21/07/08 lb11-4oz bass

After having a few weeks rest from the bass,and having a great time on the salmon & seatrout, it is actually nice to get back fishing for bass. I was out with clients this morning,Mathew Thomas from Sloihull, West Midlands,whos only 16, caught a fine specimin bass of 11 lb 4 oz !!!one great achievment.It was a dream come true for Mathew,the bass was caught on a secret method,but most importantly a few photos and he kissed the bass goodbye, and returned it alive!!! Well done to that man. Tight Lines to all,

brown and seatrout 06/07/08

what a tought day on the boat with the wind blowing, but still we landed over 20 fish today between brownies and seatrout, ok not very big but some casts we would have double hook ups, it was a tought day but enjoyable,

27/06/08 A FEW SALMON & SAETROUT

There have been a nice few salmon & seatrout showing over the past few days, with lots of water in the rivers,it has made a big diffrents on the fishing, I have been out lots of times over the past few days and only failed one time, which is not bad, mind you I lost the biggest fish a salmon of about 9lb, but useing quiver tip rods and 8lb line we do give the fish a fighting chance and some times they win,

salmon & seatrout 21/06/08

what a days fishing my son gareth had on the river, with 2 cracking fish, first he hooked a seatrout of 7lb and then a little later hooked into a fine salmon of 12lb the 2 fish where caught on a small rod and 4lb line, yes 4lb line he had to go with the fish down river for a good few merters, untill he played the fish out, spot on son well done,

salmon 20/06/08

I was up early this morning going to fish the river, and could not believe that one of the locals beat me to fish one of the marks,so I stoped and had a chat, and as we said our fair wells and good luck,I fished a few pools above ????, and on my fourth cast I hooked into a lonely salmon of about 5lb nice size for the table for a change, it looks like I went to the right mark, thank you ????.

16/06/08 A DAY ON THE MULLET

I went looking to find some mullet at one of my marks and with out fail they were there, so I put a bit of ground bait in and set up my quiver tip rod with 4lb line and a size 12 kamsan hook with no weights just a bit of mackerel I cast it out a few yards watching the bait sink slowly untill the mullet came to the bait it only toke a few moments and I was in to my first mullet of about 3lb 8oz it was a great day as I hooked 5 fish and landed 4 even with out a net I still managed to land 4 by playing them out and then picking then up by hand.

ray and conger 15/06/08

A fair day at the office on sundy, with Ivor,mike,& PJ, with a nice few t.b.rays and conger to over 10lb we had 7 speices in all with the sun shineing all day and plenty of fish coming to the rods

seatrout & salmon

A great day on the lake last wednesday with 4 seatrout and one salmon we topped the board on wednesday and friday with yet more salmon to 3lb8oz not big but job done again, tight lines.

BUSY BAIT COLLECTING

we are flat out at the moment getting bait with plenty of mackerel around we are trying to make the most of things with vac pack and blast freezing bait, any way its closed season at the moment for bass untill the 15/06/08 then here we go again, its nice to have a little brake from the bass, plus its the time of year to catch tope and stingray from the shore and of course plenty of bullhuss, tight lines for now.

5 MORE BASS DESPITE THE ESTERLY WINDS 06/05/08

I thought things was going to get very tough with the esterly winds but we still caught 5 bass ok not very big, the biggest was 50cm about 3-1/2LB but still the sun was shineing down on us

plety of salmon and bass 05/05/08

there have been a glut of salmon & bass over the past few days with salmon to 8LB and bass to 6LB, we have a few guys staying with us and they are very happy with the results so far but now with the esterly winds I think things are going to get a bit tough, we will see

A DAY ON THE WRASSE

got some freinds over at the moment, so I toke them for some ballen wrasse and a fair day we had with plenty of fish to 21/2lb to about a little over 3lb, lots more to come.

FLOUNDER & BASS

24/04/08 Flounder fishing, Hi guys, What a 2 day session I have had, first we went looking for a place to catch good flounder and plenty of them which we did, Flouder to 44cm not bad but I am sure that there will be a lot bigger to come, you will find uot shortly. 25/04/08 BASS Fishing with Ivor O'conner from ballinskelligs,Ivor who has nerver done any bass fishing before had a very exciting day with 5 bass in all coming to the rods, me with the very first cast hooked into a bass of about 4lb Ivor was well plesaed to see a bass, and on the second cast using razor fish I hooked into yet another bass a bit smaller, but then Ivors rod buckled over and hooked his very first bass, fish of about 2lb he was delighted and could not believe that he caught a bass and then I hooked up again with another bass of about 3lb and after that things got a bit quiet so I decided to move to another mark where Ivor hooked into the biggest bass of the day, a nice bass of about 5lb+ and all the bass was returned alive with only taking a few scale samples for C.F.B. CENTRAL FISHERIES BOARD NOW IVOR IS HOOKED tight lines for now.

bass again 20/04/08

Hi guys, just come in from bass fishing I only had 3 bass today to 4lb in 2 hours fishing, I should have caught 5 but 1 of those things, but one of the bass had a bite mark on it of a seal the bass was only 3lb 8oz and there was a seal in front of me when I started to fish,

I must put on the L plates 11/04/08

I caught 2 bass today and I should have caught at least 5 in 1-1/2 hours fishing, I hope this is just a bad day at the office, as I have got a comp at the weekend. more to follow.

06/04/2008 day for the bass

just got in and what a days fishing I had, fishing one of my marks with 7 bass to 6lb all returned alive, and with things going to get better I am realy looking forward to this year.

03/04/2008 sion brain, salmon

Hi to everyone, sion my son had a cracking salmon on a trout rod and reel, on the fly 11lb 8oz it took him 35 mins to land the fish, and also took over 150 yds of line he had to start the boat engine and chase the fish.weldone son

25/03/08 Article for Global Game Angler Magizine.with editors Thomas Michael and Peter Wahl

what a week we have had with the northly cold wind blowing all week, but we still managed several bass to over 7lb 63cm on the fly and plugs. also a few bass coming to baits when the weather was to rough to fish any other method there was also flounder to 1lb.8oz and the old faithful dogs and rockling I have be doing articles for angling magizines since september 2000 and progames for sky discovery with henry gillby, but I must say this is one of the hardest I have done to date,with the weather being so bad but I still got 100% on all my articles I have done on bass, I am still yet to fail. I hope it never happens.

Rough wearther but a great day 12/03/08

dispite all the rough wearther, I still managed to get out on the bass on one of my marks fishing 2 rods with razorfish for bait and frozen black lug on the either rod both rods produced bass 5 in all not big to about 4lb 8oz and all returned alive I still think we are in for a cracker of a year. tight lines to all

First 10lb plus bass of the year caught 13/02/08

Despite the easterly cold winds, I was still out guiding with Karl Rooney from Cork city, when he booked for guiding. I told him it will be tough going because of the easterly wind, but he was keen, so we went on to, 2 of my marks. With the first mark we produced flounder, turbot, and seatrout, but with the sun full in the sky it was hard, so we went on one of my hot spots and as soon as it was getting dark, what a difference it made with flounder coalies, and a lovely bass of 73cm 10lb 8oz and a smaller one to follow both returned alive, the way it fished last year hopefully continues this year,I think we are in for a cracker again this year, tight lines to all.

BOOKINGS

WE ARE KNOW TAKING BOOKINGS FOR 2008 book early to avoid disapointmemt.

what a year.2007 was

what a year we have had from catching salmon, sea trout, bass, trigger fish, and lots more. Salmon, we have seen a huge difference in salmon fishing this year, the amount of fish coming into the lake and rivers around waterville is brill and looks good for the future. We have caught aprox 150 salmon between the 3 of us and we killed 1 fish for the table, not bad if I say so my self. I dont know if it is a freak year or is it the lifting of the nets, you decide???? Bass, the amount of bass that we have had this year, betters all other years, bass to 13lb is the best so far. I realy can't put a number on the amount of bass, as we did not keep any records this year, as we were to busy guiding, and geting bait. only about 30 bass coming to the fly this year, because of the rough whether the last artcle I did was for a french magazine, fly fishing for bass and the 2 lads that I was guiding for made my job so easy they caught 2 bass to 3lb in 3 casts, they are very good fly anglers. As for trigger fish we have caught just over 100, biggest being a little over 4lb,but we have seen a few around the 5lb plus, may be next year! We are now taking booking's for 2008 Tight Lines to all. KB ATLANTIC BAITS & family

bass bass and more bass

We had a frend russell staying with us for a few nights we managed to get out and do some bass fishing. On the first cast I caught a bass of 2lb8oz and russell was still setting up. On my second cast I had another bass of 2lb and I turned round to see russell in a little bit of a mess with line so I stop fishing for a few mins to give him some help. Then on his first cast he had a bass of 3lb as he could not stop catching bass we had 10 in all in 2 hours. Fishing the biggest fish was about 4lb and all returned alive,,,,,,,,,,, there has been a clut of bass over the last few days with over 41 bass coming to the rod in the last 4 days,,,,,,,,,, I went out for a cast today sunday 22/04/07 and spent 30mins fishing and had a bass of 7 1/2lb I have not seen it this good for a number of years I hope it keeps up, tight lines to all.

plenty of bass

I was booked up with a few lads from belfast, none of them have ever caught bass before until they met me. They booked me for a days guiding with excitment in there eyes. I took them to one of my marks where they bagged up mackerel, pollack, wrasse, coalfish and ling, and then we went on the bass where steven caught 2 bass to 5lb, and then the follwing day they went back to the bass mark and had 4 more bass to 8lb. There was no stoping these lads and also in between they had 2 mullet to 5lb we will be back they said, lads see you soon, tight lines, kevin.