Fishing with Monster Tackle

I went out yesterday morning with Tom from Monster Tackle the tide had just started flooding but there was a nasty easterly wind blowing up to a force 4 which did not help matters

Surface lures seemed to be the order of the day as they were cast over a reef that was getting covered by the incoming tide.

We began to pick up a few bass

Tom seemed determined to try every lure that that they stock but as the sea was choppy it seemed that the surface lures that produced more splash was the order of the day.

Tom managed to keep catching pollack which was somewhat strange in the shallow water.

I managed to hook a nice 5lb fish on the surface lure

We moved to another mark where Tom picked up two more bass, The days total was 10 bass including the 5lb fish

Plagued by Snipe

Here in Jersey we call Garfish snipe and they were a real pest today. I took around 30 snipe today in what can only be described as a feeding frenzy for all fish.

An early start and the tide had already been flooding in for two hours but when I arrived at the location fish were feeding everywhere. Using my Ima skimmer I quickly hooked up to a bass around the two pound mark. This was interspersed by more snipe,mackerel and wrasse

 I caught fish on the surface and also on savage gear magic eel which managed to hook a few Bass. I ended up with 18 Bass over this set of reefs, and as the tide had risen somewhat so I moved to a head with the tide flooding past. Out went the surface lure and as it drifted past the head bang a fish around 5lb took the lure next drift another fish around the same size.

A visit from Fisheries

Out by myself yesterday as Derek had decided to go off on holiday, I decided to try two new lures a chatterbox from Illex I got from Monster Tackle and the other a Pee Boy I got from Mr Fish.

 The first few casts produced swirls behind the lure and these turned out to be Snipe and I was pestered by these most of the day.,

I moved out to deeper water and tried the Pee Boy metal lure in a jigging fashion. I changed the rear hook to a single. I had soon hooked a smallish bass

I was then joined by fisheries who came to inspect my catch, I told them I had tagged some fish for them and they told me about a large bass caught in a fishermans pot a short distance away

I moved up to some offshore reefs that were just uncovering and took a number of fish up to 4lbs on the chatterbox, before miscasting and losing it on some rocks

Bass some days and none on others

As the year ticks on, the fishing improves as Derek and I found out the other day, slow to start but picked up as the tide flooded in. We had numerous fish following our lures and sometimes they refused to take anything.

However we ended up with 32 fish including tow 5lb fish for Derek

The following day I was out with Paul and we only managed one fish

Fish and a seagull

The fishing has been pretty good over the last few days with a good number of fish being caught with Derek last Saturday. Most were caught on savagegear slug sandeels fished on the surface. 32 fish came to the boat on this occasion although none were big. The following day we were fishing further west and only took 4 fish Derek managed to catch a seagull.

 A text message and photos are just reaching me to tell me that Derek and his son have taken a double and a 6.5lb fish

Both fish were caught on savage gear slug sandeels fished on the surface. Both were tagged and returned. Well done to the Buesnel boys