Post by Mumbles Motor Boat Fishing Cl on Oct 5, 2015 16:42:19 GMT 1
Members request for a bassing trip. Great weather forecast as we boarded Oystercat at 6:30am, got out on the first lock armed with 3lb of eel from Swansea Tackle and Bait. Headed out to the first mark, very dirty water and the few drifts we did yielded nothing.
Headed another few miles south west, first bank, nothing - 2nd bank - 1 bass boated another lost, then nothing. By this time we'd lost our drift speed so we bobbed about, had some grub and fed the dogfish live eels. The tide picked up and we caught a few fish, but nothing really to write home about. Ran back inshore - had a little look on a few other banks but nothing again. As slack water approached we headed into Oxwich Bay to stock up on bait - both live bait for the evening and some mackerel for my trip the following day, as well as some to supplement the dozen or so bass we had in the well for people to take home. Thankfully these were far easier to find than the bass earlier in the day, soon our bait wells were restocked.
I got a little stick of a few members as I cut the bait collection short, stressing we'd need more scad - I assured them we had enough for the evening; given the days success so far I didn't really expect to find too many more feeding fish; I chalked it down to the iffy water clarity and dropping tides. We dropped the anchor on the knoll to wait for the tide to gain in strength, this also gave us chance cook up the last of the grub and have a brew. Plenty of dabs and gurnard kept the rods rattling away for the hour or so we had there.
We ran back out offshore joining a couple of boats that had stuck it out over slack water; they quickly shot off back towards Swansea, we had a few fish here, there were bass on the bank but I suspect they were small as we had lots of hits but we weren't able to turn these hits into fish on deck.
By now it was 6:30pm - been out for nearly 12hrs so tired and fairly despondent I thought we'd give one last mark a go before heading back in. As often happens, we arrived and the first drift saw 4 fish on deck and the other 2 baits being lost to savage hits. The next hour saw us frantically trying to get back up on the drift; while sorting out the fish on deck and trying to get the last of the scad out of the live well. The guys were right to question if we had enough, as we ran out. Thankfully, the fish were very keen and lures were taking fish fairly well. As we lost the light after the umpteenth 'Last Drift' we finally got back to the marina about 8:15pm - after sorting the fish and cleaning down we finally left the boat at 9:15pm.
Sorry no photos. Skipper Dean
Headed another few miles south west, first bank, nothing - 2nd bank - 1 bass boated another lost, then nothing. By this time we'd lost our drift speed so we bobbed about, had some grub and fed the dogfish live eels. The tide picked up and we caught a few fish, but nothing really to write home about. Ran back inshore - had a little look on a few other banks but nothing again. As slack water approached we headed into Oxwich Bay to stock up on bait - both live bait for the evening and some mackerel for my trip the following day, as well as some to supplement the dozen or so bass we had in the well for people to take home. Thankfully these were far easier to find than the bass earlier in the day, soon our bait wells were restocked.
I got a little stick of a few members as I cut the bait collection short, stressing we'd need more scad - I assured them we had enough for the evening; given the days success so far I didn't really expect to find too many more feeding fish; I chalked it down to the iffy water clarity and dropping tides. We dropped the anchor on the knoll to wait for the tide to gain in strength, this also gave us chance cook up the last of the grub and have a brew. Plenty of dabs and gurnard kept the rods rattling away for the hour or so we had there.
We ran back out offshore joining a couple of boats that had stuck it out over slack water; they quickly shot off back towards Swansea, we had a few fish here, there were bass on the bank but I suspect they were small as we had lots of hits but we weren't able to turn these hits into fish on deck.
By now it was 6:30pm - been out for nearly 12hrs so tired and fairly despondent I thought we'd give one last mark a go before heading back in. As often happens, we arrived and the first drift saw 4 fish on deck and the other 2 baits being lost to savage hits. The next hour saw us frantically trying to get back up on the drift; while sorting out the fish on deck and trying to get the last of the scad out of the live well. The guys were right to question if we had enough, as we ran out. Thankfully, the fish were very keen and lures were taking fish fairly well. As we lost the light after the umpteenth 'Last Drift' we finally got back to the marina about 8:15pm - after sorting the fish and cleaning down we finally left the boat at 9:15pm.
Sorry no photos. Skipper Dean