Nine Pound Bass For Scarborough Kayak Angler

This is an extract from a topic in our fishing forum. It is a post by forum member NewDave and documents a rather special day for this Yorkshire coast bass angler. The full topic can be read at this link :

http://www.whitbyseaanglers.co.uk/forum/north-east-coast-fishing/just-caught-my-fish-of-a-lifetime/0/

For those of you that don’t know me, i bought a kayak in August & was lucky enough to have quint, the Areas number 1 yak angler & Bass miester take me under his wing and fast track me through the learn to fish process, although as the worm will tell you i still can’t cast properly & have got the wrong type of oil in my reel . but i really did not expect to knocking my teacher of his pedestal in the hall of Fame. Sorry Mate
weighed at the anglers club, 8lb 12 oz 71cm long & 20cm deep at belly

having read the Steve l’Anson article in the sea angler magazine, “the best day of his life” got to say i know how is son felt, i am still floating 3 ft off the ground. obviously you are a 6 year old all your life when it comes to catching fish.

So i was over working in the usa all last week & spent most of the spare time in the Basspro shop buying plugs & stuff, apart from the heap that Ramrod took off my hands, i now have more artificial lures than GB tackle , along with having read the ladle book “hooked on Bass” from cover to cover twice. So when i got up this morning & the sun was shining all i could think of was taking them out & trying them. Unfortunately i am billy no-mates at the moment with quint expanding the gene pool in vietnam , and the Worm having drydocked his yak for the winter in order to concentrate all is efforts on breaking the shore caught whiting record

So with the bit of northerly swell i was a bit stuck for a venue to launch my yak, so headed to brid bay expecting to try out my new collection & maybe hook a schoolie or two if lucky.

After about 3 hours of trying every trick in my new tackle bag, i was getting used to the idea that not much was going to happen & started paddling to shore for a spot of lunch. for some reason i stopped about 30m from the beach in 5ft water & decided to have a few more chucks with old faithful “maria”. chucked it towards the beach landing no more than 10m out, as soon as the bail arm went down, the water exploded. I could not believe what was happening, luckily it made its first run towards me into some deeper water & i managed to keep my cool and keep a tight line, it certainly did not like the site of the kayak and headed straight down, but next time round i got a net under it and hauled it aboard. I was so bloody excited i just paddled ashore & sat on the beach for 10 minutes. (fishings boring Ian )
I tried to fish on but i just could not calm down, and headed home. got to say it must be hard for you match angler, when you do get a good fish to just concentrate on baiting up & trying to get some more.

So it maybe was not the best day of my life, but it was bloody good, thanks Ian