Massive Bass

[Elton]

Riptides Bass

 

You could have woken him up for the photo!

 

[Norrie]

Glad they're keeping up the tradition we've been doing that for centuries and you've only just noticed......

 

 

Is that why you keep returning Gareth, we keep sending you home, but like a boomerang, you just come back mate :)

[n4lly]

You could have woken him up for the photo!

 

 

You sit there for hours Elton, thinking up the one liners, right?

 

(nice fatty by the way)

[chappers]

Is that why you keep returning Gareth, we keep sending you home, but like a boomerang, you just come back mate :)

 

Just to check if we've managed to fob you off with any more dud musical instruments....

[Onenil]

Well done Gareth what a star prize and an absolute beauty... It's got to be every anglers dream to catch a big bass.. Was this fish targeted or did it jump on while fishing for pollack...Was it caught on live sandeel or a plug ??? answers on a postcard please cheers

Edited September 11, 2007 by Onenil

[Ian Burrett]

Well done Gareth what a star prize and an absolute beauty... It's got to be every anglers dream to catch a big bass.. Was this fish targeted or did it jump on while fishing for pollack...Was it caught on live sandeel or a plug ??? answers on a postcard please cheers

 

It took a bait intended for tope. What a fantastic fish and well done to the lad for returning it; mind you if he wanted to keep it, he would have had a long swim for shore.

 

 

That's the second double figure Bass we have caught this year on tope baits and a further 4 fish over 7 pounds. All flukes because when we fish the same areas with live sandeel we get nothing but doggies.

[Toerag]

All flukes because when we fish the same areas with live sandeel we get nothing but doggies.

You need to fish a faster drift to avoid the doggies, or spin up. Bass certainly prefer a livebait to a dead as I often use deadbaits to avoid them.

[Ian Burrett]

You need to fish a faster drift to avoid the doggies, or spin up. Bass certainly prefer a livebait to a dead as I often use deadbaits to avoid them.

 

Hi Toerag

 

Thanks for that. We are total novices when it comes to the Bass

 

We are fishing in a 100 ft of water. Are the Bass likely to be feeding on the bottom are chasing the joey mackerel about

[Norm B]

Hi Toerag

 

Thanks for that. We are total novices when it comes to the Bass

 

We are fishing in a 100 ft of water. Are the Bass likely to be feeding on the bottom are chasing the joey mackerel about

Hi Ian, in my limited experience really big bass tend to go for easy pickings, scavenging on the bottom for dead or dying fish but they will chase large concentrations of fish, mackeral, whiting, sandeels, pout. Big bass often come to conger, tope and cod baits because they are big and easy to catch, not a lot of energy expended catching a double squid bait or mackeral flapper nailed to the bottom. I suppose they are like us really, chase everything when we're young and fit, take it a bit easier as we get older.

[Norrie]

Just to check if we've managed to fob you off with any more dud musical instruments....

 

 

LOL, What , Like the Spoons ???????