[Andy Marquis]

It went a bit mental last night.

8 fish on the hard plugs in an hour. Hitting the lure as it hit the surface.

Lost 3 fish, one of them felt very big and very bassy, big thumping head shakes followed by that feeling of braid v's barnacles. Unfortunately the barnacles won. If anyone catches a bass with a Daiwa Shoreline Shiner SL-17FG in School Iwashi in it's mouth, can I have it back please?? The lure, not the bass. I liked that lure... Great for when the fish are feeding on small baitfish :wink:

Unfortunately no bass landed. 1 Rockie, 1 mackerel and 6 pollack. It was a bit mental for a while there!!

Melvie and pin eels all over the rocks on my way back up, must have been chased to their doom by the mackerel and pollack. Not seen that for years.

I am sure there were bass down there but I couldn't get through the pollack, even with the bigger lures.

Pics later...

 

[Keith White]

were you not de-barbed then Andy ?

I have in the past, experience of this myself so i'm not pointing fingers.
De-barb em m8, conscience is clear then.

Good fishing though, well done.

 

[Mark Sleep]

Nice one Andy. I have the same lure in the same colour, the only exception being that I havent used it yet! Will have to break it out.

 

[Andy Marquis]

The barbs are slightly crushed but not completely. I'm sure it will be fine.

 

[Keith White]

The barbs are slightly crushed but not completely. I'm sure it will be fine.

Makes sense m8, great stuff.

 

[Ben Pratt]

Nice fishing Andy! Pity about the bigun. Slightly off topic but with regards to leaving lures in fish this link about kob has some info on the matter. The kob is fairly similar to our bass but mainly feeds near/off the bottom and grows much much bigger. Both have a huge mouth.

http://www.fishingec.com/?p=5749

 

[Peter Walker]

barbless hooks

no barbs easy release teaches you to keep that line tight plus the added bonus of less trips to the hospital:-D
pete

 

[Retired]

OK what's a melvie? Is that a Guernsey word?

 

[John-Paul Wakeford]

Must be I guess, my understanding is that they are the small sandeels (needles) they have been everywhere and in huge numbers in the last few weeks

 

[Andy Marquis]

Guess it must be a Guernsey word, just small eels bigger then pins and smaller than reds (lesser sandeel)

 

[Andy Marquis]

Here's some pics from the last few days trips...

The boy out with me, sit him down and he can't all over...



Cliff mark, loads of tide despite the dead neap. Big swirls of water where the tides meet coming round the headland. No fish in it that night though.



And some fish from this thread. All of these ones appear to be on the Feed Shallow in Mullet.

 

[Andy Marquis]

And to top it there was a nice sunset. It was nicer but I was busy catching fish so this is the last of it.

 

[Tim Murphy]

Nice one Andy. that mack was a hungry one wasn't it? Eyes bigger than etc...

 

[Sam Roche]

Great stuff Andy, look's like a good buzz.

 

[mike symons]

Great report and pictures Andy, well done.