Action Man
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Morning all,
After Monday nights success with a ray (albeit the only take of the evening), I had the opportunity to head out again last night to seek more fish.
Given this recent spell of good weather, I decided to head to my favourite north Kent bass mark to try my luck and see if any were in early as I’ve never had bass before in February. Plus, the added bonus that this venue now produces rays as well which I discovered last November!
I arrived at the chosen mark after the 15 minute hike at 8:30 ready for the 11pm high tide. As soon as the water was in I sent out one three hook boom rig loaded with fresh blow lug, and one up and over rig running ledger pulley thingy rig loaded with bluey for a ray. Then I sat back.....
The lug worm rod attracted attention immediately, lots of little bites and pulls which then turned out to be the dreaded crabs cashing in on their free dinner.
I persevered for the two hours until high tide with nothing to show for it. At this point it was getting late and I decided to stay another 30 mins just to see through he last of the lug worm. Now this venue has a reputation of going a bit bonkers on the ebb, and suddenly it proved it’s worthy again for me! The lug worm rod took a succession of thumps before tripping the lead out, a nice and fairly feisty fight resulted in a bass of 39cm on the shingle. After sitting about for 2 hours only feeding crabs this was a very welcome sight, and even better that I had achieved my target species in February! Took a few photos then slipped the lovely bass back into the gin-clear water.
A quick re-bait with my last 3 worms and I sent the rig back out, only for it to start bouncing again, but this time it was a lot more timid but and sure enough I had a micro-bass on the middle hook.
So there we have it, two bass in total on my final two casts. Very happy with that indeed!
Have to also report the bluey didn’t even attract any attention from the crabs which was strange.
Anyway, until next time
Alan
After Monday nights success with a ray (albeit the only take of the evening), I had the opportunity to head out again last night to seek more fish.
Given this recent spell of good weather, I decided to head to my favourite north Kent bass mark to try my luck and see if any were in early as I’ve never had bass before in February. Plus, the added bonus that this venue now produces rays as well which I discovered last November!
I arrived at the chosen mark after the 15 minute hike at 8:30 ready for the 11pm high tide. As soon as the water was in I sent out one three hook boom rig loaded with fresh blow lug, and one up and over rig running ledger pulley thingy rig loaded with bluey for a ray. Then I sat back.....
The lug worm rod attracted attention immediately, lots of little bites and pulls which then turned out to be the dreaded crabs cashing in on their free dinner.
I persevered for the two hours until high tide with nothing to show for it. At this point it was getting late and I decided to stay another 30 mins just to see through he last of the lug worm. Now this venue has a reputation of going a bit bonkers on the ebb, and suddenly it proved it’s worthy again for me! The lug worm rod took a succession of thumps before tripping the lead out, a nice and fairly feisty fight resulted in a bass of 39cm on the shingle. After sitting about for 2 hours only feeding crabs this was a very welcome sight, and even better that I had achieved my target species in February! Took a few photos then slipped the lovely bass back into the gin-clear water.
A quick re-bait with my last 3 worms and I sent the rig back out, only for it to start bouncing again, but this time it was a lot more timid but and sure enough I had a micro-bass on the middle hook.
So there we have it, two bass in total on my final two casts. Very happy with that indeed!
Have to also report the bluey didn’t even attract any attention from the crabs which was strange.
Anyway, until next time
Alan
