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I was sent out today to catch a couple of Pollack for tea. With the pressure being on, I took 3 rods with me in total to ensure victory.
As always when you're on a mission, I failed!
...but I did get 4 garfish on the light LRF gear.
I was only out for 90 minutes or so, and really I chose the wrong mark to try and catch some tea from, but I wanted to get out in the sun rather than tucking up under a steep cliff in the shade.
They were the smallest Garfish I've ever caught and realistically they needed tiny, tiny hooks to get hookups. You just wouldn't usually catch these fish! A size 12 hook on a 0.9g jighead was just too big, and I'd not gone prepared with smaller - hook wise. 0.9g was really too light to be casting in to the wind, but I got a LOT of hits from fish that just weren't hooking up. I could see them at times. On a slack line a fish would even swim around with the bait in its mouth, but nothing I did could guarantee a hookup. Size 16's or smaller next time - although it was obviously Pollack I was after really - I started messing with these once I'd given up on catching tea.
As always when you're on a mission, I failed!
...but I did get 4 garfish on the light LRF gear.
I was only out for 90 minutes or so, and really I chose the wrong mark to try and catch some tea from, but I wanted to get out in the sun rather than tucking up under a steep cliff in the shade.
They were the smallest Garfish I've ever caught and realistically they needed tiny, tiny hooks to get hookups. You just wouldn't usually catch these fish! A size 12 hook on a 0.9g jighead was just too big, and I'd not gone prepared with smaller - hook wise. 0.9g was really too light to be casting in to the wind, but I got a LOT of hits from fish that just weren't hooking up. I could see them at times. On a slack line a fish would even swim around with the bait in its mouth, but nothing I did could guarantee a hookup. Size 16's or smaller next time - although it was obviously Pollack I was after really - I started messing with these once I'd given up on catching tea.

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