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We have a seal Colony not to far from where i live and have never fished the ground as a result, the conditions looked Great and thought why, well what the heck, let go and experiment to see if i can fish amongst the seals and catch!
I got to the location of which there was plenty of movement, whte water, BIG surf, 18mph wind in my face and seals from the off, i counted 4 seals within 50 meters from where i was fishing but never felt confidant to tell you the truth, but kept on none the less.
One of the things i have always done is to match the colour of the lure i am using to the conditions for example: bright day bright lure and the opposite for a dark day, well this was a really bad day, rain, fog, very dark, so on go's the darker lures! but nothing.
I kept on moving exploring the areas and trying to get out of this flippin WIND, but it seemed the seals was also doing the very same thing i was. Anyway i found what looked like a Bass haven, i think the bass must have thought so to, as i counted 12 seals in this small bay.
I scaled down this cliff in the pouring rain which normally i don't mind doing, but in the rain and fog was finding it hard to locate a route down, but anyway 30 minutes later and i reached the bottom.
The ground looked perfect, it really did but how on earth am i going to catch surrounded by seals!!!! i stayed there for about hours and not a touch, and thought time to go home, but i had a thought of changing the colour of the lure to really bright, same lure but BRIGHT!
Oh ya i forgot to say every cast was WEED and i mean 3 or four turns of the reel and weed on, but anyway i changed lure to bright and walked back to the waters edge with out getting washed in by the waves and swell.
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First cast, 2 turns of the handle Bang Fish on!!!! Seals everywhere and flippin bass on, whats all that about! I landed the bass only a 1 lb but who cares, that would of been a great snack for a seal. i walked back to photograph the bass and then walked back back to the waters edge and as i did, right where i was standing was the target of a land slide, How flippin luck was that, the noise was so loud!
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Back to the fishing and 6 casts later Bang bass on, this one was bigger, but not much, but who cares....I couldn't understand why these bite size bass are sharing the area with i would be scared to estimate how many seals, in all i had counted 16 seals since i started fishing there.
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By this time the weed was really bad, but i still kept on bringing in bass, the closest seal to me whilst i caught one of the bass must of been 20 meters away!
I got to the location of which there was plenty of movement, whte water, BIG surf, 18mph wind in my face and seals from the off, i counted 4 seals within 50 meters from where i was fishing but never felt confidant to tell you the truth, but kept on none the less.
One of the things i have always done is to match the colour of the lure i am using to the conditions for example: bright day bright lure and the opposite for a dark day, well this was a really bad day, rain, fog, very dark, so on go's the darker lures! but nothing.
I kept on moving exploring the areas and trying to get out of this flippin WIND, but it seemed the seals was also doing the very same thing i was. Anyway i found what looked like a Bass haven, i think the bass must have thought so to, as i counted 12 seals in this small bay.
I scaled down this cliff in the pouring rain which normally i don't mind doing, but in the rain and fog was finding it hard to locate a route down, but anyway 30 minutes later and i reached the bottom.
The ground looked perfect, it really did but how on earth am i going to catch surrounded by seals!!!! i stayed there for about hours and not a touch, and thought time to go home, but i had a thought of changing the colour of the lure to really bright, same lure but BRIGHT!
Oh ya i forgot to say every cast was WEED and i mean 3 or four turns of the reel and weed on, but anyway i changed lure to bright and walked back to the waters edge with out getting washed in by the waves and swell.
First cast, 2 turns of the handle Bang Fish on!!!! Seals everywhere and flippin bass on, whats all that about! I landed the bass only a 1 lb but who cares, that would of been a great snack for a seal. i walked back to photograph the bass and then walked back back to the waters edge and as i did, right where i was standing was the target of a land slide, How flippin luck was that, the noise was so loud!
Back to the fishing and 6 casts later Bang bass on, this one was bigger, but not much, but who cares....I couldn't understand why these bite size bass are sharing the area with i would be scared to estimate how many seals, in all i had counted 16 seals since i started fishing there.
By this time the weed was really bad, but i still kept on bringing in bass, the closest seal to me whilst i caught one of the bass must of been 20 meters away!
