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Went out last night to try a new mark with some major outgoing tide and chuck some soft plastics about in the dark.
First cast with the Pafex Sagat (in vert nacre which is a sort of green sandeel colour, natural green on top and white/translucent belly) and wham i'm into a fish!! Wahey!! He shot off to one side and held deep and rattling. Certainly doesn't feel like a bass and turned out to be a pollack about 2.5lb. Nice. No trouble for the infeet.
Thinking that was a good sign I soldiered on casting between the flurries of snow, it was bloney freezing last night eh!!
A few casts later and I felt a gentle pull/pluck on the lure as it was coming round with the flow (no reeling) so I hit it. Nothing. This happened a couple more times right close in so I tempted death and flicked the headlight on for 2 seconds. Squid. That'll explain it. Light off and on we go. At least it shows I can feel what's going on with the lure.
I then hit another fish, another smaller pollack.
The tide was really hammering out by now at 3 hours ebb and overfalls starting to appear. I had a few more casts through with the SP and changed to a Lucky Craft Flash Minnow SP. Supposed to be a suspender and it is!! Out the box as well!! Followed the same pattern with this one, cast to structure and let it sit, crank down and sit (or rather whizz with the tide). Tried it all, slow, fast, twitchy, pausing for ages, just letting it go all the way wth the tide to the end of the run and nowt.
Back on with a Sagat and pollack.
That's enough of that and went back to the car.
I still think there should be bass there as there are normally baitfish about, didn't see any but it was hard to make much out at all. Maybe they like it chopped up with the wind?? Back again another day methinks. I have caught bass nearby on bait so I know they are there at 1 hour flood, no reason why they would not be there on the ebb though??
First cast with the Pafex Sagat (in vert nacre which is a sort of green sandeel colour, natural green on top and white/translucent belly) and wham i'm into a fish!! Wahey!! He shot off to one side and held deep and rattling. Certainly doesn't feel like a bass and turned out to be a pollack about 2.5lb. Nice. No trouble for the infeet.
Thinking that was a good sign I soldiered on casting between the flurries of snow, it was bloney freezing last night eh!!
A few casts later and I felt a gentle pull/pluck on the lure as it was coming round with the flow (no reeling) so I hit it. Nothing. This happened a couple more times right close in so I tempted death and flicked the headlight on for 2 seconds. Squid. That'll explain it. Light off and on we go. At least it shows I can feel what's going on with the lure.
I then hit another fish, another smaller pollack.
The tide was really hammering out by now at 3 hours ebb and overfalls starting to appear. I had a few more casts through with the SP and changed to a Lucky Craft Flash Minnow SP. Supposed to be a suspender and it is!! Out the box as well!! Followed the same pattern with this one, cast to structure and let it sit, crank down and sit (or rather whizz with the tide). Tried it all, slow, fast, twitchy, pausing for ages, just letting it go all the way wth the tide to the end of the run and nowt.
Back on with a Sagat and pollack.
That's enough of that and went back to the car.
I still think there should be bass there as there are normally baitfish about, didn't see any but it was hard to make much out at all. Maybe they like it chopped up with the wind?? Back again another day methinks. I have caught bass nearby on bait so I know they are there at 1 hour flood, no reason why they would not be there on the ebb though??