Sep 4, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 11 segments
Darren Jackson is most well know for being an expert fly angler targeting mullet and bass. However his recent boat purchase coinciding with the appearance of Bonito on his local coastline in the…
Darren JacksonGuestCormacHostYeah, it is.
And it's kind of the same here.
I was talking to a charter skipper there recently and he said, like, you know, we're just talking about bass fishing and, you know, he'd been out and he hadn't got a whole lot of bass that day.
But then he said, like, the water is just full of bait.
Everywhere he goes, there's bait fish everywhere.
And we're saying... maybe the bass are just full, they're not feeding, you know, there's just so much bait in the water that you're kind of just lucky to get them at a time when they're feeding and they might only feed for, I don't know, they might only feed for half an hour a day or less.
And, you know, we just came up with that theory that it's quite possible that they're just full a lot of the
Yeah.
But saying that, that hasn't always been the case because a number of times the birds have been going crazy.
Yeah, right.
Okay, yeah.
It's been difficult in the respect that the bass are not on our usual marks or where we'd expect to find the fish.
Right.
You know, we're heading out to the sandbanks and some marks, you know, and it's just void of fish.
And why do you think that is?
Yeah, it is.
And it's kind of the same here.
I was talking to a charter skipper there recently and he said, like, you know, we're just talking about bass fishing and, you know, he'd been out and he hadn't got a whole lot of bass that day.
But then he said, like, the water is just full of bait.
Everywhere he goes, there's bait fish everywhere.
And we're saying... maybe the bass are just full, they're not feeding, you know, there's just so much bait in the water that you're kind of just lucky to get them at a time when they're feeding and they might only feed for, I don't know, they might only feed for half an hour a day or less.
And, you know, we just came up with that theory that it's quite possible that they're just full a lot of the
Yeah.
But saying that, that hasn't always been the case because a number of times the birds have been going crazy.
Yeah, right.
Okay, yeah.
It's been difficult in the respect that the bass are not on our usual marks or where we'd expect to find the fish.
Right.
You know, we're heading out to the sandbanks and some marks, you know, and it's just void of fish.
And why do you think that is?
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