Duration: meant to be Thur morn until Sunday avo but see below
Tide: Various
Weather: Cold northerly, sunny spells, rain, hail, etc
Bait: lures, king rag
Rigs: single hook
Results: See below
Report:
So I thought about putting this report up, I wasnt going to but then what is the point of only putting epic reports up.
We had been planning this for weeks, and I had been counting the minutes from about 10 weeks away. Our usual journey to Brandon in Kerry to target Bass before the closed season. We knew it was going to be tough having see the forecasts and the recent fishing reports. It turned out to be one of those weekends where everything goes wrong. The plan was to head down Thursday morning around 9am and leave Kerry Sunday afternoon. Plenty of tides to fish and lots of options. I woke on Thursday morning to the cold wind and rain hitting the window. Not a good start. Then my wife gets some sad news about a friends relative. Kind of puts things in perspective. So Im going to come home Saturday now to allow her to go to the funeral. So we head off and in the back of my mind my gut is telling me to cancel it and do it in late June. Anway we get to Brandon, the water is a murky brown, the wind is freezing and there is weed, lots of it. My brother in law who went down on Tuesday landed 3 trout while we were traveling down so that gave us some optimism.
We fished literally all day when we are not eating or having a pint. Every tide you can think of, rising, dropping, and various marks. Not a sniff of a Bass. My mate takes a nice trout off a rock mark which is about the only mark I know where there would be some clarity due to the surge and swell there. Great bass mark but not a sniff. We then focus on the estuary as its the only mark clear enough and producing fish. My bro in law takes a trout and a flounder on a lure, not foul hooked, clearly went after the lure. My other mate takes a trout and im begining to think there is a cloud over my head..!
I get a txt then from the wife to say she has been up since 4 with the twins who are sick. At any moment candid camera are going to jump out and say the whole thing has been a setup..!
So as the fishing is not great, and because of sick kids etc I decide to head home. The lads do too as we are really after Bass and the trout are small enough. So all in the cars for about 12 on Saturday afternoon.
Now the one good thing about the weekend was meeting up with Steve from this forum. Had a chat over a mark we met up on and was great to put a face to a name after we have exchanged lots of PM's.
This is where the straw broke the camels back. Half way home I get a txt from Steve to say he is fishing a mark and hammering Bass...! There was minor damage to the dash board and the doc tells me the hair will grow back in time..!!
So there it is. I blanked.....for the first time ever in Brandon I blanked. Unheard of. No Bass either between 4 of us.
The lads :
Art - 4 trout and a flounder
Stephen - 2 trout
Emmet - 1 trout.
,,,,still,,there's more important thing's in life as you realised. A great report all the same and another learning experience 
. I'm still thinking of you whacking your head off the dashboard hearing about the schools of Bass in the surf as you drove home 
Thanks for posting
