Saltwater fishing – UK winter

[Henry Gilbey]

If the truth be known, I am a fairly useless fly fisherman – but I love it with a passion, and I reckon I spend around 50% of my working life around fly fishing in some way, shape or form.

When I go fishing myself (with cameras of course), a lot of the time I tend to go lure fishing for our (sea) bass – off rocks, beaches, estuaries etc. The sea has always done it for me in a big way.

UK winter is not the best time for this kind of fishing, but the light and sea conditions were simply incredible on Saturday morning – thought it might be interesting to see what we get up to over here…..

[Tim Angeli]

Absolutely awesome shots Henry.

Tim

[keith b]

Wow, the pictures on here are truly awe inspiring.
It looks like the last shot may have ended with you on the ground, since that right foot came off the rocks.

[John Bennett]

Love the last shot Henry

[Neal Osborn]

Looks like a challenge – both fishing and keeping the camera dry 😮

Very cool images.

[Henry Gilbey]

Thanks for taking a look – the location is south east Cornwall, close to where I live.

The angler in the photos is a friend of mine – if anything had happened to him with the crashing waves, he would have been knocked off the rocks and simply fallen into a small kind of harbour behind him – ending up fairly safe we worked out. As I said, he’s a good friend, but he knows to worry when I say “I’ve got a good idea”……….he was actually fishing, it’s that I asked him to move a bit to take advantage of the pounding conditions.

[Corey Kruitbosch]

Absolutely incredible!

[J A Y M O R R]

Henry, those shots are fun!

[Brett Colvin]

Those spray shots are just killer.

[Douglas Barnes]

Great stuff Henry! Looks like funnn.

[olle bulder]

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR cold water 🙂

Nice shots Henry, always nice to have friends who offer them selves to Poseidon.

Caught some bass that day?

[Henry Gilbey]

Olle – there were a few fish around, but we did not catch them. Winter is a hard time here for catching (sea) bass on lures, sure it’s the same with you guys ? But just so cool to be out when conditions were going off like that.

I put a blog post up on it here if it’s of interest

http://www.henry-gilbey.com/blog/there_were_bass_around.html

Thanks guys for the kind comments……

[Brett Colvin]

Hey Henry:

One of your spray shots is on today’s Nat Geo Daily Dozen.

[J A Y M O R R]

I just saw it as well!

[Henry Gilbey]

I feel a bit stupid because I had never come across that Nat Geo “Daily Dozen” thing – and then Jay posted that link to Brett’s awesome tarpon scale shot up there. So I thought why not, give it a shot and see if my crashing wave shot gets up there…………never thought it would to be perfectly honest.

Thanks for flagging it up, really pleased to get a photo up there !!

[Chad Simcox]

Wow that does not look like fun at all! I wouldn’t even stand in a place like that here in Southern California durring winter.

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[john michael white]

I love the way you captured the action and light Henry.

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