sam-cox

THANX LADS!

Leaving for the family holls today, my Dad and I are driving(so we can take all fishing gear). My girlfriend Tacye, my daughter Willow and my mother inlaw Jan are flying out tomurrow. Its the first real family holiday we have had with grand pairents, so hopefully we will get them all catching wrass. Will post a report when I get back if Elton hasnt banned me by then!

Hi Mat, large squid and lug baits are the way to go mate, if you stick it out with large baits you will hopefully deter the whiting, you may even get a late big bass.

It was obviousely a wind up thats why I didnt reply myself. But the Cromer Pier fishery will now be buggered as this was a very small pocket of large fish and will very soon be over fished.

Elton the statement that I have single handedly ruined your sea fishing forum is almost as bad as when Leon Roskilly blamed me for single handedly being responsable for the bad 40cm decission on the bass MLS. Like me or loath me you can not deny that my posts normally get people talking and get plenty of hits! If I have single handedly ruined your sea fishing forum Im afraid it down to your bad managment Elton. The captain can not blame his crew mate!

If I have single handedly ruied your sea fishing forum then more fool you for not banning me Elton. I do not wish to be banned, the fact that I pay to use this forum should proove that (although at times I have felt like canceling the payments). Still I havnt canceled and still Im happy to pay, but if I have ruied the sea fishing forum single handedly then you should of banned me Elton, not to do so is kind of self admiting bad managment. When I first joined I got nothing but jip about my spelling and grammer so it was a bad start that kept promting me to loose my temper. So time to start a new leaf, Im off on my holls now to Ireland, so see you all soonz.

At least I dont take nude pics of myself in my back garden. I must admit my knee jurk reactions can sometimes offend, but Newt really takes the pi**.

no mate they are farmed fish, not real bass.

bass are not genrually found in commercials disgaurds.

Why not try going to Cornwall, im sure benny wont mind you eating some of his fish.

Over the past two years you guys have been very quick to pull me up when you have felt I have crossed the line. I have been on mod control more times than I can remember, and on reflection you have been right to do so on a number of times. But just of late you seem to be slipping up! Newt has been taking nude pictures of himself in his garden and somehow they end up on angler's new, upsetting my 4-year-old daughter. Now John E Ashford has gone on a silly little wind up and you let him get away with it. Why aint he banned or at least put on mod control. The sight of those boxes of dead bass offends me almost as much as those pics of Newt. All I can suggest is that any real anglers that are left should join BASS as their forum is very civilised if not a little elitist. The quality of posts on this site has reach such a low level that it seems like we just try and wind each other up now out of boredom So John next time you try and wind people up try and do it with at least a tad of wit..

My 4 year old daughter will be looking at me while Im on hear, she is only just learning to read so the text Im not worried about yet. But obscene pics of some fat bloke taken in his back garden are something else. sense of humor right oh seems like a wronan to me!

There could be several ways to look at this, but they all hang on the above question. I think game is hung to let the adrenalin levels decline before being consumed by a human. So is the taste of fish different after they have been dead a while because the lowered adrenalin levels? As an angler I get a hell of a adrenalin hit from catching or just hooking a good fish. But does the fish also get an adrenalin rush. Do the live baits I use produce more adrenalin as they wriggle temptingly? Can any one give me any answers?

Of course he's not eating a Bass, McDonalds don't sell them!

No Im Leon, so is my Wife.

Couldnt tell you mate, I know nothing about up tide or boat casting! Sorry

The moaning will not stop,we have been making the 210 mile round trip to Kent as the shore fishing locally has been very poor for the past two years.

namby pamby wimps, they should try herring drifting!

I used to see tiny turbut the size of a 5p in Bradwell marina. I have seen large ones caught on rod and line and in nets from the outer banks like the kentish knock, longsand and sunk.

I have watched them work when using live baits for bass, the fish roared off and then hooked its self in the scissors. Nagging my old man to bring a range out so I get some freebies.

The content off this post resembles that off vomit! Newt you are a sad man.

Dont give all our secrets away mate, they will all be at it! Most of um on hear hate me so I dont want to give the enermy any amo!

Thanks lads, the hats Mats and I normally rib him a little about it. But I didnt bring a hat so I had to ask Mat if I could use his, and thank god he said yes as it was pritty nippy!

There have always been gurnard in the Thames Estuary, but there numbers have increased in resent years with most fish being caught in autunm

I vsited a secret bass mark in Kent with my angling pal Mat Lee yesterday. We left Essex on Friday at around 11.45pm and arrived at our location in Kent at just after 02.00 on Saturday morning. The plan was to arrive at a time that would make sure we got the position we wanted before anyone else. This would also give us plenty of time to get set up and catch our live baits before dawn. With a bass rod each set up and at least 4 hours to go before dawn I set about catching the pout that we planned to use for live baits. Such is my faith in live baits for better-sized bass that the only bait that we took was three packs of small rag worms to use as bait for the pout. The pout proved to be allusive until dawn and it wasn’t until nearly 7 am until we caught them, then they came thick and fast. We fished hard with two rods each all day, we set up carp rods with large float to use when the tide eased. Running paternosters with 8lb weak links on the lead link were used on our ledger rods. Matt kicked of with a belting take on his ledger rod. This resulted in a fish of only 37cm; it always amazes me how hard a little bass can take live bait. Again it was mat that caught the next fish of 42cm and I remained fishless. To watch our floats we would have to off leaned over the wall, which we did but it was uncomfortable. So float fished baits were lowered straight down the wall, the rods lent on the wall. Our reels had the ratchets and clutches set and we sat back and drank a coffee. The tips of our rods bounced to the rhythm of the waves, this was giving extra movement to our baits. Again it was Mats rod that got a take first, his rod just spanked round and his reel screamed satisfyingly, he leapt up but was a fraction to late and missed the fish, he was very disappointed. Then my rod slammed round, I was on my feet in seconds and leant in to what felt like a decent fish. The fish fought well and I let it fight a bit longer than I normally would to tier it out while Mat got in position with the drop net. A fine bass of 8.15lb was then skillfully scooped up on to the deck and was promptly un-hooked, measured and photographed. Then I put it back into the drop net to return it to the sea. Mat has two lines on his drop net, one for lowering and retrieving, and one tied to the bottom of the net. The line tied to the bottom is used to flip the net and empty the fish back to its freedom. An hour before we left for home Mats ledger rod gave a couple of powerful lunges, a firm strike and his rod arched round. This resulted in a fine fish of dead on 5lb. All in all a good days fishing enjoyed by both of us..