South Coast Worbarrow Bay

[DJDBazzer]

Hi all.
Headed to Worbs at the weekend, twas a last minute decision.
I left at 16:00, avoiding the traffic, arriving at 17:30 after a couple of stops for bait and fuel.
Baits didn't hit the water until 20:00, after a quick snorkel to check out the sea bed where I was fishing.
There were a couple of interesting features so I marked these out with a bottle tethered to the seabed with a glow stick in the top.
The sun set and I hadn't caught any mackerel so my attention switched to pout.
After a couple of casts I had 2 good size pout in the bucket so I was good to go.
Live bait sliders were dropped either side of the feature as I sat and waited patiently.
High tide came and went, I was falling asleep in my shelter so I decided to hit the sack.
2am ish, I got woken to the Mrs shouting "your ratchet your ratchet!!!!".
I jumped out of the tent and picked up my rod, to feel something thumping on the end.
After some careful maneuvering, I eventually had this bass on the beach, weighing 7 1/2lbs.
Happy days.
Returned to fight another day, similarly to the remaining pout, that was still fighting fit after 8 hours on my livebait slider.

 

[ouchthathurt]

Cracking bass mate, well done ?

 

[Had1]

nice one, the plan was well thought out and executed .
one of my favourite types of fishing

 

[chesilpete]

Thats a nice one Dave!.

 

[Bass&Chips]

Excellent

 

[Tatunka joe]

Cracking bass bey thank god your misses was on the ball while you had yer head up your ass ????

 

[John Mitchell]

Good idea taking the missus so you can sleep and she can mind the rods

 

[DJDBazzer]

Hahahahaha love it. Cheers lads

 

[Shirleycodlin]

Nice one, well done ?

 

[Action Man]

Great report. Loved the snorkel reccy and the glow stick in a bottle idea! What a bass as well

 

[Mr Fish]

Lovely bass Dave. Yep a snorkel reccy, what a brilliant idea. Will have to try and remember that one.

 

[ouchthathurt]

That’s dedication to the cause mate, snorkel recces! As a side note, do you prefer pout or mackies as a live bait?

 

[bananas]

Lovely bass,??,thats how id like to be woken up?

 

[Goateeblank]

You sleeping on the beach- never!
Nice bass mate.

 

[DJDBazzer]

That’s dedication to the cause mate, snorkel recces! As a side note, do you prefer pout or mackies as a live bait?

Cheers mate. Any mackerel would have been head and guts. I don't think mackerel last too long tethered to the sea bed

You sleeping on the beach- never!
Nice bass mate.

Haha hard to believe isn't it.
Cheers mate

 

[Cfish]

Nice fish matey!!!

 

[Klingo]

Cheers mate. Any mackerel would have been head and guts. I don't think mackerel last too long tethered to the sea bed


Haha hard to believe isn't it.
Cheers mate

Cracking fish. Have walked around Warbarrow a few time. Looks like good eel spot. And perhaps Pollack and wrasse off the Knole

 

[DJDBazzer]

Cracking fish. Have walked around Warbarrow a few time. Looks like good eel spot. And perhaps Pollack and wrasse off the Knole

You're right, you do get some big eels down there after a blow.
Plenty of wrasse off the tout but also on the reefs either end of the bay.
January is supposedly the time for pollack down there. My mate witnessed a 10lber some years back! It's also a half decent spot for cod. I've had quite a few down there August through to January.
I was down there again weekend before last and lost a 6lb bass in the surf.