Perfection in Miniature

What a difference three days makes.

Saw hundreds of mullet today but all juveniles from fry up to about herring size. I mostly fished down in the water hoping there might be one or two bigger fish lurking beneath. But the only bites suggested micro-mullet and eventually I hooked this scale-perfect specimen, one of the smallest I've ever had on rod and line ...

And this was bound to happen sooner or later. My first ever Irish bass, caught on bread and not much bigger than the mullet ...