First Bass of my season

My time has been limited over the last few weeks with a couple of hours here and there. Lynne’s making good progress and she can manage a few steps without crutches now. With our wedding next week and plenty of things still on the to do list I was pushing it to get a  trip in. With this in mind, l made a major detour after finishing work anyway and headed SW.

A modest start to my 2014 Bass season but very much appreciated. It took a Kinetic D360 in-line punched in to the surf.

I then had its twin 15 minutes later.

I had a move and landed on my mark bang on time. The moon wasn’t up yet and this was my first time on the mark this year so it didn’t feel familiar. It had changed underfoot, the waves were breaking differently but I put the lure out at 11 o’clock and let it swing around to 3 o’clock five times before I felt a tap. The the rod hooped over and the line peeled off the reel, two nice runs and some shaking with some solid weight as it swam around , then it went horribly slack. Pissed off I wound in , checked the hook and made another cast. I had another two bumps before the moon popped through the low cloud on the horizon and lit the beach up like Blackpool so I hit the road about an hour later.

I've sneaked a couple of Sea Trout out as well. Unfortunately like the Bass I've just told you about I've had two  cracking Sea Trout come adrift after I thought they were almost in the net, chickens counted never ends well.