county antrim beach bass frenzy sat 6th dec

[Lee337]

Well done gents, hell of a session!

Lee

[rab01]

Stunning sessions there lads, well done!

[dan]

wer all the fish at nite.

[stevecrow74]

some good fishin there lads.. reminds me of a night of flattie bashing and ending up with a bass.. you just have to love sea fishing and the surprises it will throw at you

[alannelson]

super fishing well done thats one to remember

[nifisher]

Al, Fantastic !!

Im sure you are all chuffed to bits with the great nights fishing.

[Al and Jordan]

cheers lads, if we had gone bass fishing we would have been useing 2/0 or 3/0 hooks on peeler crab and sand eel baits. who would have thought they would have gone for 3 inch ragworm on size 4 hooks if you told someone that was going to be your rig and bait of choice you'd be laughed at and you certinly would'nt have gone up the antrim coast as a mark expecting to find them the more we fish, the more i'm amazed at what kinds of fish turn up in the most unlikely places. and it was up to -5 last night . i have always associated bass with the south coast and warmer waters. i still can't get my head around it . and dan, jordan got the first one just as we lost the last of the light. go figure . i think our avatar will soon be changing from jordans wrasse to jordans bass

[round_ourway]

well done to ya all lads, thats one of the best sessions i have ever heard of coming from the north coast. One of the guys outa the club gota a super run last week during the comp. He couldnt hold on to it and sadly lost it. He was up the next couple of days looking for it lol.
Well done lads you have been putting in a lot of fishing hours and deserve a session like that

[JOHN1]

fantastic report and an excellent session well done lads.
memories that you will always have great stuff.

the sea is full of surprises

[immunecfg]

Well done indeed!!! Its great when things like that happen!!!!

[RockHunter]

Great session - that will be one you guys wont forget for a long time - well done.

[kstaff]

Fantastic report men! It's that sort of session that's keeps us all fishing!!

Make sure ye write down all details of the trip, Tide stage, weather, wind direction, bait and rigs uesd etc every detail ye can and I'm sure it will benefit ye in future sessions!

Weldone again!!

[nobuzz]

Excellent fishing guys, absolutely excellent.

Thats what you get for putting in the hours!

[RockHunter]

who would have thought they would have gone for 3 inch ragworm on size 4 hooks if you told someone that was going to be your rig and bait of choice you'd be laughed at

You never know - a couple of months ago I made up a rig to target small turbot with a size 6 hook. Baited it with a thin strip of mackerel and first cast got a 2.5 lb bass. A few weeks later I was fishing off a rock mark and was just getting dogfish, took out that same rig hoping to get a mini-species of some kind - anything other than dogfish - and ended up with three bass up to 4 lb within half an hour all taken on the size 6 hook

Thats the great thing about fishing - the unexpected.

Well done again, excellent fishing.

[Al and Jordan]

thanks for all the kind words lads, i think it's only now that the gravity of the whole thing is setting in, we could fish the same stretch of coast for the next 5 years and never have another session like that makes a change from the pin whiting

[Al and Jordan]

One of the guys outa the club gota a super run last week during the comp. He couldnt hold on to it and sadly lost it. He was up the next couple of days looking for it lol.

that would'nt have been harry by any chance? i was talking to him about that run when i collected the rag for our trip. i havent been in the shop yet, but when i do call in i bet he grills me about our session

Make sure ye write down all details of the trip, Tide stage, weather, wind direction, bait and rigs uesd etc every detail ye can and I'm sure it will benefit ye in future sessions!

i'm way ahead of ya kstaff. we keep a diary that we take with us everywhere to document our catches. initally it was just to keep count of what we catch and how many we catch, but over the last 6 months i record tide states weather conditions and moon phases. i gonna keep them so in years to come i can figure out what the common donominators are at certin locations regarding species movements and what conditions certin species favour. i'm hopeing they will become our fish bible

[Al and Jordan]

You never know - a couple of months ago I made up a rig to target small turbot with a size 6 hook. Baited it with a thin strip of mackerel and first cast got a 2.5 lb Bass. A few weeks later I was fishing off a rock mark and was just getting dogfish, took out that same rig hoping to get a mini-species of some kind - anything other than dogfish - and ended up with three Bass up to 4 lb within half an hour all taken on the size 6 hook

Thats the great thing about fishing - the unexpected.

i know, it's mad. we've had all sorts of odd things take stuff they're not supposed to. on my last trip to donaghadee i had a coalie take an 8 inch calamary on a 6/0 pennel rig intended for big dogs and huss the cheeky wee git managed to wolf down the bait to the top hook . when i laid him beside the baited rig they were near the same size

[round_ourway]

Yeah it sure was, he was raging I thought he going to stay there all night, I will ya pm alan.

Marty harrison is the fella to talk about bass, he told me one time that this is the month for them up the north coast. when the temperature drops seems to produce up here.

I sent ya a pm there

[the-ghost]

exellent lads, hell of a session there. the memories of that will never die!

[Al and Jordan]

thanks ghost, i know you fish the area hard along with many others, have you or any of the other co.antrim lads had many encounters with them in the past??? or was this just a freak session on our part???