Goldenballs !

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:40 pm

Fished town quay last night with bassman(goldenballs)rob big grin

, his mate and deano , arrived at 5.30 pm had lunch then on to the fishing .... weather was a bit blowy with a few showers high water pushing 11.30 pm , was pretty quiet untill near on high water with plenty of bath shark sized hounds coming out getting more of a pest than the non existing pout there at the mo angry

, big mackeral baits were geting nibbled by the bass and the worm baits were coming in nearly untouched , .... target species were bass and sole , for which rob was in with a nice sized slip ................

then as we were trying to unhook that his other rod went mental , bending right over the railings big grin

, struck and in on a 3 hook flapper with size 1 hooks baited with worm and was his first hound of the night about 6 lb ................

had a little bash at the surface feeding smelt on tiny hooks for livebait .............. big grin

great fun

, whilst playing with the monster smelt , rob had a another few rattles on his big maccy bait picked up the rob thinking it was schoolies again and lifted into a half decent bass of around the 3 1/2 lb mark , let me catch something rob crying

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Then all went quiet again , well it was for me all night big grin

, .........sat there and watched robs rod double over again , he then lifted into a good scrapping fish , so with the net ready and his mate climbing over the bars ready to net this hard fighting monster it surfaced and went absolutely mad , then realsied he had 2 hounds on a 3 hook flapper again on size 1 hooks , the biggest going 5 and the smallest at 2 1/2 that was foul hooked , hence the almighty fight (never seen that before) ...................

, he was on fire suprise

well what a cracking nights fishing amongst friends , stayed untill 5.30 am this morning rob left elated , deano blanked but he was only there for a couple of hours and only targeting bass , robs mate had a micro pout , and me a smattering of bath sharks and a solitary micro pout , great night and well done rob couldnt put a foot wrong big grin

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 5:56 pm

well done lads, some nice fish but did the bass end up on the dinner plate,
wood it be worth taking my son down there. well done, nice clear pics

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:25 pm

Lee,
you let me down mate, have been waiting for this report, you said watch this space, and no lunker bass???
Still a good report, with great piccies,
better luck next time,
Bryan.

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:57 pm

Well done Rob, unlucky Lee..
My turn next time, might try Friday night for the bass again..

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:10 pm

thunderchild wrote:

well done lads, some nice fish but did the bass end up on the dinner plate,
wood it be worth taking my son down there. well done, nice clear pics

No mate , all fished returned to fight another day big grin

Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:11 pm

uwishjellyfish wrote:

Well done Rob, unlucky Lee..
My turn next time, might try Friday night for the bass again..

You missed all the action again dean crying

, ill be down there friday night so we can meet up mate big grin

Member Joined: Jul 20, 2009 Posts: 5 Location: southampton

rob you lucky so and so, night fishing there tonight hoping for one of those smouthes was he on a 2up 1 down set up

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 7:33 am

wow what a great report and some really smiley faces too! great fishing guys!!

Sue

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:34 pm

Great report Lee and cheers for the replies everyone. One of those nights where it all came together and then some! I did absolutely nothing different to the time I saved a blank with a pout last week.

motty wrote:

rob you lucky so and so, night fishing there tonight hoping for one of those smouthes was he on a 2up 1 down set up

The smoothies were indeed caught on that rig baited with ragworm. I wouldn't dream of targetting them on such a rig though, I was after sole and scratching with it. I only managed to land them due to my massive drop-net, skillfully guided by Alex and Lee. We'd thought the bigger ones had moved on from the area after targetting them twice last week and drawing a blank on them.

thunderchild wrote:

would it be worth taking my son down there

Definately, 30 foot of water at your feet and you can fish from the car. The quay is a great spot for kids to fish.