Kerry - Brandon - 27 Bass...!

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Kerry - Brandon - 27 Bass...!

#1 Post by Eoghan »

People: Me, bro in law and 2 mates

Duration: Thur til Sun Morning

Tide: High morning and evening from 8pm thur til 10 ish Saturday

Weather: Cracking..!

Bait: Lug and Lures

Rigs: Single hook, short snood, 4/0

Results: 27 bass, 10 pollock a few flounder.




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A belter of a weekend from all aspects, Fishing was brilliant, banter, beer, had it all. So most of our fishing was on the evening tide at our usual bait mark. I cant give it away but if it helps anyone looking for a good mark to try, shallow water, good water movement, patches of sand amongst rocky ground. Typical bass ground. Fish were not big, we did have a handful of bass to approx 4Ib. Action was non stop. Ye had to be quick as the knock when it came either resulted in a fish or a stripped hook.
We tried lures in the morning session, was slow enough. Only one bass on a lure. I had a pollock approx 4Ib in weight on Sat morning, savage fight as I belted out a kilty lure, wind assisted. About 3 turns later the rod buckled over. Gave a great account of itself. I was out on rock and my camera was about 30 ft behind me.! DOH..!
Didnt see any sign of sea trout. We dont target them but we usually see plenty jumping and hook the odd one. Very surprising.
All in all though another cracking weekend in Brandon. Big thanks to our host too who gave us 3 lobsters FOC..! Yum..!

I have attached a few pics, same aul same aul really..!! :-)
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#2 Post by simplywabs »

Great session and sounded like really fun.... Well done!
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#3 Post by seaotter »

Well done! :wink: :!:
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#4 Post by nicefish »

Nice one Eoghan Brandon has been very good to you lately. 8)
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#5 Post by seanie35 »

Great fishing wouldnt mind a few sessions like that
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#6 Post by FMCN »

Nice fishing Eoghan, plenty of bass. I was down myself for a couple of days. Didn't realise you would be down as well. I will put a report up.
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#7 Post by tight lines »

well done mate that sounds like a great weekends fishing only problem is now you have to come back to nth dublin
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#8 Post by Eoghan »

FMCN wrote:Nice fishing Eoghan, plenty of Bass. I was down myself for a couple of days. Didn't realise you would be down as well. I will put a report up.
Ah crap, should have checked with ye before we headed off.
We got all the 4Ib tiddlers, no doubt you got some lunkers..!!! :-)
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#9 Post by stevief54 »

nice fishing well done
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#10 Post by Drew »

Awesome guys... just awesome... :)
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#11 Post by paul skelly »

Great trip lads it's sweet when a plan work out 8)
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#12 Post by lucky »

Great session eoghan... and the fishing aswell,,,,i think it time for me to book micks place in cloghane im always fishing brandon..... lovely spot and the fishing when it happens.........
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#13 Post by saving private brian »

Well done. I can feel a bass session hitting me now.congrats
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#14 Post by FMCN »

Eoghan wrote:
FMCN wrote:Nice fishing Eoghan, plenty of Bass. I was down myself for a couple of days. Didn't realise you would be down as well. I will put a report up.
Ah crap, should have checked with ye before we headed off.
We got all the 4Ib tiddlers, no doubt you got some lunkers..!!! :-)
Naw, as you can see from the report i wasn't after the bass this time. You only caught all the tiddlers as you call them because all the big ones are off making baby bass. :D
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#15 Post by chuckaroo »

sounded like the go Eoghan. brilliant stuff 8) 8) 8)
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#16 Post by Eoghan »

Cheers lads, really was a great weekend. Not just the fishing, lets be fair they werent the biggest bass ever. The surprising thing was so many of them had milt. So im not entirely sure at what age/size they spawn but clearly some of the 2Ib'ers to 3Iber's were definitly spawn condition males. All returned obviously. Two bass were kept on humane grounds, hooks swallowed deep with no indication of a fish on until we reeled in to discover a fish on. Luckily these fish were larger and had no sign of milt or more importantly eggs.
But it really enforced my belief that the bass ban is a great thing for the species. If nothing else to give them a break before or after spawning.
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#17 Post by round_ourway »

Brilliant fishing, we were over the other side. Brandon Bay is an awesome place. Caught the biggest mackerel there two years ago.
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#18 Post by Eoghan »

round_ourway wrote:Brilliant fishing, we were over the other side. Brandon Bay is an awesome place. Caught the biggest mackerel there two years ago.
Its so sad, the place used to be thick with them when we started going over 14 years ago. These days we catch more bass than macks..! They have really declined. We used to have great sport on light spinning rods if the bass were absent. Nearly a mack a cast.
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#19 Post by Monty156a »

Looks like a hell of a session lads :D

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#20 Post by Eoghan »

It really was, the thing is we know there are clonkers there. We have seen em etc, we just havent hooked up with any. Would love to live there for a year and really study the area. We pick a weekend and hope for the best with the conditions etc, if you lived there and coild fish when ye liked you could pull some serious fish out of it. I once had a follow from a massive fish on the popper. One night too we saw a massive bass attacking mackeral on the surface. Stuf dreams are made of. My bro in law lost a huge fish too one night. To be honest we didnt really want to catch the smaller bass (1 to 3Ib), we didnt fish the mark on Sat night.
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