Sunday, July 07, 2013

A bass at last


First cast, bang - the rod rattles round and I'm into one. Better still, after a brief, splashy scrap in the shallow water, I grab the lure and it's on the beach. How big..? Not very. But I don't care as I take a quick picture, snick the hook out and watch it bow-wave back into the sea.

A few chucks later, I hook into another one that makes a better fight of it but comes off just out of reach of my fingers as I grab the line to beach it. I check the hook and it's James Blunt. As I'm sharpening it up again, there's a big splash 10 yards out, right in front of me.

This is starting to get exciting now - caught one, lost one and seen one all in the space of 10 minutes' fishing. I swap the spoon for a Thunderstick and buzz it over the spot where the fish topped. After a few casts, there's a big swirl behind the lure as I start to retrieve it.

I change lures a few times, Dexter, Toby, Piranha, before returning to the silver foil spoon I had the fish on. But the action's over as quickly as it began.

I pause to drink in my surroundings before I head for home. The day's just breaking and the sea's flat calm. It's a beautiful morning and I've crowned it with a bass.

7 comments:

  1. Well done, it might be hot but my thoughts are for the winter and them old pike.

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  2. Hoo bloody ray!

    At last the East Coast lure caught bass emerges!

    No mean feat, as you well know. Never ever managed it myself in a decade of once in a while hopefully trying lures between easy bait sessions. I admire your tenacity enduring what has been a fools errand up worm & crab country but now you've gone and done it.

    Shoals of sprats about, were they?

    Now do it on the fly...

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  3. Finally, the suspense was killing me!

    John

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  4. Well done, persistence pays off.

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  5. Well done on finally getting one, now all you have to do is catch a few on surface lures and it's curtains for your freshwater fishing.

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