Been living and fishing around here for nearly twelve years now, we love it more and more every year, I’m still finding “new ground” to fish

Whenever we say we have gone and found a new mark I am going to assume that for the most part it’s most likely been fished before by other anglers at some point in the past. We live in a small country with a high population density so it’s not like the time when I was out photographing on one of those ultra-remote Seychelles atolls that takes serious logistical efforts just to get there, and the anglers spent one particular day fishing a vast flat that we believed had most likely never seen another angler before. How about a lot of the west coast of Ireland where I still believe you could go for a serious look around and find pollack marks especially that may well have never seen another angler?

So Mark and I were trying to decide on a place to go fishing towards the end of last week. I knew that there was a hell of a lot of weed around a specific area of our local coastline that I really want to fish as much as possible, but like last year it seems that weed is going to be a real issue again with the warming water and so on (if it doesn’t clear out sometime soon I think I might cry!). Mark knew that another big reef we both like was coloured up with the onshore conditions which had just come in (this reef is incredibly fragile), so I did a bit of thinking and suggested a little area that I know Mark used to fish many moons ago and has talked to me about before, but for some daft reason I had never even been down there. When you’re slightly struggling to come up with a plan, why not take a bit of a punt and at least try to learn something new at the same time?

So we made our way down to be met with the most incredible conditions. It was a bit of a clamber around to where we wanted to fish, including having to lift Storm up and over a couple of ledges, but when we got around I could see an amazing bit of water that was literally like a bubbling whirlpool of fizzed up water which was obviously being created by the onshore bounce washing around a few specific rocks. I was set up to fish before Mark so I clipped on one of the 12cm/22g Sandeel V2 j-hook lures in that White Pearl Silver colour and literally lobbed it out and into that whirlpool.

Bang! Don’t you love it when you take a punt, make a call, and you get hit on your very first cast? The bass didn’t connect but I was 99.9% sure a fish had hit me instead of me hitting a rock, and a few casts later my rod did smack over and I was into a bass. It wasn’t particularly big but who on earth cares? We were fishing what to me was “new ground” and it looked awesome. I have fished a fair bit not very far away from this specific area but as can happen sometimes, for whatever reason you suddenly “see” a part of the coastline with a different set of eyes and it’s really exciting. Mark caught a bass a bit later on from a stunning looking bit of water so in actual fishing terms the session itself wasn’t remotely epic (on the pearl white Sandeel V2, but in the Weedless version) - but to me it was. I have seen another small stretch of my local coastline in a bit of a different light, and especially as the tide cleared out with the lovely bouncy conditions we were fishing. Our family has been living around this part of Cornwall for nearly twelve years now, we love it more and more with each year we get to spend in this part of the world, and for all my fishing that I get to do there is still so much to explore around here. I sincerely hope that you feel the same way about where you might live and/or fish…………..

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