Out and about

For the last week now, as autumn turns to winter, you can feel the northerly winds beginning to kick in proper. When out and about you just have to wrap up warm if you want to enjoy the beautiful sights!
Here are some photos of recent outings.

River Bandon estuary at full tide.

Stretches of river upstream of Bandon town.

Not my favourite bird but a cormorant above shot in monochrome. Deep and dark photo, love this mode of shooting with bare tree branches in the background... gives a bit of a halloween feeling! And well, the look in that heron's eye is just plain scary!

A fresh grilse holding station, just off a boulder. As i was looking at a pool he just came into the tail of it, so good timing!

Have been out bass fishing a few times lately, but to no avail. Trying lures to cover all depths of water, one in particular that I have been trying which I bought from Absolute Fishing is the Savage Gear Sandeel. Concentrating on beaches with moderate surf and bouncing them along gullies and beside likely looking areas behind rocks, I'm confident of catching on them soon. The northerly winds are making fishing a bit difficult at the moment as I always feel it just puts fish of any kind off the take. Persistence, and bundles of experience, pays off though, as has proved to be the case for the lads at Absolute Fishing. Picking up 1 or 2 during the northerlies, sport picked up more when the wind switched, including the catch of 1 whopper at 11lbs. For the past week they have also had Henry Gilbey over and you can check out his blog of events along the copper coast here. 

I'll be resuming my fly tying soon, next up will be some conehead tube flies.