Been having trouble tagging some big bass on surface lures that i've seen jumping on my local sea wall recently. Some gents here gave me some good advice in respect to why they werent interested, such as - there must be bait fish or a food source thats more interesting than my Patchinko. So i went back to same spot with some good old ragworm, on a simple paternoster pennel rig and this stonker nailed the back hook right in the scissors. Cracking fight, opened it up and full of small hardback crabs. Will be back again bouncing some soft plastics (maybe Dolive Sticks?) along the bottom. Perseverence paid off. Beeyaawtaful!
KeefoZ
Defo weren't mullet..
Been having trouble tagging some big bass on surface lures that i've seen jumping on my local sea wall recently. Some gents here gave me some good advice in respect to why they werent interested, such as - there must be bait fish or a food source thats more interesting than my Patchinko. So i went back to same spot with some good old ragworm, on a simple paternoster pennel rig and this stonker nailed the back hook right in the scissors. Cracking fight, opened it up and full of small hardback crabs. Will be back again bouncing some soft plastics (maybe Dolive Sticks?) along the bottom. Perseverence paid off. Beeyaawtaful!
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At the mark where I've been having some recent success the best sessions are when bass are pushing sand eels to the surface, many bass coming clean out of the water, like a sea trout, some very small some are a decent size. Bass do jump, I've seen more bass jump then mullet
Agreed Seatrout are quite simple to distinguish once you have seen a few leap , as i said there are always exceptions . How long have you been Bassing before seeing the leapers at this mark ?
I 've been been fishing too long to start saying you'll never, it'll never , they never but i love to take it as a challenge when somebody else says it !
I fish top waters from the boat mainly and regularly get good bass completely clear the surface when hitting my lure. Particularly if they are there in numbers and want to get it first!Bet they were Mullet !
Generally speaking Bass are not great leapers but they will be in the same place as Mullet which are avid leapers !
Do the small hardback crabs around your area swim on the surface ?
Ps Nice Bass !
u hit a bass in a foot of water
u watch them jump
feck me they go like trains
had two doubles do it as well
both ran a good hundred yards
they get well spooked in that depth
u watch them jump
feck me they go like trains
had two doubles do it as well
both ran a good hundred yards
they get well spooked in that depth
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