4.5lb fish on my green lure

Out with Derek today lovely conditions but fish few and far between I took a 4.5lb fish at Karame on my lime green homemade lure. Derek had 3 fish on his swim senkos

Great Weekend

Out with Trev and Iestyn for the weekend, not much caught on Saturday the wind gusting force 5 Iestyn taking 2fish whilst Mick's boat took 8 fish mostly in st gulley. Yesterday Derek Trev and I had 9 fish (3 each) a lot in Le Hocq gulley ona variety of lures and soft plastics.

Choppy conditions

Out by myself today wind sw 4 swell making it very difficult fished all marks and found one fish only at twin peaks about 2hrs before low tide. Tide was 34ft. The fish took an orange home made Jersey Wonder.

Where have the bass gone

Out with Shaun today every spot tried on the south east coast but nothing. Had to move to St. Aubins for Shaun to pick up a 4lb fish on one of my homemade lures.I am told that a lot of cuttlefish are in the gutters maybe they are obsessed with squid

2 Fis in 2 Casts

out on the low tide a beautiful day flat calm 31ft  out to near the petit demi first cast a fish of around 5lb on a manns longtail worm then swiftly followed by a fish of just under 3lbs. Tide had just turned and the fish were up stream of the head

Home made lures do work

Well out today to try these home made Jersey Wonders and up the Southeast to Gannet Gulley where I took a smallish fish

Derek also took 3 fish the biggest being around 3lbs. Moving onto St.Aubins saw some bird movement but not enough. Having said that there were a lot of gulls of Icho but could not locate the fish. I also took a very small Gurnard at St. Aubins

Make your own soft plastics

Well I thought I give it a go and took the plunge and ordered some mold making gear from ebay then converted some sluggos and swim senkos into one and made a mold

tomorrow I will attempt to meltdown some old soft plastics and see what happens

Hard worms come good

Out today on the south east coast of Jersey not many other boats out as you could hardly blame them with  a choppy sea and heavy drizzle,

However we managed 7 fish , Derek having his only fish on his first cast a fish of around 3lb came to the boat on a swim senko from SH.t gulley, I then took two fish again around 3lb tucked in behind a reef which took my purple redgill just off the entrance to Gannet Gulley. Moving out onto deeper water I cast my 9inch Manns Hard nose with a curly tail up against a rock in about 25ft of water and a 3.5fish came to the boat. This was again followed by another slightly smaller fish which took the same lure.







The second fish on this lure has almost  devoured the lure.

I managed a further 2 fish to round the day off

Two dozen fish today

Yes Out this time at Seymour Jersey very choppy at first before the wind dropped as the tide dropped to extremely low levels.

No double figure fish today. The fishing was patchy but we managed 24 bass between us.A few fish at just over 3lbs more in the 2-3 lb range, and a fair number of smaller fish who were keen to attach themselves to our swim senkos and redgills


Concentration is required and is etched across Derek's face

Fish were caught at the point the reef and the offshore reefs

First Double for Derek

Well big spring tides and Derek Buesnel and I thought we might get a few but the trip started disappointing with two 3lb fish being taken on a redgill and black shad.

We moved onto deeper water where there was a fast current flowing between some rocks. Derek cast out with the famous black shad and bang hsi line took off, luckily his van staal behaved perfectly as line was stripped from his reel.The fish was quick to come to the surface and we could see it was a decent fish. Eventually being netted by an expert skipper. The fish was measured on the Bass tape and my boga grips it came back just over the magical 10lb mark.

The fish was returned back into the water to fight another day. Excuse the photographs but they have been edited to hide the exact location
The fish safely in the net
The first time I have seen Derek smile
We had 2 further fish just under 3lbs

I am not jealous it is nice to see an elderley fisherman like Derek catch a decent fish at last

Another Day Fishing

Out at Seymour today 36ft tide with the wind blowing a stiff westerley3-4, we had a total of 16 fish which varied between a nice 5lb fish and the smaller fish. Most caught on redgills whilst the larger fish were caught on black shads.

Derek had his larger fish at La Conchiere whilst other fish were caught at the point, offshore Oyster Beds, near seal rock

Fish being netted

13 Unlucky for some

Out in the area of Seymour tower today choppy again with that swell, This time in Derek Buesnels boat we were late out due to the rough conditions. We had a total of 13 fish the first few fish were caught on black couloured shads in deeper water. The fish did not want to know my white and blue redgill. The first fish Derek had was a fish of 4lbs



Derek with a 4lb fish

The following fish we had ranged from 3.5lbs, 3 lbs a few at just over 2 pounds and some smaller fish. The fish caught in shallower water were keen to take the lighter coloured redgills. Out tomorrow so we shall see what happens. Thanks to all my regular readers

Personal Best for 2010

Out again on 31ft tide headed towards icho but nothing at Twin peaks ,gannet gulley and henced moved back towards Green Island where Derek took a fish around 3.5lbs on a swim senko, Moved onto a reef off St Aubins which resulted in 2 fish around the 3lb mark

Fish being netted by Derek

Moved offshore to just off Bass Reef resulted in an 8.25lb fish and a 4lb fish noth on redgills at just past low tide

The fish being released

Swell Day

Out on a very choppy day swell so bad I could not get as far as Icho so fished Green island gutter where I cut through this resulted in 3 fish all around 3 lbs, we moved back to Greve where Derek had a further fish of a similar size. Moving west and towards B Rock in the middle of the bay we could see a large number of terns working the incoming tide.

We had a further 18 fish of different sizes that ranged from small to about 3lbs

Visiting Anglers

small tide today out on the high on 27ft tide fish were hard to find eventually found 4 in one place at the entrance to Gannet Gulley always at the same point. Biggest about 3.5lbs whilst others were just over 2. All caught on Redgills.

I have just been told that purple redgills are fishing well so I have ordered them to give it a go we shall wait and see

Bank Holiday

Out by myself as Derek was not allowed out, Saw Mick and Bob out had a good day with 2 fish around 2.5 coming from the moorings at Green Island, before moving on to next gulley where had another 2 fish. Nothing was caught at twin peaks.Moved onto western end of gannet gulley which produce another fish.

I moved onto western lagoon where I took a small fish, the last fish was a fish just over 4lbs caught at western end of icho gulley