Bass on the Blackwater

This Weekend has just been brilliant Arron and his golf ,such a player i cannot describe,Brilliant , but more of him in the future, all i want to talk about is the Bass Estuary fishing in Essex ,
Its been a long time coming and has taken a couple of years to work out , up at the crack of dawn and down to the estuary for 1 hr after High Tide ,,ebbing on a neap tide all i met up with was a gold digger with a detector ,,any good i asked ,,No came the reply ,just like fishing he said ,,i did glance at the water and thought the man is correct!!!it was awful,,,, the colour was all the way out,,
i didn't want to go back to Maldon yet so testing a few lures and getting a bit of practice for Cornwall at the weekend,as the Tide ebbed it started to clear and the gravel spits were giving access to the clear water channels ,,the estuary suddenly started to look very Fishy,,


You can see the segregated water of dirt and clear the Bass were lurking just in the dirty water waiting to pounce,wading out up to my chest and positioning myself on the Tangent,casting my lure up the run off interface,, Bang every time ,,

what a super lure the the matsuki 130 Hokkaido from Italian fishing accounted for 15 Bass today nothing in size to break any records but working out how to fish the Black water is just a treat that i have worked out today  working the shore on the ebb down to low fishing the spits of sand and separating the coloured water from the clear,,and fishing the matsuki as slow as possible to Give the Bass a chance in the coloured water

I knew this lure would be a winner when i saw it  brilliant and works in the dark water

nothing big but hey what a fantastic days fishing and when you work it out for yourself when the conditions,tides and colour are against you its even better 15 Bass and loads of bangs and lost fish ,,all in 3 hrs ,simply a brilliant end to a perfect weekend

What are Friends for!!

What a brilliant week Carol ,Arron and myself had at our Home in SE Ireland in our house at Shady Nook the weather was simply stunning the only thing was ,we have had loads of work to do on our house DIY got loads of stuff done more than expected,,
 in the mean time my old Buddie and bass convert turned up to see us ,,Carol and I were laid out in the Garden when a old mate of mine turned up Mick Boland we fished Bass Alley many moons ago we talked for ages in the Irish sunshine about all them memories and double figure Bass and of course the ones that got away,the memories were so vivid we had a brilliant time just chatting away and catching up on the lawn at shady nook,,
Mick and i swapped lures and ideas it must have been getting on 4yrs since we fished together since then he has become a rather tasty lure angler,,,,

Mick with a half tidy Bass some of mick marks are off the scale ,,here's another pic to wet your appetite

Superb on the AYU Xslayer on to a articulated head and 2/0 vaviras wide mouth hook

above is the Metsuki Floating 150mm seems to be a cross between a tide minnow and a Daiwa Shoreliner brilliant casting and a strong bib i was very impressed with this lure as it comes in a sinking version too and the best bit is all for around £10 pounds delivered i paid £32 for three ands here's the other one 130mm sinker with Owner Trebles

get them from here
italiafishing
why pay silly prices when these nice lures are around

Off to cornwall over the weekend with Mark and Adrian on the 1st 2nd and 3rd of July to  fish the cornish lure festival cant wait for this one if you fancy having a go get your ticket on line from Ben at the art of fishing LURE FESTIVAL

Heres Joel a Devon Bass Guide and a realy good one at that been speaking to him lately as he has been bagging up down that neck of the woods The Bass above was 9lb 8oz he has had fish to 11lb 8oz this season and its a long one down there,,
,he also knows a thing or two about the Cornwall Coast and thats handy for us in July,,
catch up with Joel at joelsoul68@live.com
you will have some fun with this guy he realy knows his stuff,,,,,,,,

Nearly forgot a flying visit to Ireland at the weekend is on the Cards,,,,,