Lure fishing for Bass

What a hook up, I wish all my hook ups where as clean as this. I caught this three pounder in some quite dirty water just after high tide, pushed right up against a chalk cliff, this spot often produces bass and I wasn’t disappointed when this bass flashed at my lure beneath my feet, a little twitch of the lure and he swung around and smashed it right there in front of me, I’m truly in awe of the shear speed and aggression bass will hit a lure.

Anyway much to my annoyance I haven’t been able to go fishing as much as I would like during July, but I can hardly complain because I started the month off with a great session down in Dorset.

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Had a couple of trips out last week, conditions weren’t ideal but I was keen to get out and enjoy the sunshine. I managed the three pounder above, I don’t know why but some bass just seem to have so much fight in them compared to others, this little fellow got top marks for effort a real fighter.

The following day I meet up with my mate Tony and we headed out to a spot we hadn’t fished before, we where on a tip off and we weren’t disappointed, the sea was alive with feeding mullet, we waded out and where completely surrounded by swirls, jumps and splashes. It’s a known fact that bass will swim with mullet and we must of managed 10 bass each, all small but good fun all the same. The bigger fish didn’t turn up that night but I’m sure I’ll be back to check out this spot again.

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So sometimes you just need to go fishing, you know the small tides aren’t the best and the weather may not be suitable but the urge to go can be all consuming. I’d had my eye on the forecasts for Sunday morning and with the promise of the wind swinging around to the South West I thought there may be a realistic chance of catching. The only problem was the forecast SW wind was also going to blow in a series of thunder storms, so we settled on a 5.30am forecast check but before I could even get to bed heavy cloud had rolled overhead and unleashed buckets of rain accompanied by plenty of lightning and thunder.

I was conscious of more storms throughout the night but was pleasantly surprised in the morning to find that they had blown through and with the current forecast we would be fishing after all. We arrived at the mark and conditions looked great, water clarity was excellent, we had cloud cover, it was fairly warm and there was a small swell on an otherwise calm sea.

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Decided to meet up with Mark down on the Dorset coast Friday night for a spot of rock hopping. The fishing started a bit slow despite me picking up a schoolie on the third chuck.

Not to be put off Mark knew where to try and as darkness started to fall and the ebb had just started to push, we positioned ourselves on a couple of boulders about 20 feet from each other ready to intercept a few. Well what can I say we had a frantic hour getting lots of hits and managing to land nine fish in total.

Mark with a nice 6lb 4oz bass which was the biggest for the evening, we thought for a moment that he’d hit a monster, the sound of the line being ripped from the spool against the drag whilst seeing the rod pulled over into a nice curve is what it’s all about, that and having a good laugh, which we certainly did.

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