I took up an invitation to fish with
Michael Quirke at one of his spots yesterday evening and it proved worthwhile.
Water quality was good and the NW wind put a bit of welcome movement into the
water. The plan was to fish soft plastics and allow Michael to demo a rod of
mine which we did until Michael cracked and switched back to his beloved hard
baits which, to be fair produced the first fish! Photos were taken in lovely
soft evening light and the fish released only for me to realise that I’d left
the memory card out of the camera and the built in memory was full, what an
amateur! We fished on and as the light was fading I lost a decent fish at close
range after a lively battle, Michael rejoined me and landed this fish on a weedless
& weightless Spindle Worm which is one of his first successes on this style
of presentation and from what I could see won’t be the last! Good skills
Michael.
