The first Bass of the year was not going to catch itself. The
wait for decent conditions to target them on lures might be a long one given
the weather we have had in May so far. I had some frozen crab left from last
year so rather than sit at home reading various forums I decided on Sunday
afternoon that I would give it a shot. The high winds that would have torn the
beach up on Saturday had dropped a little and when I arrived there was a nice
surf running ,plenty of colour and some lovely driving rain. I knew the weed would be a problem and a few
minutes after my first cast it was apparent things would be very difficult in
this respect. I could see the weed strung out along my line building in volume
by the second as the tide dropped. I did get a bite before I had to move and
had some sort of fish on. The weight of the weed built up on my leader knot
resulted in 20 foot of leader coming in horizontally and my second hook got snagged
resulting in a break off. Having moved along the beach to find a spot with less
weed things improved. I fished the best part of the tide but didn’t have any
offers despite putting some nice big crab baits into surf that looked ideal. Thankfully
I don’t have too many blanks but I’m happy I at least tried to scratch the itch
for the first Bass of the year.
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