My cousin lives in Pembrokeshire so I usually organises a session with Jim her father in law. What a treat he had installed for me on this day. He told me that we where fishing light but this isn’t something I’d really done before so I took 1 light rod and larger light beach rod. Got to the chosen venue after a 20 min walk in bright sunshine. Today was all about Bass but they do get Gilt-head Bream occasionally.
Method for the day was trotting a size 2 hook barbs crushed on a 3ft leader with a 1/2 oz lead on nothing fancy. Main bait was rag supplied by Jim
New venue for me so I’d taken a variety of baits just in case.
Got to the venue and greeted by a number of anglers throwing metals and soft plastics about .
First cast and Jim was in with a Bass of 30cm
I thought I’d try lug BOOM!!!! Also in on the first cast 43cm
Jim’s method was certainly out fishing the lure anglers and we had non-stop action all session with a few lost fish due to the barbless hooks.
Not one bite on the big rod all session
As the tide turned and on the flood I was in to another nice fish and as it surfaced me heart was in me mouth as I had lost a few Bass
Not a monster of a fish and weighing 3/4lbs or 335g but gave a good account for itself and felt more like a 2lbs Bass
It was one of my Targets for this year but I wasn’t expecting to catch on this occasion.
A couple of WHOOP WHOOPS!!! Photos, weighing and release made up.
Big thanks to Jim every days a school day when fishing
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