Sunday Bass Bash!!

Went out for a couple of hours yesterday! There was lots of white water and a nice big swell rolling in! So i went to a spot with deep gully's where i know Bass will be! First cast of my Savage gear into the white water and i was on!! Ohhh its gotta be a Bass. But came to the surface and it was a Wrasse!

I Kept getting hits Fish on and off within 5 secs! Not too sure why they were not staying on! But moved to a different Gully Loads of white water in this one first cast there as soon as it hits the water Boom Fish on :)
Was very difficult to land as i was on my own and with the waves crashing over the rocks (you can imagine) But i managed to get it in the net :)

I had no scales with me on this session or Ruler! But i estimated the first one of around 3lb!

Then no more fish came to that Gully moved around the next corner around 5 casts there, another fish on :D Guessing the 2nd fish was a little bigger than the first one probs 3 1/2 lbs !

So all in all was a good 2 hours well spent !:-D

GO FAAAST !!!

LIKE THE WIND

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Saturdays Fishing Trip

Saturday morning I woke up a 4:15 am to get everything ready for the days fishing trip. So I go down in the dark to load the boat on the trailer and I couldn't find the boat. The last guys to use the boat apparently didnt pull it up onto the shore all the way. About 20 minutes later I found the boat tucked into the cattails on the other side of the lake. Special thanks to my dad and father in law and also to a nice stiff east wind for that adventure...

So it takes another 20 minutes to trolling motor the boat back to the boat ramp. I get er loaded up after finding the trailer stashed in the weeds down by the building and by the time I start loading fishing gear its already getting light out.

Off to a clients lake in Fulton County for the day to take some ladies from Chicago fishing. It didn't much matter that I got off to a late start, because when I got to the property the ladies were still sleeping and I wasnt about to have them woken up. (although the cool overcast morning would of been dynamite fishing).

Let me just say that Chicago girls spending time at a farm in fulton county is just kinda entertaining. They finally woke up about 10:15 am for our morning fishing trip and we made it out on the lake just a hair before noon. Before making it out on the water I laughed (internally of course) about stories and drama of mosquito bites, spiders, mice, camping, mud, etc.

So 3 of the ladies have never really fished before and one of them, Mary has been fishing several times. She too thoroughly enjoyed helping her 3 friends experience the great outdoors, we enjoyed a few behind the scenes laughs about the days adventures. The highlight of the day was when Mary was teasing one of the girls by putting a freshly caught fish just a bit too close for comfort and watching her reaction. Well that was all fine and dandy until the fish flopped off the hook and onto the girls lap. The next 30 seconds was complete chaos that just about capsized our boat and left both the fish and the girl laying on the floor of the boat both gasping for breath.

The fish, which was a really nice redear sunfish, managed to stick its dorsal fin into her leg at some point during the commotion and the blood running down the leg didnt help the frantic situation any. Five minutes later and Samantha was back to fishing again, and she managed to catch more fish than any of the other ladies for the rest of the trip. During those 5 minutes of therapy there was a moment when I though she would never fish again.

Anyhow despite the heat and late start the girls picked up on fishing much faster than I ever thought possible and we managed to catch some really nice fish! We filled up a 5 gallon bucket full of crappies, redears, bluegills, and catfish and we released another 5 gallon bucket full of fish as well throughout the day. We actually let all of the really big bluegill and redears go and just kept the crappies and a few of the hook swallowers for eating.

This group picture below took about 5 minutes to accomplish. The girls didnt really like touching fish, so we didnt get many pictures while out in the boat, but we had to have a group picture and some documentation of this day for the girls. Altogether I think they had a great time experiencing a different lifestyle outdoors in Fulton County!

Ladies, next year you are getting up much earlier to go fishing!

Testimonial from Chuck Flagg

Thank you for the wonderful day!

I posted my review on my blog as I am a travel agent selling both cruises and all inclusive vacations. We hope to fish with you again when we find ourselves in Cabo. We hope the fishing is better for us!

All my best,

Chuck Flagg

http://theflaggagency.com/blog/2011/08/02/review-pisces-sportfishing-cabo-san-lucas/

06/08/11 - Lands End - Match Lake

Weight – 38lb 8oz (16lb 8oz – silvers)
Catch – 14 Perch, 5 Carp, 3 Ide, 3 Roach, 2 F1, 2 Bream, 2 Rudd
Weather – Mostly sunny, breezy later
Match – Open – 8th out of 15 (1st – silvers)

A bit of a gap from my last blog. I did have a couple of pleasure sessions, including 241lb in 4.25hrs from my club water trying a new paste and Thursdays Rood Ashton match was cancelled.

Arriving at the venue I was surprised to find a nearly full car park, with a club match on speci lake and pleasure anglers on lakes 3 & 4. For today’s match we had 15, all on match lake, which meant pegs 18 to 22 were all in and to be honest I didn’t fancy drawing in the 20s due to the lack of space, so I shouldn’t have been surprised when I drew p21. Ray Bass was on 22 and the carp slayer that is Rod Wootton on 20 (I know he will be reading this – so I was delighted to be pegged next to him – not!).

It was also no surprise to find the fish waving at Rod as we were setting up, so no doubt he will be having a few. Normally I would have been happy with my draw had I at least 1 spare peg, but knew today was likely to be difficult in bright flat conditions.

At the start a small amount 3mm’s & a few 6’s were deposited at 6m. I went straight over on the paste fishing the far shelf, feeding a pouch of 6mm’s over the top. After 30mins and 2 lost foul hookers meant I was off to bad start, with both Rod & Trigger on 24 catching.

Only 1 skimmer came from my 6m line and no bites on pellet on the far shelf, meant after an hour I was going nowhere fast, seriously falling behind those around me. I was thinking about changing to caster when Ray caught a 9lber on caster off the far shelf which made up my mind.

I had to set up a new rig and first put in on double caster resulted in a carp – great sussed it! Not quite. The carp didn’t seem to settle and I had to keep lifting and dropping to get a bite, but at least I was now catching, including some decent F1’s and Ide up to 2½lb.

As the match progressed, I was feeding a pouch of 6mm’s to pull in the carp, plus a toss pot of caster. Hook bait was double caster, although I had some better fish on worm. By half way I knew framing was unlikely, so decided to stick with caster to keep the silvers coming hoping to pick up the silvers pool instead.

I only had 1 more skimmer from the 6m line, despite regularly feeding small amounts of pellet. They just didn’t want to play today and I suspect the bright, flat conditions didn’t help. In fact very few skimmers were caught today.

With about an hour to go, I felt my far line was fading, because it was becoming more difficult to catch and I felt the carp just were settling properly, because I lost a few foulhookers as they swam though the line. So decided to deposit ¾ big pot of caster with a few 6mm’s, feeding ½ pots every 15mins. This produced another carp, plus 2 more big ide.

By the end the match, I was confident of at least 15lb of silvers and thought I might be close to 20lb, but those Ide are hollow and don’t weigh as much as you think. Anyway I had enough to comfortably beat Dave “Beany” who had 10lb also caught on caster and worm. In hindsight I think I made the right tactical decision to swictch to caster and enjoyed my days fishing. However, I should have started on the pellet, instead of paste. Mike West struggled on p19 fishing paste, so they obviously didn’t want it.

1st 107- 5 – Lewis – peg 15
2nd 96- 3 – Rod – peg 20
3rd 92-14 – Trigger – peg 24
4th 48- 7 – Andy – peg 3

Silvers
1st 16- 8 – Ken – p21
2nd 10- 0 – Dave – p5

Port Logan mixed bag with Huss & Tope thrown in

Scott invited me aboard Scary Mary for a Logan session based on a great forecast and flat calm seas we headed out for what was to be a really good days fishing with a mixed bag of fish and a total of 12 species. One of the fish I caught turned out to be a potential Scottish record Launce of 9oz and more like a Gar than a Launce. We fished more towards Portpatrick than Port Logan with the rain for the better part of the day staying off. We had a laugh and caught some good fish.