Bad Day Good Day

Sorry if this post is a bit long but probably my last for a few weeks whilst I take a well deserved holiday from fishing. Out with Derek today no that is not the bad day but having seen a diver out and about whom we know he took great pleasure in coming up to our boat to show us a double figure bass that he had shoot in the head and was now in his cool box. Well done Mike Shearer as we said at the time it is alway great to see a dead bass laying in the bottom of the boat.

Clearly he realised our disgust and left us to get on with our fishing

The day started as per normal with most fish coming on surface lures

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A couple of good fish attempted to take the surface lures but missed, I took a smaller fish on a plastic prawn once again,(sorry Tom no photo as it spat the lure when it was netted.

Just after low tide with about 12 fish  having been caught I went back to my shimmer eel, fished again slowly I took a couple of smaller fish up to 2lbs. I then had a gentle pluck as I let the eel fall then the fish that was on decided it was going to swim in a different direction. The drag on the van staal was as smooth as ever, and it is times like this you appreciate the quality of the reel. The fish went off on a number of good runs in the 8ft of water.

The first glimpse of the fish and Derek said it was about 4-5lbs what does he know any way. Eventually netted it weighed in a 9lbs on the BASS tape.


The fish being returned hopefully not for a diver to shoot through the head.