, I fished with excitement and soon a bass made a grab at my lure but missed, I paused and restarted and a second grab was made and missed again. I fished on for a few hours but saw no further action, besides it was time to move onto the next section. As the tide flows through it creates and eddy and its a great way to work sand eel lures and black minnow type shads, you cast them out and they bounce along until they get some slack water, normally this is where the bass hit but all I could hook was weed. Now as the tide reaches its peak you move onto the bay at the end of the beach and fish shallow divers, surface lures in fact you could fish any lure along the shore but once again I blanked. After 7 hours of trying I called it quits and started the long walk back to the car passing a local who was packing up too, I didnt feel so bad as he had blanked too, he also told me that this mark hasn't produced much over the last year. So down hearted I wandered back to the car only to have a fish jump as I left the beach to climb the path back to the layby. I soon had my gear packed away and had a bite to eat before doing the long drive home, which I spent wondering if I should start looking for new marks, well that's next years problem. Tight lines all.

[corbyeire]

superb effort MC. pity your efforts didnt get rewarded
i attempted a lot of that type of fishing when i lived in wexford and found it very hard to find them

at least you had a few follows to confirm your strategy at least

[MC]

superb effort MC. pity your efforts didnt get rewarded
i attempted a lot of that type of fishing when i lived in wexford and found it very hard to find them

at least you had a few follows to confirm your strategy at least

cheers mate, theres always next time

[chuckaroo]

Super effort indeed MC, that was a long day, pity ye didn't get a few
Reminds me of my efforts to Kerry and back targeting stingers - a long way to go and tough going to say the least, lol. Fair play
Here's a video posted by Henry Gilby on Facebook showing a pile of bass chasing a lure but not taking it. Sometimes makes you wonder that they are down there all along..:
https://www.facebook.com/henry.gilbey/v ... 7560271100

[johnwest]

After 7 hours of trying I called it quits and started the long walk back to the car passing a local who was packing up too, I didnt feel so bad as he had blanked too, he also told me that this mark hasn't produced much over the last year
Ahhh!, the Brotherhood of Blankers! That last clause sounds all too familiar. You seem to have encyclopaedic knowledge of that area and with the mammoth effort you put in, surely you deserved better results.