A very good few years in the past a number of of us fished a daytime estuary session in Dungarvan harbour on the south coast of Eire. There have been more than likely 4 of us fishing, and we’d have been bumping Fiiish Black Minnows, MegaBass XLayers, and different comparable lures (on jig heads) in a superb run of present across the final couple of hours of the ebb on a spring tide. We had been casting onto what I assume is sand or mud, with no snags that I ever bear in mind, and when the bass fishing was on it was merely unimaginable. Because it was that exact day. We completely smashed them. Good bass after good bass got here to what I name are inclined to name “bumping” – a easy method the place you actually Czech-nymph (it’s from fly fishing, Google it) your gentle plastic on a jig head down a run of present and principally let the present do the (bumping) give you the results you want. It’s as much as you whether or not you do a little bit of light sink and draw on the lure, however in sufficient present and over a clear backside, there’s greater than sufficient motion on the lure so that you can merely keep contact after which react to a success. The hits are usually improbable, and the scraps from respectable fish are superb within the robust present. I completely love bass fishing like this.
So we’re buzzing, and since the climate and tides are primarily the identical that night time, we make a plan to do precisely the identical factor when it was darkish. Which we did. Expectations had been by means of the roof as a result of the fishing through the day had been so unimaginable. The corresponding night time tides couldn’t come quick sufficient, and we had been virtually past prepared…………..
And we blanked, and I imply correctly blanked. From among the finest bass classes you might ever hope to have through the day, to not even the trace of a success on the identical tides and climate, however at nighttime. Similar lures, similar strategies, similar anglers, similar location, and we blanked. Each these Irish classes have caught in my head ever since. The primary one for the standard of the fishing, and the second as a result of we needed to have carried out one thing very fallacious to have blanked. I refused to consider that so many (daytime) bass had been immediately doing a no-show simply because it was darkish, and I stay satisfied to this present day that the bass had been truly there that night time, however they had been feeding in another way – and we merely weren’t switched onto it.
