Calm Weather

I have been a bit slow getting round to posting this weekend but with the ban still in full swing it is hard to keep the momentum up as you feel that people don't really want to read tackle review after tackle review but I could be wrong so if so let me know! So it's looking good for a good summer ahead a lot of this have spawned at this stage and will now get back actively feeding, at least over here your own area may be different. I was on a favourite mark on Saturday getting some crab for a smoothie session and saw that the water was full of bait, most likely small sand eel. I knew that it was worth waiting and watching and was rewarded. The first thing I noticed was a disturbance in the water a good size bow wave them swish big tail and a good sized Bass turned and hit the eel feet from us, what a lovely sight, to see these fish in their own element feeding is a special experience and always gets the blood going. Which brings me onto the topic at hand, which is calm weather fishing, how to catch bass in what can be difficult conditions. First off start early, get up before the sun and fish as the light comes in, this really improves your chances. Lighten the tackle if you can, that means lighter rod, braid and flurocarbon. Smaller plugs, I can not stress the importance of this enough, in calm conditions a small white plug can mean the difference between fish and no fish and that's a fact. On deeper water marks get down to the fish with a small diver like a megabass zonk 77 of the live x revenge, fish will take they can just get a bit shy and wary. The other factor is they can see alot better. Remember match the hatch if their are small bait fish in teh water don't throw a surf 150 at them and think they will take it, one fish might but chances are not. Really a lot of skills from fly fishing are transferable to lure fishing, if lure fishermen thought more like fly fisher men I think they would have more success. So just a few pointers on how to fish calm weather. I am loosing my mind slowly during this ban as im sure any of teh lads from Ireland will agree, it's great to have our fish protected but it's hard when you can't fish especially when conditions are this good.