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| Prey115 Seabass Success! |
 From UK Savage Gear Consultant, Anthony Glascoe, we recieved a super seabass report! "Hey guys,,,, its been a hectic summer from trout water pike, to river zander to tackling wrecks and reefs off the welsh coast, predators I just love em,,.
September has to be one of my all time best months to target one of my favourite sea species, the bass. Last year we had a great time with the bass fishing, we had over 45 bass all taken on lures, the Savagear prey 115 putting it through its paces British style.. At first we thought it was just a fluke, and just taken the day a lucky lure fishing day. 1 year on and fishing the same area we done it again, only this time 35 bass to 8lb, and again all on the Savagear prey 115 lures, in all patterns, including the bright lemon back. It’s also down to my dad, 45 years of skippering the area, water craft again also plays an important part, looking for features, watching for bass smashing prey, and most important getting the tides right.
After a hectic few days hammering lures for the bass, unusual high tides was to show around the area known as the equinox, so my dad decided it was a perfect safe opportunity to put our cannibals to test targeting the Pollack on a reef called the fangs. This particular reef has taken so many lives over the years from major ship wrecks to small fishing boats, so timing is very vital, trust me not for the fait hearted, I nearly lost my life here a few years back, lobster fishing.
Being a Norwegian/Scottish decent our boat has to be the Orkney, a proper built angling boat, which has been around for many years, and perfect for coastal work such as short range wrecks and reefs. We headed out 5 mile to the reef a good steam but when you hit it right well worth it. The reef has a wreck on it called the Editor, which sunk in 1890, she struck the reef in a severe snow storm, and still to this day old chains and huge boilers litter the reef as well as jaggered rocks.
As we approached the reef my dad said that it was just perfect and that we had timed it right, one of us is a going to have a whopper today. On our first drift I hooked up a 10cm cannibal on a blade jig head and lowered it down to the eerie dark depths. Vertical fishing this way can be very tricky as the loss of gear can be high. With the low diameter braid it was perfect to cut through the 40 feet depth and to feel every bump and jagged piece of iron work down there. On my first drop, something slammed me, and suddenly brought my rod to a standstill, fishing light 16lb fluro carbon leaders I had to take it easy. After a gruelling battle it finally surfaced, and the net was slipped under her, a fine specimen Pollack. On our second drop my dad hit into a good fish which had him all over, and again another Pollack to double figure, this was crazy. It’s not always like this trust me, getting the tide just right is very important, most of the time this particular reef is UN fishable, and only crazy, but knowledgeable anglers dare to fish such a feature. We was fishing this method called vertical fishing, just like zander fishing in deep water, not seen much with the UK anglers, but what a killer method. Throughout our drifts we had 5 Pollack to 14lb, with the odd octopus for a bonus that would just hammer the cannibal, great fun. After a few hours Pollack fishing, it suddenly went dead, then all of a sudden a huge bull seal popped up and tried to board our small Orkney, I had to change my underpants that night.
I had a great time with my dad, what a skipper, an no am not just saying that as he is my dad, he can catch fish in the toilet, with over 45 years of boat angling fresh water and on the sea, he rely is a old sea dog,,,cheers dad.
Best lures by far for the bass was the Prey115 in Lemon Back and Green Silver - fished on 16lb FC Spectrum Traces tied to 18lbs Adrenaline Spin braid. The 10 & 12,5cm Cannibal fished on blade jigg heads In blue silver was nbr. one for the Pollack. Cheers Ant Glascoe"
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