Jon Stevens won Bideford Angling Clubs forty-eight hour rover with a fine specimen bass scaling 11lb 1oz. Stephen Found was second and third with smoothound of 13lb 11oz and 13lb 8oz.
Jon kindly sent me this account of his successful evening on a local storm beach.
The session started with a stunning Autumn sunset!
The following 3 hours were very slow, without a single bite registered.
However, the next hour saw the only 2 bites of the night, resulting in 2 fine Bass of 11lb 1oz & 8lb 2oz.
The fish fell to whole joey mackerel, presented on a single hook pulley rig just beyond the surf.
Both fish were nicely lip hooked (single circle hooks employed) & were returned to the water swimming off strongly, following a quick weigh in the sling & a photo.
