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Decided to go spinning this morning a little way south of Bude. As my current success rate borders around zero, I made a decision last night to take some frozen sandeel and my beach rod too, just in case.
First cast was just after 5am - absolutely beautiful with the mist drifting off the land. The mark looked, to my novice eyes, quite 'bassy' and the weather and conditions seemed great. Fish almost guaranteed. I obviously didn't catch anything, so after about an hour thought I'd make use of the sandeels and found a nice sandy bit of ground that would be ideal to chuck a heavy weight from.
I've only float-fished and spun so far in the sea, so this was a new experience. I had made up a couple of rigs last night so tied one on and decided that 4oz was just too scary so went with a 3oz lead (please don't ask me to explain this) and cast out.
It absolutely flew out, perfect trajectory, and seemed to stay in the air for eternity - but it still didn't land all that far out. How does that happen? Decided to leave it anyway.
Got a shout from my wife to help her over some rocks (she was carrying the food for breakfast, bless her) so I glanced nervously at the rod and rushed over to help her. Got back and about 20 seconds later the rod tip started banging away. More out of surprise than anything else, I struck and a short while later was holding my first ever bass, caught on my first cast!
Photo below. I'm not a weirdo - the sun was in my eyes. :fishing:
First cast was just after 5am - absolutely beautiful with the mist drifting off the land. The mark looked, to my novice eyes, quite 'bassy' and the weather and conditions seemed great. Fish almost guaranteed. I obviously didn't catch anything, so after about an hour thought I'd make use of the sandeels and found a nice sandy bit of ground that would be ideal to chuck a heavy weight from.
I've only float-fished and spun so far in the sea, so this was a new experience. I had made up a couple of rigs last night so tied one on and decided that 4oz was just too scary so went with a 3oz lead (please don't ask me to explain this) and cast out.
It absolutely flew out, perfect trajectory, and seemed to stay in the air for eternity - but it still didn't land all that far out. How does that happen? Decided to leave it anyway.
Got a shout from my wife to help her over some rocks (she was carrying the food for breakfast, bless her) so I glanced nervously at the rod and rushed over to help her. Got back and about 20 seconds later the rod tip started banging away. More out of surprise than anything else, I struck and a short while later was holding my first ever bass, caught on my first cast!
Photo below. I'm not a weirdo - the sun was in my eyes. :fishing:
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