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After our almost total lack of success in pursuit of Rays this year, me and Steve headed off to Newborough in search of Bass. We got there a couple of hours into the flood with about an hour of daylight left, armed with fresh rag, black lug, peeler, razorfish and a monstrous big clam thing, though we were both a bit nervous about trying to open the thing in case it attacked us! We set up to the side of a fishy looking gulley that we could cast into when the tide flooded. I wasnt particularly confident as there was very little surf and I blanked the only other time I fished Newborough but Steve reckoned the bass would still be there.
We didnt even have a touch for the first hour or so but around dusk wed been forced back behind the gulley by the tide, it seemed a bit shallow in the gulley just yet so I cast to the outside of the sandbank beyond it, I reasoned that the fish would be waiting there for enough depth of water to move into the gulley and what little surf there was would disturb any food on the sandbank, sounded good to me anyway! After about ten minutes I had a good bite but missed it so I picked up my rod and waited to see if it had another go, almost immediately my rod tip was pulled over and I lifted into a fish, it wasnt big but it was great to see the first Bass of the night :clap2: .
Next cast the same thing happened again and this time I was ready for him, Bass number 2.
Next it was Steves turn, another Bass. They werent big by any means, the biggest was probably no more than a pound but it was great to catch our target species for a change. The next bite looked a bit different and sure enough Steve reeled in a large Doggie (I suppose if youre going to catch them they might as well be decent ones).
Next fish for me was my first Doggie then Steve had his second, we were just starting to think the dogs were in for the night to ruin our fishing when I had another Bass, happy days again.
The fishing wasnt hectic but we caught a steady stream of schoolies and I managed to get a small Coaly and what we think was a shore Rockling.
Things went a bit quiet over high tide but I did manage one more Bass about an hour into the ebb before we called it a day about 12:45.
Final scores were 6 Bass, 1 Doggie, 1 Coaly & 1 Rockling to me and 4 Bass & 2 Doggies to Steve. All the fish apart from the last one, which took peeler, were caught on rag, we didnt have so much as a nibble on razor or lug and in the end we didnt attempt to use the clam so we released him to live another day.
We didnt even have a touch for the first hour or so but around dusk wed been forced back behind the gulley by the tide, it seemed a bit shallow in the gulley just yet so I cast to the outside of the sandbank beyond it, I reasoned that the fish would be waiting there for enough depth of water to move into the gulley and what little surf there was would disturb any food on the sandbank, sounded good to me anyway! After about ten minutes I had a good bite but missed it so I picked up my rod and waited to see if it had another go, almost immediately my rod tip was pulled over and I lifted into a fish, it wasnt big but it was great to see the first Bass of the night :clap2: .

Next cast the same thing happened again and this time I was ready for him, Bass number 2.

Next it was Steves turn, another Bass. They werent big by any means, the biggest was probably no more than a pound but it was great to catch our target species for a change. The next bite looked a bit different and sure enough Steve reeled in a large Doggie (I suppose if youre going to catch them they might as well be decent ones).

Next fish for me was my first Doggie then Steve had his second, we were just starting to think the dogs were in for the night to ruin our fishing when I had another Bass, happy days again.

The fishing wasnt hectic but we caught a steady stream of schoolies and I managed to get a small Coaly and what we think was a shore Rockling.

Things went a bit quiet over high tide but I did manage one more Bass about an hour into the ebb before we called it a day about 12:45.

Final scores were 6 Bass, 1 Doggie, 1 Coaly & 1 Rockling to me and 4 Bass & 2 Doggies to Steve. All the fish apart from the last one, which took peeler, were caught on rag, we didnt have so much as a nibble on razor or lug and in the end we didnt attempt to use the clam so we released him to live another day.