Andy135
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Headed to Start Point over the weekend for a quick lure session. Had about 90 mins between family commitments so grabbed my spinning rod and a few lures and headed to a mark I last fished a few years ago that used to be a productive wrasse mark. But would it still hold fish? This mark is a special place for me as it's where I caught my first ever sea fish on a lure (a wrasse) nearly ten years ago.
The water clarity was reasonably good with a hint of cloudiness. Plenty of kelp about still, which is a good sign.
The lure of choice was a Fiiish Black Minnow 120 in khaki colour, with the 12g shore head. This always used to be THE killer lure on this mark, cast out from a rocky finger across a small bay and bumped slowly across the bottom. The hit would usually come about half way back and would involve a couple of aggressive taps then a full on rod bender as the wrasse defended its territory and hooked itself.
After the first few casts I felt a slight tap on the lure, which came to nothing. A couple of casts later a schoolie bass followed the lure to the shore but didn't commit. This was followed by ten or so more fruitless casts before another, bigger bass followed the lure in.
Having seen a couple of bass now, I felt confident that there were fish to be had, but my time was rapidly running out, and the tide was rapidly flooding in. Moving off my rocky perch to avoid being trapped by the tide I made my way closer to the beach and found another suitable vantage point to have a few last casts. First cast out and the telltale tap, tap, whack of a wrasse! He put up a decent scrap, taking a few yards of line from the reel before coming up in the water and onto the rocks.
Love it when a plan comes together! Job done, and with time running out I headed home for a beer and barbecue while watching the sun go down.
The water clarity was reasonably good with a hint of cloudiness. Plenty of kelp about still, which is a good sign.
The lure of choice was a Fiiish Black Minnow 120 in khaki colour, with the 12g shore head. This always used to be THE killer lure on this mark, cast out from a rocky finger across a small bay and bumped slowly across the bottom. The hit would usually come about half way back and would involve a couple of aggressive taps then a full on rod bender as the wrasse defended its territory and hooked itself.
After the first few casts I felt a slight tap on the lure, which came to nothing. A couple of casts later a schoolie bass followed the lure to the shore but didn't commit. This was followed by ten or so more fruitless casts before another, bigger bass followed the lure in.
Having seen a couple of bass now, I felt confident that there were fish to be had, but my time was rapidly running out, and the tide was rapidly flooding in. Moving off my rocky perch to avoid being trapped by the tide I made my way closer to the beach and found another suitable vantage point to have a few last casts. First cast out and the telltale tap, tap, whack of a wrasse! He put up a decent scrap, taking a few yards of line from the reel before coming up in the water and onto the rocks.
Love it when a plan comes together! Job done, and with time running out I headed home for a beer and barbecue while watching the sun go down.
