Beach Bass "Teach in"

Yesterday afternoon saw the second teach in for club members at Grouville bay. Steve Mullins organised it as his first one he did at the begining of january was so successfull. 27 members and future members gathered at Gorey slipway at half past one, and all headed down the beach.

Steve gathered everyone around and explained the basics of digging worms, how to dig a drainage trench first to keep your digging area drier and to help stop your trench from filling with water.


It didn't take long and everyone started to find the worms. I was quite surprised that they lug were not very deep as sometimes in the winter they can be alot deeper than they were yesterday.

Before long everyone had more than enough bait to fish for a few hours, it really doesn't take long to get enough, a big mistake people make is getting stuck into it and digging far too much to be safe than sorry, we are all culprits of that I think. But with plenty of worms each we headed back up the beach.

On the way up the beach Mr Fish showed the guys how to make a crab trap for collecting hard back crabs in the summer for wrasse and smoothies. It is simply a pile of rocks with a gap underneath for the crabs to take shelter in.

Steve then went on to explain how to fish beaches and what features to look out for. Explaining how to fish flat beaches, that look featureless, but are not if you look closely. Dips and shelves in the beach help, and any sand bars or gullies and how the fish swim along them was all explained.

He then went back to his van and ran through all the rigs he uses and why. He explained what type of rod to use for beach bassing and and types of tackle you need like tripods and spikes.

We then all headed off to behind the golf coarse and set up our gear. There was a bit of weed on the beach when we first got there but it soon cleared.

After a while a few of us started to get some bites and we even managed a few small bass, not bad for January I suppose and it is great to see the juvenile bass thrieving on our beaches.

It was great to see our youngest angler there catch his first ever bass. Young William King (9yrs old) had his first bass and just goes to prove that any age angler can enjoy his hobby.

A big thank you to Steve for a great afternoon.

The club will be doing more events like this, we are trying to make Sinkers more pro-active with meets and teach ins. Simon Drieu came up with a great idea of having a rig tying class for members that are interested how to tie their rigs. We can all learn from each other here, it is a great idea from the rig master himself Mr Drieu. We will let you know when this is happening.

Mick Ward will be doing a plug/lure teach in in the spring so you will be kept informed about that too.

Don't forget if you have photos or questions/ideas please email the club with them on sinkersseafishingclub@hotmail.com.