After the relentless heat wave through July, August wasn’t any different with temperatures surpassing 30 degrees most days it was going to be another tough month fishing wise.
Our first trip out was to the coast for a spot of Bass fishing, a nice breeze had kicked up othering us a cooler evening and also the surf had built up to about 3ft which is perfect for one of my favourite spots on the south beaches of the Holderness with gulleys sand bars and deep rip tides just perfect bass ground. Expectations were high for this session, conditions were perfect and we were armed with a bucket of the biggest fresh Yellows a man could ask for. After a walk along the cliffs a safe get down was found and we were on the beach. It’s great here there’s always fish about and it’s very quiet hardly ever see other anglers probably the holderness best kept secret. The session started amazing with a pair of big bass on my first two cast pushing 6lb each.

And as the night went on we caught steady with bites coming every cast. It’s great sport fishing a carp rod and a small 3oz gripper just chucked 30-40yards out the bites are violent and the fight has fish stripping line from the spool, there isn’t any other way to fish for bass and get such good fun on light balanced tackle, Chris also got amongst the fish and taking a new PB aswell.

We fished right through the night and witnessed such a beautiful sun rise it was one of them nights to will remember.

During August I also managed a couple of evening back chasing the Big redfins locally, again staying consistent with a couple of real specimens mixed in each session and my biggest of the season so far at 1lb 12oz again all falling to the pellet tactics. Hopefully I can find this shoal the back end of the season when there’s a chance of pushing the 2lb barrier.

I also found the time to have another session for the Bass on the Holderness with the carp rods, this time during day light but unfortunately when we got to the coast the forecast was wrong with half the surf it had suggested.

I still had a few bites landing a couple of bass and a few flatties and Eels, the biggest bass came home with me for tea.

Towards the back end of the month I had a couple of sessions on the Trent the first was a trip out on the middle tidal Trent targeting Zander. The river was on its bones further upstream but with a big tide, it offered extra water and movement and plenty of colour. The conditions looked favourable especially for the area I was fishing. I fished most of the day without an indication other than the dreaded mitten crabs.

The second session was on the middle Trent above Newark, having heard reports of a couple of real special Roach been caught I thought it was worth a visit. My approach was to fish small halibut pellets, these are fast becoming the best bait for big summer roach in my book especially on the rivers that see plenty of fish meal from barbel anglers. The session was pretty slow with just the odd small roach nothing to write home about. When just after dark my 2oz tip pulled down and didn’t show any signs of stopping. The fight was was long and every time I felt I had made a bit of ground it was taken back away in a breath, the light setup and the deep water made everything feel so much bigger. once beaten it was soon safe in the net.

It pulled the needle round past 11lb so made for a decent consolation after the big roach didn’t play ball.