Duration: 9.45 pm - 1.45 am
Tide: LW at Midnight
Weather: Light southwesterly breeze, changing to southerly and back to southwesterly and strengthening, dry, mostly clear, one short shower
Bait: Razor
Rigs: 4/0 and 2/0 pennel pulleys
Results: 2 bass
Report: I made an attempt to go fishing in East Cork on Monday night and tried two beaches but both were unfishable due to immense amounts of weed. So last night I headed in the West Waterford direction. I got to a beach I prefer to fish on the ebb/early rising tide and found that my usual mark was very weedy so moved 400 m down the beach until it seemed fairly clear. I set up two rods one; with a 4/0 pennel pulley, the other with a 2/0 pennel pully, both baited with razor. There wasn't much happening for the first few hours, not even a nibble, apart from crabs devouring the bait - definitely crabs as there were still a few clinging to the remains of the bait a few times when I retrieved. I just had to keep rebaiting more frequently than normal.
Then close to low tide I spotted a small rattle on the rod - I stood next to rod and waited - then there was a strong knock, I grabbed the rod - the line had gone slack, a fish was running with the bait
I rapidly retrieved the slack and connected with the fish - it was putting up a good struggle so I reckoned it was a decent size bass. As I got it in close I could see the fish splashing in the surf. Then weed accumulated on the leader knot got stuck in the tip eye of the rod - that's the time you are likely to loose the fish, so I moved back up the beach, holding the rod high and hauled the bass out of the surf. It was not a bad size - 53 cm 
So that gave me encouragement - if there is one on the feed then it's likely that more are about. However, the rod tips remained motionless, apart from when the rigs snagged the occasional clump of kelp. As the tide began to push rapidly forward I decided to pack up. I retrieved and dismantled one rod. The tide was pushing me back so I move my gear further back up the beach and then went back to get the second rod. I noticed the line was running diagonally across the beach but was still fairly taut - I presumed it was just a clump of weed that pulled up the gripper and was been dragged to the left by the current. As I started to retrieve it felt quite heavy, like a big clump of weed but at the same time there seemed to be a bit of a kick. I was unsure if there was a fish on or not. I eventually had the shockleader out of the surf and could see that a lot of weed had accumulated on the knot, that was part of the weight I was feeling, but I could definitely feel some strong tugs on the line now that the trace was in the shallow surf. So again I walked backwards up the beach and hauled the rest of the leader out of the surf and could then see a good fish flapping on the sand. This one was a well fed 58 cm bass
So with that I packed up and headed home - happy with the night's fishing.
PS. Both fish were caught on the 4/0 pennel.
great to 
Frank is it a preference thing or Cork thing but you always use razor for Bass bait fishing 
Do you find it gives you better results than say Lug/crab.Just curious 
