Just back from a trip away which saw the day game out fish the night for a change. Michael and I started our trip at a boulder field in the stunning West of Ireland and both landed fish in the first 10 mins from quite badly weeded water as the tide pushed in. Michael went on to find fish in the surf on shallow running hard plastics, including this beautiful olive coloured specimen, which I repeated the following day. We hit two locations hard under darkness at the start of the flood for a single hit and one fish landed from an estuary mouth as the spring tide started to push. We are accelerating our learning curves by sharing ideas and crossing over our differing styles of fishing and knowledge so these are interesting times with lots of new techniques to try...
Having now fished in all of our main Bass counties from Wexford round to Galway this season, both alone and with others it seems to me that the picture is pretty much the same with low numbers the norm despite conditions that appear perfect at times, with the occasional “hot spots” fishing well. At least we’re catching (And releasing) a few JJJ
