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...that nobody in the North West had caught anything on lures since June!
Had an overnight bxxt session last night, lots of pin whiting, dogs, dabs, the usual stuff. I used up all of my lug but hung around for a bit of a dawn session with my limited SP's hoping for a surf flounder.
I popped round the coast to Marine Beach, Fleetwood where the River Wyre reaches the Irish Sea. Lots of blow lug beds, patches of smelly silty mud and plent of snaggy mussel beds... perfect for flounder.
All I have in my SP "armoury" at the moment is a pack of picol 'eau eels, some Wolf Tackle elver immitations, a pack of purple wrasse SP's that Graeme Barber kindly gave me at the Bumble and some bog standard rubber eels from my local tackle shop that would be more use on a charter boat for cod.
My only jig heads were my newly aquired C'ultiva Super Ball 1/2 oz with size 1 hooks
It's at this point I realised I truly no NOTHING about soft plastics or how to work them. I've had wrasse to just shy of 4lb before but anytime I've caught them it's been pure water craft, I've know where to put the lure but I wouldn't have a clue how to work it naturally! Wrasse are aggressive and terratorial and will strike any anything... but enticing a bite on SP's...? Never done it!
If I was fishing with baited spoons over this mark I'd be disappointed not to have a fish in the first half hour.
I tried everything I could, searching out gullies, sink and drop over mussel beds to find sandy patches, letting it bounce aroud in the current... However I am going into this completely blind! I've built up my confidence and experience in plugs but I feel like a complete SP novice! I AM!
I blanked, but I know I have a lot of reading and research to do now....
(unless it wasn't just me, and nobody has caught anything on lures up here this year...?)
Tightlines,
Rob
Had an overnight bxxt session last night, lots of pin whiting, dogs, dabs, the usual stuff. I used up all of my lug but hung around for a bit of a dawn session with my limited SP's hoping for a surf flounder.
I popped round the coast to Marine Beach, Fleetwood where the River Wyre reaches the Irish Sea. Lots of blow lug beds, patches of smelly silty mud and plent of snaggy mussel beds... perfect for flounder.
All I have in my SP "armoury" at the moment is a pack of picol 'eau eels, some Wolf Tackle elver immitations, a pack of purple wrasse SP's that Graeme Barber kindly gave me at the Bumble and some bog standard rubber eels from my local tackle shop that would be more use on a charter boat for cod.
My only jig heads were my newly aquired C'ultiva Super Ball 1/2 oz with size 1 hooks

It's at this point I realised I truly no NOTHING about soft plastics or how to work them. I've had wrasse to just shy of 4lb before but anytime I've caught them it's been pure water craft, I've know where to put the lure but I wouldn't have a clue how to work it naturally! Wrasse are aggressive and terratorial and will strike any anything... but enticing a bite on SP's...? Never done it!
If I was fishing with baited spoons over this mark I'd be disappointed not to have a fish in the first half hour.
I tried everything I could, searching out gullies, sink and drop over mussel beds to find sandy patches, letting it bounce aroud in the current... However I am going into this completely blind! I've built up my confidence and experience in plugs but I feel like a complete SP novice! I AM!
I blanked, but I know I have a lot of reading and research to do now....
(unless it wasn't just me, and nobody has caught anything on lures up here this year...?)
Tightlines,
Rob

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