are bass getting bigger!

[cortaz]

are there more bigger bass about this year?, right from the beginning of the year there almost every sess had fish over 5lb. in most sess,s all are now over 4lb..it seems in some areas the avg. weight has dubbled, to 5/6lb. and lots of em, is it just me or do others see it same?.

[Pat]

I thought the same Art. Also the stamp of fish we were getting over the 9lb mark have now moved upto the 10lb class . Glad to see it.

[RockHunter]

I have definitely been getting bigger bass this year. Last year I got very few over 55 cm - this year I have had quite a few above that, with a few over 60 cm, in the 5 - 6 lb range. A couple of beaches where I rarely got anything over 50 cm last year are now regularly producing bass between 55 and 60 cm. Since bass are supposed to be slow growing it can't be that the 45-50 cm ones from last year grew an extra 5-10 cm in the space of 7 or 8 months ??

[immunecfg]

Good to hear seeing im heading down cork direction on friday. Most of it is most people having a good C&R ethic ensuring the fish will be there for many years to come!

[anthony2carr]

Strange. This year on my local river, the sea-trout have doubled in size!! I never heard of sea-trout of this size caught in this river before and I have fished it for close on 25 years.