If I’d been on my own, would I have fished this far up a creek so early into the flood tide?

I like to think I’d have had a go, but in all honesty I think I might have walked on by because it looked too shallow and murky. I might well have come back to this particular little creek, but in all likelihood I’d have done so later in the tide when there was more water to play around with. As per Monday’s blog post, we were fishing a mark the other day that I hadn’t been to before, and once we hit low water we were on the move and I assumed back to the cars…………….

But Danny said we really should have a go at the top of this muddy creek in the distance. I chose to hang back with my camera gear and keep out of the way so the other lads could fish it. I also wanted to watch how they approached shallow water like this because I bet you take ten bass anglers and they’d all do something a bit different to each other. For sure I have caught plenty of bass in shallow estuary water before, but so much of my estuary based bass fishing is on the last few hours of the ebb tide and I am often gone from wherever I am fishing well before I completely lose the water. I do not obsess about spring tides at all I might add.

What we had here was a fairly innocuous looking creek in the middle of vast mud banks, in fact if I think about the estuaries I tend to fish I reckon I can find similar looking spots to this all over the place. Yep, bouncing brain, you got me there. If the bass are going to move up on the hunt for early flood tide food then they have no choice but to use a creek like this, but the water was only just starting to come in and it didn’t exactly look that appealing.

I ain’t no bass though, because Danny went and hooked up to a really scrappy 62cms bass on one of those “all-in-one” MegaBass Sleeper Craw lures. I still need to stay connected to and land a bass of my own on a creature bait/crab imitation, but the more bass I see landed on them (by other anglers!), the more my confidence in them grows. You know as well as I do though that the ultimate confidence in a lure, technique or location only comes from doing it yourself, but a pretty good second best is another rather good angler doing it right in front of you. A very cool end to a fascinating day and it’s really got me thinking about a lot of bass related stuff - which at the end of the day is the crux of this blog. Me offloading the contents of my head because if I don’t I will sleep even less than I already do for thinking about fishing………….

Munched!

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