Another Day on the Bass! IMA Salt Skimmer!

Another Day of Bass

  Headed out again for a final trip before I set off home the next morning. A few friends of mine had come to visit me at the caravan for the bank holiday weekend so no fishing was done then but when they had left I was out again in search of the Bass.

  Now, with waders and boots on, I went down to the same mark I had success with the previous trip. This time however, with the neap tides, I decided to fish much close to high tide and down. This proved to be a good choice!

  On went the Salt Skimmer again and within minutes of it dancing across the surface it was slammed, a nice schoolie around a pound had taken a fancy to the lure.

A little Bass on the IMA Salt Skimmer

The bass were here again! On went other surface lures to try and tempt a fish on a different lure but no success. Switched back to the Salt Skimmer and first cast it was finally engulfed after numerous attempts by the Bass. A short fight later and another bass was in the net, this time a little bigger at 2lb.

2lb Bass IMA Slat Skimmer

  A couple of casts later and its twin decided to have ago, this time flip out the water to attack the Salt Skimmer, Another nice little fish of around 2lbs was netted.

Another 2lb Bass on the IMA Salt Skimmer

After that fish was released I noticed boiling at the surface where sandeels were getting attacked by the bass and being forced to the surface. I flung the Salt Skimmer out over the back and started the WTD retrieve. The Salt Skimmer then got hit hard, this was a better fish, a nice bend was on the Injection and the fish was making some nice clutch screaming runs. I waded out and eventually managed to get the fish to the net, she was a nice fish of 3.5lb and had but up a great fight. With my Iphone set up on a tripod this time I took a couple of snaps and back she went.

 3.5lb Bass on the IMA Salt Skimmer

 3.5lb Bass on the IMA Salt Skimmer

That proved to be the last of the action, despite fishing down to the same level of water I had caught the previous trip, the bass had seemed to have moved on.

  All in all and excellent trip down to the caravan in hope the Bass would be about and a new mark proved to be successful for me with 8 fish in total, all off the surface on the IMA Salt Skimmer.

Thanks for Reading, Sam Johnson