Top water action

I have promised to keep this as secret as possible and never to divulge the identity of this fisherman who has been persuaded today to  love topwater lures,He also goes by the name of Steve Olsen.

Setting off this morning with a 38ft tide and a slight northerly wind the undientified male was smuggled onboard as we headed east out of the harbour



We stopped off at a spot not far from the harbour and using a stinger slider eel which Tom from MONSTER TACKLE had given me to try I was soon into a bass of around 2.5lbs This lure continued to attract fish throughout
the afternoon.


2 more fish quickly fell to this eel whilst my mystery guest had managed 1 fish


 As the tide was dropping fast we made our way east

stopping at the next mark we were immediately into bass with a couple of fish being landed between 3-4lbs


The secret fisherman then took a bream on a nanjo

Early Morning Start

Having been out yesterday and only catching one fish, we decided an early morning start would be better. The tides are extremely small this week . At first there was no wind but picked up to a force 3-4 this coupled with a swell made it a bit choppy.

First stop was  a gulley at LH where we know fish will wait for the tide begin to flood, first casts with a patchinko and a skimmer for Derek result in fish attacking the lures, Derek hooking a fish for a few minutes before it came off.

Next cast for me and a fish was on and a fish of around 3.5lbs came to the boat.
a further two fish of a similar size were caught at this point before they moved off

We moved on further and I switched to a white gulp lure and immediately took another fishThis pattern continued with fish staying on the marks for a short period of time only. We ended up with 9 fish nothing bigger than 3.5lbs but good sport on an Autumn Friday morning

Surface Action

A sunday afternoon,with a light westerley wind and a 32ft low, I made my way to EC not far from my mooring and tried out a small patchinko.

First cast into a small gulley and a fish around 3lb was on, next cast another fish of the same size, next cast another fish the gulley seemed to be packed with fish. I took one more fish at this spot. Picking Paul up we made our way east to Mick Wards corner. The tide was just turning and the fish were there I took another 3 at this spot then further up the gutter another two. Paul of course had none.

Alternative Bass festival

with Jersey Baas Festival in full swing, Derek and I have been out and about over the last few days Wednesday produced 18 fish in heavy drizzle mostly caught at the point n shimmer eels, Yesterday we were out around IT in an easterly wind produced only two fish around the 2.5lb mark.

Today was a day for better fish but the hot and calm conditions made it difficult and most fish were again taken at the point, Derek taking two 5lb fish in quick succession. followed by some 4lb fish. We ended up with 9

More teaching

The day after I taught my son how to fish again I was out with my brother in law and a friend from England. We started off the day at LHG were a couple of fish were caught on Mick's corner before moving onto twin peaks where I picked up a fish of around 4lbs.

This was swiftly followed by another fish of around the same size caught on the other side of the reef at IT

Moving onto the point where we picked up more fish, The tide was big and the conditions were again calm. The fish took yum worms and shimmer eels

Teaching my son how to fish

Out today with my son (aged 28 years). He decided that he knew best on how to catch fish. The conditions were not good hot flat calm and a very big tide. This coupled by a fishing boat shooting a net within 10ft of our boat right across a large gulley.

Well I started with two fish just over 2.5 lb caught on shimmer eels before we moved on further east, by this time my son was choosing a new lure to put on despite me telling him to keep to a lure that works.a further 5 fish came to the boat all around the 2lb mark. Unfortunately all to me. By now the tide was extremely low and we moved out to deeper water where the tide was still running.

Bang a fish was on my eel again  and this time it was going like a train, where was my son, sunbathing so I had to net it myself



The fish was just over the 5lb mark

We switched to surface lures and eventually my son caught a bass of around 2lbs. We ended up with 10 bass, he caught one of those.

good fishing in choppy waters

Out with Derek yesterday in a force 4, Mick and Bob were out fishing gdz and they had 14fish up to 5lbs, we moved on to lh gutter were I took a number of fish using yum worms. This was on the falling tide and as the tide changed they seemed to switch to shimmer eels.

We also had 14 fish up to 5lbs