Southwest Kerry

[beechtrawler]

People:
me
Duration:
Monday 29/12/14 12:30hrs-17:30hrs
Tide:
Low tide at 16:30hrs
Weather:
Dry and mild with blusterly southwesterly winds
Bait:
Lugworm and squid.
Rigs:
two hook flappers and pennel rig.
Results:
one bass and one flounder



Report:
Arrived down to kerry on Saturday and dug some lugworm, i spent quality time with the moth on sunday and what a beautiful day it was too with blue skies, not a puff of wind to be had or a drop of rain, which is a very rare for that neck of the woods, i waited eagarly to fish on Monday.
I was not too hopefull of a decent surf as sunday had been glorious, however i was quiet suprised to find the surf was very nice with tables of water rolling in.
After walking to my chosen spot on the beach i set up two rods one with the flapper and the other with the pennel rig, i cast both out and waited patiently for a nibble or two, alas i had no bite until 15:00hrs when i had a knock on the pennel rig rod, started to reel in and happy days landed my biggest bass to date, which was 57cm's in length and just over 4lb in weight.
Then at 15:30hrs i had that distinctive flattie rat tat tat of bites on the two hook flapper rod and reeled in the flounder, which was 36cm's in length, again the biggest i have caught, i had only two bites during the day and landed the two fish as a result, the weather while it was fairly windy was bearable and it was fairly mild, so off i went a happy camper.
I fished the same beach the following day, a different beach the day after with no bites or fish to be had on either day, the wind was always south to southwesterly westerly however it was getting progressively stronger per day and made the fishing not soo pleasant.
I was pleasantly surprised to catch a bass this size on that beach as i had previously only caugh fish to 2lb in weight at most and have been fishing fairly regularily in this area for five years or more, goes to show one never knows what is in store on a fishing session and already looking forward to my next kerry foray.

[seaotter]

Nice few fish ,well done !

[guernica84]

Nice fish. Were all sessions in daylight?

[chuckaroo]

2 stunning fish. great stuff!

[beechtrawler]

Thanks lads, yeah guernica aall three sessions were during daylight.

[SeanA101080]

Handy session, well done.

[beechtrawler]

thanks sean.

[Deleted User 3488]

Nice plump flounder and Bass to match, well done

[beechtrawler]

thanks m-w, perserverse sometimes pays off.

[bossdog]

they say in Kerry u can catch bass all year round must head to Kerry myself soon to see if I can get lucky

[beechtrawler]

ya bossboy this is true, bass are there all yr round however perserversance and a bit of luck plays its part in my opinion, you could be waiting hrs for a bite, have several sessions without a bite, you could have plans made months prior and find the weather gods are against ya however in saying that fortune favours the brave, go for it and best of luck.

[stevief54]

nice bass well done

[lucky13]

nice chunky bass lad,a fat boy for 4lbs...well done lad..

[beechtrawler]

thanks boys.