Popular Post suzook12 Posted August 10, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted August 10, 2023 Arrived quayside in sunshine around 7.30 this morning, everything looking good. We headed out for a few drifts for mackerel and getting hit by bass on the feathers, mostly just under size, after 3-4 drifts, we had a single solitary mackerel. So we moved further along and tried again..... Same result. I had 3 bass on one string, and when they all went the same way that was fun 😁. 3rd mark and finally started hitting some mackerel, nice size too, all keepers. Would be a shame to chop these for bait, but...... Next mark we finally hit some bait size macks, 3-4 drifts and we had enough. What a contrast to last trip where we were getting massive numbers of small bait fish but no keepers..... Off to the top mark we went. By this time the wind has started picking up well beyond what was forecast. Just before the tide dropped out, my reel started clicking and sure enough, away it went. Lifted in to a nice 35lb fish which put up a very spirited fight. The joys of lever drag reels makes playing runners so easy tho. It was hooked a bit deep so the trace was cut to allow the hook to rust out rather than harm the fish trying to retrieve it. The wind continued to pick up and the decision was made to head back to the mark we were picking the bass up from rather than getting the sh*t kicked out of us as we would be wind against tide....... But the sea kept building and in the end the trip was cut short with several sightings of Huey and his brothers. Andy135, Hoop, JonC and 5 others 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy135 Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Nice one! That's a good fish. Well dangled 👍 suzook12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted August 10, 2023 Share Posted August 10, 2023 Whoop 🙂 glad you got a toothy critter at last 🙂 suzook12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintly Fish Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 Well done Steve, nice to see you finally managed to get out, even if cut short. Great tope too, nice!! suzook12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzook12 Posted August 11, 2023 Author Share Posted August 11, 2023 Broke several records for me yesterday too.... Most bass caught in one day, biggest bass caught at 40cm (never really fish for them), biggest mackerel caught and the most keepers, most weavers caught in one day (2) and 1st tope on first chuck..... Awesome day 😁😁 The skipper reckons that the most bass ever caught on a tope trip too, so we are planning a bass trip to see how many tope we can catch 🤣 Set to go again in 2 weeks, weather permitting Andy135 and Geoff 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 Nice trip out and decent fish to boot, shame about the weather though. Geoff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzook12 Posted August 11, 2023 Author Share Posted August 11, 2023 36 minutes ago, Malc said: Nice trip out and decent fish to boot, shame about the weather though. Yeah, but least we got out. As we've not had any real decent weather yet, tope could run well into September yet if the weather picks up. Malc 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDP Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 Nice tope, seems like plenty of bass around the country at the moment. When you say Yarmouth, do you mean Yarmouth IOW ? If so where did you go for the tope, would of thought you would of traveled a few miles to get tope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzook12 Posted August 11, 2023 Author Share Posted August 11, 2023 10 minutes ago, JDP said: Nice tope, seems like plenty of bass around the country at the moment. When you say Yarmouth, do you mean Yarmouth IOW ? If so where did you go for the tope, would of thought you would of traveled a few miles to get tope. Great Yarmouth mate, cept it aint so great these days 🤣 Still have to travel a few miles too, bout 20 out of harbour JDP 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoop Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 Great write up.. I did hear a while back that when Tope run inshore, they do so after the Bass and Mullet.. wonder if they'd make for decent live bait?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzook12 Posted August 11, 2023 Author Share Posted August 11, 2023 Apparently, tope mostly only eat flatties tho they also scavenge hence why we catch them on mack which helpfully leaves a nice scent trail Whether this changes from area to area I don't know, but without returning to catch and kill we probably won't find out, in which case would rather not know... Geoff 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted August 11, 2023 Share Posted August 11, 2023 1 hour ago, Hoop said: Great write up.. I did hear a while back that when Tope run inshore, they do so after the Bass and Mullet.. wonder if they'd make for decent live bait?? I’ve heard some shark anglers in south west use them as live bait…. Personally I don’t as too hard to find and I’d want to eat them Hoop 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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