A Week in September - 18th

At last the calm conditions have been replaced by a lovely fizzed up sea due to a fresh North Easterly, and about bloody time, just a shame it's a North East wind. Decided to fish the lunchtime tide, even though the sun was still blasting from a blue sky and I thought I would try a change of tactics as well.

The plan was to fish a roving style with a maximum of 20 minutes at each spot. So I started at the point, and slowly made my way from right to left. The weed wasn't great, giving me roughly 10 minutes between casts as I slowly made my way along the shore. Minimum tackle as usual meant this was all very easy, in fact it felt right, and I wondered why I haven't done this before.

There is a theory that the larger bass tend to hold court in the most favoured positions, so a sit and wait approach may only pick up the smaller bass as they work the shoreline. I thought it was definitely worth a try, especially as I can't seem to get past the smaller bass this year. 

Ironically I arrived at my usual spot, the one I would've been fishing if I hadn't been trying out the roving idea, when I had my first sign of interest, a couple of taps and then a lovely run. The bass once again headed for the old groyne, so I left it for as long as I dared but ended up missing the run. I think in the future I will just take my chances with the groyne and let the run develop. 

Continuing to work my way back to the point I'm eventually hit by a bass that didn't want to hang around, but was quickly subdued as it used up all it's energy on the first run. Once again 21.5" so roughly 4lb.