Guide Sean Jordan of Bass fishing Wexford takes a father and son team out for a fishing trip and makes young Hugo’s day when he catches his first bass. Sean reports:
Dublin father and son Joe + Hugo took a day with me this week with the focus on Hugo meeting his first bass, it was not going to be easy with strong winds on the previous days making a lot of marks resemble sea weed soup!! We tried the third low water mark we visited, the loose weed we could overcome with weedless set-ups, but water clarity was poor enough, but dad Joe picked up a small Turbot on the soft-plastic, (no doubt a bit lost after the strong winds) anyway we gave it a couple of hours but no bass.
After lunch it was off to some more marks which in normal conditions come on form between half flood + high water, but three of the four marks were unfishable, I knew the fourth mark might have some chance of clearing near high water with the running tide, after a while the clarity did start to improve giving us some bit of hope, clarity got to about 80% I put up komomo II, hard lure on to Hugo’s rod and 30 minutes later a decent bass followed the lure right to our feet turning away after spotting us, with renewed hope Hugo was a bit more focused concentrating more on the twitching + pausing on the retrieve I had shown him earlier and right on the eleventh hour of the day Hugo’s lure got hit by a schoolie , after a brief scrap he was admiring his first bass, a quick photo and we watched it swim off, well done Hugo.
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Sean Jordan,
Bass Fishing Wexford
Address: Sean Jordan, Belgrove Cross, Duncormick, Co. Wexford, Ireland.
Telephone: +353 (0)51 563132 or +353 (0)86 2611436
Email: [email protected] Web: www.bassfishingwexford.com
