This in from the Cork coast as Jim Clohessy of TopFisher.eu gets back on the water again:
This weather, a lovely week with rotten winds and big tides, has us making choices.
We said we’d try some inshore work for bass and stuff. The wind was always going to be an issue being east or north east and quite strong. It was, going by forecast,the better day of the weekend.
We worked some lovely ground east of the harbour. Sizeable bass were scarce . A shame as we had encountered some good numbers during the week.
We eventually ended up hiding from the wind and fishing for wrasse. How bad! It was great to get into some hard biting hard fighting wrasse. There’s no doubt but the Black Minnow is a superb wrasse catcher but the wrasse do make short work of the bodies.
We worked our way back towards the harbour and tried some nice ground half expecting bass and getting wrasse again. The wrasse fishing has suffered a bit down this way with potters keeping the humble wrasse for bait, so it was good to see some nice fish about. You’d wonder if there is the bigger fish on some of the old haunts…
We retrieved a couple hours after a very low tide.
