Showing posts with label Graham Hill. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graham Hill. Show all posts

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

The going got tough.

Just a quick interim report from a few days in wild & windy Dorset. As expected I arrived to raging winds (W& SW @ 25+ mph with gusts to 40mph!), almost unfishable but we managed to find a couple of sheltered spots but fish were few and far between.

Mark with a rock caught 3lber
To cut a long story (well walk) short, we really covered a lot of ground and climbed alot of cliffs to find clean water away from the winds on the tides we needed. I ended up catching 10 fish (excluding the usual bycatch), all of which were taken on surface lures, with the biggest at about 53cm (a suprisingly fat little chap).

The schoolies wanted it off the top.
Always a pleasure to catch these pretty fish.


A very fat fish at about 53cm.


I hope to be out in the next couple of days again - probably West Wales (or maybe even Ireland if air traffic control go ahead and strike in Germany, but thats another story).

Good luck to Gee, Joe & Mark who are off to Ireland tonight (they have a few days over there with tides and conditions looking good - no excuses lads lol).

Tight lines & thanks for reading!

Monday, 4 April 2011

The waiting game.

Its about this time of year that the bass angler starts to get nervous - where are the fish - when will they hit the beaches & rock marks?

Well the fish are starting to show in the UK although catches on artificial baits haven't been great - there is a rumour of a 14lber being caught (on bait) in the last few days in SW Wales so that's a good sign. I'm reliably informed that some boats are doing well on the inshore wrecks (so it wont be long now).
Being as I'm a bit snowed under with work I will have to wait till its really firing over there & jump a plane for the weekend .........(the waitings a killer eh?)

Graham Hill with a fine Irish bass