Bass fishing

Joined: May 06, 2009 Posts: 3

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone would be able to answer a query of mine.

I am quite new to sea fishing but have been out on a boat a few times, drifting, feathering for mackerel, and at anchor for bream etc.

I went out the other sunday from beer and we were going to be drifting hopefull for pollack, cod etc. I decided to try drifting a whole squid on a pennell rig to hopefully catch a bass. Believe it or not after a couple of minutes i hooked into a 5 pounder, landed it and had it for tea that night (very nice).

My question is that when i decided to put this rig on, i got a load of ribbing from mainly the skipper as to what the hell i was doing, and that to hook the bass must have been pure luck. Is this true? was i just lucky or is this a tried and tested way of fishing for bass?

Any opinions would be much appreciated

Thanks
Kev

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 7:15 pm

Does said skipper really know his business I wonder. Just recalling taking an 8 lb bass a while back, it was gutted on the beach and found to contain the remains of a large squid. I have caught bass on almost everything you can think of - lug, crab, mack fillet, sandeel, squid, limpet and of course lures.

Joined: May 06, 2009 Posts: 3

I can only say he does from the fact that he spends more time at sea than i do. I was just a bit put out by his comments. I have done a lot of course fishing and am very much a believer in trying out different things and was wondering if what i tried was a good way of fishing for bass.

I don't want to upset any skippers by this comment but surely if i've paid my money for the day, i can take their (probably much needed) advice, but put whatever i've looked at/ researched/ had a feeling for on the end of my line

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 7:51 am

There are good and bad skippers, as to this most of us can testify. Some of which are only interested in taking your money, on the other side of the coin, are skippers like Andy of Blue Mink out of Fletwood who will bend over backwards to help you catch fish and he doesn't mind burning diesel in the process. After all said and done he wants to retain his regular customers.

My advice is to fish the way you want and if it results in fish then you have the satisfaction of knowing that you have done something right. A skippers job is to advise, not to redicule.
Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:05 am

Agree with rabbi2 (yet again). When I lived in Devon, there were three or four skippers operating out of Exmouth and I can personally testify that there was just one of them who really knew his stuff and wrecks the rest were amateurs compared to him.

Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2011 8:09 am

Two great minds think alike (fools seldom differ) lol big grin

Cheers
keith big grin

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:44 pm

rabbi2 wrote:

Two great minds think alike (fools seldom differ) lol big grin

Cheers
keith big grin

Can i question that logic tougue

Joined: May 06, 2009 Posts: 3

Thanks for your comments. Think next time i'll try something really outrageous just to see what happens. devil

Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:59 pm

Yeah, on my last wrecking out of Exmouth I dropped an 8 inch black jelly worm into the inky depths. They had only just started appearing in the shops and the skipper expressed a dubious opinion without being sarcastic or deprecatory. He soon changed his opinon when I hauled a ten pound codling to the surface.