Thanks Century

Just a quick post to thank Century rods for sending me those free gifts through the post. It is much appreciated and will be used. If any other people want to send me tackle to try out and to give it a fair and honest appraisal let me know

Century HPR Rods

Having had the chance to test these rods during their design phase, thanks to Keith White, I thought I give my honest opinions on this rod.

I am not one for saying things are good if they are not and was some what sceptical about the hype surrounding the rods, I am new to the style of fishing that these rods are designed for but they can cope with a wide range of lure fishing methods.

I had the chance last week to try the finished product thanks to Tom at Monster Tackle who dropped off a 7'3 equal butt size rod to me.The first thing I said to Tom was is the rod in the bag as it seemed so light. The next day was the first time I had used the finished product, since I had relunctantly given up the prototype a few months earlier.

I set the rod up with my Van staal vs 100 I am not a great fan of quoting line pe and flouro strength etc as I know what I can use without getting into trouble with knots etc. I was using a variety of soft lures using my favourite method of a worm hook and 2 split shot further up.

Casting light soft plastics is easy with rod and bite detection is also superb, feeling every little knock. The weight system makes the rod feel weightless in your hands. This is great if like me you are fishing every day, whilst almost everyday.

I know people have been critical of people behind the design of this rod but this should not influence whether people should buy this rod or not. You cannot knock the quality of the product I believe Century have a winner in this product. I could go on about build quality and the type of resin etc but all I am interested in is if the rod does the job and does the job well. Well this rod does

Early bird catches the Bass

early start at 0545 this morning just on low tide overcast drizzle, we made our way to lhg where numerous fish up to 2lbs were caught on surface lures, before moving further up where Derek took a nice fish of 5lbs whilst I took one of around 3.5.

As the tide came in we tried near Rhino and I picked a fish of around 3lbs on a keitech lure from Monster tackle

A total of 26 fish came to the boat a good day out.

Prawns are working

Having been given some plastic prawns to try out bt Monster Tackle I decidec to give them a try, second cast resulted in a small fish taking a natural coloured lure at the crossover between gig and lhg we had a few more on surface and also a couple of nice pollack on flourescent red prawns

A great week

Well it has been a fairly good week for fish and we have numerous fish up to 4.5lbs,I have been out with Derek, Paul Butel and visiting angler Stewart Gowland.

Fishing with Derek we have found that the surface lures seem to be working well at the moment and fish have been caught at the lagoon and the point

Fishing with Paul Butel resulted in a swift 4 fish at the cut through between GIG and LHG we then proceeded to take 13 Bass around the IT area. Plus a 4lb pollack at twin heads.

Stuart was slightly unlucky as the weather was hot and flat calm but 4 fish came to the boat most in LHG at the turn of the tide.

I am getting a new century rod from http://www.monstertackle.co.uk/ Tom from the company could not be more helpful, I have ordered other bits and bobs from this company and the service have been excellent

Hot and Calm

It has been hot and Calm all week and it is set to continue. No photos to post but out with Derek yesterday and we had 18 mostly taken on surface lures. Nothing over 3lbs, Fish were caught in the lagoon, finger rock and the offshore oyster beds. The point not fishing well.



Today I was out with Paul and we had 11 fish again small with fish coming from the oyster beds offshore, offshore reefs finger and seal rock and LE H gutter

Early morning start

Out with Derek in my boat this morning at 0600 and headed up towards Icho, Initially had a few bass on surface plugs near Rhino rock before trying uptowards Le Rocque 4 fish caught in this area but nothing big before moving to Greve D where Derek took a 4lb fish near green island