Jim Clohessy of TopFisher.eu was weighting up his choices to make the most of what was on offer at the weekend…
Choices, Choices…
With the impending weather change we had to make decisions. What would we like to achieve from our day? Weighing up all the alternatives we decided on a day in more inshore waters on the lures…. We’d get a bend in the rods first on the reefs and we would hope for hint to locate some bass on more open water…
Our first stop had us into fish straight away. Crash diving pollack up to 8lbs. Super fish. You’d like to think that the “bycatch only” rules on commercial fishing of pollack as allowing more fish to mature on the reefs.
We found plenty of fish and with a bit of work we managed to locate a few pods of decent sized fish. Emmett did his damage with one of my V2 heads and a shad body. I was doing wreck with Crazy Paddletails but was suffering a few tails being bitten off! It was certainly good craic. We roved about to a few other reefs in the vain hope of finding a few cod. It really looks bad for cod in our area.
We have been messing about with a pod of bass just outside the harbour. They have been there all summer but can be difficult to locate. You really need a tell-tale to find them as the area is so big. Bass are certainly on the autumn move within the harbour as there has been gatherings of bass in the outer harbour. A friend was searching for bait in the outer harbour and saw some gulls working… Bass were pushing sprat to the surface. He had a superb hour getting some fine bass – Tell-tale tells all!
Of course when we went into the area just a few days later there wasn’t a sign of a gull. We did pick up a few schoolies but you’d sort of expect them anyway. We had a few nice wrasse while we worked the ground looking for bass in what was a beautiful evening.
It looks like winter will be arriving over the next while and it may be that we’ll not get another run out in November. It certainly was the most benign end of October and November we have seen in years. We had some decent trips too. Some decent wrecking trips, I did very little on lures in recent weeks, and even some late season shark!
I put Skua into part winter mode, taking out electronics and most of the gear. It takes longer to get ready for any trip but it’s better for the gear.
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