It’s remarkably helpful to shout “bloody hell I love watching fishing” right behind one of your anglers when they go and hook another bass!
By the time this blog post goes up we will be out fishing with our second group of anglers out here in Kerry, SW Ireland. Our first group left yesterday morning after four days of chasing around for bass, and we had a blast. When the fishing was on it was really good, and when it was tough we kept working at it. There is no getting away from the fact that the bass fishing is up and down at the moment, and I am finding that back home as well. I am not remotely ignoring the pressure that bass stocks are under from the various “interests”, but what is the most noticeable to me so far this year is how it resolutely refuses to warm up………….
And it has to be having an effect on the fishing. I have to presume that bass come close inshore when the food they are after is also inshore, but it’s now July and where’s summer hiding? I don’t know nearly enough about what bass feed on and how those food sources move around and behave at different times of the year, but for a given July out here in Kerry there are definitely way less birds working on bait than we would usually see for example. Sorting out the photos I shot of our first group of lads and I don’t think there’s a single photo when one of them isn’t wearing a waterproof jacket and a few extra layers because it simply isn’t summer temperatures.
Whatever is or isn’t going on with the weather and the fishing and so on, we always have a lot of fun with our anglers. We have been covering a good bit of water and as per usual we can consider it surprising to see another angler out here. When we found a bunch of bass the other day the fishing got pretty hectic, and as per the title of the blog post - yep, that was me getting very overexcited as usual when I get to watch anglers hooking into bass in a stunning part of the world. For sure I love fishing and catching fish, but as I have said many times before, it’s the most incredible buzz to be able to help other anglers experience the sort of stuff that so does it for me. Sorry for the lack of blog posts but there is usually very little spare time when I am out here doing this guiding work.
