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St Brelade's Bay - Pier - 4th Aug. 2000
GR: 584,483
Nipped down to the bay around 5am for some bass plugging .... everything seemed to be right, with high water due around 10.30am or so, and the wind had started to drop slightly compared to the previous two days to a north westerly force 3 to 4. I'd planned to fish from the western rocks next to the pier... found that the path leading from the pier was blocked off with a notice reading " Private .... Keep Out" .... As a result I was forced to climb over the rocks at the base of the pier towards the small pinnacle, hoping to fish from it's base .... but the combination of the slope of the granite at that point, coupled with the fact that the rocks were covered in wrack and slime (more so than in previous years than I can remember), put pay to that as an option to fish from..... unless I really wanted to risk life and limb!!!!!!
Having no waders with me, and not wishing to freeze by trying to wade in just my shorts and cast into the surf, I decided to cut my losses, draw some sketch maps of low water features for future reference, and wait until the tide had risen until I could fish from the pier or the drier rocks... not ideal, but that's the way it goes.......
Managed to start plugging from the pier around 6.45am.... but not really satisfactory, being so high up at that stage of the tide... and in the back of my mind was thinking how on earth I would land a fish if I caught one with no dropnet ... only had my landing net with a 4' handle..... decided to deal with that... as and when...
The as and when never happened .. just interrupted every so often by the local ducks and geese, hoping for a free handout ..... they should be so lucky!!!!!!
Around 8pm I was able to move back onto the rocks and cast / retrieve into the advancing water into some of the large rock gullies .... stuck it out for an hour, again with no joy, and moved back to the middle of the pier to continue.....
Things really were going no where, and I was now competing with the local shag for what fish there may be!!!!!
10.15am ... I was just thinking about calling it a day .... when out of the gloom, following very closely behind my J13, was a lovely looking bass ..... usual story however of the bass just wanting to chase rather than strike .....
10.20am ... another chasing bass after the J13 ..... obviously "tease the angler", is the game of the month over here as far as the bass are concerned!!!!!
Around 10.30am .. a number of children turned up, a couple of them deciding to plug ..... helped one of the girls out, who was having trouble correctly attaching her rapala to her line.
Stuck it out until 11am, and then decided to head back ...... I was already late, tiered, and in need of some breakfeast!!!!