Bass still around..

[tommy a]

Just wandered if its still possible to be bass fishing or is it whiting and cod season now ? Dont know too much about bass apart from they are wicked to catch !

Cheers

[Rob M]

I was talking to a bloke last night, who mentioned that he had a couple of bass last weekend off Seaford, so there's still some around. I reckon everyone is laying out their stalls for winter now though

Rob

[Simon TorbayFishing]

There are still bass about and because a lot of their usual diet has now moved on they are not as picky now as they are in the summer.

The numbers are no longer there but the quality and size of bass can still be very good after the summers fattening up.

[fishypaul]

there have been a 2 or 3 bass caught in kent over the last couple of days

[Norfolkboy]

been a few caught around here too

[wellyfish]

there will be a few in the waters mainly on the south coast ,but i dont think they completly dissapear i used to catch them all year round when living in jersey and the sea temp there and here isnt that much different,.....i certinly havent given up on them this year and was amazed to see what was in the stomaches of the ones i caught the other day,so get out there after the storms and bag a biggen good luck

[wellyfish]

Originally Posted by Simon TorbayFishing

There are still bass about and because a lot of their usual diet has now moved on they are not as picky now as they are in the summer.

The numbers are no longer there but the quality and size of bass can still be very good after the summers fattening up.

simon ,what would you say was there usual diet

[Simon TorbayFishing]

Originally Posted by wellyfish

simon ,what would you say was there usual diet

I would have said live prawn, live sandeel and live sprats

[wellyfish]

yea ,they are the baits that are available in the summer,its funny because ive never used any of those baits to catch seabass even though i know they are good bass baits,i have caught on plugs,calamari,mackeral ,lug,rag and the one i caught the other day had a spider crab in its gut and a peeler,so theres about 10 baits mentioned we will never understand the feeding habits of the bass.what have you caught them on?

[Simon TorbayFishing]

Heh, you're missing my point :)

All I was saying was during the summer they will feed off whatever is naturally around in the sea so prawn, sprats and sandeels will be their preferred choice because there are plenty of them. Once we reach this time of year their summer staple diet has gone so they are no longer picky feeders and will instead go for whatever is about.

Because spider crabs and peeler crabs are plentiful in the waters I'm not surprised they had them in their stomach :)