On arriving at my chosen spot just as the sun was setting on a glorious evening I noticed movement on the surface at a distance off the rocks, nothing unusual in that I thought, middle of summer, plenty of Mullet around...I selected a lure and began to fish as normal but again my eye was drawn to what now seemed to un-Mullet like movements coming from those fish. They we now regularly coming clean out of the water, probably Mackerel I thought. To satisfy my curiosity I looked to my metals and selected an Tackle House P-Boy Jig with a single hook and blasted it in the direction of the disturbances, bump bump on the retrieve but no hook up. Switched to a P-Boy with a treble and with the action now at the limit of my casting range I blasted off again and this time connected with who knows what? In my mind I was still thinking Mackerel or even Sea trout as I finally beached a small but energetic Bass !?! So in a summer where they've been hard to find I witness around fifty (Ok small) Bass hammering bait on the surface as if they're Stripers, amazing...
Thursday, September 6, 2012
On Top and Far Away...
On arriving at my chosen spot just as the sun was setting on a glorious evening I noticed movement on the surface at a distance off the rocks, nothing unusual in that I thought, middle of summer, plenty of Mullet around...I selected a lure and began to fish as normal but again my eye was drawn to what now seemed to un-Mullet like movements coming from those fish. They we now regularly coming clean out of the water, probably Mackerel I thought. To satisfy my curiosity I looked to my metals and selected an Tackle House P-Boy Jig with a single hook and blasted it in the direction of the disturbances, bump bump on the retrieve but no hook up. Switched to a P-Boy with a treble and with the action now at the limit of my casting range I blasted off again and this time connected with who knows what? In my mind I was still thinking Mackerel or even Sea trout as I finally beached a small but energetic Bass !?! So in a summer where they've been hard to find I witness around fifty (Ok small) Bass hammering bait on the surface as if they're Stripers, amazing...