Anyway lets get onto some fishing shall we, right so since the last post I have been out a couple of times unfortunately though I didn't get many pictures of fish, one trip I was out down the Quay teaching my brother how to fish and the other my Dad came down with my brother and I, this was a very rare thing as other than the odd lunch break messing around catching Minnows and tiny Dace about ten years ago, he hasn't fished since I was a small boy, when he used to fish Flounder comps and quite successfully to I might add. Needless to say even though they were short trips they were both special as time with the family is rare these days. One picture I did get from the first trip whilst teaching my brother was a extremely happy one for me, as you all would know by now I am still very new to sea fishing and have been really enjoying the LRF style of this, most of you will probably laugh at me now but this was my first ever Pollack and I was ecstatic!
I guess you are reading this next paragraph quite some time later now you have dried your eyes, for me though it is always about the fish not the size, don't get me wrong I do go out specimen fishing and will be out targeting a much bigger one at some point soon, I did also have what I classed as a result on the second trip with my Dad and brother, as you will have seen in my past LRF practise trips I have only ever managed one type of Wrasse that being the Corkwing, on this trip I managed three different Wrasse species one being Corkwing again but this time I also managed a Goldsinny and a Ballon. Unfortunately the only picture I got of a Goldsinny was of the fish my brother caught on a worm as when I had mine I was not paying enough attention to realise it was different to Corkwing other than having some super funky teeth. Again the picture of the Ballon I have is not the best as I caught it a few minutes after my Dad arrived and he and my brother went off to the tackle shop down the road to get him a new rod.
So other than yesterdays trip that's you guys up to date with the only fishing I have managed in the last few weeks it makes sense to get straight on with the Bass hunt my brother and I went on. Ok so the plan was simple to head down and catch a few Bass and hope for a good one or two as well, we knew from past trips that the Quay is absolutely bursting with them but most are of a small size with the odd one or two bigger ones and in the past they have been caught up to 14lb on the other side of the harbour so fingers were crossed for a few fish as I said. As you may know by now I'm not really one for live bait fishing and lately have much preferred to lure fish, this trip was no different, as soon as we had arrived at the Quay I tied on a Savage Gear 3D Sardine in the Brown/Green colour, I cast about fifteen yards along the Quay wall and began to retrieve, this time I decided to almost sink and draw the lure giving it a three foot twitch up and letting it sink but making sure to wind down as I lowered the rod to keep in contact with the lure at all times, it was on only around the forth twitch up on the first cast of the morning and I felt a small knock followed by a big banging sensation to which I struck into Bass number one of the day. I was using my seven foot Korum Snapper 10-30g rod along with a Snapper KDS2000 reel loaded with 13lb Daiwa 8 braid with a 6lb Snapper fluorocarbon leader tied to a snap link swivel to which I clipped the 3D Sardine lure, as you can imagine using a light rod like this I had a lot of fun playing the fish and it put a great bend in the tip to!
As you can imagine I was more than happy with how the trip had started and could not wait to get back in the water, after around five or six more casts each and two more fish between us we decided to pop into the small tackle shop which is located down an alley way not far from the building you can see over my shoulder in the above picture. As we went in we heard the usual "hello, I'll be there in a sec" come from the small room behind the counter, The guy in the shop never forgets a face and he said the same as usual when he see's me "oh hey its the lure guy" to which I always chuckle a bit. I told him what we were doing today and that we were after some Bass on lures, he then came round and showed us his range of Tsunami Sand Eel lures and some Tsunami Shads with weedless hooks, I'm pretty sure between us we bought every colour he had in stock in both styles and off we went to the next section that was clear of boats docked. To start with I clipped on a white coloured sand eel and made a few casts this time I started off just straight retrieving the lure but varying the wind speed each time just to see if I could get a easy bite with them, it didn't take long as on my forth cast if I remember right I was into another fish, this one was a bit smaller but I always take a picture of any fish I catch first on a new lure.
After returning this fish though I had to make another change but not in tackle this time I found myself routing around in my bag trying to find some gloves, however for some strange reason I only had a single glove with me, this was because after handling the last few fish I found my hands being cut to shreds on all the different spikes all over the Bass. To save on looking like a total mad man I decided only to put the glove on to unhook the fish and if I got another good one then I would use them for pictures also. We spent the next hour or so casting around and we ended up having around twenty fish between us with my brother landing the biggest one with that being about 45cm which also went back in the water unharmed other than where it was hooked, unfortunately though by now the tide was well and truly on its way out and the fish were on they way out with it so it was time to head off home. I can safely say though that both Matt and myself will be both back down on the hunt for a big Bass again very soon, for myself personally I will be restarting my youtube channel again soon so will be out at some point in the very near future making my first video in a long while, I'm not 100% sure what I am going to be doing or fishing for, I do know for sure though there will be a lot of different content to watch on there this time! One video I will be doing soon is one where I will take everyone through my set up and various different things I use when I'm out and about lure fishing. I hope you have enjoyed reading this post and I will try to do a few more as I'm starting to get more and more used to working at night and sleeping in the day so my time management should get better again soon.
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