Some exceptional reports have been coming into us here in the shop over the weekend. Here is just one of the big fish we have heard of, Ger had this 11lb yesterday morning.
There are some quality fish being had along the Waterford coastline at the moment. Make sure to make the most of it!
Its always great to hear from visiting anglers that make the trip over for some bass fishing and get some great results..
Steve Richardson and co had a great trip with plenty of fish around the 5lb mark with the best fish of the trip running to 7.5lb with the added bonus of getting a lot of fish off the top.
Here are some pictures Steve sent onto us...
Its almost like a switch has been turned with the coastline fishing very well with some excellent reports coming into us in the shop....
We can talk all day long about how the conditions have been against us this season with most of us having to make the most of those very small weather windows throughout the "Summer" to date. The copious amount of rainfall we have been getting has made things very difficult lowering the salinity of our inshore waters and thus pushing bait fish and most likely the bass out to deeper water.
However in the last few weeks things have finally started to return to some normality. Last weekend on some neap tides we had some nice bass coming to hard lures in estuaries and along rock marks. The usual fish holding marks are again starting to produce the quality fish we know they can and reports are coming in steadily to the shop of some quality fishing all along the coastline.
Here are some pics from a session we had on Saturday, fishing hard lures into some moving water the bass seemed to be passing us in phases...put your lure in the right place and eventually a fish would oblige.....
There was some nice fish caught during this short session (4-7lb), with some people picking out a few more than others. It always great to see your friends (who you introduced to bass fishing) hook some great fish., even if they do out fish you!!
If you get the chance check out this great video Peter Aspinwall put together, some very impressive surface fishing in Clonakilty bay.....
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