Post by Mumbles Motor Boat Fishing Cl on Oct 5, 2015 16:35:17 GMT 1
Bass Trips 30 August 2015
We took the Oystercat on a massive loop of Gower and only found a couple of fish. Coming back in
towards the end of the day we ran into a large shoal of bass on a fairly local mark. Typical!!! Sorry no photos too busy catching bass.
Bass trip 31 August 2015
Started the day collecting bait, pouting & scad, from local wrecks filling the live wells. Then we tried the local mark where fish was found on 30th, so was expecting fireworks, but got nothing. Ran west and landed on a shoal of bass feed well. There were only 2 boats on the bank us and Marlin (Grifish), it was really nice having the bank almost to ourselves.
Richie Pearce-nice bass
Dean Gifford-nice bass
Nathaniel James - nice gurnard
Unfortunately, we quickly ran out of scad, so spent the slack water period restocking with with scad. We also nipped into Caswell Bay to pick up one of our members who paddled out to us in his kayak.
John Golding by kayak
Then we went offshore looking for fish. Given the success of yesterday evening we expected the scad bait would have been well received, but not a bit of it. As the tide built so did the number of boats and the fish were scared away. As the other boats headed home we burnt more fuel and went off to different area. We found a reasonable shoal of fish feeding very heavily, the scad were taking fish, but the lures were king. As the bass were slamming into the live bait on the lures they ripping the bait of the hooks or causing the hooks to turn and go under the gill plate.
We took the Oystercat on a massive loop of Gower and only found a couple of fish. Coming back in
towards the end of the day we ran into a large shoal of bass on a fairly local mark. Typical!!! Sorry no photos too busy catching bass.
Bass trip 31 August 2015
Started the day collecting bait, pouting & scad, from local wrecks filling the live wells. Then we tried the local mark where fish was found on 30th, so was expecting fireworks, but got nothing. Ran west and landed on a shoal of bass feed well. There were only 2 boats on the bank us and Marlin (Grifish), it was really nice having the bank almost to ourselves.
Richie Pearce-nice bass
Dean Gifford-nice bass
Nathaniel James - nice gurnard
Unfortunately, we quickly ran out of scad, so spent the slack water period restocking with with scad. We also nipped into Caswell Bay to pick up one of our members who paddled out to us in his kayak.
John Golding by kayak
Then we went offshore looking for fish. Given the success of yesterday evening we expected the scad bait would have been well received, but not a bit of it. As the tide built so did the number of boats and the fish were scared away. As the other boats headed home we burnt more fuel and went off to different area. We found a reasonable shoal of fish feeding very heavily, the scad were taking fish, but the lures were king. As the bass were slamming into the live bait on the lures they ripping the bait of the hooks or causing the hooks to turn and go under the gill plate.