MENTAL FISHING AND NEW FRIENDS

This sunday saw me and Neil head over to St.Agnes to meet up with three fellas, Simon Murphy, Jim, Ross and Arthur the dog to have a crack at finding a fish or two. Simon had contacted me through this blog and was planning a trip over to the islands to target wrasse and pollack using lures and light tackle. His mate Jim was well up for it and their friend Ross (who isnt an angler) was coming to have a holiday with his dog Arthur, relax have a few walks and a couple of cheeky halves at the awesome Turks Head pub! I must admit to having not fished St.Agnes for pollack and wrasse since Henry came over with a mate 8 or ten years ago, so I was pleased that they would be doing the hard bit and would know where the fish were ready for Sunday-clever hey!!!

Sunday dawned and it was one of those magical sunny days and flat calm seas with no swell at all-perfect for wrasse!!!! We all met up and after a few introductions made our way to Troy Carn maze and the surrounding carns to start our assault. Fishing the ebb has proved to be quite difficult just recently with few wrasse coming out and today proved to be no different! Neil managed to winkle out a half decent wrasse but the great thing with this type of fishing is that we were all travelling really light, a rucksack and rod(no tripods, bait buckets and a tonne of lead). We could work our way around the south of the island, having a cast here, move to the next point and keep casting and moving until we found the fish.

I was using the same lure that did the damage last trip, a sandeel pattern with the other guys using various soft plastics in different colours but nothing was really getting nailed on a regular basis but thankfully before this trip I had spoken to Keith White the guru,who knows more on fishing for wrasse on lures than anybody else and he recommended using blue lures at this moment in time as the wrasse were spawning and would be very aggressive. If you look at the photos from the last post, every wrasse I had caught had blue spots and blue lips meaning they were spawning-weird!! A phone call to Andy Kendrick at Jackslrf and a bag of Blue jacks own tubes arrived in the post just in time!!!!!!! Cheers Andy you are a legend!

It was like switching a light on!!!!!!!!

Fish after fish were nailing the blue tubes like they were possessed!!!!!! We continued to find the wrasse and I was well and truly smashed up by a brute who tore into the kelp and snapped my braid as if it were cotton, damn that fish was powerfull!!! |The fishing slowed down with the tide approaching low water so we started to move again covering plenty of ground until we met up with Jim who had gone onto the spot where they had good success the previous day. What happened then was mental!!!!! Fish after fish all taking yep you guessed it blue lures!!!! I looked around and several times all four of us were laughing as we all had our rods bent double with heavy weight ballans doing their best to find the nearest hole or rock to smash us up and make us cry!! Ross and Arthur came down to find grown men in stitches as if we had lost the plot!! Neil lost a monster that he couldnt stop and I had a wrasse hit so hard that it snapped my hook!!!! I tied on a stronger pattern and cast out again then bang, fish on. This was another good fish that was using its big old tail to glide in the water........

What a mental fight with the Megabass Rod bent double I was sure that this was a 6 or 7lber, through the water u could see these monster blue lips and blue dorsal fins before Simon could safely net her.

She pulled the scales down to 5.10lbs after a few photos recovered well from the fight in a big rockpool before swimming away to spawn. They may look tough as hell but you still have to treat these fish with respect so that you can catch them again when next time they may be that magical 6 or 7lber!!!!!

We carried on but nothing quite as big sadly but this spot has certainly got potential thats for sure!!!! Jim with the average sized fish from today, all scraping like mad!!

As the tide strengthened the pollack started to show with a fish of 3.5lbs to Jim and a 4lber to me, again on the blue tubes.

By now we had lost count of the numbers of fish that we had caught and some of the guys had forgotten just how hungry they were so the pub was calling! As we were all walking back to the pub Neil and I decided to have a challenge and fish the next spot with the loser having to buy the drinks. Great plan until we got closer to the mark and realised that the water was barely deeper than our knees in places-BUGGER!!! Oh well being dedicated or is that mad anglers we had to give it a go as a pint was riding on it! The other guys headed to the pub laughing and left us two daft sods to fish. A couple of casts and Neil got a hit but nothing came to it(thankfully) so I made a longer cast into the three foot water and after a couple of twitches felt a slight knock. Keeping quiet I carried on twitching the lure until it got heavier and had the fish surfing before Neil or the fish knew what was happening. Neither of us could believe the size of the wrasse as at just over 4lbs it was the second biggest landed that day in water that was just ridiculously shallow!!

I can tell you that that pint tasted so good (cheers Neil) and was a perfect end to a cracking days fishing with some new friends and yet another island that has got HUGE potential! Now thats four islands done and only another hundred or so left to fish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ESCAPING THE MADNESS

This weekend the Isles of Scilly held the World Pilot Gig Championships, a great event that was enjoyed by everyone but after driving and trying to dodge all the rowers and supporters (normally there are just over 2000 people here, but this weekend that swells to 5000) I had to escape the madness and go fishing!! It is the only thing that keeps me sane!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forecast was perfect, tides perfect so I headed back up to Bryher to finally try and nail one of them bruising ballans that smashed me up the last few times!! In fact I dont think that conditions could have been better. There was no swell at all and the water clarity as gin clear as I had seen this year, PERFECT for wrasse I said to myself. It was a couple of hours before low water which was at midday so I left the best spot(the one the locals from bryher said held monsters) to the first of the flood which I was convinced would be the prime time. As it is quite shallow I didnt want to go casting and scaring any fish off before the best time so I decided to fish near Shipman Head at a mark called Mussel Rock.

Before I made a cast I scanned the water and  could clearly see fish swimming over the boulders and through the kelp, fantastic!! Cast out, twitch twitch nothing???? Very strange, as my lure came into view it was being followed by a stunning bright green wrasse of between 4 and 5lbs. It hadnt had a go at the lure but just followed it slowly, checking it out I assumed? No matter what I did to the action of the lure I couldnt get the fish to take it. I tried everything, every colour and every shape of lure that I had brought with me and nowt, just the same result, follows but no bite, not even a pluck-SOOOO frustrating!!!! I decided after an hour of trying to catch that one fish that a move was in order as I was starting to go mad. A move to the next gulley and first cast and bang, fish on!

Not the biggest fish in the world but after spending an hour trying to catch that other ballan I was just pleased that I had caught and my methods still worked!!!!!!

Sport was very slow on the ebb, only managed to winkle out 4 fish which considering the conditions seemed really weird. Maybe they just werent hungry or couldnt be arsed to even bite the lures out of annoyance, I dont know the reasons but I did notice that one of the wrasse coughed up a sandeel so maybe they were courged up on them?? But it was low water and so I made my way to ''THE SPOT''.

Perfect conditions, clear water and no swell with boulders everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When the tide floods over these boulders the wrasse will be going mental for all the blennies and gobies that were darting around the rock pools, got to be a lunker in this boulder field later on!!!!!!!

Imagine fishing over this type of ground with normal techniques and gear, the tackle losses would make you cry!!! Fishing texas style, with the lure ''skinned'' (point of hook pushed gently into the back of the lure) no worries- PIECE OF CAKE!!

I remembered the sandeel that was coughed up so decided what the hell and hunted through my lure box and found the closest lure to resemble a sandeel that I had, rigged it up texas style and cast out. It hadnt even descended to the bottom when it was well and truly nailed, fish on!

A better fish that went 3lbs and fought like a much bigger wrasse. What happened next can only be described as MENTAL fishing!!!!!! Every cast and I mean every cast was nailed harder than any wrasse I had caught before, fish after fish falling to the sandeel pattern!!!!

Mental fishing without a doubt, it was hard to keep count of the number as I had never experienced wrassing like it, all better sized fish with most fish being between 2.5 and 4lbs topped off by a better fish of 5.4lbs that fought harder than any 5lb fish that I have caught before!! Total count was 60 fish landed and many others lost due to me trying to bully them!!!

Sorry for the dodgy picture but this is the lure that did the damage!!!! Half way through the madness a shoal of mullet came through the area and cruising slowly behind was no mullet! I nearly fell of my rock with excitement as there in front of me was a bass of 3.5-4lbs!!! Now we dont get bass over here in Scilly for some reason but bugger me there was one right in front of me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I made several cast for it and it did follow my lure on one occasion but didnt fancy the look of it unlike the wrasse and disappeared after a few minutes! Gutted I carried on casting the area it was in for an hour but to no avail, but who knows, maybe with the strange seasons and weather that we had this winter there might be more bass around the islands?? Christ I thought that I said fishing kept me sane..............................................................................

CHRIST ITS BEEN TOO LONG!!

Well folks I must apologise for the distinct lack of any posts for the last month (god has it really been that long). Many things have happened to curtail my fishing exploits over the last few weeks, what with mum being airlifted off the islands (thankfully all good now) to the weather gods throwing gale after gale at me. Then when it all calms down I was on holiday missing the calmer weather and finally to me actually putting some hours into practising my tournament casting (I need to BIG TIME!!). FINALLY, last sunday saw me heading up to Bryher with reasonable tides and even nicer weather to have another crack at the hefty ballans that reside in and around Hellbay.

Anybody that read my post of when I was last there will know that this place is serious wrasse heaven!!!!! I was pretty confident of bagging up, provided I hadnt lost the ''knack'' of twitching senkos and 7g with a 8.5ft megabass rod due to swinging 175g around with a century ttr. What a HUGE difference!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, back to sundays fishing, I pretty much jumped off the boat and ran to the top of the hill to get a better look at Hellbay and check out what swell was about. Arse! Saturday night the weather had picked up and blew northerly but now had come round to north east meaning that the sheltered side of Shipman Head looked fishable but there was too much swell to fish the one mark that I really wanted to. The whole area of Hellbay looks fishy but I remembered speaking to a couple of old boys from Bryher about a certain spot which Iam sworn not to divulge that they fish with limpets and crabs which holds monsters. Sadly with that swell and an incoming tide it was impossible to get onto it and be safe! So I chose a spot tucked inside Shipman Head, nice bouldery ground which looked perfect. I rigged up with a Jacks lrf Baby Hogs in my favourite colour of watermellon green with a 7g cone weight (christ the rod felt tiny compared to the ttr) and flicked it out 10 yards. It hadnt even reached bottom before it was nailed by a hungry wrasse! Fish on, not massive admitedly but a fish none the less. Infact it was only 2.5lbs in weight it still put a nice bend in the rod. I was fishing again and I had a smile on my face so all was good in the world!!! Next cast and again the same thing happened and another wrasse had nailed the hog on the drop (OTD), certainly afew fish down there I thought to myself.

Third cast and amazingly no take OTD so a couple of twitches and bang, fish on again. These wrasse were certainly in a feeding frenzy and after 10 fish on the same Baby Hog they had managed to munch every tentacle and leg off it leaving me with a rather sad looking piece of green lure. What the hell, I cast it one more time and again bang fish on. This was getting silly!!!!!! I decided to try afew other lures that andy at Jacks lrf had sent me seeing that the wrasse were ''on it'' in a big way. Same result no matter what colour or lure I fished, purple, green, brown, blue, red, black and orange all caught fish!!! Maybe after the recent storms they were just grabbing anything that went passed them or annoyed them, who knows? It was great fun though! With the flooding tide my rock was starting to get alittle damp so a move was in order.  I only moved a hundred yards to the gully that cuts off Shipman Head from Bryher. Its only a narrow gulley and dries out at low water with boulders in the bottom. A quick look over the side and there were wrasse cruising up and down, this is going to be fun!!

Again I went back to my origional choice of lure, the  Jacks Baby Hog and flicked it up the gulley, a couple of twiches and all hell broke loose!! Trying to stop a 4lb wrasse in a gulley that I could jump was mental!!!!

Sport continued in the gulley, sometimes I didnt need to move the lure, just lowered it down and the current running through made it swim like all the other bait fish and shrimps towards the hordes of hungry wrasse that were waiting to munch on them! It really was getting daft and by high water and 3 hours fishing I had caught 50 wrasse. Sadly most of them were small, 1lb to 3lbs but the sport was just insane!!

Fishing started to slow with the dropping tide so I made another move to find some deeper water and some more fish that hadnt seen a lure before. A couple of casts with a nojos 9.5 inch serpent seemed to get afew plucks that resulted in a pollack of 3lbs which gave a spirited scrap before being returned like all the wrasse to fight another day.

The tide was dropping rapidly by now just when my old mate Neil Hansen joined me after finishing boating for the day. We fished on but bites and fish were hard to come by. What we did notice though was that the only lure that resulted in any action was a 3'' Jacks senko in a brown and purple combo that we literally did nothing with. Cast out, and occasionally twitch or move very very very slowly and bang fish on. What a massive difference to earlier in the day when they were munching and attacking everything and anything!!!

Neil managed to find the best wrasse of the session at 4.5lbs that fought really well from his lofty perch high above another gulley.

Time to head back to the quay to catch my boat back to St.marys and look back on an insane day, 70 wrasse had been caught but who knows how many more would have been had I managed to get up to Bryher earlier in the tide??????????????????????????????

It was great to be out fishing again thats for sure and I will be making plenty more trips to Bryher in the hope of connecting with one of those lunkers that we know are there!!!

SOMETHING DIFFERENT

 Firstly I must apologise for the distinct lack of posts recently, what with going away to watch my beloved Arsenal trounce the enemy 5-2 (what a game!!!!!!) and work being busy I sadly havent had the time to get out and wet a line! Very stressful I can tell you, although I have been doing plenty of groundwork and looking at new marks, some with a great deal of potential!!!! The weather this weekend was blowing a gale from the north west just after blowing southerly so most of my marks were blown out and the others too stirred up to fish properly. I find that wrasse just dont really want to know when there is too much swell around plus its a bloody nightmare trying to fish correctly with virtually no chance of keeping contact with your lure!!!! I was starting to go mad at the lack of fishing so decided to go out for an hour after work today. It wasnt ideal with the groundswell still pounding most of the shallow marks so maybe it was time to try for something different. I used to catch plenty of cuckoo wrasse years ago, some of them stonking specimens to 1.8lbs, but always on bait so could I catch one on a lure I wondered??

One mark that used to produce good numbers of them is Outer Head at Peninnis, its a very deep water mark with depths of over 100ft only 50 yards out. With this depth of water it was going to make fishing very difficult with the lighter leads that I have been using in the shallower water, but I found some 21g lead cones in the bottom of my bag that at least would get to the bottom (I hoped)!! Coupled with 15lb 8-strand braid I was in with half a chance. 

I thought with the cuckoo wrasse having small mouths that I would scale down the lure size abit and opted for a 2.5'' Hawg Wild Stickbait.  Thankfully with the small tides there wasnt too much movement so I cast out, eventually, it sank to the bottom after what seemed an eterninty!! With the really fine 8-strand braid I could feel all the features of the bottom as the lure slowly twitched up and over the drop-off, couple of small plucks followed then fish on! I slowly reeled in as with the depth of water if I had winched it in too quick the swim bladder would have blown and the fish would not have survived. It was a wrasse, sadly not the cuckoo I was hoping for but a small ballan. At least it was a start and there were fish about!! I watched as the wrasse swam back to the depths, in the same condition that it had appeared. I cast out again, bit further this time so that the lure could be worked along the gutter that is on the outside of the drop-off, small taps followed as something was pecking it at the lure, I stopped and just made the lure shake and fish on. Admitedly not the greatest fight but it was a fish again and through the clear water I could see the blue and orange meaning a cuckoo wrasse.

Not the biggest of cuckoos ever landed at 11ozs but at least I had managed to catch my chosen target!! The colours on a cuckoo wrasse really are stunning! I placed it in a big rock pool to recover before gently returning it.

A couple of small ballans followed before I decided to have one last cast with a different lure, this time opting for a small Baby Crawfish from agm discounts to see whether a change of lure would find another cuckoo. It looked good so was worth a chuck I thought!! I cast out again over the drop-off and same thing happened, nip nip, wait, shake and fish on! Gently I reeled in again and could see the unmistakeable bright colours of another cuckoo. This one slightly larger than the first at 13ozs. Not massive I know but pleasing to catch all the same.

Time to pack up,  it certainly wasnt a waste of time however small the fish, sometimes its just nice to be out fishing isnt it!!!

Until next time.................................

FIND BOULDERS AND YOU FIND WRASSE!!

A bold statement but just recently I have been having the most success for numbers and size of wrasse by fishing for them in and over some serious boulder grounds. One look at the photos below and you would think its mad to fish such hostile tackle grabbing terrain but its where the wrasse are to be found and tackle losses are so low its crazy, providing you keep it all simple and use a texas rig.

 

Some of these boulders are the size of small cars and believe me, when you hook a proper big old wrasse in amoungst ground like this you are in for a hell of a scrap!!!!!!

A quick look around the rocks and in the rock pools and you can see why wrasse love this area. Gobies and small blennies were darting in the pools and under the small rocks were plenty of crabs and small squatt lobsters. On the rocks were limpets everywhere so there was certainly a right old feast for the wrasse to munch on when the tide floods the area. By using this information as to what the wrasse would be feeding on I decided to match the hatch and rigged a Jacks Hawg Crazy Craw texas style and flicked it between a couple of large boulders. As it sunk to the bottom I felt a tap as a curious wrasse decided to have closer inspection using its teeth. Struck but to no avail, at least I knew the wrasse were around and hungry. I flicked it back to the same hole and this time let the wrasse have abit more time, strike and fish on. I dont know who was bullying who but I managed to slide the net under a lovely conditioned 3lb fish.

As I was netting the fish I had noticed that the disturbance had brought another couple of fish following the hooked one so I cast back to the same area and a couple of twitches later got hit by a train. No stopping this one in such close quaters as it did me on the barnacles!! A very brief battle that had my 20lb fluorocarbon leader torn to shreds. I tied on a new leader and made afew more casts in and around where I had lost the brute but only small fish sadly.

A move back up inside the bay was needed as I felt sure that the wrasse would be moving inside with the flood. A couple of casts and my thoughts were correct as wrasse after wrasse were hitting the lures often on the drop as the lures were beeing twitched over and down the boulders.

The Jacks Hawg Crazy Craws were certainly proving a great success so I decided to try afew other lures in different colours to see if there was a favourite colour again. Had a couple of wrasse to brown senkos, a few others to purple patterns but by far the most deadly being watermellon green. The Jacks Hawg Wild Stickbait outfishing any other lure today. This wrasse was the best out the boulder field today with it going to 4.2lbs.

A slightly smaller wrasse but stunning green in colour, that went 3.3lbs.

Despite being struck down with the dreaded man flu for the last couple of days (fishing and fresh air always makes me feel better) I had managed to get out for 2 hours and had 30 wrasse to 4.2lbs so not a bad effort considering. As I was packing up I noticed a splash in the shallow water behind me and saw a wrasse's tail out of the water as it was trying to get something out from the weed. As the rod was still together and had the lure attached I quickly cast over it and twitched the lure frantically back to resemble what ever the wrasse had cornered. BANG the wrasse nailed it!!!! The water was being thrashed so much that it was more like foam considering it was barely a foot deep as the wrasse tried to get back into deeper water, mental stuff!!!! As the wrasse tired I slipped the net under her, not a massive fish but the biggest of the day taken in the shallowest water!!!!

At 4.10lbs it fought like a much bigger fish  but it just goes to show you dont need deep water to catch plenty of wrasse, you just need the right ground. Next time you walk past a bouldery stretch, have a couple of casts into it, you might be surprised!!!!!

HELL BAY, MORE LIKE WRASSE HEAVEN!!!

Sundays day off found me jumping on one of  the Bryher Boats jet boats to make the short journey to the island of Bryher to test the wrasse potential. If you were designing the perfect place for wrasse, it has allready been done!! Possibly the most outrageously ideal habitat is to be found on Bryher and none more so than Hell Bay.

Above is a shot of Hell Bay, as you can see there are boulders EVERYWHERE not to mention deep holes EVERYWHERE and shallow kelpy gullies EVERYWHERE, rocky points with sandy patches that just scream wrasse. PERFECT wrasse ground hey !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took all of ten minutes to walk from church quay, I was rather keen to get out there and found myself running down the hills like an excited child!!!!!

I decided as the tides werent perfect(ebbing tide) that I would fish the shallow marks first and work north with the reteating tide finding abit more depth the closer I got towards Shipman Head at the top of the map as the day went by. I had arranged to meet Neil at Shipman Head where we would try for a pollack as the tide turned meaning an hour fishing before I would have to head back for my ride home.

I had just recieved another fantastic parcel of goodies from Andy at Jackslrf and was very eager to try them out.

Above are the Jacks Own 3.5'' Tube, in both orange/brown and green, the Yoshikawa 4.25'' Superworm in watermellon and the Jacks baby crawfish patterns again in green, they all look fantastic and in my favourite wrasse colours I was sure would they would nail the fish. I also brought along if bites were hard to come by the Jacks Baby Hog.

With their many tenticles even the most curious wrasse would be hard not to have a munch at one of these bad boys. Minimal movement would get these lures going and get nailed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As usual I rigged them up texas style to a 1/0 Worm hook, followed by a 7g cone lead. Distance casting is not a major concern as you will find the wrasse anywhere and everywhere, even just under your feet. I cast out towards a submerged boulder the size of a transit van and bang, fish on!! Had to battle and give her plenty of stick to stop her going to ground the wrasse was safely netted, weighed and returned. A good start with her going 3lbs.

This continued, I had certainly found a good sport, an hour and 18 fish later a move was needed due to the gulley virtually having no water in it!. I wanted to cover as much ground as possible, so a yomp back up the rocks and a move 200 yards north to a huge beautiful rocky gulley. Got to be fish here I thought..........

The tide was rapidly ebbing by now but there was still a good 15 to 20ft in the gulley so it should hold a good head of wrasse. I couldnt believe just how many fish were there, wrasse after wrasse came out, to each and every lure I chucked at them. I had wrasse follow the lures to the surface and watched in amazement as one wrasse was adamant his lunch wasnt going to escape him and literally surfed a wave at my feet to grab the hog. It was so shallow when it hit the lure that it could only have been in 5 inches of water, one greedy wrasse of 3.10lbs!!!

I had another 36 fish out of the gulley before time to move again to meet up with Neil. As I strolled along the coast path I couldnt resist having a couple of casts in a real boulder field, it looked soooooo wrassey and bang, it certainly was.....

This fish fought like a demon, but nothing compared to what I hooked the following cast. You know instantly when you hook a brute as it gives no ''tap tap'' just BANG hits you so hard that it shakes you!! Well that is what happened, this was certainly a much much bigger fish and felt as if I was attached to a rottweiller tearing left then right left again heading to all the snags it could. I managed to get it to the surface, it was easy 6lb plus, when disaster struck. The swell had picked up with the water levels dropping when a wave picked up the fish as I was trying to net it, grating the braid on the barnacles and ping- GUTTED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had a couple more casts in the vague hope of connecting with it again but to no avail so it was time to meet up with Neil for our sortie to Shipman Head. The pollack usually are plentiful from the end of the Head congregating here at low water before following the flood tide down into Tresco Channel. I switched to 9'' Jacks Nojo Serpent in a black colour while Neil rigged up a Slug-go on a 14g lead head. The tide was just starting to push so out went the lures, Neil got hit straight away on the drop and I got bumped, again OTD. Probably small pollack we both commented as I drew the net under his 3.5lb fish.

Sport wasnt exactly fast and furious with the bigger fish absent, just 8 pollack mostly all around the 2-3lb mark. I wasnt the only person to get busted up by a better fish as Neil was slowly reeling what he imagined was another small fish when all hell broke loose as it neared the base of the rock, diving into the thick kelp below us. Clearly a much better fish which again was lost, story of our day it seemed!!! I tried a couple of sneaky casts across the area in which it dived only to find even more wrasse....................................

This one tipping the scales at 4.6, a nice fish but not the chosen target!!! Sadly it was time to head back to the quay and the boat home. Looking back it was an awesome days fishing, over 60 wrasse and 8 pollack, in February! The day was topped off with 8 porpoises herding up a shoal of baitfish(is it really only feb??????)only 100 yards from us. Ok so we didnt manage to land the better fish but we will be heading back to Bryher and Hell Bay to do battle in round 2. Like the headline for this post said,

HELL BAY, MORE LIKE WRASSE HEAVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!